History
mikayla.makleKen Faunce, associate professor, history, authored Heavy Traffic: The Global Drug Trade in Historical Perspective (Oxford University Press).
Ken Faunce, associate professor, history, authored Heavy Traffic: The Global Drug Trade in Historical Perspective (Oxford University Press).
Andra Chastain and Jennifer Thigpen, assistant professors, and Linda Heidenreich and Raymond Sun, associate professors, history; and Keri McCarthy, professor, music, received faculty fellowships from the WSU Center for Arts and Humanities for 2020.
Ryan W. Booth, doctoral candidate, history, was chosen from among 220 applicants to receive the Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellowship and residency from the Newberry Library in Chicago for his project “Crossed Arrows: The US Indian Scouts, 1866-1947.”
Andra Chastain, assistant professor, history, WSU Vancouver, has been named to receive the WSU Students’ Award for Teaching Excellence.
Sue Peabody, professor, history, WSU Vancouver, presented “The Troubles of Sans Souci: Fates of Smuggled Slaves in Isle Bourbon, 1820-1830″ to the New York French History Group, City University of New York Graduate Center, in New York.
Ryan W. Booth, doctoral candidate, history, authored “Fort Keogh’s Commissary: A Global Market on the Great Plains from 1876 to 1900” in Montana: The Magazine of Western History.
Donna Sinclair, adjunct professor, history, WSU Vancouver, co-authored Black Women in Green: Gloria Brown and the Unmarked Trail to Forest Service Leadership (Oregon State University Press).
William Brecher, associate professor, history, co-edited Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War (University of Hawaii Press).
Andra Chastain, WSU Vancouver professor, history, authored Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City, now under contract with Yale University Press. She also co-edited Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War to be published in March by University of Pittsburgh Press.
Andra Chastain, assistant professor, history, WSU Vancouver, won the Michael Katz Award for best dissertation in urban history from the Urban History Association, and she won the John Scholes Transport History Research Prize from the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility.