History
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Marina Tolmacheva, professor, history, delivered the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Association of Washington Historians at Yakima Valley College.
Ryan Booth, doctoral student, history, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute fellowship for research in “The Native American West: A Case Study of the Columbia Plateau.”
Ray Sun, associate professor, history, was selected to receive the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Instruction at WSU Showcase 2018. Sun specializes in modern German and modern European history.
Karl Krotke-Crandall, doctoral candidate, history, WSU Vancouver, was awarded a 2018-2019 Stephen F. Cohen–Robert C. Tucker dissertation research fellowship for his dissertation, “The Holocaust in Russian Life: New Perspectives on Soviet Jewish Memory,” on behalf of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the CTDRF Program funded by the KAT Charitable Foundation.
Sue Peabody, professor, history, WSU Vancouver, received the Society of French Historical Studies’ David Pinkney Prize for best book by a U.S. or Canadian author published in 2017 for her book Madeline’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies In France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford University Press).
A recent book by Lawrence Hatter, assistant professor, history, Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.–Canadian Border (University of Virginia Press), was named a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title for 2017” by the American Library Association.
W. Puck Brecher, associate professor, history, received a Hakuho Foundation International Research Fellowship for a six-month stint as a visiting researcher at Kyoto University, Japan.
Marina Tolmacheva, professor, history, authored the chapter “Concubines on the Road – Ibn Battuta’s Slave Women” in Concubines and Courtesans; Women and Slavery in Islamic History (Oxford University Press).