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Aaron Whelchel, instructor and academic advisor, history, WSU Vancouver, was recognized as a WSU Provost’s Featured Faculty Member at the Oct. 21 Cougar football game against University of Colorado.
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Jennifer Binczewski, doctoral candidate, history, was awarded the Meyer Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference for research she delivered from her dissertation, Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1580-1630.
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Marina Tolmacheva, professor, history, WSU Vancouver, presented “Geographical Coordinates in the Western Indian Ocean: Transmission of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages” in the Symposium “Science in Islamic Societies, Globally and Locally” at the 25th International Congress on the History of Science and Technology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She delivered the inaugural lecture in Curso de Geografia at the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, where she spoke on “Ibn Battuta e a Geografia Arabe.”
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Jesse Spohnholz, associate professor, history, authored The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never Was and the Invention of Tradition (Cambridge University Press).
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Susan Peabody, professor, history, WSU Vancouver, authored Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, the first full length biography tracing slavery in the Indian Ocean world (Oxford University Press).
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Ryan Booth, doctoral student, history, was selected to present “They Are Always at the Front: Native American Soldiers in the Great War” at the International Conference on Hate Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane.
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adrianaJesse Spohnholz, associate professor, history, coedited Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017, Berghahn Books.
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adrianaMarina Tolmacheva, professor, history, presented “From Central Asia to Central Eurasia: A Personal Retrospective” at the Central Eurasian Studies Society’s Regional Conference at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkeko, Kyrgyz Republic. She also delivered two invited talks in Russian: “The Role of Higher Education in the Development of Non-Commercial Organizations” (O roli obrazovaniya v razvitii nekommercheskih organizatsiy) at Kyrgyz National University; and “International Faculty Development: Opportunities and Procedures” at International University of Kyrgyzstan.
Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies
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Linda Heidenreich, associate professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, was elected to the board of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. Heidenreich also delivered the invited plenary address “Nepantlan Warriors: Women of the Nineteenth-Century Napa-Sonoma Valleys Who Resisted” at the Summer Institute of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social.
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Jenifer Barclay, assistant professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, authored “Bad Breeders and Monstrosities: Racializing Childlessness and Congenital Disabilities in Slavery and Freedom” in Slavery & Abolition; and the chapter “Differently Abled: Africanisms, Disability, and Power in the Age of Transatlantic Slavery” in Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability: Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives (Springer). She presented “Mother’s Spots and Monstrosities: Congenital Disabilities and Racial Identity in American Medicine, Law and Folklore” at the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians at Hofstra University, New York. Barclay also was named associate editor of Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, University of Hawaii.