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.
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.
Art Blume, professor, psychology, WSU Vancouver, received the Joseph E. Trimble and Jewell E. Horvat Award for Distinguished Contributions to Native/Indigenous Psychology from the American Psychological Association Division 45.
Aurora Clark, professor, chemistry, was named a fellow of the American Chemical Society.
Julie Anne Wieck, associate professor, music, was elected governor of the Intermountain Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
The Sustainable Heritage Network, directed by Kim Christen, associate professor, English, and director, digital technology and culture, received the Council Exemplary Service Award from the Society of American Archivists.
Steve Weber, associate professor, anthropology, WSU Vancouver, received the 2017 Distinguished Ethnobiologist award from the Society of Ethnobiology.
Tahira Probst, professor, psychology, WSU Vancouver, received Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowship to conduct research in Italy in 2017-18.
Clay Mosher, professor, sociology, WSU Vancouver, was appointed to the statewide Smart on Juvenile Justice Strategic Task Force.
Clayton Mosher, professor, sociology, WSU Vancouver, received the Vancouver Police Department’s Team Commendation for his service on the Community Resource Team.