History
adrianaJesse Spohnholz, associate professor, history, coedited Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017, Berghahn Books.
Jesse Spohnholz, associate professor, history, coedited Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017, Berghahn Books.
Dene Grigar, director and professor, Creative Media and Digital Culture/English, WSU Vancouver, co-authored Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Digital Writing (MIT Press).
Buddy Levy, clinical professor, English, coauthored with Erik Weihenmayer No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon.
David Wollkind, emeritus professor, mathematics and statistics, coauthored Comprehensive Applied Mathematical Modeling in the Natural and Engineering Sciences: Theoretical Predictions Compared with Data (Springer Books).
Lawrence Hatter, assistant professor, history, authored Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.–Canadian Border (University of Virginia Press), which received the 2016 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for “outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies.”
Philip Travis, PhD ’14, history, authored the monograph “Reagan’s War on Terrorism in Nicaragua: The Outlaw State” (Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books).
Richard King, professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, delivered three presentations: “Understanding Racial Violence and Intimidation: White Supremacist Movements in the Pacific Northwest” as the keynote address for the symposium, Building Respectful Communities: Transcending Hate, at Central Washington University in Ellensburg; “Racists, Hooligans, and Fascists: Depictions of Skinheads and Neo-Nazis in European and North American Cinema” for the Transatlantic Cinema: Production, Genres, Encounters, Negotiations conference at the University of Passau, Germany; and “Refusing to Defend this House: Athletic Insurrection at the University of Missouri and Beyond” at the American Studies Association’s annual meeting in Denver.
King also authored two book chapters: “Listening to Bad Music: White Power and (Un)Popular Culture” in Unpopular Culture (University of Amsterdam Press); and “Look Away: On the Racial, Sexual, and Cultural Politics of the NFL” in Football, Culture, and Power (Routledge), co-edited by David Leonard, associate professor.
Alair MacLean, associate professor, sociology, WSU Vancouver, was elected chair of the American Sociological Association section on Peace, War and Social Conflict. She presented several papers at the ASA and Society for the Study of Social Problems annual meetings in Seattle, including “Historical Changes in the Context and Impact of Military Service” and “Started from the Bottom: Globalization, Welfare, and Cross-National Variation in Poverty and Inequality.”
Numerous other accomplishments by sociology faculty and graduate students can be found in the department newsletter.
Craig Hemmens, professor and director, criminal justice and criminology, coauthored Law, Justice and Society: A Sociolegal Introduction, 4th edition (Oxford University Press).
Numerous other publications by faculty and graduate students in criminal justice and criminology can be found in the department newsletter.
Thabiti Lewis, associate professor, English, WSU Vancouver, authored “How Fresh and New Is the Case Coates Makes?” in African American Review. Lewis’s edited book Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara will be published by the University Press of Mississippi in May.