| UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS |
| Name: | Billy Holly | | |
| News: | William "Billy" Holly has been accepted to Northern Arizona University in the History Department's MA program for entry Fall 2007. Billy has been offered a Teaching Assistantship, tutition waiver, and $10,994 stipend.
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| Name: | Greg Hinze | | |
| News: | Greg Hinze, a double major in History and Geography, has been awarded a $1000 Alumni Association scholarship as well as a $1500 YVCC Foundation scholarship. |
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| Name: | Edward Robe | | |
| News: | Edward Robe, a History: Teaching Broad Area Major, has been selected by the Alumni Association Board of Director's Scholarship Committee to receive a Olive Irelan Scholarship. The amount of this award will be $1,000. As a part of receiving this award, Edward must be registered as a CWU student for Fall Quarter, 2006. He will be a guest at the Homecoming Banquet on November 3, 2006, at which time the presentation of his plaque will occur. |
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| Name: | Wesley Brian Hart | | |
| News: | Wesley Brian Hart was awarded The Raymond A. Smith Award for Achievement in Scholarship on his project entitled "Berlin Wall" (Advisor, Thomas Wellock, Professor of History). The announcement of this scholarship was at the College of Arts and Humanities Achievement Awards Banquet in the New SUB/REC Ballroom on May 16, 2006. |
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| Name: | William | | |
| News: | William "Billy" Holly has been chosen to receive the Barto History Scholarship (full tuition). Billy is a junior, a History Major with a Religious Studies Minor and is an Ellensburg resident. |
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| Name: | Greg Hinze | | |
| News: | Greg Hinze, History and Geography major, has been awarded the Clareta Olmstead Smith History Scholarship and the George and Mary Ann Macinko Geography Scholarship. |
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| Name: | Alyson Roy | | |
| News: | In the 2006 Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship competition, Ms. Alyson Roy, a History major in the DHC, has been selected for the Award of Excellence for her graduate studies at Northern Illinois University this Fall. Ms. Roy wrote her honors thesis, “The Augustan Dichotomy: Propagandistic Anti-Hellenism and the Preservation of Roman Values,” under the direction of Professors Jason Knirck (History) and James Pappas (Education), and presented a paper at the Western Regional Honors Conference in Denver. She also wrote a second undergraduate thesis in History and presented papers at the History Society meetings.
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| Name: | William Holly | | |
| News: | William Holly, History Major, has been selected as one of six juniors to be a member of the Silver Cortege at the 2006 graduation ceremony. The selection was based on high academic excellence. The Silver Cortege leads graduates into and directs them throughout the ceremony. |
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| Name: | Alyson Roy | | |
| News: | Alyson Roy, History Major and Douglas Honors student, successfully defended her Honors Thesis "Granting Land, Reforming Pedogogy: The Morrill Act of 1862 and the Nascence of a Democratic Curriculum" on Friday, March 10, 2006. |
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| Name: | Alyson Roy | | |
| News: | Alyson has been accepted to Northern Illinois University in the History Department's MA program. She has a Teaching Assistantship, full tuition waiver and a $10,760 stipend. Alyson is still waiting to hear back from another university. |
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| GRADUATE STUDENTS |
| Name: | Ian Stacy | | |
| News: | Ian Stacy has won this year's Best Overall Paper prize from the Phi Alpha Theta Northwest regional conference for his paper entitled "Under an Atomic Sky: Origins of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation's Infamous Green Run." As a result of winning this award, Ian is now able to present this work at the AHA-PCB conference, to be held in August in Pasadena. So congratulations to Ian!
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| Name: | Tamara Caulkins | | |
| News: | Tamara presented her poster “Science, Art, and the Perception of Nature: Maria Sybilla Merian and Alexander von Humboldt in the New World” at the American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting in Boise ID, March 2008.
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| Name: | Rachael Birks | | |
| News: | Rachael has recently been hired at Hanford High School, Richland, WA, for 2007-2008 to teach German and History. Congratulations Rachael. Rachael will also be defending her MA thesis "Dancing Cubanidad: Reconfiguring National Identity Through Fidel Castro's Cultural Project, 1959-73" on Thursday, July 20, 2007. |
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| Name: | Rachael Birks | | |
| News: | Rachael Birks won this year's Phi Alpha Theta Northwest Region "Best Overall Paper" prize for an extract from her MA thesis entitled "Dancing Cubanidad: Reconfiguring National Identity Through Fidel Castro's Cultural Project, 1959-1973." This means she gets funded by PAT to present this paper at the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA conference in Honolulu at the end of July.
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| Name: | Albert Miller | | |
| News: | Al has received the College of Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Scholarship Achievement Award for his work titled "Aspects of British Identity as Exhibited in Accounts of Russia by British Visitors." The award comes with a certificate and cash award of $150. He was acknowledged at the CAH banquet on May 15. |
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| Name: | Ian Stacy | | |
| News: | Stacey has won First Place in the Central Washington University OPR Photo Contest. The title of the picture is "Inside Coleman Glacier." You can see the picture on http://www.cwu.edu/~rec/rentals/images/Photocontestresults/photocontestgallery.html. And, yes, he is right there taking the picture of person on the ice. |
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| Name: | Tanner Dotzauer | | |
| News: | Tanner Dotzauer has became the first full-time coordinator of the Thorp Mill, September 2006, to serve from the professional agreement between the Thorp Mill and CWU. |
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| Name: | Jody Bell | | |
| News: | I have exciting news... Today (8/11/2006) at 10:30 AM I interviewed for the position of secondary Social Studies teacher at Kittitas Secondary School. At noon, Principal Monty Sabin called to offer me the position!! In less than 3 hours, I signed the contract, set up my retirement and insurance plan, acquired keys to the brand new Kittitas school building (absolutely beautiful building, BTW), and walked into my very first classroom as a brand new teacher. Words cannot describe how excited and grateful I am. I want to thank all of you for your significant part in this accomplishment. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
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| Name: | Juanita Harman | | |
| News: | Juanita Harman, History Graduate Student, won a prestigious year-long fellowship at Peking University. |
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| Name: | Patrice Laurent | | |
| News: | Patrice Laurent received the 2005-06 Graduate Student Scholarship Achievement Award for her research on "Coffee Production in Chiapas, Mexico. Her advisor was Michael Ervin. The announcement of this award was made at the College of Arts and Humanities Achievement Awards Banquet in the New SUB/REC Ballroom on May 16, 2006. |
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| FACULTY MEMBERS |
| Name: | Jason Knirck | | |
| News: | Jason Knirck's SEED grant has been approved by the Faculty Development and Research Committee for Summer 2008. Jason's research is on "Enemies Within and Without: Cumann na nGaedheal Under Siege, 1922-23," his next book. |
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| Name: | Stephen Moore | | |
| News: | Stephen Moore has been chosen by the Awards Committee of the Washington State Historical Society's Board of Trustees to receive the Charles Gates Award for the best article, "Cross-Border Crusades: The Binational Temperance Movement in Washington and British Columbia," to appear in the PACIFIC NORTHWEST QUARTERLY in 2007. He has been invited to be their guest at the Washington State Historical Society's Annual Awards Luncheon at noon on June 21, 2008, at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. |
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| Name: | Stephen Moore | | |
| News: | Professor Stephen Moore recently wrote an article for PACIFIC NORTHWEST QARTERLY titled "Cross-Border Crusades: The Binational Temperance Movement in Washington and British Columbia." This article has been bublished in PNQ, Summer 2008, Volume 98, Number 3, magazine. |
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| Name: | Michael A. Ervin | | |
| News: | Michael Ervin's article "The 1930 Agrarian Census in Mexico: Agronomists, Middle Politics, and the Negotiation of Data Collection" was recently published in the August 2007 edition of the Hispanic American Historical Review, the premier journal in the field of Latin American history.
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| Name: | Thomas Wellock | | |
| News: | Dr. Thomas Wellock, Associate Professor of History, has been selected Phi Kappa Phi Scholar of the Year for 2006-2007. The author of numerous publications on the subject of the American nuclear industry in the context of the environmental movement, Dr. Wellock’s most recent book, Preserving the Nation: the Conservation and Environmental Moverments, 1870-2000, was published in March of this year.
In recognition of his selection as Scholar of the Year, Dr. Wellcock will present a public program on May 30 at 4:00 p.m. in Black 152. The title, abstract, and location of the talk follow.
Race, Class, and Preserving Nature
The roots of modern American attitudes toward nature lie in actions
undertaken in the late nineteenth century to conserve the nation’s
natural resources and preserve its scenic wonders. In this lecture, Dr. Wellock
will discuss the international, rural, and industrial origins of the
conservation and environmental movements. Dr. Wellock will also explain how
campaigns to preserve nature reflect the Progressive Era's concept of
class and racial order, which reveals much about the way we have come to
define what "wilderness" is.
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| Name: | Jason Knirck | | |
| News: | Jason has received the College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Faculty Research Award. The award comes with a certificate and cash award of $250. He was acknowledged at the CAH banquet on May 15. |
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| Name: | Jason Knirck | | |
| News: | Jason hs received word from Dean Marji Morgan that he has won the College of Arts and Humanities Faculty Scholarship Award. This award will be presented to him at the annual banquet on Tuesday, 15 May reception . |
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| Name: | Thomas Wellock | | |
| News: | On March 29, 2007, Thomas attended "Meet the Scholars" Program sponsored by California State University, East Bay and the Alameda County Office of Education. He made a presentation to middle and high school teachers on the Hetch Hetchy Dam controversy and the Meaning of Wilderness.
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| Name: | Thomas Wellock | | |
| News: | Thomas Wellock, Associate Professor of History, has just received notice that he has won the Phi Kappa Phi Scholar of the Year Award for 2007. |
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| Name: | Thomas Wellock | | |
| News: | Thomas Wellock, Associate Professor of History, has published a book "Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movement 1870-2000," with Harlan Davidson. |
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| Name: | Ken Munsell | | |
| News: | Ken Munsell has been accepted at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, for summer 07 to study the "Infusion of Asian Culture into the Curriculum." |
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| Name: | Maurice Amutabi | | |
| News: | Maurice Amutabi's "The NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya" has been published by Routledge, NY, 2006. |
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| Name: | Daniel Herman | | |
| News: | DH has been granted a sabbatical for 2007-08 to complete a book. He has won a one-term residency at the Clements Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, which he will take in winter of 2008 |
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| Name: | Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi | | |
| News: | Professor Maurice Amutabi has published "The NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya" with Routledge. |
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| Name: | Jason Knirck | | |
| News: | Professor Jason Knirck has published "Women of the Dail: Gender, Republicanism and the Anglo-Irish Treaty" with the Irish Academic Press |
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| Name: | Daniel Herman | | |
| News: | Dr. Dan Herman has just published a scholarly article, "Whose Knocking?
Spiritualism as Entertainment and Therapy in Nineteenth-Century San
Francisco" in American nineteenth Century History 7 (September 2006):
417-442.
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| Name: | Jason Knirck | | |
| News: | Professor Jason Knirck has published "Imagining Ireland's Independence: The Debates Over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921" with Rowman and Littlefieldd Publishers.
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| Name: | Stephen Moore | | |
| News: | Stephen Moore will be participating in "Teaching American History" (for Junior High Schools) at Fort Worden State Part in Port Townsend, August 15-17, 2006. His topics will be on "Slavery & Civil War, Industrial Revolution, Immigration, and Women in America." |
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| Name: | Karen Blair | | |
| News: | Karen has published her seventh book. Titled "Joining In: Exploring the
History of Voluntary Organizations in America," it is part of the "Nearby History Series,"
founded at the American Association for State and Local History and produced by Krieger Publishers, of Melbourne, Fla. It allows researchers to investigate societies they belong to or those their ancestors joined. Ellensburg and Kittitas County history are also featured in Blair's new work, through photos taken by John Holmgrin, a CWU art graduate. They include service clubs' signage at the I-90 exchange, the Friday Morning Club clock in downtown Ellensburg, Roslyn cemetery, IOOF halls in Ellensburg and Cle Elum, and the bull sculpture in Ellensburg's Rotary Pavilion.
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| Name: | Karen Blair | | |
| News: | Karen Blair was awarded the Distinguished Chair Award for 2005-06 . The announcement of this award was made at the College of Arts and Humanities Achievement Awards Banquet in the New SUB/REC Ballroom on May 16, 2006. |
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| ALUMNI |
| Name: | Carolynn Clark | | |
| News: | Carolynn's master's thesis, 2007, “Erich Käestner's Mission in Postwar Germany, 1945-1948: Essays in the Neue Zeitung” will be used in German translation in exhibitions at the Erich Käestner Museum in Dresden, Germany. |
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| Name: | Kelsey Karsh | | |
| News: | Well, a big change in my plans, I signed up for the Peace Corps, and
am going to western Africa in Sept. So, I'm currently studying french
like a mad woman, which is a language I never thought, or really wanted to
study. But I am excited for whatever direction this experience will bring me,
it will be very different that's for sure. I started volunteering at Life
Long Aids alliance in Seattle several months ago and became more passionate
about AIDS in general, which prompted me to apply for the Peace Corps, and
subsequently go to Africa. I still really want to go back to South America,
perhaps after the pc. I kind of want to go everywhere, so I need to figure
out how to make that happen. My tentative plan is to get my masters after
the peace corps, but as of now I have no idea what that will be in...time
will tell I suppose. In Seattle I'm still working in Social Services,which
I like...but is hard work for little pay-which is also what the peace corps
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| Name: | Robert Topmiller | | |
| News: | Dr. Robert Topmiller, BA and MA from CWU, and Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University, has just published a book entitled "Red Clay on My Boots: Encounters with Khe Sanh, 1968-2005," with Kirk House Publishers. He has also won Eastern Kentucky University's College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Research Award.
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| Name: | Monica Graham | | |
| News: | Monica Graham (History Major) recently returned from China where she taught at Anhui University in Hefei City, Fall 2006. In just a few days she will be going off to work in the Ukraine for the Peace Corps from March 24, 2007 to June 17, 2009. |
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| Name: | Bevery Heckart | | |
| News: | Beverly Heckart, Professor Emeritus, History, published two articles during 2006. "The Cities of Avignon and Worms as Expressions of European Community, 1945-1975" appeared in Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, the most recent volume in the Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series, published by the University of Michigan Press. The Journal of Urban History printed "The Battle of Jena: Opposition to 'Socialist' Urban Planning in the German Democratic Republic" in its May issue. The latter essay has been nominated for the Berkshire Award, given annually for the best article published by a woman historian on the North American continent. |
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| Name: | Rachel Johnson | | |
| News: | Rachel Johnson completed her Master's thesis in History at the University of Oregon in June 2006. Her thesis was entitled, "Negotiating Power: Village and State Authority in the Austrian Province of Styria in the Visitations of 1528 and 1544-45." She is currently an English Language Assistant in Vienna, Austria with the Austrian Fulbright Commission. She hopes to continue this position for the next school year as well (2007-08). Many thanks to her advisor, Dr. Easley, and to the rest of the History Department (and secretary!). Also many thanks to the McNair program, which was so instrumental in making graduate study possible. Contact: coyote381@yahoo.com |
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| Name: | Stephen W. Richey | | |
| News: | (MA, History, 2002)
Another piece of good news is that my Master’s Thesis about Joan of Arc is now a
full-length hardcover book titled Joan of Arc: The Warrior Saint, published by a prestigious academic publishing house. My book has been favorably reviewed and my publisher is paying me royalties.
I owe considerable gratitude to the faculty and staff at CWU for their help in making my ambitions come true.
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| Name: | Stephen W. Richey | | |
| News: | My Master’s Degree in History has helped me advance my career as a soldier and officer in the United States Army. My basic job in the Army is to serve by turns as either a commanding officer or staff officer for military units of tanks and tank soldiers—but the Army gives official recognition to its soldiers who possess additional specialized, esoteric skills beyond their basic job. Thanks to my Master’s in History, my Army personnel records now officially list me as possessing the additional specialized skill of “Historian.” And thanks to that notation in my records, the Army selected me to be the Commanding Officer of the 141st Military History Detachment. The duty of a military history detachment is to travel around war zones while a war is still going on and collect the raw materials that future generations of historians will use to write the history of that war. The soldiers of military history detachments conduct and record interviews with soldiers of all ranks, from privates to generals, about the battles in which they have recently fought. Soldiers of military history detachments both take photographs of their own of battlefields and collect photographs and videos made by the soldiers they interview. Military history detachments collect historical artifacts from the battlefields they traverse and process those artifacts for inclusion in the Army’s network of museums. As an officer commanding a military history detachment, it is my specific duty to write the first scholarly monograph narrating and analyzing any battle which the Army assigns me to cover. The soldiers under my command and I will soon be putting all these skills to use for real during our upcoming year in Iraq. My degree from CWU has opened up a truly superb career opportunity for me. I owe considerable gratitude to the faculty and staff at CWU for their help in making my ambitions come true. |
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| Name: | Riva Dean | | |
| News: | Riva Dean has been awarded the Robert and Terry Topmiller Prize for Best Written History M.A. Thesis for 2005-06. The title of her work is "'A Peaceable Mob': The Lynching of Frank Viles and Community Identity in Asotin, Washington, 1896." Professor Daniel Herman was her advisor. |
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| Name: | Steve Abbott | | |
| News: | Washington and Lee School of Law, J. D. 2004
My history degree at CWU served as the springboard to acceptance at a law school ranked in the top twenty. While at CWU I achieved many scholastic awards among them: Dean's Scholar 1995-99; Farrell Merit Scholarship 1996-1997, 1997-1998, President of Phi Alpha Theta and History Society, President of Law and Justice Society. At the same time I raised over $20,000 in alumni donations working as a student representative. My legal career has encompassed representing clients in Nevada and Washington State. I worked previously for an insurance defense firm in Las Vegas. I Helped senior citizens navigate the Byzantine labyrinth of the Medicare and Medicaid appeals process in order to eliminate medical billing errors while a law student in Virginia. My Government experience includes duties as aide to Congressman Jack Metcalf (ret.) 2nd District Washington State in our nations capitol. Former law clerk at the United States Air Force JAG post in Los Angeles handling family law, criminal prosecutions, and government contract cases. During my time with the Air Force I conducted legal research and analysis on a wide variety of cases ranging from courts martial to complex government contract disputes. Drafted a significant component of a memorandum for a major government procurement integrity violation.
I am the current Vice President and In House counsel to Shenandoah Vista properties Inc with real estate holdings in numerous states with the crown jewel Pinnacle Townhouses set for completion during the summer of 2006 in Lexington Virginia.
My current practice in Olympia with the law firm of Taylor and Berg emphasizes Landlord Tenant, Family law, Real Property law, Elder law, Business law, & Estate Planning.
I am a member of the Washington State Bar Assn., Washington State Trial Lawyers Association, and the Young Lawyer Section of the Thurston County Bar Association.
I enjoy horseback riding, sailing, and the new sport of ski-biking (it is safer than it sounds, trust me).
Without my experiences at the CWU history department and the talented guidance by my professors I would not be where I am today, words cannot express how a history degree can give you an insight to not only the past but the present and the future as well, a history degree can help lay the foundation for a career in the private or public sector. |
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