History Department Accomplishments

• Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference student attendees presenting papers:
            History Undergraduate Students: Katie Pittner, Alyson Roy, and Mark Cole
            History Graduate Students: Chris Banyai-Riepl, Rachael Birks, and Patrice Laurent
            Best Grad Research Award: Patrice Laurent on Coffee (Prof. Mike Ervin, advisor)
  
  
• Symposium On University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
            Speaker: Alyson Roy
            Faculty speaker: Maurice Amutabi
            Graduate Research Forum: Patrice Laurent
  
  
• History Honors Awarded to Alyson Roy and Eric Shimizu
  
  
• College of Arts and Humanities prizes:
            for Outstanding Undergraduate Research: Brian Wesley Hart
            for Outstanding Graduate Research: Patrice Laurent
            for Outstanding Adjunct: Ken Munsell
            for Outstanding Teacher: Roxanne Easley
            for Outstanding Research Professor: Stephen Moore
            for Distinguished Chair: Karen Blair
  
  
• Alumni Associations Olive Irelan Scholarship ($1000): Ed Robé (Prof. Easley, advisor)
  
  
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Alumni Association Nomination from CAH: Mike Ervin
  
  
• Barto Scholarship: William Holly
  
  
• Clareta Olmstead Smith Scholarship: Gregory Hinze
  
  
• Graduate Fellowship at Peking University for 2006-07: Juanita Harman (Prof. Cook, advisor)
  
  
• Graduate Research Award for Grad Students: Rachael Birks on Cuba (Prof. Ervin, advisor)
  
  
• Summer Research Award: Jason Knirck
  
  
• Department Nomination for Best history MA thesis: Timothy Caudle (Prof. Tom Wellock)
  
  
• Topmiller Prize for Best Written History MA Thesis: Riva Dean (Prof. Herman)
  
  
• Phi Kappa Phi National Scholarship for Graduate School: Alyson Roy
  
  
• India course during spring break: Professor James Cook
  
  
• Teaching Assistants: Nicole Mozingo, Rich Coleman, Rachael Birks, Patrice Laurent, and Chris Banyai-Riepl
  
  
• Search for Tenure-Track Islamic Post: James Cook, Search Committee Chair
            New Hire: Maurice Amutabi
  
  
• Sabbatical Approved for 2006-07: Roxanne Easley
  
  
• Shimane, Japan Residency Approved for 2006-07: James Cook
  
  
• Book Published: "Joining In: Exploring the History of Voluntary Organizations" by Karen Blair
  
  
• TV Experts:
            Michael Ervin on KNDO for Mexicos President Fox visit to Yakima
            Ken Munsell on KCWU on Ellensburg's comprehensive plan
  
  
• History Day
            Regional Judges: Roxanne Easley, Tom Wellock, Dan Herman, and Maurice Amutabi
            Regional Preparation at Mattawa Middle School: students of Stephen Moore
  
  
• US Department of Education American History Grant for K-12 teachers: lectures by Dan Herman, Stephen Moore, Karen Blair, and Tom Wellock
  
  

Conferences:

Maurice Amutabi:
The 48th Annual African Studies Association Meeting at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. Chaired a panel on "The Politics and Development and Technology Transfer."

The Africa Conference 2006: "Movements, Migrations and Displacements in Africa," at the University of Texas, Austin, TX. Presented a paper "Identity, 'Foreignness' and the Dilemma of Immigrants at the Coast of Kenya: Interrogating the Myth of 'Black Arabs' among Kenyan Africans."

Karen Blair:
The Social Science History Association 2005 Annual Meeting at the Hilton Portland Hotel, Portland, OR. Member of a round table discussion group.

The Western Association of Women Historians 2006 Conference at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Asilomar, CA. Presented a paper "Women's Lib of the 1970s: In the Classroom and Outside."

Jim Cook:
The National Conference of the Association of Asian Studies at the Marriott in San Francisco, CA.

The Conference at University of California-San Diego "Visualizing China's Modern History" San Diego, CA. Put the conference together and presented a paper.

Roxanne Easley:
Attended the Russian Academy of Sciences Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations Conference in Moscow, Russia. Presented a paper "Colonial Extraction and Investment: People of Mixed Heritage in the Russian American Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1870."

Michael Ervin:
The Latin American Studies Association Conference 2006 San Juan, Puerto Rico. Organizer and chair of a panel, and presented a paper titled "From Adolescents to Agraristas: The Education and Apprenticeship of Agronomists in Revolutionary Mexico."

The Social Histories of Space Conference at Yale University, New Haven, CT. Presented a paper "Data Collection in Revolutionary Mexico: Statistics, Maps, and the Negotiation of Nationalism."

"We Shall Be All": Toward a Global History of the Middle Class, at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Presented a paper "Being an Agronomist in Revolutionary Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the National Agronomic Society."

Jason Knirck:
The North American Conference on British Studies at the Grand Hyatt, Denver, CO. Presented a paper "Sinn Fein, Document Two, and the Quest for Unity."

Stephen Moore:
The Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. (ACSUS) Biannual Conference at the Pavilion Hotel, St. Louis, MO. Received the Rufus Z. Smith Award for Best Article, "Defending the Undefended: Canadians, Americans, and the Multiple Meanings of Border during Prohibition," published in the previous two years of The American Review of Canadian Studies.