History News Explore the links below for news and information related to PSU's History Department. 20243/18/24: Catherine McNeur, History faculty, gave an invited talk titled “Margaretta Hare Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris: The Forgotten Germantown Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science” on Mar. 6, co-sponsored by the Wyck House, Stenton Museum, Germantown Historical Society, and Germantown Friends School. Catherine McNeur, History faculty, gave a Women's History Month talk titled “Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science” on Mar. 7 at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware.3/12/24: Bennett Gilbert, History faculty, published an article titled “Rich Addiction” on Mar. 6 in Subjectivity.1/8/24: Catherine McNeur, History faculty, was featured in the episode “Catherine McNeur Writes With Delight” on Nov. 20 on Drafting the Past Podcast.Catherine McNeur, History faculty, was reviewed by Perri Klass in an article titled “Naturalists Unknown,” Nov. 16 in American Scholar.Catherine McNeur, History faculty, was reviewed by Christoph Irmscher in an article titled “Sisters at Work In the Field,” Nov. 14 in the Wall Street Journal.Catherine McNeur, History faculty, was reviewed by Sarah Boone in an article title “The Lost Scientists” on Oct. 26 for Science.Catherine McNeur, History faculty, was featured in an article titled “The Author’s Corner with Catherine McNeur,” Nov. 13 in Current.1/22/24: Bennet Gilbert, History, published an article titled “Shame and History” on Sep. 1 in Geschichtstheorie am Werk202312/4/23:Ken Ruoff, History faculty, was interviewed about American views of the atomic bombings appeared in the Asahi Newspaper on Nov. 23, and was also quoted in another Nov. 23 Asahi article about the Atomic Bombings Survivors Caravan that visited Portland. Ken Ruoff, History faculty, was featured in an article about Okinawan views of the Emperor of Japan on Nov. 27 in the Ryukyu Shinpo. 11/13/23:Catherine McNeur, History faculty, published Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science with Basic Books.6/12/23: Catherine McNeur, History faculty, was interviewed by the Smithsonian Magazine about the history of American food prices and other topics.5/1/23:John Ott, History faculty, was a panelist for “Innovations on the Pedagogy of Christianity: Teaching Medieval Christianity to Modern Student Audiences” at the Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific and delivered a paper titled “An Unremarked Canonical Collection of ca. 1100 from La Sauve-Majeure and the Collectio Sinemuriensis.”4/10/23:Catherine McNeur, History faculty, presented “‘Very Pretty Objects’: North American Seaweed and the Free Labor of Women” on April 1 at the Organization of American Historians conference in Los Angeles.4/3/23:Chia Yin Hsu, History faculty, presented “‘Promiscuous’ Credit and Monetary Liquidity: Everyday Money and Global Capital in Russian Manchuria, 1920s” at the International Workshop on Shared Histories and Imperial Encounters in North-East Asia on March 11 at Amherst College.2/2/23:Bright Alozie, Black Studies and History affiliated faculty, presented a conference paper titled “The Forgotten Old Versus the Resurgent New: Rethinking Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Erotic through Mbari Art in Igboland, Nigeria” at the 136th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association at Philadelphia Marriott Downtown from Jan. 5-8 in Philadelphia.2/2/23:Bright Alozie, Black Studies and History affiliated faculty, published a book chapter titled “Colonial History and Documentary Sources: Insights from Southern Nigeria” in the book Transformations in Africana Studies: History, Theory, and Epistemology.1/23/23:Bennett Gilbert, University Studies and History Faculty, co-edited a book titled, Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History: A Cross-Cultural Approach.1/9/23: John Ott, History Faculty, published “Erasing Bad Memories: Fashioning the Reputation of Manasses I, Archbishop of Reims (c. 1069- 1080),” in L’évêque contesté.202212/5/22: Ken Ruoff, History faculty, held a seminar on November 29 at Hokkaido University about the meaning of the Imperial House to contemporary Japan.11/7/22:David Peterson del Mar, History faculty, was quoted and paraphrased in a New York Times opinion piece published Oct. 30 titled, “After a Professor's Firing, College Students and Professors Weigh In on the New Landscape of Higher Ed.”10/31/22:Catherine McNeur, history faculty, wrote a chapter titled "Vanishing Flies and the Lady Entomologist" in Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History published by UCalgary Press.10/17/22:John Ott, History faculty, published an article, “Texts, Law and Church Reform: The Anti-Simoniac Dossier of BM Reims Ms. 15 and the Collectio Sinemuriensis,” in the journal Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung. 6/2/22:Raya Alkharroubi, Arina Borodkina, Kenyn Davila Samayoa, Daira Maldonado Ortega, Jennifer Marquez Marques, Estefani Reyes Moreno, Han Tran, Brianna Tuy and Tony Vo, undergraduate students; Laihha Organna, graduate student; and David Peterson del Mar, history faculty, co-authored a research note titled “‘Like a Family’: Fostering a Sense of Belonging in a Minority Majority University Classroom” that appeared in the Spring issue of The Journal of Transformative Learning. Kristin Wingo, history graduate student, and Yolanda Baines, history undergraduate student, presented “Researching Place, Discovering Maps: Portland, Oregon in the Progressive Era” on April 18 at “Environmental History Week,” sponsored by the American Society for Environmental History. 6/2/22:Brian Turner, history faculty co-authored a translation, “Pliny the Elder's World Natural History, Books 2-6,” which was published by Cambridge University Press.5/31/22: Karen Carr, history faculty emeritus, wrote a book, “Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming,” that was recently released in the United Kingdom from Reaktion Books and will be distributed in the United States by University of Chicago Press in early July. 5/23/22:Jennifer Tappan, history faculty, published “Wandering Epizootics and Zones of Emergence: Constructing Yellow Fever Endemicity in Africa" in Health & Place. Molly Baer Kramer, Institute for Sustainable Solutions and history associated faculty, wrote “Reform and Its Complexities in Modern Britain,” for Oxford University Press. 5/2/22:Katy Barber, history faculty, received PSU’s 2022 Graduate Mentoring Excellence Award.4/4/22:Patricia A. Schechter, history faculty, was awarded a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society in support of completing her book manuscript “El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939,” which is under contract with Routledge Press for their Microhistories series.3/31/22:Catherine McNeur, history faculty, and Carl Abbott, urban studies and planning faculty emeritus, spoke on March 14 about “Parks and Consequences — Hidden Histories of Olmsted Park Traditions from New York to Portland” for the Portland Parks Foundation Green Dreams lecture series. [WATCH the recording] Catherine McNeur, history faculty, presented “Secret Science Writer: Elizabeth Carrington Morris’s Anonymous Articles” on March 26 at the American Society for Environmental Historians conference in Eugene, Oregon.3/24/22:Chia Yin Hsu, history faculty, gave a lecture titled “Russia, Ukraine and Crimea in the Soviet Era and After, 1900s-2000s” on March 17 at the Terwilliger Plaza Self-Governing Continuing Care Retirement Community. 3/1/22:Ken Ruoff, history faculty, wrote a chapter titled “The People’s Imperial Couple” in the new collection of essays titled Japan in the Heisei Era (1989-2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives, published by Routledge.2/25/22: Chia Yin Hsu, history faculty, was interviewed on KPTV Fox 12 Oregon on Feb. 25 for a story titled, "Portland professor explains history of Russia and Ukraine" and KATU on Feb. 27 about the war in Ukraine. 2/23/22: Chia Yin Hsu, history faculty, was interviewed on KOIN-TV on Feb. 21 for a story titled, “Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Is De-escalation Possible?”2/21/22: David Horowitz, history faculty, was interviewed on OPB, Feb. 21 for a story titled, "A century ago, the Ku Klux Klan terrorized Southern Oregon"2/9/22: Ken Ruoff, history faculty, published an op-ed called “Endless Delay? When Shall the Parliament Undertake Necessary Reforms of the Imperial House?” on Feb. 9 in the Japanese newspaper The Tokyo Shimbun. David Peterson del Mar, history faculty, and Aline Alvarez, graduate student, co-authored a chapter called “Transforming Ordinary Spaces into Hopeful Spaces” in the book, Global South Scholars in the Western Academy: Harnessing Unique Experiences, Knowledges, and Positionality in the Third Space, published by Routledge.202112/1/21: Ken Ruoff, history faculty and director of the Center for Japanese Studies, gave a lecture for Portland Community College titled “The Use and Abuse of History in Japan and Korea” on Nov. 30. 11/1/21: Ken Ruoff, history faculty and director of the Center for Japanese Studies, was quoted in NBC News, NPR, CBS, The Washington Post, Channel News Asia, The New York Times, Nihon Keizai Shinbun and CNN about the marriage of Mako Komuro, formerly a Japanese princess.10/25/21: Yarina Aguilar Becerra ’20 ; Cecilia Diojuan Leal and Jasmine Walker (a pseudonym); student; Neera Malhotra, university studies; David del Mar, history faculty; and Vicki Reitenauer, women, gender and sexuality studies faculty, co-authored the article “Who We Are” in Volume 53 of Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. 9/22/21: Ken Ruoff, history faculty and Center for Japanese Studies director, was interviewed for the article “Emperor Naruhito, Whose Family Has Long Supported the Paralympics, Will Formally Open the Games” from The New York Times.8/8/21:Catherine McNeur interviewed by Senator Bill Bradley in “Food banks; then Cicada Discoveries; Plus, Kayaks and Whales!” American Voices with Sen. Bill Bradley (SiriusXM)8/2/21: Ken Ruoff, history faculty and Japanese Studies director, was interviewed for a story from CTV on an apparent deliberate leak by one of the Japan Emperor Naruhito’s top advisers that Naruhito is “extremely worried” that holding the Olympics could hasten the spread of COVID-19 in Japan. Ken Ruoff, history faculty and Japanese Studies director, was interviewed to discuss “Why is the Vaccination Rate in Japan so Low?” for KGW’s The Story.6/2/21:Richard Beyler presented “The ‘Inner Necessity’ of a Reluctantly Public Intellectual: James Franck as Leader of the Physics Community under Political Pressure,” at the University of Chicago Physics Department Colloquium on May 20.5/17/21:Catherine McNeur published an essay titled “The Woman Who Solved a Cicada Mystery — but Got No Recognition” in Scientific American.5/1/2021:Friedrich Schuler's timely new book, A Shield for the Columbia River, offers the stories behind the founding of the Columbia River Quarantine Station.3/12/2021: Patricia Schechter interviewed in Bridgeliner on Three historic PDX women to know.3/1/21:Students in Catherine McNeur's "History of Science" class sought to fight against the erasure of women scientists by working with Wiki Education to write new Wikipedia articles or significantly edit existing articles on American women scientists.202010/22/20:Catherine McNeur delivered a Lightning Talk, "The Women Behind the Pseudonyms: Uncovering the Lives of Anonymous Nineteenth-Century Science Writers" as part of the Smithsonian’s American Women of Science: Recovering History, Defining the Future virtual symposium October 20–22 and 27–29, 2020.9/5/20 David Peterson del Mar history faculty, was interviewed for the article, "100 Days of Protest: A Chasm Grows Between Portland and the Rest of Oregon" from The New York Times.20185/29/18:Students in David Peterson del Mar's Freshman Inquiry seminar learn as much outside the classroom as they do in by volunteering.4/26/18:Students in Katy Barber's public history lab course will research discriminatory housing policies such as restrictive covenants and other planning tools that were used by Portland-area government, landowners, realtors and neighborhood associations to enforce racial segregation.20178/23/17:Portland State researchers launched Canopy Story, a new website that pinpoints trees in Portland and connects them with historic events, family memories, urban legends and more.