Summer 2020
Back on Track: Sound Transit’s Fight to Save Light Rail
Review of "Back on Track: Sound Transit’s Fight to Save Light Rail" published by WSU Press » More ...
Humanities
Summer 2020
Carla Peperzak: Her life
Carla Peperzak is Washington’s 2020 Person of the Year.
For more than 50 years, she wouldn’t talk about her years as a teenage operative in the Dutch Resistance during World War II. Washington State University associate history professor Raymond Sun is now helping Carla tell that story.
Produced by the Edison Creative Group
Learn more about her life:
Read the article that first connected Raymond Sun and Carla Peperzak.
Read about Carla Peperzak being honored in Olympia.
Video: Carla Peperzak speaks at North Idaho College … » More …
Summer 2020
Q&A: Buddy Levy on the art and craft of the historical narrative
Buddy Levy likes to make the trip.
He specializes in historical narrative, paying meticulous attention to detail, writing cinematically, and traveling to the sites of the stories he’s researching—sometimes several hundred years after they’ve occurred. Travel, he says, is necessary for scene-setting and description, and can be more meaningful than archival research.
His seventh book, Labyrinth of Ice, started with a visit to Greenland in 2003. But he was there to write about something else. Levy was covering a race in which Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind man to summit Mount Everest, was competing, and he managed to convince Weihenmayer to let … » More …
Spring 2020
Gallery: Works from the Black Arts Movement in Chicago
A group of artists, musicians, dancers, poets, and writers in Chicago gave birth to the rich aesthetic based on Black American experience known as the Black Arts Movement (BAM). Below are just a few examples of their work.
Read about a new documentary on BAM in Chicago from WSU Vancouver associate professors of English Thabiti Lewis and Pavithra Narayanan.
Spring 2020
BAM! The Black Arts Movement in Chicago
The Black Arts Movement in Chicago was a spiritual and inspirational time and place for multiple generations, as explored in a new documentary by two Washington State University Vancouver professors. » More ...
Spring 2020
Mao’s Kisses: A novel of June 4, 1989
Alex Kuo
Redbat Books, 2019
Deng Xiaoping learned to play bridge in the early 1950s. Little did he realize that appropriating state transportation to take him and his team to tournaments would result in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and his being transported far from Beijing for reeducation through manual labor.
But Deng wasn’t just a Goren Prize-winning bridge player. He was, after his rehabilitation, China’s paramount leader during a time of civil crisis. The spring of 1989 brought … » More …
Spring 2020
To Think Like a Mountain: Environmental challenges in the American West
Niels Sparre Nokkentved
WSU Press: 2019
“Thinking like a mountain” is the name of a short essay from Aldo Leopold’s 1949 book A Sand County Almanac. In it, he reflects on an old wolf he shot and killed as a young hunter and how he came to realize wolves play a critical role between prey, such as deer and elk, and the flora of the forest and other natural habitats. He lamented humans need to learn to think … » More …
Winter 2019
Stripland
Review of Stripland, a novel by former Washington State University professor of English Joan Burbick. » More ...
Winter 2019
Power of language
Relationships come to life by revitalizing rather than preserving Native American languages. That's what Washington State University Professor Kim Christen strives for with several projects. » More ...
Fall 2019
Hearts in motion
Life-changing surgeries save lives in Guatemala, with assistance from Washington State University students and faculty. » More ...