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ALUMNI NEWS Steven Beda (PhD, 2014), currently teaching at the University of Oregon, was awarded the Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation from the Labor and Working Class History Association. Kate Brown (PhD, 2000), Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, received a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Foundation Fellowship. Elizabeth Campbell (PhD, 2009) was named Assistant Professor of History at Daemen College in Amherst, New York. Stefan Kamola (PhD, 2013) received an appointment as Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University. GRAD STUDENT PROFILES Quin'Nita Cobbins is a 4th-year doctoral student in the Department of History. She studies African-American women's history in the U.S. West, with interests in race, migration, culture, politics, and urban life. Her dissertation will examine the lived experiences of African-American women in Seattle to illustrate how they developed their political activism and leadership in the city during the last half of the 20th century. Quin'Nita is a member of the Western History Association Graduate Student Caucus, the Coalition for Western Women's History, and the Association of Black Women Historians, and serves on the board of the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild. Quin'Nita is also the current webmaster for BlackPast.org. She has published a number of online articles and biographies covering wide-ranging aspects of African-American history and has received a number of departmental awards, in addition to awards from the Western History Association. Bradley Horst is also entering his fourth year in the department. A historian of late Imperial Russia, his research interests include urban history, sexuality and gender, colonial and modern Central Asia, Islam, Comparative Orientalism, and imperial visual and consumer cultures. He is preparing for upcoming dissertation research in Russia and parts of Central Asia on the relationship between masculinity, sexuality, and empire in the late Imperial period. Bradley was also selected as a Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics for the upcoming academic year. Reaching New Publics is part of a multi-year initiative that encourages scholars to reassess their relationship to the broader public, emphasizing the vital need to bridge the gap between the academy and the wider community. Brad will be working closely with a professor at one of Seattle's community colleges. RECENT DISSERTATIONS Mei Feng Mok: "Negotiating Community and Nation in Cho Lon: Nation-building, Community-building and Transnationalism in Everyday Life during the Republic of Viet Nam, 1955-1975" (Chair: Christoph Giebel) Alexander Morrow: "Laboring for the Day: The Pacific Coast and the Casual Labor Economy, 1919-1933" (Chair: James Gregory) Hoang Ngo: "Building a New House for the Buddha: Buddhist Social Engagement and Revival in Vietnam, 1927-1951" (Chair: Christoph Giebel) Maria Quintana: "Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Labor Importation Programs, 1942-1964" (Chairs: James Gregory & Moon-Ho Jung) Kurt Schaefer: "The Promise and the Price of Contact: Puyallup Indian Acculturation, Federal Indian Policy and the City of Tacoma, 1832-1909" (Chair: John Findlay) GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS Ryan Archibald was awarded a Moody Research Grant to fund work at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas. Hayone Chung received a Korean Foundation Graduate Studies Fellowship. Andrew Hedden received the Burke Prize for Outstanding MA in American History. Eric Johnson and Sarah Zaides were named as 2015-16 Hanauer Fellows for Excellence in Western Civilization. Eric Johnson also received a 2016-17 UW Presidential Dissertation Fellowship. Hongxuan Lin was awarded the 2016 Thomas M. Power Prize for best Graduate Research Paper. Jorge Bayona received Honorable Mention. Patrick Lozar received the Thomas M. Power Prize for Outstanding Teaching Assistant. Jesse Meredith was named a 2016-17 Society of Scholars Fellow with the Simpson School for the Humanities. Huong Nguyen was awarded a 2016-17 Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Katja Schatte and Xiaoshun Zeng received Chester A. Fritz Fellowships for international research. Katja Schatte also secured a Greenberg Research Fellowship for dissertation work at the USC Shoah Foundation. history matters D E P A R T M E N T O F H I S T O R Y   7 history matters

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