Mart Stewart
Rayson Alex, Fulbright Scholar in residence at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies during the fall quarter and the first part of winter quarter, says that the common denominator of his experience at Western has been “community.”
Alex, whose teaches courses in the…
Western history student Hannah Swartos of Anacortes was awarded the Harry Fritz Best Paper Prize on June 2 at the 2021 Phi Alpha Theta Pacific Northwest Regional Conference for her work, entitled "Out of the Way:” Property and the Subversive Construction of Space by Enslaved People in the…
After a summer concocting various formulas for opening our university campuses so that some semblance of the campus experience might be preserved and then a bumpy opening, many of us have settled back into more comfortable versions of the online teaching venues that were the default modality…
After a summer concocting various formulas for opening our university campuses so that some semblance of the campus experience might be preserved and then a bumpy opening, many of us have settled back into more comfortable versions of the online teaching venues that were the default modality…
Mart Stewart (History) publishes edited volume, Water and Power: Environmental Governance and Strategies for Sustainability in the Lower Mekong Basin (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319903996)
The volume has been published by Springer Scientific in their Advances in…
"When most Americans hear the word 'Cambodia,' they think only of the Khmer Rouge genocide," says Mart Stewart, a professor in the Department of History at Western Washington University. "But this was only a momentary aberration in Cambodian history, and one that…
Mart Stewart, a professor of history at Western Washington University, presented the keynote lecture at a symposium titled "Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast" in Savannah, Georgia, on Feb. 18.
Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will visit the US next week in a five-day landmark trip that is especially crucial at a time the two former foes increasingly need each other in the face of a rising China. Trong, the first Vietnam’s Party chief to visit the US, will meet…
Mart Stewart, a professor of history at Western Washington University, has had his essay "Walking, Running, and Marching into an Environmental History of the Civil War" published in "The Blue, the Grey, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War,"…
Mart Stewart, a professor of history at Western Washington University, has had his essay "Plantations, Agroecology, Environmental Thought, and the American South," published in "Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton, Environmental Histories of the Plantation," edited by…