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Congratulations to Sheila Woodward in being elected Executive Vice President of the International Music Council Executive Board.

Margo Hill, a member of the Spokane Tribe of Indians and an Eastern Washington University professor, was among about 40 people who attended a fall rally to advocate for the removal of the statue of John Robert Monaghan, in downtown Spokane. The familiar statue of Monaghan sits at the corner of Riverside Avenue and Monroe…

Kylee Jones ’18 is an Associate Transportation Planner II from the Spokane Regional Transportation Council. Her experience at EWU in the Urban and Regional Planning program helped her find this profession she otherwise wouldn’t have known about.

Here is our collection of Annual Reports from 2018 to 2021.

EWU Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies presents for fall 2021 Contemporary Issues in Feminist Research, featuring faculty and staff presenting research in their disciplines from a feminist perspective. Contemporary Issues in Feminist Research All events will be held virtually via Zoom. “Where life is precious…” Intersectional Feminism in the Time of COVID-19 Thursday, November 4th…

In the recent article, published in the Journal of Gender Studies, Dr. Rohrer exposes the ways in which the bankrupt Boy Scouts of American “has been broadly bankrupt from the beginning.”

MFA alum, Kathryn Smith’s second full-length poetry collection Self-Portrait with Cephalopod, was the winner of the Copper Nickel Jake Adam York Prize. It was published by Milkweed Editions in early 2021.            

Shawn Vestal, alum and visiting writer/professor at Eastern, received the $25,000 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction for his short story collection Godforsaken Idaho. The award was announced in September of 2014 by the PEN American Center and he received the prize from Louise Erdrich at a ceremony at the New School.    …

In this piece, our director, Dr. Judy Rohrer, reminds us “we would do well now to slow down, take stock of the luggage we are carrying and the carcasses we are still dragging.”   Cover image by: NurseTogether, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

We are always proud of all of our faculty, students and staff. This year, we are thrilled that so many of them have been recognized for their incredible work. Dr. Jessi Willis won the College of Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award for their enthusiasm and innovation in the teaching and/or learning process, their ability to…