News and Events
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Fluent in Russian—and Adventure
Benjamin Popple BA ’26 will head to Kyrgyzstan this summer after earning a coveted Critical Language Scholarship for intensive Russian study.
Announcing the 2026 Special Collections Visiting Fellow
Watzek Library Special Collections and Archives is pleased to announce the Eric Rosenblum is the recipient of the inaugural Special Collections Visiting Fellowship. Rosenblum will work with the Katherine Dunn collection and related collections held at Lewis & Clark College this June and July, 2026.
More information about the fellowship is available on the Special Collections website.
PBS Shines National Spotlight on ‘Classroom 4’
PBS is streaming Classroom 4, which captures the transformative Inside-Out course taught by Professor Reiko Hillyer, where students break down the walls imposed by incarceration to study, connect, and change each other.
2025-2026 Visiting Writers Series Announced
Please save the dates, spread the word, and join us in welcoming these six fine writers to our 2025-26 Visiting Writing Series. Author bios below.
The September 24th Artist-in-Residence event with Anis Mojgani will be held in Miller 105 Auditorium at 7pm and is sponsored by the Art Department.
All other events will be held in Armstrong Lounge in the Manor House at 6pm.
Gender Studies Symposium: Call for Proposals
You are invited to submit proposals for presentation at the 45th Annual Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies Symposium, March 11–13, 2026, exploring dimensions of resistance, activism, and solidarity in relation to gender and sexuality. Please review the guidelines in our Call for Proposals.
Historian Named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
Quinn Slobodian BA ’00, an intellectual and cultural historian, has been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for creative and intellectual achievement.
History Professor Recognized for Teaching Excellence
Assistant Professor of History Nancy O. Gallman has earned a prestigious Graves Award, which recognizes excellence in teaching. The award will support her latest research project, Law’s Borderlands. The manuscript reimagines early American legal history through the lens of cultural interaction in the late-colonial South.
‘CLASSROOM 4’ Inside-Out Film Wins Best Documentary at 2025 Aspen Shortsfest
CLASSROOM 4, a documentary about Reiko Hillyer’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange class, wins Jury Award at Aspen Shortsfest. Article written by Hailey McHorse for ‘Footnotes,’ the History Department annual newsletter. - EVENTS
Past Events
4 at 5 Lecture Series Featuring Pamplin Professor Emeritus Stephen Dow Beckham – The Pig War and Series Closing Reception
Join us for the 4 at 5 Lecture Series Featuring Pamplin Professor Emeritus Stephen Dow Beckham, an exciting collection of four history lectures presented at 5:00 P.M. the second Wednesday of each month. This series offers an historical deep dive into people and events associated with a variety of geographical regions with the aim of bringing our community together from across the nation to embark on a journey of discovery, bridging the past and present through the expert guidance of one of our institution’s most cherished academic luminaries.
History 450 Thesis Presentations, Spring 2026
Please join us this afternoon in Miller 102 from 3:30-5pm for the History 450 Thesis Presentations.Liana Vargas: “Beyond the Fabricated Line: Mexican-American Resistance and the Lemon Grove Segregation Case, 1931”
Elena Daves: “Revolution or Release?: Political Prisoners and Puerto Rican Independence in the FALN”
Music Colloquium: Dr. Kerry McCarthy
Life as a professional singer in 16th-century England involved a lot of travel, and this talk explores what that looked like in the everyday lives of musicians.
