MISSION AND HISTORY
Mission
The Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest is dedicated to advancing scholarship on the Pacific Northwest, and the North American West more generally, with an emphasis on historical research. Located in the Department of History at the University of Washington, we support research, teaching, and public programs that promote and disseminate knowledge on the peoples and issues that have defined and shaped the Pacific Northwest.
History
CSPN was founded within the University of Washington's Department of History in the fall of 1990. Over the years CSPN has sponsored lectures, colloquium, symposium, classes, books, and conferences
devoted to the study of the Pacific Northwest. The Center also supports graduate students, visiting scholars, faculty, and community organizations.
Timeline | |
1990 |
CSPN established by the University of Washington's Department of History. |
1991 |
Colloquium series: "Indians and Whites in the Pacific Northwest" |
1992 |
Colloquium series: "City and Community in the Pacific Northwest" |
1993 |
Colloquium series: "Labor and Minorities in the Pacific Northwest" |
1994 |
Conference: "Power and Place in the American West" |
1995 |
CSPN moves into its new home in Smith Hall. |
1996 |
Conference: "On Brotherly Terms: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies" |
1997 |
Lecture series: "The Frontier in American Culture" |
1998 |
Symposium: "All Powers Necessary and Convenient" on the Canwell Committee |
1999 |
CSPN office renovations completed. |
2000 |
Conference: "The Nikkei Experience in the Pacific Northwest" |
2001 |
CSPN receives the Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching for its curriculum packets. |
2002 |
Co-sponsored annual Pacific Northwest History Conference, "History on the Edge and at the Center" |
2003 |
Author talk: Jim Phillips and Rosemary Gartner, Murdering Holiness: The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell |
2004 |
Symposium: "Imagining the Trans-Pacific West" |
2005 |
Conference: "Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties
in National and International
Historical Perspective" |
2006 |
Sick Lecture: Katrine Barber, "Death of Falls" |
2007 |
Summer course and lecture series: "A Sense of Where We Are" |
2008 |
Co-sponsored Washington State History Day. |
2009 |
Sick Lecture: Lorraine McConaghy, "The U.S. Navy in the Antebellum West" |
2010 |
Lecture series: "The Crossroads of Empire" |
2011 |
Conference: "Race, Radicalism, and Repression on the Pacific Coast and Beyond" (PDF) |