{"id":6948,"date":"2025-05-05T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=6948"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:35:20","slug":"faculty-notes-zoltan-grossman-2024-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2025\/05\/faculty-notes-zoltan-grossman-2024-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Notes | Zolt\u00e1n Grossman | 2024-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zolt\u00e1n Grossman\u2019s spring 2024 class \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evergreen.edu\/catalog\/offering\/decolonizing-place-names-40539\">Decolonizing Place Names<\/a>\u201d presented its <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/zoltan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/358\/2025\/03\/MountainNameChangeProjectReportCompressed.pdf\"><em>Mountain Name Change Project<\/em><\/a> report, on changing the name of Mount Rainier, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/zoltan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/358\/2024\/10\/PuyallupTribalNewsArticle.pdf\">Puyallup Tribe Heritage Division<\/a> and Evergreen\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/2025evergreenequitysymp.sched.com\/event\/1w5HC\/mountain-name-change-project-on-decolonizing-mount-rainier\">Equity Symposium<\/a>. He presented on the name-change project to the 2025 American Association of Geographers (AAG) conference, and on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zoltan.grossman\/videos\/438014098842697\">Tribal Disaster Resilience, Climate Change, and the Move to Higher Ground on the Washington Coast\u201d<\/a> to the 2024 conference. Zolt\u00e1n\u2019s students\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/artforces.org\/hiddenhistories\"><em>Olympia\u2019s Hidden Histories<\/em><\/a> walking tours won the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evergreen.edu\/news\/evergreen-students-olympias-hidden-histories-walking-tours-receive-prestigious-heritage-award#:~:text=This%20prestigious%20award%20recognizes%20outstanding%20contributions%20to%20Olympia%27s,rich%20history%20of%20communities%2C%20ecology%2C%20and%20global%20connections\">Olympia Historical Society Heritage Award<\/a>. He published \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/zoltan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/358\/2025\/01\/Tribal-Collaborations-in-Developing-Place-Based-Pedagogies-for-Public-Facing-Student-Projects.pdf\">Tribal Collaborations in Developing Place-Based Pedagogies for Public-Facing Student Projects\u201d<\/a> (at Evergreen) in<em> The Professional Geographer, <\/em>contributed \u201cIntercultural Alliances\u201d to the Routledge edited volume <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Environmental-Justice-in-North-America\/Rosier\/p\/book\/9781003214380\"><em>Environmental Justice in North America<\/em><\/a>, and co-authored an <em>AAG Review of Books<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www-tandfonline-com.evergreen.idm.oclc.org\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/2325548X.2024.2315332?needAccess=true\">review<\/a> of <em>Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection<\/em>. He published articles on \u201c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zocalopublicsquare.org\/when-disasters-create-unlikely-alliances\/\">When Disasters Create Unlikely Alliances<\/a>\u201d (<em>Z\u00f3calo Public Square), \u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2024\/09\/02\/lessons-of-kristallnacht-civil-war-and-mass-deportation\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFC4CJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHelatbMjgGwAszoM0h01mEG0RKe3Vg5RnTcZGetD_l-2GGLY4zQI9j3Epg_aem_fYryZHQrjRk45ZaX2c2X1Q\">Lessons of Kristallnacht, \u2018Civil War,\u2019 and Mass Deportation<\/a>\u201d (<em>Counterpunch)<\/em>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/captimes.com\/opinion\/guest-columns\/opinion-walter-bresette-recognized-for-protecting-fish-building-bridges\/article_4e8baec0-c20e-11ee-9039-87eaec77b318.html\">\u201cProtecting fish, building bridges<\/a>,\u201d with Debra McNutt (<em>Capital Times<\/em>). Zolt\u00e1n was interviewed on the podcasts <a href=\"https:\/\/patcummings.substack.com\/p\/unlikely-alliances-native-nations?fbclid=IwY2xjawJCsvVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQ0ygqWzPvnugtyTezL8Fu8PaCVOkbzLkAcdrv01xvk4ugZqMt0lZC4PpQ_aem_bVVLQkxBC_ge-qkyFrGWqQ\">Coming from Left Field<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdfarmpod.com\/2025\/02\/02\/fresh-imperial-ambitions-zoltan-grossman-evergreen-state-college-234\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJCs59leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVz4G2lYWQFD6PXim4pFHkjD0hN7WipljuCxC6DRD4cb19Qq7ZTplaroqQ_aem_lPeumlforSKZpSr9165yIQ\">Nerd Farmer,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/refusefascism.org\/2024\/10\/07\/lessons-of-kristallnacht-civil-war-and-mass-deportation\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJCtTJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRc8gh5N2a-0WvDYoxnIcKRut_xWEAqhIMuYWHoqxRML-KFS_iCQrc_SYg_aem_8a2W_z0eonzVt0nicz7zKA\">Refuse Fascism<\/a>. He presented on his book <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/unlikelyalliances\"><em>Unlikely Alliances<\/em><\/a> as a conference panelist at <a href=\"https:\/\/publicaffairs.missouristate.edu\/2024\/presenter-bio.aspx?PresenterID=2014\">Missouri State<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/engl.cms.arts.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2025\/04\/UBC-Endnotes-2025-Program.pdf\">UBC<\/a>, and recently served on Ph.D. dissertation committees at Oxford University, University of Victoria, Concordia University of Montreal, and Columbia University. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/zoltan\">https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/zoltan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"843\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/440\/2025\/05\/MountainNameChangeProjectReportCover-843x1024.png\" alt=\"Mountain Name Change Project Report to the Puyallup Tribe Heritage Division by students in &quot;Decolonizing Place Names,&quot; The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, Dr. Zoltan Grossman, Faculty, Spring 2024, Not for public release\" class=\"wp-image-6949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/440\/2025\/05\/MountainNameChangeProjectReportCover-843x1024.png 843w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/440\/2025\/05\/MountainNameChangeProjectReportCover-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/440\/2025\/05\/MountainNameChangeProjectReportCover-768x933.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/440\/2025\/05\/MountainNameChangeProjectReportCover.png 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zolt\u00e1n Grossman\u2019s spring 2024 class \u201cDecolonizing Place Names\u201d presented its Mountain Name Change Project report, on changing the name of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9875,"featured_media":6949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[1,188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6951,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions\/6951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}