{"id":38134,"date":"2025-03-18T15:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=38134"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:03:12","slug":"mcnair-alumni-saul-bautista-accepted-to-western-washington-university-ma-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/mcnair-alumni-saul-bautista-accepted-to-western-washington-university-ma-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair Alumni Saul Bautista Accepted to Western Washington University MA in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-fa534d58\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Saul-Bautista-WWU-MA-in-History-Acceptance-2025-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Saul-Bautista-WWU-MA-in-History-Acceptance-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Saul-Bautista-WWU-MA-in-History-Acceptance-2025-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Saul-Bautista-WWU-MA-in-History-Acceptance-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Saul-Bautista-WWU-MA-in-History-Acceptance-2025-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Saul-Bautista-WWU-MA-in-History-Acceptance-2025-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Saul-Bautista-WWU-MA-in-History-Acceptance-2025-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Saul-Bautista-WWU-MA-in-History-Acceptance-2025-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Saul-Bautista-WWU-MA-in-History-Acceptance-2025-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to McNair Scholar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/saul-bautista\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"36077\">Saul Bautista<\/a>! Saul has accepted to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umassd.edu\/programs\/research-psychology-ma\/\">Western Washington University Master of Arts in History<\/a>\u00a0Program, with full funding. Their program files every thesis with their library and in a database available to researchers worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saul Bautista<\/strong>&nbsp;graduated from Eastern Washington University in 2023 with a BA in History. He earned his AA degree at Spokane Falls Community College. He has concentrated his studies in the historical socio-political climate of Latinoamerica\u2019s diverse cultures. For his research project in the summer of 2022, he worked under the mentorship of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/experts\/joseph-u-lenti\/\">Dr. Joseph Lenti<\/a>. Using well-rounded sources, Saul researched the history of the multiple governments of Central America, focusing on how the educational system of Honduras actively tries to undermine the presence of the native Americans in the history of the country, and the treatment of the indigenous people in the region by the Honduran government. He plans to obtain a PhD in History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saul presented this research at the McNair Research Symposium and EWU\u2019s Symposium (2022). An updated presentation,&nbsp;<em>Honduran Tribes and their Historical Erosion<\/em>, was given at EWU Symposium (2023) with mentor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/experts\/joseph-u-lenti\/\">Joseph Lenti<\/a>. This research project prepared Saul for graduate level work. Saul&nbsp;presented his paper,&nbsp;<em>A Different View of the Rising Sun<\/em>,&nbsp;at the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) in Asheville, North Carolina (2023) and at the Phi Alpha Theta Conference (2024).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to McNair Scholar\u00a0Saul Bautista! Saul has accepted to the\u00a0Western Washington University Master of Arts in History\u00a0Program, with full funding. Their program files every thesis with their library and in a database available to researchers worldwide. Saul Bautista&nbsp;graduated from Eastern Washington University in 2023 with a BA in History. He earned his AA degree at &#8230; <a title=\"McNair Alumni Saul Bautista Accepted to Western Washington University MA in History\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/mcnair-alumni-saul-bautista-accepted-to-western-washington-university-ma-in-history\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about McNair Alumni Saul Bautista Accepted to Western Washington University MA in History\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26138,"featured_media":38135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,805,9,240,28,488],"tags":[159,83,136,134,176],"class_list":["post-38134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-2022-cohort","category-2024-2025-grad-school-accceptances","category-acceptances-awards","category-history","category-news","category-saul-bautista","tag-acceptances","tag-accepted","tag-chicano-studies","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38150,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38134\/revisions\/38150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}