Historical Spaghetti: You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Washington State University is an institution that commits to being a welcoming school to students from any and all backgrounds. While the push for greater diversity on campus is slow compared to other universities, a growing number of international students have chosen to spend their college years at a school nestled within rolling hills of wheat-fields. In 2019, WSU reported that enrollment of international students totaled 2,267, with 1,001 undergraduate and 1,140 graduate students for all of its campuses. Despite the number rising to 2,351 during Spring 2020, international students only make up 7.1% of the total student population. [1]   Within the WSU History Department, only four international students are a part of the Graduate School. In this interview, we meet with Jade (Qianni) Shen, an MA student from Shanghai, China who is studying cultural and social differences between Chinese and Japanese soldiers during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Shen had attended WSU for her underg