Faculty Heather Madar Art

Heather Madar has been awarded a Hiob-Ludolf fellowship from the Herzog Ernst fellowship program at the Research Library Gotha in Gotha, Germany. The fellowship will support her research on Ottoman imagery in 17th century German court culture.

Faculty Dr. Renée M. Byrd Sociology

Dr, Renée M. Byrd (Associate Professor, Sociology) presented on merging critical ethnic studies and environmental justice at the American Studies Assocation Annual Meetings in Honolulu November 8, 2019.

Faculty Leslie Rossman Communication

Dr. Leslie Rossman has been appointed as the Lecturer Representative for the California Faculty Association. She continues her leadership as part of the state-wide work to support worker rights in the academy.

Student Devon Escoto and Sydney Verga Communication

Devon Escoto and Sydney Verga advanced into the semi-final round (8/32) of Dominican University where they defeated UC Berkeley and the University of Alaska ending up in the final (4/32) for the weekend. This is the second time this year these two have advanced into elimination rounds, and their first finals appearance. They competed against two more teams from Berkeley and a team from the University of Miami Florida in the final, Berkeley won the event.

First-year student Carina Masters and her 2nd-year partner Tim Arceneaux just missed elimination rounds themselves. Every student who traveled spent approximately 7 hours over the weekend preparing and participating in debates. They debated reparations for slavery, the elimination of billionaires, the metaphor of "pain=gain" and more.

This is the second year in a row HSU has "broken" teams at Dominican. Since last year 6 different HSU students have seen elimination debate at this nationally competitive tournament.

Faculty Leslie Rossman Communication

Dr. Leslie Rossman presented two papers at the National Communication Association Conference. One project was on the precarious nature of academic labor and the other paper was “Whose Survival? Limitations and Possibilities of Queer Imaginaries.”

Faculty Sing C. Chew Sociology

Professor Emeritus Sing C. Chew has a book in press entitled, Living Wisely in the Digital Dark Age: Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, Ecology, and Life. This monograph is a follow-up to his three-volume work on World Ecological Degradation over 5,000 years of world history.

Student Peter Blickensderfer, Madison Kaisan, and Gabby Connors Theatre, Film & Dance

Peter Blickensderfer, Madison Kaisan, and Gabby Connors won 1st Place, Best Experimental Film in the 29th Annual CSU Media Arts Festival. Filmmakers Madi and Peter collaborated with dancer/storyteller Gabby to create the spoken word experimental film Danh Tính. All three will graduate from HSU in May 2020 with BA Degrees in Film or Dance.

Faculty Kaitlin Reed Native American Studies

Kaitlin Reed, Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, presented her paper “We Are A Part of the Land and the Land Is Us”: Settler Colonialism & Genocide in California at the California Indian Conference at Sonoma State University, November 14-16.

Faculty James Floss Communication

James Floss, Emeritus Faculty from the Communication Department will present a series of workshops for students and faculty of the University Benito Juarez in Oaxaca, Mexico over the next two weeks. They are: Expression Dynamics, Writing a Better Oral Message and Dynamic Delivery of speeches.

Student Gil Trejo, Grace Hall, Melody Dick, Sean Fleming, Melissa Collin, Theresa Brakeman, Zach Porteous, Amy Rock, Nick Perdue, Geography

GESA Faculty Amy Rock and Nick Perdue recently took geospatial students from several departments to the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference in Tacoma, WA, where they had the opportunity to get feedback on their maps and interact with mapping professionals from National Geographic, New York Times, Washington Post, NASA, and more.

Faculty Kerri J Malloy Native American Studies

Kerri J. Malloy, Lecturer, Native American Studies was appointed to the Emerging Scholars Working Group of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. The Working Group members, as a whole and individually, provide input on policy briefings to the Advisory Board and Executive Committee of the association.

Faculty Kerri J. Malloy Native American Studies

Kerri J. Malloy, Lecturer, Native American Studies presented his paper "In Plain Sight but Unseen: Healing in Northwestern California" at the Building Sustainable Peace conference sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, November 7-10.

Faculty Deepti Chatti

Deepti Chatti, Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program has been elected to be an At-Large Councilor for the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG).

Faculty Deepti Chatti

Deepti Chatti, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, is the Principal Investigator for a grant from the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative at Duke University. The project is called "Researching Refills", and studies the resources and relationships required by rural families in India to sustain clean energy access.

Faculty Vincent Biondo Religious Studies

Vincent Biondo has accepted an appointment to the American Academy of Religion Public Understanding of Religion Committee where he will meet with senior officials in the White House, State Department, the museum of African American History & Culture, the National Museum of American History, the Holocaust Museum, and the Museum of the Bible, among other responsibilities.

Faculty Karen Davy Music

Karen Davy presented a session on the work of her former violin teacher, Kató Havas, at the ASTA Oregon Biennial meeting at Pacific University on Oct. 5.

Student William English III, Irma Gill Yañez, and Troy Lescher Theatre, Film & Dance

William English III ('19), Irma Gill Yañez ('19), and Dr. Troy Lescher published the "Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2019" report in the June 2019 edition of Theatre Journal [Association of Theatre in Higher Education].

Faculty Sarah Jaquette Ray

With colleagues Elin Kelsey (U. Victoria) and Jennifer Atkinson (UW-Bothel), Dr. Ray has been chosen to host a workshop on teaching climate change, called "An Existential Toolkit for Climate Educators," at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. A call for proposals is here: bit.ly/ecoanxietyRCC.

Faculty Jared D. Larson Politics

Dr. Larson gave the keynote lecture of the 28th Anniversary Conference the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional (Galician Institute of International Analysis and Documentation, IGADI) entitled “Del 11-S a la Política Exterior de Trump” (From 9/11 to Trump's Foreign Policy), held at the Faculdade de Ciencias Políticas e Sociais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Sept. 10, 2019.

Faculty Jared D. Larson Politics

Dr. Larson presented the paper "Chega (or Basta?) Vox: The (Re-)Emergence of Right-wing Politics in Iberia" at the 41st Annual Conference of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies, held at the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, Sept. 4-6, 2019. At the closing session of the conference, he was appointed to the Executive Council of the Association as an At-Large Member.