Student Danielle Kirkland-Shatraw Geography

Danielle won first place in the McKnight Student Paper Contest for best undergraduate geography paper at the California Geographic Society Annual Conference in Big Bear Lake, CA with her work Cartography and Resistance: Counter-mapping in Palestine.

Student Kevin Greer Geography

Kevin won the Geosystems award for best paper in physical geography at the California Geographic Society Annual Conference in Big Bear Lake, CA with his research "Determining Factors That Contributed to the Carr Fire."

Faculty James Floss Communication

James Floss, in AY 18-19 studied undocumented immigrant experiences locally, within the state of California, and internationally. The stories, originally published on KHSU are now available through NPR One. The guests were from Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Columbia, El Salvador and the United States. Some were undocumented, some were legal residents, one was a newly minted citizen and one was deported two days after being recorded.

Faculty Armeda C. Reitzel Communication

Armeda Reitzel has been selected to serve as the Midwestern Culture subject area chair of the Midwest Popular Culture Association.

Faculty Armeda C. Reitzel Communication

Armeda Reitzel presented her paper titled "Voices of Fayetteville, Arkansas: Down-home Stories with a Touch of Hollywood Pizzazz" at the Popular Culture Association conference in Washington, DC on April 17, 2019. This paper was based on research that she conducted during her sabbatical leave spring semester 2018.

Faculty Cutcha Risling Baldy Native American Studies

Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy's 2018 book We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies, published by the University of Washington Press, received an honorable mention this year for the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award. More information is available here: https://lib.asu.edu/labriola/bookaward

Staff Benjamin Funke Art

Benjamin Funke has been selected by the US Bureau of Land Management - King Range National Conservation Area as the 2019 Artist in Residence.

This opportunity will place him atop the King Range for 31 days, reflecting on the natural landscape and building a new body of artwork. Additionally, he will be leading two workshops for the general public on 3d imaging, design, scanning and printing.

Student Rachael M Heller Anthropology

On April 18th Rachael Heller will be presenting her paper "Leeroy Jenkins; Identity Formation, Investment, and Social Structure of a Guild in World of Warcraft" at the Pop Culture Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Based on research over the course of a year, this work contributes to existing scholarship on online sociality by providing insight into the role online gaming plays in connecting people across time and space in new forms of community.

Faculty Vincent Biondo Religious Studies

Associate Professor Vincent Biondo's paper presentation at the November, 2018 Parliament for the World's Religions was published as the article "Faith and History: Wilfred Cantwell Smith's Theory of Religion for the Twenty-First Century" in the Toronto Journal of Theology: .

Faculty Cindy Moyer, Karen Davy, Sherry Hanson, Garrick Woods Music

On Monday, March 18, the Arcata Bay String Quartet traveled to Ukiah to perform for the Ukiah High School Orchestra.

Faculty Cindy Moyer Music

On March 7, Cindy Moyer presented an Express Talk at the American String Teachers Association National Conference in Albuquerque, NM, on Introducing Scales and Arpeggios with Shifting Practice.

Faculty Joseph C. Diémé World Languages and Cultures

Published new book titled: "La répudiation du tribalisme sous l'ère Barack Hussein Obama", Harmattan Editions, Paris, March 1st, 2019.

Faculty Louis Marak Art

Emeritus Faculty member Louis Marak has been recognized by
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA): Excellence in Teaching Award 2019

Description of the award:
Recipients should be near or at the end of a career dedicated to the practice of teaching (may be awarded posthumously); shall have demonstrated excellence in their own creative work; shall have had previous recognition for and a history of awards in teaching; and should have highly visible former students in the field.

Faculty Leena Dallasheh History

Dr. Leena Dallasheh was interviewed for a podcast series on the Palestinian refugees and the Great March of Return in Gaza. The interview was published at Unsettled, a new podcast on Israel-Palestine and the Jewish diaspora:

https://www.unsettledpod.com/episodes/2019/2/4/refugees-gaza-ep-2

Faculty Sing C. Chew Sociology

Following official retirement, Professor Emeritus Sing C. Chew, Sociology, published his 8th book: The Southeast Asia Connection: Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy 200BC-AD500 New York/Oxford: Berghahn Press 2018. He is also finishing another monograph entitled: Choices: Living Through the Next Dark Age to be published by Berghahn Press in 2019.

Faculty Leslie L. Rossman Communication

Dr. Leslie L. Rossman and Dr. Joshua S. Hanan (HSU '04) published an article in Communication Currents titled "Trump’s Promise to Make America Manufacture Again: USMCA and the Rhetoric of Neoliberal Exception". It can be viewed at: https://www.natcom.org/communication-currents/trump%E2%80%99s-promise-make-america-manufacture-again-usmca-and-rhetoric-neoliberal?fbclid=IwAR0TjwIGB_ETJ4Uv3hczuqmAw_AkGu7NPWTzzKOEsfAh_8sSYhq1o8fcxAc

Faculty Alexandra Hootnick Art

Alexandra Hootnick, lecturer in the Art Department, was named by Photo District News as one of the "30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch" for 2019. This prestigious award is given to an international group of image-makers for their outstanding contributions to the field. https://www.pdnonline.com/pdns-30/alexandra-hootnick/

Faculty Alexandra Hootnick Art

Named one of Photo District News' 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch.

https://www.pdnonline.com/pdns-30/

Faculty Maral N. Attallah Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Maral N. Attallah has been invited to give two university lectures in British Columbia discussing her research on Armenian Genocide denial and the role we can all play in becoming active anti-deniers. Invited by the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies at University of British Columbia (2/27) and the University of Victoria Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, as well as the University of Victoria Centre for Global Studies (3/1), both lectures are made possible by the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller.

Faculty Joseph C. Diémé World Languages and Cultures

Published a chapter in a book entitled "Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality:1848-2016". Published by University of Nebraska Press, October 2018.