Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Faculty Cindy Moyer and Garrick Woods Music
On Friday, February 15, Music Professors Cindy Moyer and Garrick Woods presented a session at the California All-State Music Education Conference in Fresno, CA. Entitled “Above the First Position,” the session addressed pedagogical strategies for teaching technique and music reading skills for intermediate violin, viola, cello, and bass students.
Submitted: February 19, 2019Faculty Sondra P Schwetman Art
New article in Sculpture Digest entitled "Easy Hardware Store Sculpture Molds"
Submitted: February 18, 2019Faculty Sondra Schwetman Art
Sondra Schwetman has been accepted into an international exhibition entitled "100% Woman" at the Stichting White Cube Gallery in Alkmaar, the Netherlands in October of 2019.
Submitted: February 18, 2019Faculty Laura Johnson Geography
Dr. Laura Johnson published a research article in Gender, Place and Culture, titled "Becoming ‘enchanted’ in agro-food spaces: Engaging relational frameworks and photo elicitation with farm tour experiences." It can be viewed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/mTAjiir83NYpVqkkaTvq/full?target=10.1080/0966369X.2018.1541867
Submitted: February 4, 2019Faculty Alison Holmes International Studies
International Studies Program Leader Alison Holmes, together with Professor Paul Amar of UC Santa Barbara, was asked to conduct an external review of the CSU-Long Beach International Studies Program - a flagship in the CSU system and model in the country.
Submitted: February 4, 2019Faculty Jared Larson Politics
In the last month, Jared Larson has had two articles published. The first, "La identidad ibérica frente a la identidad europea: Huellas iberistas en Señas de identidad, A jangada de pedra y Sostiene Pereira," published by Romance Notes (a comparative literature journal based at UNC-Chapel Hill), examines Iberian political culture through three 20th-century novels. The second, published online in SAGE's Research Methods Cases series, considers “Using Contextual Variables in the Comparative Historical Analysis of the Politics of Migration in Spain and Portugal.”
Submitted: January 28, 2019Faculty Dan Aldag Music
Dan Aldag with jazz great Matt Wilson and the HSU Jazz Orchestra, presented a clinic at the Jazz Educators Network national conference entitled "Getting Off The Page: Moving Your Big Band Beyond Written Arrangements"
Submitted: January 28, 2019Student John Veit Sociology
John Veit (SOC MA 2018) published a book reviewed in High Times of “Where There’s Smoke: The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana (University of Kansas Press 2018, which featured two chapters written by Dr. Silvaggio and one by Sociology lecturer Karen August.
https://hightimes.com/culture/book-review-where-theres-smoke-will-light…
Faculty Anthony Silvaggio Sociology
Dr. Anthony Silvaggio presented his research on the environmental impacts of cannabis in Vienna, Austria on December 8, 2018. Silvaggio opened a two-day conference on cannabis sustainability sponsored by FAAAT (For Alternative Approaches to Addiction, Think & do tank). The conference followed the 61st meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at the United Nations Vienna headquarters. His presentations was featured in High Time Magazine in an article written by a recent HSU Sociology MA graduate Jon Veit.
https://hightimes.com/news/world/un-drug-commission-delays-thc-reschedu…
Faculty Cindy Moyer, Karen Davy, Sherry Hanson, Garrick Woods Music
On Friday, January 11, the Arcata Bay String Quartet (Cindy Moyer and Karen Davy, violins; Sherry Hanson, viola; and Garrick Woods, cello) performed quartets by Franz Joseph Haydn, Robert Schumman, and Claude Debussy on the Redding Performing Arts Society Concert Series. Their trip to Redding also included performances for music students at Sequoia Middle School and University Preparatory School.
Submitted: January 17, 2019Faculty Alison Holmes International Studies
Based on her current research project, International Studies Program Leader Alison Holmes published an open letter on the USC Center for Public Diplomacy blog to the new governor on the day of his inauguration about the need for a 'new globalism' for California (https://www.uscpublicdiplomacy.org/tags/open-letter). It was was picked up and republished by the Pacific Council (https://www.pacificcouncil.org/newsroom/new-globalism-open-letter-calif…).
Submitted: January 7, 2019Student Brandie Wilson Sociology
2018 HSU Distinguished Alumni Awardee, Brandie Wilson,(SOC BA 2009; SOC MA 2011) was recognized in New York Times as a memorable person of the year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/us/18-memorable-people-in-2018.html?…
Faculty Anthony Silvaggio Sociology
Dr. Anthony Silvaggio presented his research on the post-prohibition environmental impacts of cannabis agriculture at the International Cannabis Policy Conference (ICPC) in Vienna, Austria. The ICPC is an overlapping and parallel conference at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (UNCND).
Submitted: December 10, 2018Faculty Kerri J. Malloy Native American Studies
Kerri J. Malloy (Native American Studies) has been invited to join the faculty of the Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Promoting and Protecting Civil and Human Rights, March 11 - 15, 2019 at the former concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau by the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation.
This seminar is for US government officials (USAID, FBI, CIA, State, DOJ). He will teach on Risk Factors in Deeply Divided Societies drawing on Native American representations and experiences in history, how it is remembered, taught, processed, and understood to help understand some of the deep divisions that remain in American society.
Submitted: December 7, 2018Faculty Robert Cliver History
On November 29, Professor Robert Cliver of HSU's History Department presented a paper titled "Institutional Continuities across Wartime, Postwar, and Communist Regimes - The Case of the China Sericulture Company" at the British Academy in London for the conference, How Maoism was Made: Analysing Chinese Communism beyond the Totalitarian Lens, 1949-1965.
Submitted: December 3, 2018Faculty Nicole Jean Hill Art
Nicole Jean Hill's photo series of amateur MMA and boxing subcultures was released as a monograph by Lost Alphabet Press. The book So You Wanna Fight? documents the ceremonial pageantry and bodily chaos of this American rite of passage.
Submitted: November 28, 2018Faculty Amy Rock Geography
Amy Rock has been invited to join the editorial board of Cartographic Perspectives, the journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society. The journal serves as the premier open-access journal for creative and rigorous research in cartography and geographic visualization.
Submitted: November 26, 2018Faculty Leslie Rossman and Josh Frye Communication
Presented their research project at the Virtual Food: Edible Matter the Techno-Playground preconference at the National Communication Association Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Submitted: November 26, 2018Faculty Leslie Rossman Communication
Presented Performing Academic Labor Precarity: Working Class to Class and Paycheck to Paycheck at the National Communication Association Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah
Submitted: November 26, 2018Faculty Stephen Jenkins Religious Studies
Professor Stephen Jenkins gave three presentations in Thailand and Singapore this month: "How the West Misunderstood Buddhism and the Implications for Contemporary Buddhist Cultures," Mahachula Buddhist University, Wat Suan Doc, Chiang Mai; "On the Deep Roots of Pure land Buddhism in the Early Pāli Texts," Yale/National University of Singapore; and "Deities and Divine Birth in Buddhism," [Three day Seminar], Mahidol University, Bangkok.
Submitted: November 14, 2018