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

Maral N. Attallah (Lecturer in the Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department) will participate in a two-week seminar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC (June 2018).The seminar is titled, "Racial Practice: Theory, Policy, and Execution in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South".

Student HSU Model UN Politics

Students in the Model United Nations program participated in the Model United Nations of the Far West conference in San Francisco. Competing against more than 450 students from 30 universities, students from Humboldt State represented Kenya, Panama, Slovenia, Syria, and Vietnam.

HSU’s team received several awards. Kenya (represented by Averie Middleton, Sessi Fletcher, Syd Long, Jenesy Gabrielle Burkett, and Mara Arvizu), Slovenia (represented by Alex Banaskiewicz, Isabelle Tisson, Kayla McClelland, and Hailey LaJoie), and Vietnam (represented by Ryan Thomas, Nick Thomas, Alexis Borwn, Fabian Cuevas,and Dani Saldaña) were recognized as top performing teams.

Faculty Russell Gaskell World Languages and Cultures

Congratulations to Club Advisor of the Year, Russell Gaskell. Russell teaches Spanish and is the Club advisor for Lambda Theta Phi. The award is given to advisors that not only advise their clubs but also mentor and help club members develop their leadership and professional skills.

In the words of club members, "Professor Gaskell has been... spectacular ever since he has been the advisor of the Lambda Theta Phi. What Russell has done is provide us with a crazy amount of support that makes us feel like he's a part of our family. ... He’s an amazing professor, a hell of an advisor, and more than being just our advisor, he is one of us."

The ideals of Lambda Theta Phi are the following: Academic Excellence; Brotherhood; Leadership; Latino Unity; Service. Lambda Theta Phi brothers perform community service, sponsor events which highlight and celebrate Latino heritage, participate in educational workshops, and enjoy many social programs. As a result of their active participation in every aspect of college life, they are developing their organizational, communication, and leadership skills, all while pursuing the coveted diploma.

Faculty Cindy Moyer Music

Scales and Arpeggios with Shifting Practice by Cindy Moyer has been published by Galaxy Music Corp.

Faculty Leena Dallasheh History

Dr. Dallasheh has been awarded the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. This award is for completing her book manuscript, "Contested Citizenship: Nazareth’s Palestinians in the Transition from British Mandate to Israel, 1940-1966."

Faculty Leena Dallasheh History

Dr. Dallasheh participated in College and University Educators Workshop at the Council for Foreign Relations in New York, NY. The workshop brings together over 100 professors, from around the USA, who are teaching courses on or related to international relations and U.S. foreign policy, along with those from other fields who are interested in introducing global issues into their classroom.

Faculty Leena Dallasheh History

Dr. Dallasheh presented a paper entitled "Despite the Nakba: Palestinian Nazareth in Israel" at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. The paper was a part of the Institute for Middle East Studies Annual Conference 2018 - Nakba: Past and Present.

Faculty Rosemary Sherriff Geography

Rosemary Sherriff (Geography) co-authored a new perspective paper titled "Advancing Dendrochronological Studies of Fire in the United States" in the new journal Fire. http://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/1/11/html

Faculty John Meyer Politics

John Meyer will serve as an invited Visiting Scholar at the University of Reading Centre for Climate and Justice, UK, from May 21-June 9, 2018. While there, he'll work with the Centre's Ph.D. students and is also organizing a workshop on "everyday environmentalism and climate populism" to include presentations by Julian Agyeman (Tufts), Nancy Fraser (New School), Lisa Disch (Michigan) and Sherilyn MacGregor (Manchester).

https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-climate-and-justice/

Student Roman Sanchez Theatre, Film & Dance

Roman Sanchez – HSU Theatre Arts Senior

At the National Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, held in Washington, D.C., Roman Sanchez was honored to receive the ASTEP scholarship - an all expense paid trip to attend the Artist as Citizen Conference at Juilliard this summer. He also received the National Arts Impact Award (Cash prize, all-expense-paid trip back to DC to speak on behalf of arts activism to Congress).

As a bonus he was able to be mentored by Deans of YALE's School of Theatre Management, Vicki Nolan & Kelvin Dinkins Jr., and have powerful, one-on-one conversations with Jane Alexander, David Saar, Jorge Huerta, Luis Valdez, and many other nationally-recognized lea

Faculty Sarah Jaquette Ray

Dr. Ray was invited to give a public lecture, "Coming of Age at the End of the World: Eco-Grief and the Climate Generation," at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Student Jonathon Salinas World Languages and Cultures

Spanish major, Jonathon Salinas, will present "Representation and Contributions of Latinas in the Gay Liberation Movement" at the UCLA Qscholars Undergraduate Research Symposium on May 18th.

As a queer person of color, Jonathon works to highlight narratives of underrepresented groups in the LGBT+ community to empower and engage his communities. Director at HSU's Queer Resource Center, activist and, community organizer, Jonathon organized Humboldt County's first ever inclusive Pride event to bring attention to the racism, ableism, misogyny, transphobia, and many other forms of exclusion that plague queer/LGBT+ spaces.

Faculty Matthew Derrick Geography

Geography professor Matthew Derrick delivered a conference paper presentation titled "Territorial Politics of Mosques in Post-Soviet Central Asia" at the Central Asia Fulbright Seminar for U.S. Scholars and Students, held April 9-12 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Derrick is currently spending his sabbatical year as a Fulbright Scholar based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Student Savanna Schaffer

Savanna Schaffer was just appointed the president of the Redwood Coast chapter of the American Association of Zookeepers. She has been serving as Youth Assistant Keeper Program Coordinator at Sequoia Park Zoo for the past two years.

Faculty Suzanne Pasztor History

Suzanne Pasztor published two articles on Mexican history in Volume 74 of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, published by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and University of Texas Press.

Student Ryan Hazen, Stephanie Osborne, and Zachary Weaver English

Ryan Hazen, Stephanie Osborne, and Zachary Weaver are the recipients of the English Scholarship for 2018.

Faculty Prof. J. W. Powell Philosophy

Prof. J. W. Powell, Philosophy, will deliver an invited presentation to the North American Wittgenstein Society (NAWS) and the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association on March 28, 2018. The title is “Locke and Heraclitus on Whether Language Is Based on Convention.”

Locke says yes, “else there would be but one language amongst all humans.” Heraclitus says no, roughly because what makes sense for one must make sense for all. There is of course more to the story.

Faculty Armeda Reitzel Communication

Dr. Armeda Reitzel presented her paper titled "The Star Spangled Story of the U.S. National Anthem" at the Popular Culture Association conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on March 28, 2018.

Faculty Prof. Janet Winston English

Prof. Janet Winston (English and Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) presented research at the 27th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference in Savannah, Georgia on February 17, 2018. Her paper—“Rainbow Flags, Lizard People, and Me: Unpacking the Visual Rhetorics of Contemporary Antisemitism and Pro-Israelism”—examines how current forms of antisemitism, charges of antisemitism, and responses to antisemitism circulate in public discourse.

Faculty Emily Cobb Art

Emily Cobb recently returned from exhibiting her latest artwork in Sirens: New Work by the JV Collective during Munich Jewellery Week in Germany. Munich Jewellery Week is one of the most significant international events for contemporary jewelers, collectors, gallerists, curators and jewelry artists from around the world. Sirens is an interactive exhibition, and during opening night the podcast Percieved Value recorded several interviews in the gallery space. Listen soon at: https://www.perceivedvaluepodcast.com. The Sirens exhibition will travel to the Baltimore Jewelry Center in Maryland this April and New York City Jewelry Week in November.