Faculty Heal McKnight English

A piece of writing by Heal McKnight was selected as a Notable Essay by Robert Atwan, the editor of the Best American Essays series. The essay "Traffic" was originally published in PoemMemoirStory.

McKnight is a lecturer in English, where she teaches courses in composition.

Faculty Gil Cline Music

Gil Cline, Professor (FERP) Music, was a performer on Renaissance cornetto in August for a week-long event in the Berkeley, California region, for many years a hot-spot in the Early Music Movement. Participants from around the country present a full-length concert of polychoral music from Venice and environs, using cornetti, recorders, sackbuts, shawms, and dulcians.

He also was a participant for a Living History Day, September 26, at Alcatraz Island. Cline was "mustered into" a re-enactors Civil War-era band, "the 5th California Volunteer Regiment Infantry Band" out of the Sacramento area. The 14-piece all-brass band performed nothing but historic brass publications from 1855-1875 and used all-historic instruments of the 1860s, with Cline performing on an historic soprano E-flat cornet brought to California in the 1950s from Michigan by former Music Department Chair David Smith.

Student Michael Donovan and Brian Post Music

HSU Music student Michael Donovan has been selected as the John W. DeLodder – Humboldt State University Student Composers Competition winner for Spring 2015. At the composers Recital on November 6, Mr. Donovan will be awarded $1,000 for his winning composition titled, “The Dignified Lonely Person.” The piece is an eight-minute song cycle written for voice and piano, based on poetry by the composer and HSU alumna Marlena Kellogg. Mr. Donovan, a student at HSU, plays the violin and has been actively studying composition for the last two years.

The award will be presented by Mr. DeLodder at the HSU Composers Recital, on Friday, November 6 at 8:00 pm. in Fulkerson Recital Hall.

Faculty Robert Cliver History

Robert Cliver, Professor of History, published an article, "Surviving Socialism: Private Industry and the Transition to Socialism in China, 1945-1958," in the online September issue of "Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review." The article will appear in the print edition in November.

Faculty Dan Pambianco Journalism & Mass Communication

Dan Pambianco gave two presentations on Oct. 22 as part of the Bob Frederick Sport Leadership Lecture Series hosted by Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.

Pambianco's morning lecture was titled "Sports Crisis Management," and in the afternoon he presented "Sports Communication: Mentoring the Next Generation."

Faculty Armeda Reitzel Communication

Dr. Armeda Reitzel gave a paper presentation on “The Evolution of Neckwear: How a Piece of Cloth Speaks Volumes” at the 2015 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Cincinnati on Oct. 3, 2015.

She also presented a co-authored paper with two of her Communication students, Diana Casteel and Kristine Cella, at the same conference on Oct. 2,2015. The title of that research paper was “Adventure vs. Domesticity: How Children’s Toys Promote Gender Roles.”

Faculty Paul Cummings Music

Paul Cummings, Associate Professor of Music, had an article accepted for publication by the "Musical Quarterly," one of the premiere musicology journals published in the US. The 49-page article tells the story of the 1877 London Wagner Festival in which the Austro-Hungarian conductor Hans Richter made his debut in England. Publication is planned for spring, 2016.

Faculty Joshua J. Frye Communication

Dr. Joshua Frye and Dr. Rebekah Fox (Texas State University at San Marcos) recently published "The Rhetorical Construction of Food Waste in US Public Discourse" in the interdisciplinary journal _Food Studies_, volume 5, issue 4. The article examines how the issue of food waste is being rhetorically framed by different sources and voices within the context of public communication in the United States.

Student Laurie Pinkert and Danielle Daniel English

As part of the English 615 Writing for Change course offered in Spring 2015 and under the supervision of Dr. Laurie Pinkert, a grant proposal was written for the Eureka Rescue Mission and was selected.

With the approved funding the women and children's shelter will receive $3000 to purchase new mattresses!

Congratulations to Dr. Pinkert and to Danielle for their service learning work for the community.

Faculty Janelle Adsit English

Janelle Adsit has been accepted to the Rensing Center's Summer 2016 Artist Residency. The award will support Dr. Adsit's development of a poetry book manuscript on the politics of apology.

Faculty Stephen Cunha Geography

Geography Professor Stephen Cunha's critical book review of "The Future of Mountain Agriculture" appears in the Journal of Mountain Research & Development 35:2.

Faculty Leena Dallasheh History

History Assistant Professor Leena Dallasheh had her article "Troubled Waters: Citizenship and Colonial Zionism in Nazareth" published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Focused on the contest over water management in Nazareth during early Israeli statehood (1948–56), it traces the negotiations between the city’s Palestinian residents and the Israeli state. A microcosm of Palestinians’ incorporation as undesired and marginalized citizens into a self-defined Jewish state, it shows how the struggle over a vital natural resource, where it is in short supply, was both a matter of fulfilling practical needs and a part of negotiating citizenship.

Faculty L. Rae Robison Theatre, Film & Dance

On June 6, Rae Robison was invited, along with 14 other educators and professional designers, to serve as a panelist for Design Showcase West in Los Angeles hosted by the UCLA David C. Copley Center for Costume Design in Film & Television. Topics covered the state of design education in colleges and universities. Rae was invited by Deborah Nadoolman-Landis, UCLA professor and costume designer of the Indiana Jones films among others.

Faculty Dave Woody Art

Photographs by Art Department lecturer, Dave Woody, were recently featured in the New York Times as part of an article about post Katrina New Orlean's.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/why-new-orleans-black-reside…

Faculty Robert Cliver History

On August 5 of this year, Associate Professor Robert Cliver presented his paper, "What Chinese Silk Exports Can Teach Us about the Cold War" at the World Economic History Congress in Kyoto, Japan.

Faculty Robert Cliver History

In July of 2015, Associate Professor Robert Cliver of the Department of History presented his paper "Second Class Workers: Gender, Industry and Locality in Workers' Welfare Provision in Revolutionary China" at the workshop, "The Habitable City in China" at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in the People's Republic of China.

Faculty Robert Cliver History

In June 2015 Associate Professor Robert Cliver of the Department of History presented his paper "Capitalists in Mao's China from the Socialist Transformation to the Suppression of Rightists" at the meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Asia in Taibei, Taiwan.

Faculty Dr. Michael S. Bruner Communication

Communication Professor Dr. Michael S. Bruner had his article, “Fat Politics: A Comparative Study,” published in M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2015). Drawing upon popular magazines, newspapers, blogs, Web sites, and videos, this essay compares the media framing in public discourse of six, “fat” political figures from around the world. The analysis begins with public discourse surrounding William Howard Taft, the 330 pound, twenty-seventh President of the United States. The article explores the medicalization of “fat” and phenomena such as “fat shaming.” The final section helps readers take a more critical perspective on fat politics.

Faculty Dr. Michael S. Bruner and Ms. Brittany N. Stuckey Communication

Communication Professor Michael Bruner presented the paper, "Methods for Accounting for the Reception of Food-Related Images," at the Joint 2015 Annual Meetings and Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, June 24-28, 2015. The paper was co-authored by Brittany N. Stuckey, an Undergraduate Research Fellow in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Student Javier Rojas Journalism & Mass Communication

Journalism Major Javier Rojas has been elected to the California College Media Association as a student board member. The former managing editor of the Lumberjack newspaper will represent the interests of student newspapers across the state.