Student Sarah Ray, Vicky Sama, and Rosemary Sherriff

Check out the fabulous short Climate Solutions news pieces that students produced in Vicky Sama's Intro to Video Production class, in collaboration with students in Rosemary Sherriff's Climate, People, and Ecosystems (GEOG) class and Sarah Ray's Climate Change (ENST) class! Students interviewed people in the community doing great things for environmental health and social justice. Follow the link here: https://nutshumboldts.wordpress.com/climate-solutions/

Faculty Alison Ruth Holmes International Studies

Alison Holmes, Program Leader for International Studies, was invited by the Deputy Mayor for International Affairs for Los Angeles and the USC Center for Public Diplomacy to a private event on city and subnational diplomacy. She moderated a panel on practical challenges and discussed her recent work on California as a global actor.

Faculty Kerri J Malloy Native American Studies

Kerri J. Malloy, Lecturer in Native American Studies, presented his paper "A Paradox of Transitional Justice: Settler Colonialism without Regime Change" at the Prevention Activism: Advancing Historical Dialogue in Post-Conflict Settings conference at Columbia University, New York City, December 12-14, 2019

Faculty Kerri Malloy Native American Studies

Kerri J. Malloy, Lecturer in Native American Studies, presented his paper "A Paradox of Transitional Justice: Settler Colonialism without Regime Change" at the Prevention Activism: Advancing Historical Dialogue in Post-Conflict Settings
Historical Dialogues at justice at Columbia University, December 12-14, 2019.

Faculty Sarah Jaquette Ray

Dr. Ray was invited by the Walter Capps Center for Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UC-Santa Barbara to give a talk on December 4 on "Coming of Age at the End of the World: An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation."

Faculty Vincent Biondo Religious Studies

Vincent Biondo presented "God, Data, and Michael Jordan: On the Border between Sport and Play," on Nov. 23, 2019 at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Diego.

Faculty Sara Hart Religious Studies

At the San Diego Convention Center on November 24, 2019, Dr. Sara Jaye Hart successfully presented her paper, "Semper Fidelis: The Popular Arts of the Challenge Coin, USMC Attire, and Combat Memoir," for the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting.

Faculty Christina Hsu Accomando English

Christina Hsu Accomando, Professor of English and Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies, served as the Contributing Editor for the 11th edition of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (Worth Publishing, 2020), an interdisciplinary textbook used at HSU and across the U.S.  
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Faculty Christina Hsu Accomando English

Christina Hsu Accomando, professor of English and Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies, presented on the roundtable "Exploring Feminist Pedagogy and Student Learning through the Lens of Threshold Concepts" at the National Women's Studies Association Conference in San Francisco on November 16, 2019.

Faculty Sam Sonntag Politics

Sam Sonntag, Professor Emerita in the Department of Politics, co-edited The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya, recently published by Open Book Publishers, a non-profit, Open Access publisher based in Cambridge (UK) and run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world. In addition to the introduction to the volume, Sonntag authored an historical analysis of language politics in Assam in Northeast India. The other chapters in the book cover language contact in Tibet and Nepal. The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya can be downloaded for free at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/980

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.