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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Israel de Souza
Sociology
Israel de Souza has recently published a co-authored book, Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Practices: Through the Eyes of Scientists and Musicians, and a co-authored piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education, "Institutions Must Do More to Accommodate Those with Long Covid." She also wrote a policy brief for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, based on previously funded research, entitled "Learning from Rio's Failed Pacification Initiative."
Michelle Newhart
Sociology
Michelle Newhart and her coauthor, Nicholas Athey published an article, “Cultivating Choice: Determinants of Home Cannabis Growing Among Legal Users in the United States,” that examines factors influencing the decision to grow cannabis at home by cannabis-consuming residents in legal states. Drawing on a survey of recent cannabis users in cannabis-legal states, they explore four potential explanations for home cultivation: legal access, needs-based motivations, resource-based factors, and identity-based reasons. Their analysis reveals that home growers differ significantly from non-growers across multiple dimensions.
Caleb Chen
Sociology
Graduate student Caleb Chen was awarded an $25,000 Agricultural Research Institute (ARI) NEXTGEN Fellowship to support his groundbreaking research on changes in cannabis genetics for his MA in Public Sociology.
Joshua J. Frye
Communication
Dr. Joshua Frye was recently solicited by the executive leadership of the National Communication Association in Washington D.C. to submit a Case Study for the Association's website. Dr. Frye's Case Study provides public education and advocacy for Communication Departments around the United States who are currently facing or may face in the future, threats to the integrity of the public speaking course at institutions of higher learning.
Gabi Kirk
Geography
Dr. Gabi Kirk has a new peer-reviewed article out in The Journal of Political Ecology. Titled "'A fairly good crop for white men:' The political ecology of agricultural science and settler colonialism between the US and Palestine," it details the connections between the agricultural colonization of California and Zionist agricultural settlement in Mandatory Palestine. This article was the basis of her talk given as part of the Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series in the Native American Forum on October 24. It is available free through open access.
Rachel Samet
Music
Rachel Samet, Conductor of the Cal Poly Humboldt Choirs, has been selected as the 24/25 Music Educator of the Year by the North Coast chapter of the California Music Educators Association. Rachel will receive her award at the All-State Music Educators Conference in January.
Eliseo Casiano
Art + Film
Paintings by Assistant Professor Eliseo Casiano are now on view at the Morris Graves Museum Museum of Art in Eureka. The exhibition - How to Draw Fire - will be open until December 15th. The Morris Graves is open Wednesday- Sunday 12:00 pm- 5:00 pm.
Vincent Biondo
History
Vincent Biondo presented his paper "Baseball Religion in the United States" at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Diego on November 23, 2024.
Gina Tuzzi and Eliseo Casiano
Art + Film
Paintings by Art + Film Lecturer Gina Tuzzi and Assistant Professor Eliseo Casiano are now on view at Lake Tahoe Community College's Haldan Gallery. The exhibition "Troubadours" will be open through December 7th. Go check out these amazing works if you happen to be in the South Lake Tahoe area!
Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
CRGS assistant professor Dr. Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza publishes “Feeling Failure: Appnography and Its Affective Ties to the Ethnographer’s Life" in a special issue of Ethnoscripts. The special issue considers the impact of dating apps beyond dating, moving past the narrow milieu of intimacy to interrogate their impact across other spheres. Atienza reflects on their research among queer Filipino men in Manila and Los Angeles to examine how feelings of failure permeate various aspects of the researcher’s life, influencing writing, thinking, and self-perception, and his study underscores the enduring nature of these emotions. Open Access at https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/issue/view/116