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Achievements

Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students. 

Faculty

Dave Woody

Art + Film

Dave Woody made photographs for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, of local school's "first day of school". These photos encompassed some distance learning and some face-to-face learning.
Here is a link to the story:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/11/magazine/covid-school-re…

Faculty

James F Woglom

Art + Film

Jim Woglom from the Art Department was awarded "Outstanding Higher Education Visual Art Educator of the Year" for 2020 by the California Art Education Association.

Student

Gwynnevere Cristobal, Troy Lescher

Dance, Music & Theatre

Gwynnevere Cristobal(‘20) and Dr. Troy Lescher (Theatre, Film & Dance) published the “Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2020” report for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education [ATHE].

Faculty

Amy Rock

Geography

Dr. Amy Rock was invited to speak at the quarterly (virtual) meeting of the Kentucky Association of Mapping Professionals this summer. She gave a short talk based on her book, Mapping with ArcGIS Pro - you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhDpWIYYrM4&feature=youtu.be (talk begins at 1:30).

Faculty

Matthew Derrick

Geography

As editor of The California Geographer, Matthew Derrick guided the 2020 edition (Vol. 59) of the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the California Geographical Society to completion and publication this past summer.

Faculty

Matthew Derrick

Geography

Matthew Derrick, chair of the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis, was invited to the First International Congress of Geography of Apurímac and South
of Peru, College of Geographers of Peru, where he delivered a talk titled "Adventures and Applicability in Geographic Research: Faculty-Undergraduate Collaboration at Humboldt State University" on August 30, 2020.

Faculty

Jared D. Larson

Politics

In early June, Dr. Larson, who is also a Research Associate for the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional, based in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, was interviewed by Nós Diario about the Trump presidency, the pandemic, police violence, and the upcoming elections in the U.S. The interview, published in Galician, can be read here:
https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/internacional/violencia-policial-nos…

Faculty

Jared D. Larson

Politics

Over the summer, Dr. Larson contributed an essay entitled "Coronavirus and the Contagion of Illiberal Democracy" to a collaborate series called "Quarantined Across Borders," published by Media Rise and Texas A&M University. The piece can be read at:
https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/188100/Jared%…

Faculty

Ahmed Foggie

Geography

Ahmed Foggie, lecturer in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis, recently published an article title "Why the Translantic?" in the 2020 (Vol. 59) edition of the California Geographer, the flagship peer-review journal of the California Geographical Society.

Faculty

Amy Rock

Geography

Amy Rock, along with co-author James Taber, recently published "Home Tweet Home: Can Social Media Define a Community?", in the Journal of Appalachian Studies. The study used Twitter data to investigate whether the boundaries of a cultural region could be identified from geotagged tweets and hashtags. (Spoiler alert: it can!)