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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
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].
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).
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.
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.
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…
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%…
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.
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!)
Rae Robison
Dance, Music & Theatre
In July, Rae Robison was elected to the National Board of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She will serve a three year term as the Design, Technology & Management Member at Large. This is a prestigious position as there are only 2 national "at-large" members on the board at any time.
Kerri J. Malloy
Native American Studies
Kerri J. Malloy, Native American Studies presented his paper “Rising from the Terminal Narrative: Rhetoric of anti-Indian violence in the United States,” at the Violence and Society International Conference virtually at the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, London, August 22, 2020.