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Achievements

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

Faculty

Rae Robison

Dance, Music & Theatre

Theatre faculty member, Assoc. Professor Rae Robison, costume designed a feature film in Los Angeles over break. Based loosely on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth, feature film "The Deep Ones", directed by Chad Ferrin, will be released nationwide in 2020. Rae was also able to involve recent department graduates Erica Fromdahl, Veronica Brooks, and Brianna Fergus in the project in the wardrobe department.

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James Floss

Communication

James Floss, Faculty Emeritus of the Communication Department has reworked his documentary series, Immigrant Voices (recorded in the now shuttered studios of KHSU) into podcasts available from most sources including iTunes. These 3 to 7 minute testimonials can be used in a wide variety of courses. Find them at https://jamesfloss.podbean.com

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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.

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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

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.  
https://store.macmillanlearning.com/us/product/Race-Class-and-Gender-in…

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