Achievements

Heather Madar

Art + Film

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

Peter Blickensderfer, Madison Kaisan, and Gabby Connors

Dance, Music & Theatre

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.

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.

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.

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.