Achievements

Vincent Biondo

Religious Studies

Vincent Biondo has accepted an appointment to the American Academy of Religion Public Understanding of Religion Committee where he will meet with senior officials in the White House, State Department, the museum of African American History & Culture, the National Museum of American History, the Holocaust Museum, and the Museum of the Bible, among other responsibilities.

Karen Davy

Music

Karen Davy presented a session on the work of her former violin teacher, Kató Havas, at the ASTA Oregon Biennial meeting at Pacific University on Oct. 5.

William English III, Irma Gill Yañez, and Troy Lescher

Dance, Music & Theatre

William English III ('19), Irma Gill Yañez ('19), and Dr. Troy Lescher published the "Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2019" report in the June 2019 edition of Theatre Journal [Association of Theatre in Higher Education].

Jared D. Larson

Politics

Dr. Larson gave the keynote lecture of the 28th Anniversary Conference the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional (Galician Institute of International Analysis and Documentation, IGADI) entitled “Del 11-S a la Política Exterior de Trump” (From 9/11 to Trump's Foreign Policy), held at the Faculdade de Ciencias Políticas e Sociais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Sept. 10, 2019.

Jared D. Larson

Politics

Dr. Larson presented the paper "Chega (or Basta?) Vox: The (Re-)Emergence of Right-wing Politics in Iberia" at the 41st Annual Conference of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies, held at the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, Sept. 4-6, 2019. At the closing session of the conference, he was appointed to the Executive Council of the Association as an At-Large Member.

Nicolas Malloy, Amy Rock

Geography

Nicolas Malloy and Amy Rock have just published Geospatial Concepts: The Fundamentals of Geospatial Science, a low-cost, interactive text on the foundational knowledge of geospatial science. Topics include cartography, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and mobile mapping with GPS.

This book uses the ePub 3.0 specification, which is natively accessible to screen readers, and allows for many interactive options that enrich the reading experience, such as links to external resources, files, and videos.

To learn more, watch the following video: https://youtu.be/_5l9na4DLyM. The book is available through Amazon.com.

Josh Meisel

Sociology

Josh Meisel gave an invited lecture, "Navigating 'Legal' Cannabis," as part of the Cannabis in Context lecture series at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. This lecture was based on his qualitative work with a student research team examining bad experiences with cannabis edibles and a survey of a national panel. He also attended the First Annual Research Briefing given by the Berkeley Cannabis Research Center.

Leena Dallasheh

History

Leena Dallasheh participated at a symposium, World War II and The Middle East at The Pennsylvania State University, marking 80 years to the outbreak of WWII. She presented a paper entitled "Working Through the War: Palestinian Labor Defying Colonialism," which discussed the rise of Palestinian trade unionism during the war.

Armeda Reitzel

Communication

Armeda Reitzel was one of 26 scholars invited to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute "Middle Eastern Millennials through Literature, Culture, and Media” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona in August 2019. She is developing instructional materials on the Middle East for use in intercultural communication courses based on what she learned at the NEH Institute.

Alec Cole, Peter Blickensderfer, Madi Kaisan

Dance, Music & Theatre

Congratulations to HSU Film Students whose films are finalists in the 2019 CSU Media Arts Festival. Alec Cole for his film A TEMPLE TO COMEDY. Peter Blickensderfer and Madi Kaisan for their film DANH TINH.