Achievements

Armeda C. Reitzel

Communication

Armeda Reitzel presented her paper titled "Voices of Fayetteville, Arkansas: Down-home Stories with a Touch of Hollywood Pizzazz" at the Popular Culture Association conference in Washington, DC on April 17, 2019. This paper was based on research that she conducted during her sabbatical leave spring semester 2018.

Cutcha Risling Baldy

Native American Studies

Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy's 2018 book We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies, published by the University of Washington Press, received an honorable mention this year for the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award. More information is available here: https://lib.asu.edu/labriola/bookaward

Benjamin Funke

Art + Film

Benjamin Funke has been selected by the US Bureau of Land Management - King Range National Conservation Area as the 2019 Artist in Residence.

This opportunity will place him atop the King Range for 31 days, reflecting on the natural landscape and building a new body of artwork. Additionally, he will be leading two workshops for the general public on 3d imaging, design, scanning and printing.

Rachael M Heller

Anthropology

On April 18th Rachael Heller will be presenting her paper "Leeroy Jenkins; Identity Formation, Investment, and Social Structure of a Guild in World of Warcraft" at the Pop Culture Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Based on research over the course of a year, this work contributes to existing scholarship on online sociality by providing insight into the role online gaming plays in connecting people across time and space in new forms of community.

Vincent Biondo

Religious Studies

Associate Professor Vincent Biondo's paper presentation at the November, 2018 Parliament for the World's Religions was published as the article "Faith and History: Wilfred Cantwell Smith's Theory of Religion for the Twenty-First Century" in the Toronto Journal of Theology: .

Cindy Moyer, Karen Davy, Sherry Hanson, Garrick Woods

Music

On Monday, March 18, the Arcata Bay String Quartet traveled to Ukiah to perform for the Ukiah High School Orchestra.

Cindy Moyer

Music

On March 7, Cindy Moyer presented an Express Talk at the American String Teachers Association National Conference in Albuquerque, NM, on Introducing Scales and Arpeggios with Shifting Practice.

Joseph C. Diémé

World Languages & Cultures

Published new book titled: "La répudiation du tribalisme sous l'ère Barack Hussein Obama", Harmattan Editions, Paris, March 1st, 2019.

Louis Marak

Art + Film

Emeritus Faculty member Louis Marak has been recognized by
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA): Excellence in Teaching Award 2019

Description of the award:
Recipients should be near or at the end of a career dedicated to the practice of teaching (may be awarded posthumously); shall have demonstrated excellence in their own creative work; shall have had previous recognition for and a history of awards in teaching; and should have highly visible former students in the field.

Leena Dallasheh

History

Dr. Leena Dallasheh was interviewed for a podcast series on the Palestinian refugees and the Great March of Return in Gaza. The interview was published at Unsettled, a new podcast on Israel-Palestine and the Jewish diaspora:

https://www.unsettledpod.com/episodes/2019/2/4/refugees-gaza-ep-2