Achievements

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

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Following official retirement, Professor Emeritus Sing C. Chew, Sociology, published his 8th book: The Southeast Asia Connection: Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy 200BC-AD500 New York/Oxford: Berghahn Press 2018. He is also finishing another monograph entitled: Choices: Living Through the Next Dark Age to be published by Berghahn Press in 2019.

Leslie L. Rossman

Communication

Dr. Leslie L. Rossman and Dr. Joshua S. Hanan (HSU '04) published an article in Communication Currents titled "Trump’s Promise to Make America Manufacture Again: USMCA and the Rhetoric of Neoliberal Exception". It can be viewed at: https://www.natcom.org/communication-currents/trump%E2%80%99s-promise-make-america-manufacture-again-usmca-and-rhetoric-neoliberal?fbclid=IwAR0TjwIGB_ETJ4Uv3hczuqmAw_AkGu7NPWTzzKOEsfAh_8sSYhq1o8fcxAc

Alexandra Hootnick

Art + Film

Alexandra Hootnick, lecturer in the Art Department, was named by Photo District News as one of the "30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch" for 2019. This prestigious award is given to an international group of image-makers for their outstanding contributions to the field. https://www.pdnonline.com/pdns-30/alexandra-hootnick/