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Achievements

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

Faculty

Robert Cliver

History

On November 29, Professor Robert Cliver of HSU's History Department presented a paper titled "Institutional Continuities across Wartime, Postwar, and Communist Regimes - The Case of the China Sericulture Company" at the British Academy in London for the conference, How Maoism was Made: Analysing Chinese Communism beyond the Totalitarian Lens, 1949-1965.

Faculty

Nicole Jean Hill

Art + Film

Nicole Jean Hill's photo series of amateur MMA and boxing subcultures was released as a monograph by Lost Alphabet Press. The book So You Wanna Fight? documents the ceremonial pageantry and bodily chaos of this American rite of passage.

Faculty

Amy Rock

Geography

Amy Rock has been invited to join the editorial board of Cartographic Perspectives, the journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society. The journal serves as the premier open-access journal for creative and rigorous research in cartography and geographic visualization.

Faculty

Leslie Rossman and Josh Frye

Communication

Presented their research project at the Virtual Food: Edible Matter the Techno-Playground preconference at the National Communication Association Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Faculty

Leslie Rossman

Communication

Presented Performing Academic Labor Precarity: Working Class to Class and Paycheck to Paycheck at the National Communication Association Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah

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Stephen Jenkins

Religious Studies

Professor Stephen Jenkins gave three presentations in Thailand and Singapore this month: "How the West Misunderstood Buddhism and the Implications for Contemporary Buddhist Cultures," Mahachula Buddhist University, Wat Suan Doc, Chiang Mai; "On the Deep Roots of Pure land Buddhism in the Early Pāli Texts," Yale/National University of Singapore; and "Deities and Divine Birth in Buddhism," [Three day Seminar], Mahidol University, Bangkok.

Faculty

Alison Holmes

International Studies

International Studies Program Leader, Alison Holmes, attended an invitational transatlantic leadership network conference in Seattle WA called the British American Project. She was recognized for her service on both sides of the Atlantic since her first conference in 1996 as the only member to have served on both sides - as chair of the UK and a member of the US Executive.

Faculty

Joshua Frye, Leslie Rossman

Communication

Joshua J. Frye was on the Convention Planning Team for the 104th annual National Communication Association held November 7-11 in Salt Lake City, Utah. With the help of his colleague Dr. Kristen Blinne from SUNY, Joshua coordinated a full week of programming consisting of over 15 sessions, Chaired 3 sessions himself, and along with colleague Dr. Leslie Rossman (Communication, HSU) presented work in progress during a virtual food seminar on social media influencers who are Instagram foodies.

Faculty

Vincent Biondo

Religious Studies

Associate Professor Vincent Biondo travelled to Toronto to present the paper "Faith and History: The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith for the 21st Century," at the 7th Parliament of the World's Religions.

Faculty

Jared D. Larson

Politics

Via his position as research associate with the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional (www.igadi.org), based in Pontevedra (Galicia), Spain, Jared commented on the midterm election results in the U.S. live on Bos Días, a morning news program produced in Santiago de Compostela (Galicia), Spain, on 7 November. His commentary begins at the 36:15 minute mark of this link:
http://www.crtvg.es/tvg/a-carta/bos-dias-8-00-3952659?t=2280&fbclid=IwA…