Achievements

Amy Beltran, Sammi Stowe, and Dr. Troy Lescher

Dance, Music & Theatre

Amy Beltrán (Theatre major), Sammi Stowe (Theatre major), and Dr. Troy Lescher (TFD) researched, edited, and published the "Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2018" report in the June 2018 edition of Theatre Journal [Association of Theatre in Higher Education].

Dan Aldag

Music

Dan Aldag has had two of his arrangements for jazz band published by Really Good Music. The arrangements are "Shimmer", composed by Allison Miller, and "Smack Dab", composed by Bobby Previte. Both compositions were originally written for small jazz groups and have been arranged for big band by Aldag.

Jared D. Larson

Politics

Jared D. Larson has just returned from the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Contemporary Studies, of which he was co-organizer of the tri-lingual academic program, held at the School of Law of the University of Barcelona (5-7 Sept). Jared was the sole presenter of a co-authored paper (with Dr. Juliette Tolay of Penn State-Harrisburg) entitled "The Comparative Politics of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: The Curious Cases of Spain, Portugal and Turkey."

Marcy Burstiner

Journalism & Mass Communication

This fall, HSU journalism students will be able to take an in-depth reporting class from someone who wrote the book on investigative reporting – Professor Marcy Burstiner.

Burstiner’s second edition of “Investigative Reporting: From Premise to Publication” was published by Routledge in July. For this updated version of a text first published in 2009, Burstiner includes tips from not only veteran investigative reporters but also college students who had carried out successful investigations for their campus news organizations. The new edition includes extensive discussion of data reporting and analysis for investigative stories. It also directs readers to free, collaborative tools for collecting, organizing and analyzing information, and it guides readers through the process of public records requests, as well.
"So many guides to investigative reporting are geared to experienced journalists and scare away students," Burstiner said. "I felt it important to show students that they can do investigations themselves right out of beginning reporting, by introducing them to their own peers who have done just that."

This semester, Burstiner is teaching an investigative reporting course, during which students will look at housing issues for renters in Humboldt County.

“The need to train journalists to do accurate in-depth reporting on complex topics is fast becoming one of the most important tasks of our era," said JMC chair Deidre Pike. "We're fortunate to have a national leader like Marcy teaching this class."

HSU journalism alumnus Matt Drange, a reporter at The Information, calls the book “illuminating” and “accessible.”

“This book provides the building blocks for students to conduct and publish their own investigative reporting with or without the support of a traditional classroom environment,” Drange wrote. “The bullet-proof methodology and straightforward approach Burstiner outlines provide guidance for first-year reporters and veteran journalists alike.”

Humboldt County residents may best know Burstiner from her long-running Media Maven column in the North Coast Journal.

Before coming to HSU, Burstiner worked as a reporter and editor for a series of publications including the San Francisco Business Times, thestreet.com and The Deal financial magazine and website.

Here’s a link to the book’s page on Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Investigative-Reporting-From-Premise-to-Publication-2nd-Edition/Burstiner/p/book/9781138572164

Professor Mary I. Bockover

Philosophy

Dr. Bockover gave an invited presentation at the "Beyond Comparisons" conference held at East China Normal University in Shanghai in August 2018. The presentation was given in honor of her late teacher and mentor, Henry Rosemont, Jr.

Barbara Klessig

Anthropology

Barbara has been accepted to the University of Exeter for her PhD. Her research will focus on textiles, tools, and experimenting with recreated tools and how they functioned.

Robert Cliver

History

Professor Robert Cliver delivered a paper, "Labor-Capital Consultation and Factory Management in Chinese Capitalist Enterprises in the 1950s" at the World Economic History Congress at MIT, July 29 - Aug. 3, 2018.

Kerri J. Malloy

Native American Studies

Kerri J. Malloy, Lecturer in Native American Studies presented his paper “Marshall, Whitman and Baum: Selections from the American Terminal Narrative” at the "Words that Kill" conference organized by the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris (May 28-30) in Paris, France.

Students in GEOG 300 and GEOG 301; Dr. Laura Johnson

Geography

Over the last year, students in GEOG 300, Global Awareness, and GEOG 301, Int'l Environmental Issues and Globalization, published papers on public blogs under the instruction of Dr. Laura Johnson.

Students in GEOG 300 created an 'Encyclopedia of Objects of Concern,' in which they creatively examined how seemingly mundane, ordinary objects connect people, places, and beings across the globe. Check it out here: https://humboldtglobalawareness.weebly.com

And in GEOG 301, students collectively developed case studies of resistance, re-imagining, and re-building, collaborating to probe innovative movements, organizations, and frameworks. Check it out here: https://reimaginetheworld.weebly.com

Emily Cobb

Art + Film

Emily Cobb attended and participated in the "Digital Meets Handmade" symposium in New York City on May 16th-18th. The symposium was organized by the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy. She presented her paper abstract "Sleight of Hand: Digital Influence on Contemporary Jewelry Education" and was a member of the panel that discussed "Has CAD gone Bad?"