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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Stephanie Murillo and Mónica Elivier Sánchez González
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Stephanie Murillo was selected from a group of undergraduate students to participate in the Summer Research Immersion Program at the University of Guanajuato in summer of 2025. The program provided academic training, professional development, and mentorship in scientific and social research while simultaneously adapting cultural immersion. The objectives of this program were to advance research skills by conducting an eight-week project, produce scholarly work, engage in international collaboration, develop cultural and social insight, and integrate research into career goals. This published work is the result of Stephanie Murillo's time abroad and we are happy to share her published work with the University.
Captive Bodies: Overmedication as Structural Violence Against Women by Stephanie Murillo
Josh Meisel
Sociology
Dr. Josh Meisel co-authored, "Global cannabis cultivation as a gendered activity: Findings from the 2020 International Cannabis Cultivation Questionnaire" in the International Journal of Drug Policy. With co-authors from the Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium they examined the extent to which women's participation in cannabis cultivation may have changed across varied global legal contexts. They found that policy shifts towards legalization are related to further reducing overall gender disparities in cannabis cultivation, yet differences remain in earnings, motivations for growing, and experiences with the criminal justice system.
Dr. Gabi Kirk
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Gabi Kirk published an essay with Jewish Currents, "In California, Jewish Groups’ Win Is Students’ Loss." It is a critical analysis of California's recent bill, AB 715, which aims to combat antisemitism in K-12 education but may threaten free speech and academic freedom, especially on the topic of Palestine-Israel in the classroom.
Dr. Amy Rock
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Amy Rock presented "Minding the Gender Gap: Working toward parity for women in U.S. academic geography", as part of the Stories and Status of Women in Geography session at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference in Albuquerque, NM, on November 6-7, 2025. This research tracks the gender (im)balance in Geography programs in the US, which carries implications for retention and mentoring of both students and faculty. The full paper (authors Mossa, Dixon, Sultana, Rock, and Kar) has been accepted for publication in The Professional Geographer and will be available soon.
Nicolette Amann and Jessica Citti
English
Nicolette Amann (English Department Faculty & Redwood Writing Project Director) and Jessica Citti (Writing Specialist & Writing Studio Coordinator in the Learning Center) co-led a session called “When Outsourcing Writing is Outsourcing Learning: The Impact of GenAI on Writing Development" at the Humboldt County Office of Education Day of Learning on October 27, 2025. This AI-themed professional development conference was attended by over 150 Humboldt County K–12 teachers, instructional staff, and administrators.
Stephen Nachtigall
Art + Film
This October, Art + Film professor Stephen Nachtigall presented at the SECAC conference. His presentation, "Wayward Pedagogies: Embodied Teaching & Radicially as New Academic Transgression," asks what means to teach and learn beyond economic reproduction and behavioral wayfinding, and invites artists to submit materials around this theme.
Christina Hsu Accomando
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Macmillan Learning invited Professor Christina Hsu Accomando, editor of Macmillan's textbook Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Intersectional Study, to present a webinar for their international Holtzbrinck Global Speaker Series this year. "From Current Events to Critical Thinking: Analyzing Systemic Racism Beyond Memes," January 30, 2025.
Christina Hsu Accomando
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
CRGS and English Professor Christina Hsu Accomando co-authored two essays on authoritarianism and resistance with Dr. Kristin J. Anderson, professor of psychology at the University of Houston. These pieces build upon lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, focusing on Lesson 1: Do Not Obey in Advance and Lesson 10: Believe in Truth.
Dr. Armeda Reitzel (Faculty), Arlonna Hadley (Student)
Communication
Dr. Armeda Reitzel, Professor Emeritus, and her student, Arlonna Hadley, delivered a presentation titled "Students ACE IT! Students as Amazing, Creative, Enlightening Innovators and Teachers!" at the Cal OER 2025 that was held August 6-8, 2025. Cal OER focuses on OER efforts and impact, broadly defined, across the state of California and especially across the state’s three public higher education systems, the California Community Colleges, California State University, and University of California.
Troy Lescher, Monique Rodrigues
Dance, Music & Theatre
Dr. Troy Lescher and Monique Rodrigues (Class of 2025) recently published “Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2025” for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). This report, based on the participation of numerous national and international institutions, introduces PhD candidates and shares their emerging research with the field.