Achievements

Amy Rock

Geography

Dr. Amy Rock moderated a roundtable discussion entitled, "The Golden Compass Onward: Enabling Equitable and Inclusive Faculty Success through Supportive Departmental Leadership," held at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) annual meeting.  This interactive session was part of a larger initiative to support foreign-born faculty in geography and geospatial departments at US institutions of higher education, jointly supported by AAG and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS).

Amy Rock

Geography

Dr. Amy Rock was invited to speak on a panel on Teaching Modern GIS: Approaches and Perspectives.  She also moderated a talk on Teaching Ethics in GIS and Geography Courses, both at the American Association of Geographers conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 16-20. 

Dr. Nancy Pérez, Dr. Marisol Ruiz, Noemí Maldonado, Athens Marrón, Audriana Peñaloza, Georgina Cerda Salvarrey

Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Students and faculty from the Promotorx Transformative Educators Program and the Department of Critical Race, Gender, & Sexuality Studies presented a panel titled "Ethnic Studies as Liberatory Joy in Rural California" at the Latinx Studies Association Conference hosted at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, from April 17-20, 2024. 

Christina Hsu Accomando

Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Christina Hsu Accomando, professor of CRGS and English, is the editor of the newly released 12th edition of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Intersectional Study (Macmillan, 2024). When Paula Rothenberg published the original edition in 1988, it was one of the first textbooks to take an intersectional approach to ethnic and gender studies. This interdisciplinary anthology is used in CRGS 108 ("Power/Privilege: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality") at Cal Poly Humboldt and in classrooms across the nation. 

Gabi Kirk

Geography

Dr. Gabi Kirk has two new publications out on political ecology and agrarian issues in Palestine. The first is co-authored with Dr. Paul Kohlbry, "Situating the Transnational in Agrarian Palestine," in the edited volume Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism (IB Taurus/Bloomsbury). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/resisting-domination-in-palestine-9780755…;

The second, "Trains, Trees, and Terraces: Infrastructures of Settler Colonialism and Resistance in the Refaim Valley, Palestine-Israel," is in the edited volume Gendered Infrastructures: Space, Scale, and Identity (West Virginia University Press). https://wvupressonline.com/gendered-infrastructures

Both chapters look critically at settler colonial dispossession in rural parts of the Occupied West Bank.

Alison Holmes

Politics

George Washington University in Washington DC has decided to make their course on Subnational Diplomacy a permanent feature of their Executive Education/Professional development offering. As part of a 2-day pilot last summer, Professor Alison Holmes (PSCI) was invited to deliver a lecture about her research on the international affairs of the state of California to participants from across the country. She has now been asked to join scholars and practitioners from around the world as an ongoing faculty member in the new week-long course that will be offered online.

Dr. Armeda Reitzel, Julia Kurtz, and Josué Valdez

Communication

Dr. Armeda Reitzel (Professor, Communication), Julia Kurtz (Student, Communication), and Josué Valdez (Student, Communication) gave a 60-minute presentation titled “The Magazine Cover Story: LibreTexts Engages Students’ Interests and Insights through Snippets and Snapshots” on March 7, 2024 at the LibreTexts Open Education Week 2024 Conference. The three co-presenters shared their perspectives on the use of LibreTexts open educational resources as the foundation for creative semester-long projects in two different courses: interpersonal communication and intercultural communication. The talk focused on the use of open pedagogy in undergraduate education.

Roberto Mónico

Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Dr. Roberto Mónico recently published an article entitled "Reflections of Right-Wing Leadership in the United States: From LAPD Chief William Parker to Donald Trump" in Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands: Confronting Trump's Reign of Terror by the University of Arizona Press. The book is a collection of essays that examines the impact of Donald Trump's rhetoric and policies on migrant communities. 

Vincent Biondo

Religious Studies

Vincent Biondo is co-editor of Islam in North America: An Introduction.

Nicolette Amann

English

Nicolette Amann, Lecturer in English, who coordinates the Redwood Writing Project for local Humboldt teachers, and Anne Hartline from the School of Education facilitated a year-long professional development program on the untold local histories of Humboldt County and California. This project resulted in multiple sharable lessons that have been published at the National Writing Project site. Various CAHSS faculty presented as part of the program:

• Ryder Dschida (History)
• Loren Cannon (CRGS/Philosophy)
• Sarah Ray (Env Studies)
• Nicolette Amann (English)
• Dominic Corva (Sociology)
• Suzanne Pastor (History)