Achievements

Rosemary Sherriff

Geography

Rosemary Sherriff, Geography faculty and chair, has two new publications in disturbance ecology. (1) A co-authored article on bark beetle impacts on socio-ecological systems in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (January 2018, volume 16, doi: 10.1002/fee.1754). (2) A co-authored chapter on deciphering the complexity of historical fire regimes in the co-edited book: Dendroecology: Tree-ring Analyses Applied to Ecological Studies (2017, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61669-8_8).

Chelsea Teale, Amy Rock

Geography

With the help of the Center for Community Based Learning, Drs. Chelsea Teale and Amy Rock of the Geography Department facilitated lesson planning and school pairings for 50 students as part of Geography Awareness Week (November 13-17). Groups of future educators enrolled in GEOG 470, Geography for Teachers, took giant floor maps into nine K-12 schools to conduct interactive lessons including a "tour" of indigenous lands in Humboldt County, California’s climate and weather, Coronado's quest for gold in the Southwest, the American Revolution, and the European theater of World War II.

Renée M. Byrd

Sociology

Dr. Renée M. Byrd, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has a new peer-reviewed journal article out in Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics. Titled 'Prison Treated Me Way Better Than You': Reentry, Perplexity and the Naturalization of Mass Imprisonment, the article can be read at: https://abolitionjournal.org/prison-treated-me-way-better/

Leslie Rossman

Communication

Leslie Rossman presented at the National Communication Association convention in Dallas TX, November 15-19. Presentations included:

A paper in the first Communication, Economics, and Society preconference titled: "When Neoliberal Discourse Takes a Material Turn Through the Performances of Labor."

A paper at the titled: "The Labor of Neoliberalism is all a Performance: Working to Find Security in the State of Insecurity Through the Discipline of Production"

And finally, Rossman was involved in a symposium titled: "The Legacy of Intersectional Feminism in The Classroom: Teaching Gender and Communication in Trump’s America."

Leena Dallasheh

History

Leena Dallasheh, Department of History, was invited to present a paper entitled “Here We Stay: Palestinians under the Military Regime.” (Hebrew) at a conference on Israel in the First Decade: Socio-Historical Research. The conference was held at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on January 1, 2018.

Joshua Frye

Communication

Joshua Frye recently published a peer-reviewed journal article in the KB Journal. The KB journal is the journal of the Kenneth Burke Society and is an online scholarly journal dedicated to the study of 20th Century rhetorical theorist and critic Kenneth Burke. Frye's article examines the ascendent rhetoric of the transhumanist movement. In particular, the essay critiques transhumanism's teleological assumption of a technological utopia and the profound political implications for its entelechy of human-machine convergence. The article can be accessed at kbjournal.org/frye

Leena Dallasheh

History

Leena Dallasheh, Department of History, was invited to give a public talk at the Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem. Entitled "Nazareth: The City the Survived the Nakba," the talk explored the strategies and discourses that Nazareth residents utilized to persevere in the aftermath of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948.

Leena Dallasheh

History

Leena Dallasheh, Department of History, presented a paper entitled "For a United Front: Palestinians Confronting Colonial Sectarian Policies, at the Arab-Traditions of Anti-Sectarianism Conference at Rice University/University of Houston on December 2, 2017.

Rosemary Sherriff

Geography

Rosemary Sherriff published "Warming drives a front of white spruce recruitment near western treeline, Alaska" with National Park Service collaborators in Global Change Biology. Warming has increased productivity near the boreal forest margin in Alaska. However, the effects on seedling recruitment has received little attention, in spite of forecasted forest expansion. The study of 95 sites across a longitudinal gradient in southwest Alaska shows a differential relationship between longitude and life-stage (seedling, sapling, tree) abundance that suggests a moving front of white spruce establishment through time, driven by changes in environmental conditions near the species’ range limit. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13814/full

Sarah Peters

Dance, Music & Theatre

Sarah Peters directed The Grasshopper and the Aunt at the Arcata Playhouse. The show is in a theatre style known as British Pantomime, which is a form of comedy that's been around for 300 years.