Achievements

Stephen Cunha, Mary Beth Cunha

Geography

The National Geography Society invited geography faculty Mary Beth and Stephen Cunha on a recent five-week voyage to Greenland, Baffin, and Ellesmere Islands. Mary served as a cartographic expert, helping guests utilize a mapping phone app. She also provided interpretation for scores of hard copy historic and electronic maps of this Arctic region. Stephen lectured on glaciers, mountain environments, and the evolution of parks and protected lands across the globe. The ship reached 78°45’ North before pack ice blocked further progress.

Matthew Derrick

Geography

Geography professor Matthew Derrick, a Fulbright scholar currently on sabbatical, has been named a visiting scholar at the Central Asian Studies Institute (CASI) of the American University of Central Asia (AUCA). Located in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, AUCA is Central Asia's premier institution of higher education. While there Derrick will conduct field research on the theme "New Religious Landscapes of Kyrgyzstan." For details, see https://auca.kg/en/visiting_scholars/

Janelle Adsit

English

Janelle Adsit (Assistant Professor, English) has recently published two articles in the journal New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Both articles are on threshold concepts in creative writing. The article "Creative writing and the limits of *Naming What We Know*: threshold concepts from aesthetic theory and creativity studies in the literary writing curriculum" is part of a featured author series and will also appear in a forthcoming collection.

Dr. Michael S. Bruner

Communication

COMM Professor Michael Bruner was cited on skinny-shaming and constant body judgment in a recent E! News article commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Ally McBeal TV show. Bruner and COMM alumni, Karissa Valine and Bernice Ceja, had previously published a related article on the experience of Rachel Frederickson on the TV show The Biggest Loser. See www.eonline.com/news

Camaray Davalos

Native American Studies

Camaray Davalos, a major in Native American Studies, has had her article "Rising Up with Fists" published in the current issue of News from Native California.

Gabriel Haffner, Derrick Murrietta & Justin Andrew

Dance, Music & Theatre

Congratulations to HSU students filmmakers who are finalists in the 2017 CSU Media Arts Festival:

Gabriel Haffner's film CHANGE

Derrick Murrietta & Justin Andrew's film ONE IN THE CHAMBER

These films were made in the Filmmaking IV capstone class for the Film major. Many HSU students collaborated on these original creative productions.

John Meyer

Politics

John Meyer's book, Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma, was selected as the winner of the first annual “Clay Morgan Award for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory.” The selection was announced at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in San Francisco on August 31, 2017.

Joshua Frye and Macy Suchan

Communication

Dr. Joshua Frye and Macy Suchan (student) recently published an article entitled "Nobel Peace Speech" in a special issue of the French/English international ESSACHESS Journal for Communication Studies. The special issue focuses on rhetorics of peace in public and civil discourse in contemporary global cultures. They analyze the discourse of Nobel peace speech inductively and argue that the organizing principle of the Nobel peace speech genre is the repetitive form of normative liberal principles and values that function as rhetorical topoi. These topoi include freedom and justice and appeal to the inviolable, inborn right of human beings to exercise certain political and civil liberties.

Dr. Kathleen Doty and Dr. Mark Wicklund

English

Drs. Kathleen Doty and Mark Wicklund are the co-authors of a chapter in "Binomials in the History of English: Fixed and Flexible", just published by Cambridge University Press. Their chapter, "Shee gave Selfe both Soule and body to the Devill: The use of binomials in the Salem witchcraft trials," expands upon some of Dr. Doty's earlier work on the discourse of the Salem trial records from 1692.

Eugene Novotney

Music

Eugene Novotney has been featured, along with the HSU Calypso Band, in an article published in the national newspaper of Trinidad & Tobago, The Trinidad Guardian, documenting his legacy of contributions to the steel band movement in the United States and internationally. The article can be found by following this link: http://www.guardian.co.tt/life-lead/2017-08-23/eugene-novotney-30-years-pan-redwood-forest