Achievements

Janelle Adsit (faculty), Mirabai Collins (English major)

English

Janelle Adsit (Assistant Professor, Writing Practices) and Mirabai Collins (English major) will present at this year's Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference next week in Washington, D.C. The title of their presentation is "Postcolonial Perspectives on Workshops of Empire." The panel responds to Eric Bennett’s provocative new book Workshops of Empire and calls for decolonizing approaches to understanding creative writing pedagogy. They examine the University of Iowa’s relationship to creative writing programs in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and among First Nations peoples.

Stephen Cunha

Geography

Geography Professor Stephen Cunha’s review of “Jumbo Wild” appears in magazines and festival catalogs in North America, Europe, and Oceania. This documentary film portrays a 25-year battle in Canada’s iconic Jumbo Valley that pits developers of a large ski resort against conservationists, backcountry skiers, and First Nations, who revere it as home of the grizzly bear spirit.

Stephen Cunha

Geography

Geography Professor Stephen Cunha is coauthor of "Geosystems Core," a college-level introductory text for physical geography. Stephen authored 7.5 of the 15 chapters on geomorphology, global climate, plate tectonics, and water resources. Included are 60 of his images from six continents.

Leena Dallasheh

History

Dr. Leena Dallasheh was a commentator at a roundtable she organized at the American Historical Association (Denver, CO) entitled “Israelis, Americans, Arabs and Palestinians and the Historical Peace Process in the Middle East.”

Leena Dallasheh

History

Dr. Leena Dallasheh presented a paper at the American Historical Association held in Denver, CO. The paper, entitles “Here We Stay: Palestinians’ Exclusion and Resistance in the Early Israel State,” was a part of a panel she organized, "Lived Decolonizations: Local Experiences of Colonial Transition."

Michael Bruner, Karissa Valine, Berenice Ceja

Communication

COMM Professor Michael Bruner and HSU/COMM alumni Karissa Valine and Berenice Ceja were honored to have their journal article "Women Can't Win: Gender Irony and the E-Politics of The Biggest Loser" published as a book chapter in "Politics, Protest, and Empowerment in Digital Spaces" (IGI Global, pp. 244-262). This 2017 volume was edited by Yasmin Ibrahim, of Queen Mary, University of London.

Mary I. Bockover

Philosophy

Mary I. Bockover contributed to the inaugural issue of the Journal of World Philosophies (Indiana University Press). See the Symposium on the role of gender in comparative philosophy by going to the link below.

https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/issue/view/21

Stephen Jenkins

Religious Studies

Professor Stephen Jenkins published “Debate, Magic, and Massacre: The High Stakes and Ethical Dynamics of Battling Slanderers of the Dharma in Indian Buddhist Narrative and Ethical Theory,” in the Journal of Religion and Violence.

Stephen Jenkins

Religious Studies

Professor Stephen Jenkins gave an invited talk at Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions entitled "Buddhist Stairways to Heaven."

Matthew A Derrick

Geography

On December 6, Matthew Derrick co-chaired a panel discussion titled "25 Years of Independence: Questioning Post-Soviet" at the Woodrow Wilson International Center Scholars in Washington, DC. The panel discussion, attended by scholars, policymakers, and media, coincided with the public release of the book Derrick co-edited, "Questioning Post-Soviet" (Wilson Center Press), which investigates the continuing significance of the fall of the USSR. The Wilson Center is the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum for tackling global issues through independent research and open dialogue to inform actionable ideas for Congress, the Administration and the broader policy community.