Achievements

Thomas D. Mays

History

History Professor Thomas D. Mays' fourth book, "American Guerrillas," will be out the first week in April. Here is a link to read more: http://lyonspress.com/book/9781493022298

There will be a book signing Friday, April 7 from 6-8 at the Wine Spot on F Street in Old Town Eureka.

Matthew Derrick

Geography

Matthew Derrick recently was selected as a Fulbright Scholar. The award will support him while on sabbatical for the 2017/18 academic year, while he conducts comparative field research in Central Asia. For the duration of the award he will be affiliated with American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Philip Santos and Lizzie Phillips

Politics

Humboldt State debaters Lizzie Phillips and Philip Santos took first place at the 2017 Steeltown Invitational debate tournament in Pittsburg, CA. Benjahmin Johnson was also ranked as the 7th best speaker.

Joshua Frye

Communication

Joshua Frye (Associate Professor, Communication) recently presented a paper at the Western States Communication Association annual convention in Salt Lake City. The paper was a part of a panel entitled "Centralizing Food Justice's Place(s) in Environmental Communication. Other panelists included colleagues and collaborators from the University of Utah, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Frye's paper introduced some theoretical tenets to shape critical environmental communication inquiry into food justice agency.

Hunter H. Fine, Ph.D.

Communication

Dr. Fine has recently published an article and performance video in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. The work explores the modern day commute through a critical qualitative performance methodology:

Fine, Hunter H. “Deconstructing/Performing The Commute: Proto-Poststructuralist Theory and Individual Motility.” Ed. Michael LeVan and Daniel Makagon. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 12.4 (2016).

Nathaniel Douglass

Geography

Geography major Nathaniel Douglass was recently awarded a $1,500 scholarship from the Northern California chapter of URISA (Urban and Regional Information System Association) to continue his study of Geography and passion for GIS/Cartography.

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.”