Achievements

Marcy Burstiner

Journalism & Mass Communication

The research journal _Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly_ has published a book review by Assoc. Prof. Marcy Burstiner in its winter 2015 edition. Burstiner reviewed the book The First Amendment Bubble: How privacy and paparazzi threaten a free press_ by Amy Gajda.

Alison Holmes

Politics

Alison Holmes - Program Leader of International Studies, has been named a two year, non-residential, Research Associate to the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the SOAS, University of London. She plans to work at the institute during summer vacations to continue her current research into global states and the theory and practice of global diplomacy.

Laura K. Hahn

Communication

Laura K. Hahn presented her research project, "Culinary Immigration through the Streets of New York: The Immigrant Narrative on New York City Food Tours" at the the International Conference on Food Design. This research was sponsored by the the CSU Chancellor’s Office Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities (RSCA) program.

Janelle Adsit

English

Janelle Adsit chaired a panel at the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference on "Teaching Translation to Monolingual Students."

JoAnne Berke

Art + Film

JoAnne Berke just returned from a week long teacher training intensive in Beijing, China. She was invited by the America and China International Exchange Foundation to teach the US methods and the National Standards in Art Education to middle and high school teachers.

Michael S. Bruner, Brittany Stuckey

Communication

Michael S. Bruner, Professor, Communication, and Brittany N. Stuckey, 2014 CAHSS Research Fellow, published their article, "The World Will Little Note: Vice President Joe Biden's 2012 Speech at the Flight 93 National Memorial," in the Pennsylvania Communication Annual (Vol. 71, 2015). The article is dedicated to Richard Guadagno, former Refuge Manager at the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, who died on Flight 93.

Heal McKnight

English

A piece of writing by Heal McKnight was selected as a Notable Essay by Robert Atwan, the editor of the Best American Essays series. The essay "Traffic" was originally published in PoemMemoirStory.

McKnight is a lecturer in English, where she teaches courses in composition.

Gil Cline

Music

Gil Cline, Professor (FERP) Music, was a performer on Renaissance cornetto in August for a week-long event in the Berkeley, California region, for many years a hot-spot in the Early Music Movement. Participants from around the country present a full-length concert of polychoral music from Venice and environs, using cornetti, recorders, sackbuts, shawms, and dulcians.

He also was a participant for a Living History Day, September 26, at Alcatraz Island. Cline was "mustered into" a re-enactors Civil War-era band, "the 5th California Volunteer Regiment Infantry Band" out of the Sacramento area. The 14-piece all-brass band performed nothing but historic brass publications from 1855-1875 and used all-historic instruments of the 1860s, with Cline performing on an historic soprano E-flat cornet brought to California in the 1950s from Michigan by former Music Department Chair David Smith.

Michael Donovan and Brian Post

Music

HSU Music student Michael Donovan has been selected as the John W. DeLodder – Humboldt State University Student Composers Competition winner for Spring 2015. At the composers Recital on November 6, Mr. Donovan will be awarded $1,000 for his winning composition titled, “The Dignified Lonely Person.” The piece is an eight-minute song cycle written for voice and piano, based on poetry by the composer and HSU alumna Marlena Kellogg. Mr. Donovan, a student at HSU, plays the violin and has been actively studying composition for the last two years.

The award will be presented by Mr. DeLodder at the HSU Composers Recital, on Friday, November 6 at 8:00 pm. in Fulkerson Recital Hall.

Robert Cliver

History

Robert Cliver, Professor of History, published an article, "Surviving Socialism: Private Industry and the Transition to Socialism in China, 1945-1958," in the online September issue of "Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review." The article will appear in the print edition in November.