Achievements

Robin Price

History

Robin Price recently began an overseas teaching position at the American School of Kosova this August. The American School of Kosova is located in Prishtina. She currently teaches 2nd grade.

Alison Holmes

Politics

Dr. Alison Holmes, leader of the International Studies Program and lecturer in Politics, has published a book co-edited with Dr. J. Simon Rofe of the University of London. The book, published by Palgrave Macmillan, is entitled - The Embassy in Grosvenor Square: American Ambassadors to the United Kingdom 1938-2008 - and is based, in part, on research supported by her 2008 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust History Fellowship.

Matthew Derrick

Geography

Assistant geography professor Matthew Derrick's article "Containing the Umma?: Islam and the Territorial Question" was recently published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. A second article by Derrick, "Territory and the Changing Shape of Tatar Islam in Tsarist and Soviet Russia," was published in the most recent edition of the International Journal of Russian Studies, while his book review of "Nation, Language, Islam: Tatarstan's Sovereignty Movement" appears in the forthcoming issue of Central Asian Survey.

Victor Golla

Anthropology

At its recent meeting in Boston, the Linguistic Society of America presented the 2013 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award to HSU Professor of Anthropology Victor Golla for his book, "California Indian Languages" (University of California Press, 2011). The annual award is granted to the foremost volume that contributes to our understanding of language and linguistics, through its “exemplary scholarship, enduring value, novelty, empirical import, conceptual significance, and clarity.” In announcing the award to Golla, the selection committee called "California Indian," a remarkable piece of documentary linguistics, and "the reference of first resort” for neophytes and experts on indigenous California languages.

Golla’s book is only the fourteenth publication to have been honored with a Bloomfield award since its creation in 1990. The award commemorates the eminent linguist Leonard Bloomfield, a founding member of the LSA and the author of Language (1934), one of the most influential books in American structural linguistics.Although Golla was unable to attend the Boston meeting and received the award in absentia, arrangements are being made for a representative of the LSA to present it to him in person in California this spring.

Alyssa Haggard and Matthew Price

Anthropology

Anthropology students Alyssa Haggard and Matthew Price were awarded the Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fellowship by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Their proposal is titled "3-D Virtual Curation Project: Faunal Remains” supervised by Dr. Cortes-Rincon.

Melissa Rivera and Erik Marinkovich

Anthropology

Anthropology students Melissa Rivera and Erik Marinkovich were awarded the Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fellowship by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Their proposal is titled "Maya Fortification Database: A Case Study Petexbatun Region” supervised by Dr. Cortes-Rincon.

Spencer Mitchell, Jose Chavarria and Hannah Ritchey

Anthropology

Anthropology students Spencer Mitchell, Jose Chavarria and Hannah Ritchey were awarded the Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fellowship by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Their proposal is titled "Maya Political Interaction through Monumental Display” supervised by Dr. Cortes-Rincon.

David Franck

Anthropology

David Franck from the anthropology department was awarded the Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fellowship by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. His proposal is "GIS Analysis of the Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Archaeology Project" supervised by Dr. Cortes-Rincon.

Sam Sonntag

Politics

Sam Sonntag was elected Chair of the Research Committee on Language and Politics of the International Political Science Association at the IPSA World Congress in Madrid last July. She also presented a paper at the Congress entitled "The Political Economy of India's Linguistic Diversity," for which she had conducted field research while a Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies in New Delhi last spring.

Noah Zerbe

Politics

Professor Noah Zerbe was elected chair of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS). Founded in 1977, ACAS is the progressive caucus of the African Studies Association and campaigns to move U.S. policy in directions more favorable to African interests.