Achievements

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.

Alison Holmes

Politics

Dr. Alison Holmes, Program Leader for International Studies and Lecturer in Politics, has published a chapter 'Transatlantic Diplomacy and Global States' in a volume entitled, "Anglo-American Relations: Contemporary Perspectives," edited by Alan Marsh and Steve Marsh. The book, out soon, was published in London by Routledge.

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Professor of Sociology, Sing Chew, was invited to present some themes from his new book at the international conference, Dimensions of the Indian Ocean World Past 9th-19th Centuries, in Perth, Western Australia. The title of his paper was: The Southeast Asian Connection in the First Eurasian World System 200BC-AD500. He was also invited as an International Scholar by the National University of Singapore (NUS) under its University Scholars Program to give a public lecture. The title of his public lecture was Global Economic Crisis, Energy Shifts, and Climate Changes: Let World History be the Teacher of Life. He also gave a colloquium on early Southeast Asia to faculty and students of NUS.

Dr. Eugene Novotney

Music

Professor of Music Eugene Novotney, recently returned from the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Austin, Texas, where he performed as a member of the PASIC All-Star Steelband. The performance featured Novotney’s recently published arrangement of Pan Army, which he performed in Trinidad, W.I. in 2010. Pan Army is the only authentic Trinidadian Panorama tune that has been published and made available for international distribution in the last decade. Novotney also serves as chairman of the PAS New Music Research Committee, and coordinated six showcase performances in Austin to honor the 100th birthday of composer, John Cage.