Achievements

Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Philips and Phil Santos

Communication

HSU students Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Philips and Phil Santos advanced to the top 16 at the U.S. Universities Western Regional Debate Championships held March 24-26 at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma WA.

USUW as it is called brought over 60 debating pairs representing 20 schools from Arkansas to Hawaii, from UCLA in Southern California to the University of British Columbia in B.C. Canada. Lizzie and Phil advanced to the quarterfinal round (the top 16) where they lost a close debate about whether or not the EU should pursue protectionist economic policies with the UK post "Brexit." The tournament is touted as a regional preview of the National Championships which the team will be attending next week.

Hunter H. Fine

Communication

Hunter Fine was invited to present communication scholarship on two panels at the Central States Communication Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2017:

"The Cultural Practice of Riding Waves: Deconstructing Performances of Empire and Resistance." Contributed paper presentation “Framing: Dimensions of Culture, Identity, Media and Power” in the Intercultural Communication Interest Group.

Contributed position presentation “Community Policing—How Communication Education, Training and Theory can help Create Better Relationships among Law Enforcement and the Community” in the Intercultural Communication Interest Group.

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).

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.

Armeda Reitzel

Communication

Armeda Reitzel was elected Chair of the Board of Directors for Access Humboldt, a non-profit, community media organization with public, educational, and governmental channels. This is her fourth consecutive year to serve as chair of the organization.

Joshua Frye

Communication

Joshua Frye recently participated in an advanced community-based social marketing (CBSM) workshop held at City Hall in Bellevue, Washington. The workshop provided a forum for collaborative brainstorming and application of community-based social marketing strategies to help government agencies build more effective behavior change interventions. During the workshop, Dr. Frye worked with an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Community Involvement Coordinator, and others, to develop a CBSM behavior-change intervention program targeting ethnic minority groups in the Seattle metropolitan area who are consuming seafood from the Duwamish River which contain high levels of PCBs.

Hunter Fine

Communication

Dr. Fine has had a book review published in the Popular Culture Studies Journal.

Fine, Hunter H. “Book Review: Its Always Sunny and Philosophy: The Gang Gets Analyzed” Ed. Roger Hunt and Robert Arp, and “Book Review: Orange is the New Black and Philosophy: Last Exit from Litchfield” Ed. Richard Greene and Rachel Robinson-Greene. Journal of Popular Culture Studies 4.1/2 (2016): 440-45.

Brittany Stuckey, Sunny Short-Miller, Elizabeth Phillips, and Michael S. Bruner

Communication

Alumni Brittany Stuckey and Sunny Short-Miller; CAHSS Research Fellow Elizabeth Phillips; and COMM Professor Michael S. Bruner published an article, entitled "Lagos, Mythos, and Globalization," in the Journal of Communication and Media Research (October 2016).

Armeda Reitzel

Communication

The National Communication Association has chosen to showcase Dr. Armeda Reitzel's syllabus for her Nonverbal Communication (Comm 324) course. Her syllabus appears on the organization's website for members to review.