Achievements

Armeda Reitzel

Communication

Dr. Armeda Reitzel gave a paper presentation on “The Evolution of Neckwear: How a Piece of Cloth Speaks Volumes” at the 2015 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Cincinnati on Oct. 3, 2015.

She also presented a co-authored paper with two of her Communication students, Diana Casteel and Kristine Cella, at the same conference on Oct. 2,2015. The title of that research paper was “Adventure vs. Domesticity: How Children’s Toys Promote Gender Roles.”

Joshua J. Frye

Communication

Dr. Joshua Frye and Dr. Rebekah Fox (Texas State University at San Marcos) recently published "The Rhetorical Construction of Food Waste in US Public Discourse" in the interdisciplinary journal _Food Studies_, volume 5, issue 4. The article examines how the issue of food waste is being rhetorically framed by different sources and voices within the context of public communication in the United States.

Dr. Michael S. Bruner

Communication

Communication Professor Dr. Michael S. Bruner had his article, “Fat Politics: A Comparative Study,” published in M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2015). Drawing upon popular magazines, newspapers, blogs, Web sites, and videos, this essay compares the media framing in public discourse of six, “fat” political figures from around the world. The analysis begins with public discourse surrounding William Howard Taft, the 330 pound, twenty-seventh President of the United States. The article explores the medicalization of “fat” and phenomena such as “fat shaming.” The final section helps readers take a more critical perspective on fat politics.

Dr. Michael S. Bruner and Ms. Brittany N. Stuckey

Communication

Communication Professor Michael Bruner presented the paper, "Methods for Accounting for the Reception of Food-Related Images," at the Joint 2015 Annual Meetings and Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, June 24-28, 2015. The paper was co-authored by Brittany N. Stuckey, an Undergraduate Research Fellow in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Dr. Michael S. Bruner, Ms. Brittany Stuckey

Communication

Communication Professor Michael S. Bruner presented the paper, "Methods for Accounting for the Reception of Food-Related Photographs," at the annual meeting/conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society in Pittsburgh, PA, June 24-28, 2015. The paper was co-authored by Brittany Stuckey, an Undergraduate Research Fellow in the CAHSS. The study reported on four research methods, including a Bruner & Stuckey photo array and survey of 170 HSU undergraduates in Spring 2015, using the International Affective Picture System.

Dr. Michael S. Bruner

Communication

Communication Professor Michael S. Bruner's article, "Labeling: Organic, Local, Genetically Modified," appears in the new SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues. See Vol. 2: 877-882. The article arose from previous work in the HSU Communication Department on California Prop 37 and on the organic food movement. The three volume encyclopedia was released in hardcover this month, Ken Albala, Ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2015).

James Floss

Communication

James Floss (Communication Department) has directed “Clybourne Park” opening on April 30 at Redwood Curtain Theatre in Eureka. Clybourne Park is a contemporary, Pulitzer Prize winning follow-up to Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”. Act One takes place in 1959, as nervous community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.

Michael S. Bruner & Laura K. Hahn

Communication

Michael S. Bruner and Laura K. Hahn's article, "Irony and Food Politics" has been published in the journal, _Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies._ (Feb. 2015)

Michael S. Bruner

Communication

Communication Professor Michael S. Bruner's study, "Images of Food Insecurity in Nigeria," was the lead article in the October 2014 issue of the Journal of Communication and Media Research (Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 1-20).

Armeda Reitzel

Communication

Communication professor Armeda Reitzel is the Chair of the Undergraduate College and University Section of the National Communication Association. She is on the legislative assembly and the nominating committee for the organization. This is the 100th year of the National Communication Association.