Achievements

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Sing C. Chew, Professor Emeritus, recently published a new monograph: Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality (Life in the Digital Ages). Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 2021.

Bill Devall

Sociology

The late Professor Emeritus Bill Devall left behind a book manuscript that has just been published, Living Deep Ecology: A Bioregional Journey, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group 2021. The book is his deep ecological journey living in the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion while teaching at HSU for nearly 30 years.

Lori Cortez-Regan

Sociology

Sociology faculty Lori Cortez-Regan co-wrote an article that was published in the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. The name of the article is "'If Extended Family Can't Deal...' Disclosing Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Children's Identity".

Link (Read Only): https://hsu.link/ZUG

Josh Meisel, Ronnie Swartz, and Whitney Ogle

Sociology

Drs. Dominic Corva (HIIMR), Josh Meisel (Sociology), Whitney Ogle (Kinesiology and Recreation Management), and Ronnie Swartz (Social Work) gave presentations on "Using Cannabis Data to Improve Public Health and Promote Social Equity" as part of a Data Fair hosted by the Inter-Consortium for Political Social Research on September 24. Their presentations can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU4af8mO49c&list=PLqC9lrhW1VvYJIhgtk9QlAYxLSwbF7Bf2&index=2

Dr. Renée M. Byrd

Sociology

Dr, Renée M. Byrd (Associate Professor, Sociology) presented on merging critical ethnic studies and environmental justice at the American Studies Assocation Annual Meetings in Honolulu November 8, 2019.

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Professor Emeritus Sing C. Chew has a book in press entitled, Living Wisely in the Digital Dark Age: Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, Ecology, and Life. This monograph is a follow-up to his three-volume work on World Ecological Degradation over 5,000 years of world history.

Josh Meisel

Sociology

Josh Meisel gave an invited lecture, "Navigating 'Legal' Cannabis," as part of the Cannabis in Context lecture series at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. This lecture was based on his qualitative work with a student research team examining bad experiences with cannabis edibles and a survey of a national panel. He also attended the First Annual Research Briefing given by the Berkeley Cannabis Research Center.

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Following official retirement, Professor Emeritus Sing C. Chew, Sociology, published his 8th book: The Southeast Asia Connection: Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy 200BC-AD500 New York/Oxford: Berghahn Press 2018. He is also finishing another monograph entitled: Choices: Living Through the Next Dark Age to be published by Berghahn Press in 2019.

John Veit

Sociology

John Veit (SOC MA 2018) published a book reviewed in High Times of “Where There’s Smoke: The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana (University of Kansas Press 2018, which featured two chapters written by Dr. Silvaggio and one by Sociology lecturer Karen August.
https://hightimes.com/culture/book-review-where-theres-smoke-will-light…

Anthony Silvaggio

Sociology

Dr. Anthony Silvaggio presented his research on the environmental impacts of cannabis in Vienna, Austria on December 8, 2018. Silvaggio opened a two-day conference on cannabis sustainability sponsored by FAAAT (For Alternative Approaches to Addiction, Think & do tank). The conference followed the 61st meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at the United Nations Vienna headquarters. His presentations was featured in High Time Magazine in an article written by a recent HSU Sociology MA graduate Jon Veit.
https://hightimes.com/news/world/un-drug-commission-delays-thc-reschedu…