Achievements

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Sing C. Chew was the opening keynote speaker at the Conference on Post-Secondary Education for Sustainability in Asia held at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore February 5-6, 2015. His lecture was entitled, My Quarter of a Century Researching and Teaching Environmental Sustainability: Lessons Learned from the Past for the Future.

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Sociology Professor Sing C. Chew and former graduate student, Associate Professor Daniel Sarabia, now the Department Chair of Sociology at Roanoke College, in Roanoke, Virginia presented a paper, Early Globalization in World History: Global Climate Change and the End Bronze Age World System 1200-700BC, at the Annual Conference of the Social Science History Association in Toronto, Canada, November 8, 2014. The paper reported on their collaborative research efforts to understand macro-historical dynamics in world history.

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Sociology Professor Emeritus Sing C. Chew recently published an article, "The Southeast Asian Connection in the First Eurasian World Economy 200BC-AD500," in the "Journal of Globalization Studies," Vol. 5 #1 2014:82-109. A book chapter will also appear in Michael Pearson (ed.), Trade, Circulation and Flows in the Indian Ocean World, New York: Palgrave -Macmillan (in press)

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Sing C. Chew, Professor of Sociology, was invited to give the keynote address at the Conference on Sustainability in Education: Pedagogical Themes and Practices in Asian Countries, at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, February 27-28, 2014.

He is also organizing a panel, "Global Resources, Trade and Crisis of the World System: Past and Present" for the Annual Conference of the Pacific Sociological Association in Portland Oregon, March 27-30, 2014. All of the 5 panelists worked with him, and graduated from the Sociology Department's masters program. They are now on faculty members at other universities or completing their doctorates.

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Sing C. Chew, Professor, Department of Sociology, has two publications in press: “The Southeast Asian Connection in the First Eurasian World Economy 200BC-AD500” in Michael Pearson (ed.) Trade, Circulation and Flow in the Indian Ocean World, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press. 2014 and “Southeast Asia in World History” Journal of Globalization Studies Vol 4 #2 2014

Josh Meisel and Tony Silvaggio

Sociology

Drs. Josh Meisel and Tony Silvaggio of the Sociology Department were invited to present on the "Social and Economic Issues Associated with Marijuana Cultivation in California" to the California State Board of Forestry in Sacramento on October 8, 2013. Their presentation provided an overview of key social, cultural and political forces shaping current cannabis cultivation practices and their negative impacts on the environment.

Anthony Silvaggio

Sociology

Sociology lecturer Anthony Silvaggio was recently mentioned in a New York Times article examining the environmental impacts of marijuana production. Silvaggio created a Google Earth video showing the environmental damage caused by industrial pot farms.The video was later enhanced by Mother Jones: http://bit.ly/VDoT01.

Sing C. Chew

Sociology

Professor Sing C. Chew was recently invited to an international conference in Singapore, "Plural Coexistence and Sustainability: Asian Experiences in Interdisciplinary Perspectives," sponsored by Nanyang Technological University and Kyoto University, Japan. He presented a paper entitled: Socioeconomic Structural Transformations, Climate, Ecological Changes, and Mobilizations in an Era of Global Crisis.

Ronald Mize

Sociology

Sociology faculty member Ronald L. Mize's book "Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA" has received glowing reviews from a number of recognized scholars. Comparative race historian Neil Foley provided a flattering assessment in the Pacific Historical Review, saying "the real strength of this work ... is the attention given to the growing dispersal of Mexican laborers in the last few decades from the American West to the Midwest ‘‘heartland’’ (Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Kansas, and so on), the hinterlands of the Northeast (especially non-metropolitan New York), the Northwest, and, most importantly, the South, where the greatest demographic changes have taken place. Mize's book, co-authored with Alicia C.S. Swords, is available on Amazon.

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.