Achievements

Leena Dallasheh

History

Leena Dallasheh, Department of History, was invited to give a public talk at the Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem. Entitled "Nazareth: The City the Survived the Nakba," the talk explored the strategies and discourses that Nazareth residents utilized to persevere in the aftermath of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948.

Leena Dallasheh

History

Leena Dallasheh, Department of History, presented a paper entitled "For a United Front: Palestinians Confronting Colonial Sectarian Policies, at the Arab-Traditions of Anti-Sectarianism Conference at Rice University/University of Houston on December 2, 2017.

Rosemary Sherriff

Geography

Rosemary Sherriff published "Warming drives a front of white spruce recruitment near western treeline, Alaska" with National Park Service collaborators in Global Change Biology. Warming has increased productivity near the boreal forest margin in Alaska. However, the effects on seedling recruitment has received little attention, in spite of forecasted forest expansion. The study of 95 sites across a longitudinal gradient in southwest Alaska shows a differential relationship between longitude and life-stage (seedling, sapling, tree) abundance that suggests a moving front of white spruce establishment through time, driven by changes in environmental conditions near the species’ range limit. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13814/full

Sarah Peters

Dance, Music & Theatre

Sarah Peters directed The Grasshopper and the Aunt at the Arcata Playhouse. The show is in a theatre style known as British Pantomime, which is a form of comedy that's been around for 300 years.

Susan Abbey

Dance, Music & Theatre

Susan Abbey, lecturer in the Theatre, Film, and Dance department, recently served as a judge on the CSU Faculty Pre-Screening Committee for the CSU Media Arts Festival held Nov.4 at CSU Dominguez Hills.

Derrick Murrietta, Justin Andrew, and Gabriel Haffner

Dance, Music & Theatre

Congratulations to Derrick Murrietta and Justin Andrew for winning First Place in the CSU Media Arts Festival for the short screenplay One in the Chamber.

Congratulations to Gabriel Haffner for receiving Fourth Place in the CSU Media Arts Festival for the short screenplay Change.

Barbara Klessig

Anthropology

Barbara has been invited to present at the Experimental Archaeology Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, November 16-18, 2017. The title of her presentation is "Experimental Archaeology: Experiments in String, Stone, Wood and Clay". She will talk about the experiments conducted by students in ANTH 358 - Archaeology Lab, which included the hands-on construction of tools to create textiles and baskets and the creation of textiles themselves.

Kirby Moss

Journalism & Mass Communication

Journalism & Mass Communication Professor Kirby Moss recently was awarded a $4,000 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities award. He will use the funding to launch a new research project exploring cross cultural conversations.

In his research, Moss combines his expertise in anthropology with his experience in journalism. He’s the author of “The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege,” which explores the incongruities of social class in a Midwest city.

Nick Thomas

Politics

Political Science major Nick Thomas recently returned from his internship with the Panetta Institute, which hosts students for its Congressional Internship Program beginning in mid-August with an intensive two-week course at the Institute and continues with a two-and-a-half month assignment with a California Congress member in Washington, D.C.

Janelle Adsit

English

Janelle Adsit's book *Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing: Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum" is now available from Bloomsbury. The book makes the argument that creative writing stands upon problematic assumptions about what counts as valid artistic production, and these implicit beliefs result in exclusionary pedagogical practices. To counter this tendency of creative writing, this book proposes a revised curriculum that rests upon 12 threshold concepts that can serve to transform the teaching of literary writing craft.