Achievements

Alison Holmes

Politics

Dr. Alison Holmes (Politics) was invited to present to the annual September Conference on the Resolution of Intractable Conflict (CRIC) based at Oxford University by a former colleague, Lord Alderdice (first Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, former Leader of the Alliance Party of NI and retired President of Liberal International). The paper, based on her current research, was entitled "Subnational-ism: the best hope for a peaceful collapse of the nation-state?" She was subsequently offered publication in a volume of selected conference papers. 

Joshua J. Frye, Steven R. Goldzwig, James F. Woglom

Communication

Dr. Joshua J. Frye and his co-author Dr. Steven R. Goldzwig (Professor Emeritus at Marquette University) have published a new scholarly monograph. Colleague and collaborator Dr. James F. Woglom provided original artwork for the book.  Rhetoric and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era offers a timely examination of public communication and political culture in the United States and the systemic feedback loops that have amplified democratic dysfunction and violence. Frye and Goldzwig identify and analyze four key perils (post truth; polarization; [social media] platforms; and populism) in the interplay of complex systems.

Dr. Amy Rock

Geography

PI Dr. Jieun Lee (University of Northern Colorado), along with co-PIs Dr. Gary Langham (American Assoc. of Geographers), Dr. Amy Rock (UCGIS), and Dr. Laxmi Ramasubramanian (CUNY-Staten Island) have received a $1 million NSF ADVANCE grant to support women in geography and geospatial sciences.  Building on the Golden Compass project and UCGIS' TRELIS program, the 4-year project works with departments to support increased representation and advancement for women in STEM, specifically examining opportunities for equity and inclusion for foreign-born women faculty.  More details can be found on the AAG site: https://www.aag.org/aag-embarks-on-national-partnership-to-support-fore…;

Troy Lescher

Dance, Music & Theatre

Dr. Troy Lescher recently published “Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2024” for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). This annual report, which included the participation of over two dozen national and international institutions, identifies and publicizes new researchers as well as their dissertation titles and topics.

Josh Meisel

Sociology

Professor Josh Meisel (Sociology) gave a poster presentation on "Gender and Global Cannabis Cultivation" at the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy in Montreal in June with co-authors Julie E. Brummer and Thomas Friis Søgaard (Aarhus University), Gary Potter (Lancaster University Law School), and Jodie Grigg (Curtin University). The research draws on data collected as part of the 2020 International Cannabis Cultivation Questionnaire administered to small-scale growers in 18 countries.

Janelle Adsit

English

Janelle Adsit was accepted to the Global Arts in Medicine Fellowship, founded in Nigeria in 2018. As part of the 2024 cohort, she will collaborate with colleagues from 36 countries to pilot new programs that utilize the arts to support health justice and community wellbeing. Projects will be presented at the upcoming Global Arts in Health Festival. https://artsinmedicinefellowship.org/

Dr. Armeda Reitzel

Communication

Armeda Reitzel delivered an invited presentation on her "Success Story" in open pedagogy through her use of LibreTexts open educational resources. Her talk was a featured presentation at LibreFest 2024 in July 2024.

Sarah Lasley

Art + Film

Sarah Lasley's short film "Welcome to the Enclave" received a glowing review from critic Collin Souter in the Features section for RogerEbert.com. Souter writes that the film has "one of the strangest and funniest closers to a short film I’ve seen in a long, long time" and notes "when [he] programmed this film for the Chicago Critics Film Festival (where it won the Audience Award), [he] knew it had to close the block. Every film had to, in some way, lead up to this one."

https://www.rogerebert.com/features/short-films-in-focus-welcome-to-the…

Alison Holmes

Politics

Professor Alison Holmes (Politics) spent the 4th of July leading an Election Night Watch 'seminar' for the international colleagues attending her course at Oxford University. Having run two national campaigns for the Liberal Democrats and having worked at the BBC, Holmes offered context and guided the audience through results throughout an exciting night. The Conservatives were voted out, the Labour Party took control, and the Liberal Democrats became the third-largest party in Parliament. Holmes will be going to the LibDem party conference in September to cover the event for a London magazine.  

Kaitlin Reed

Native American Studies

Native American Studies faculty member, Dr. Kaitlin Reed's first book, Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California was chosen as the winner of the 16th Annual Labriola National American Indian Data Center National Book Award.