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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Benjamin Funke
Art + Film
The Humboldt Arts Council has nominated Benjamin Funke as the Juror for the 22nd Annual Junque Arte Competition and Exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The exhibition will run from October 1st to November 27th in the Thonson Gallery & Melvin Schuler Sculpture Garden.
An opening reception will be held October 1st, from 6 to 9 p.m. during First Saturday Night Arts Alive! The exhibition is sponsored by Linda Wise and Recology Humboldt County.
Funke received his B.F.A. from Columbia College, Chicago in 2005 and his M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 2012. He currently works in the Art Department at Humboldt State University.
Dr. Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg
Sociology
Dr. Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg has been invited as a keynote speaker to the European Sociological Association, Qualitative Research Summit, Sept. 1- 3 in Cracow, Poland.
She will be presenting on: Sociospatial Grounded Theory: The Qualitative Power of GIS.
More information about the conference is available at: http://www.esa-cracow.pl/
Renée Byrd
Sociology
Dr. Renée M. Byrd recently published an article titled, " 'Punishment's Twin': Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition" in Social Justice 43-1.
John Meyer
Politics
John Meyer was recently appointed as an editor of the international academic journal, Environmental Politics.
http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.humboldt.edu/toc/fenp20/current
Joshua Frye
Communication
Joshua Frye recently published a book chapter called "Hugo Chávez, Iconic Associationism, and the Bolívarian Revolution" in the edited collection, Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance. The peer-reviewed volume is published by Roman & Littlefield International and edited by Lisa B. Y. Calvente and Guadalupe Garcia.
John Meyer
Politics
*The Greening of Everyday Life: Challenging Practices, Imagining Possibilities* is a new book published by Oxford University Press, edited by John Meyer and German law professor Jens Kersten. The book brings together contributors from a wide variety of disciplines to critically explore strategies and actions taken to generate homes, communities, and livelihoods that might be scaled-up to promote more sustainable societies.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-greening-of-everyday-life-9…
Stephen Cunha
Geography
Geography Professor Stephen Cunha's "Phase Change: The Western Ski Industry in Transition" appears in the Spring 2017 issue of Pacifica. The alpine ski industry in the west began in 1927 with a modest rope tow up a 164-foot hill near Lake Tahoe. Today, 125 resorts blanket 11 western states, BC, and Yukon. Changes during the last decade include the consolidation of resorts under corporate ownership, annual passes that apply to multiple areas across several states, the vertical integration of resort operations, and adaptations to a warming climate.
John W. Powell
Philosophy
John W. Powell, Humboldt State Professor of Philosophy, presented May 23 in Turku, Finland, to the Abo Akademi University Philosophy Department's Research Seminar on the topic "In and Out of Language: An Attack on Standard Philosophical Accounts of the Ontology of Language." He also participated in the Centennial Celebration in Honor of Georg Henrik von Wright at Helsinki University and attended two more conferences at Abo and at the University of Helsinki dealing with Ludwig Wittgenstein and von Wright. On June 16th he presented at Abo on "Justification Is Not the Issue; Philosophy Must Rethink War."
Michael S. Bruner, Karissa Valine, Berenice Ceja
Communication
Michael S. Bruner, Karissa Valine, and Berenice Ceja, Department of Communication, "Women Can't Win: Gender Irony and the E-Politics of 'The Biggest Loser'," was published in the International Journal of E-Politics,
Vol. 16, Issue 2 (2016): 16-36.
DOI: 10.4018/IJEP.2016040102.
See : http://www.igi-global.com/article/women-cant-win/152821
Brittany Stuckey, Anna Barker, Karissa Valine
Communication
Brittany Stuckey, Communications and Art double major, won a Tom Knight Award in the Art Graduates 2016 exhibition for her digital print, "The Mythos of Memory: Tracy." Ms. Stuckey also designed the ideaFest 2016 posters for December Comm. graduates, Anna Malia G. Barker ("A Preliminary Network Analysis...Food Issues") and Karissa Valine ("The Feminist Pedestal: Ronda Rousey and the Representation of Female Athletes").