Achievements

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. 

Hunter Circe, Sean Stippick, Sarah Lasley

Environmental Studies

A film made by Environmental Studies majors Hunter Circe and Sean Stippick in Professor Sarah Lasley's "Social Change Filmmaking" class last spring was accepted into the Earth Connection Film Festival. Their film, Troglodyte, follows a man paralyzed by anxiety over a looming climate disaster. His mental turmoil and isolation, brought on by an obsessive consumption of climate doom media, manifests as a physical sea cave, which he ultimately escapes when his television breaks. Hunter and Sean will receive $300 for being accepted and have their film premiered on July 20 at the Buskirk Chumley Theatre in Bloomington, IN.  

Kaitlin Reed and Cutcha Risling Baldy

Native American Studies

Drs. Kaitlin Reed and Cutcha Risling Baldy received a grant to design and implement professional development opportunities for faculty and staff in the humanities that will provide a pathway for ethical integration of Indigenous knowledge into their teaching, research, and service. These opportunities will include faculty book circles, speaker series, and intensive syllabus workshops, and will lay the groundwork for Cal Poly Humboldt to become a place for faculty from other universities and institutions to look to for models on integrating Indigenous knowledge systems at a university-wide level. Funding comes from the National Endowment for the Humanities.