Achievements

Rachelle Irby

Sociology

HSU Sociology student Rachelle Irby (’12) has received a 2012 Sustainability Leadership Award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), the national organization that advances sustainability in higher education.

Irby was granted AASHE’s “Student Research on Campus Sustainability” award for her graduate thesis entitled: “Student-Driven Energy Independence: A Case Student of Humboldt Energy Independence Fund” at the organization’s national conference Oct. 14-17 in Los Angeles. Irby’s winning paper provided an evaluative case study of the Humboldt Energy Independence Fund (HEIF), HSU’s student led-fund that supports projects to reduce the university’s environmental impact and energy consumption. Her thesis is available online through Humboldt Digital Scholar.

Alison Holmes

Politics

Alison Holmes - Program Leader of International Studies and Lecturer in Politics, gave two presentations at the International Studies Association - Western Region Conference in Pasadena October 19-21. The first was a pedagogy/active learning paper based on a comparative politics simulation she designed last year. The second was a roundtable discussion on Women in Politics.

Robert Cliver

History

Professor Cliver gave a talk at the 13th Biennial Meeting of the Textiles Society of America in Washington, D.C. September 20. The talk, entitled "Politics and Production in China's Silk Industry during the Korean War (1950-1953)" was part of a panel on the effects of war on textiles and was well-received by the conference attendees.

Rae Robison

Dance, Music & Theatre

Rae Robison, of the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance is directing the season opening, Humboldt Premiere of the 2010 Pulitzer prize nominated "In the Next Room" (or the Vibrator play) for Ferndale Repertory Theatre. The play revolves around a doctor who treats women's "hysteria," his neglected wife, their marriage and his patients.

Ronald L. Mize

Sociology

Ronald L. Mize, Ph.D., in the Department of Sociology, was recently featured in the Columbia University Press's blog for a post on the federal election and immigration politics. The original post appeared at the Univesrity of Toronoto Press Publishing Blog at this link: http://utpblog.utpress.utoronto.ca/2012/06/28/author-footnotes-with-ronald-l-mize/.

The post on the Columbia University Press blog is here: http://www.cupblog.org/?p=7187

Monica Stephens

Geography

The work of Geography Dept. faculty member Monica Stephens was featured recently in an article in The Atlantic. In "Where Do the World's Tweets Come From?," associate editor Rebecca J. Rosen, explores new research that graphically depicts 4.5 million tweets and their geolocations captured in March 2012. For the full article, including the map of the world's tweets, visit "The Atlantic":http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/where-do-the-worl….

Michael S. Bruner, Maxwell Schnurer and Laura Hahn

Communication

Food Studies at HSU

Routledge, one of the leading academic presses, has published a book on food studies, co-edited by Professor Michael S. Bruner from the HSU Department of Communication:

"The Rhetoric of Food: Discourse, Materiality, and Power" edited by Joshua Frye and Michael S. Bruner New York and London: Routledge, May, 2012, ISBN 13: 978-0-415-50071-5 (hbk)

The book begins with a Foreword by Raymie McKerrow, the Editor of The Quarterly Journal of Speech, and contains fifteen chapters on all aspects of food studies, including a reprint of an historic chapter by Sir Albert Howard, the founder of the organic movement. Other chapters address diverse issues, including images designed to raise money to fight hunger, community gardens, the slow food movement, Michelle Obama's "Let's Move," and cannibalism.

In addition to Dr. Bruner, two other HSU professors are involved in this book project. Dr. Maxwell Schnurer has a chapter in the book on "greenwashing" and farm subsidies. Dr. Laura Hahn has a chapter in the book, comparing the organic movement to the vegetarian/vegan movement.

The book should be useful to HSU readers who are interested in Communication, food studies, Environment and Community, media influence, social movements, and related areas.

Michael S. Bruner

Communication

Michael S. Bruner, Professor, HSU Department of Communication, received word from Delta State University in Nigeria that his article, “News Framing in the United States of the Violence in Jos, Nigeria,” appears in the Volume 4, Number 1 (April 2012) issue of the Journal of Communication and Media Research.

Bruner’s analysis compares news framing, especially culturally-embedded frames, in The New York Times and The Washington Post with news framing in several Nigerian newspapers. This study is part of the ongoing work in HSU’s Department of Communication on international and interculural communication.

Hank Sims

Journalism & Mass Communication

Journalism lecturer Hank Sims has been chosen to serve as a judge for the annual Association of Alternative Newsmedia "AltWeekly" awards.

The Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) is an organization of 130 alternative newspapers and websites across the USA and Canada, and includes the Village Voice, the LA Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and many other respected alt-weekly newspapers.

Matthew Derrick

Geography

Assistant Geography Professor Matthew Derrick was selected as a grantee by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Program Title VIII to participate in its “Summer Workshop in Quantitative Methods” in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, this June. As a participant in the workshop, which is designed to enhance training in quantitative methodology and increase familiarity with existing data sets among scholars of the region with policy-relevant interests, Derrick will further develop an in-progress article examining the territoriality of religious temples in Russia. His research will be considered for inclusion in the SSRC Eurasia Program Title VIII Policy Brief Series.