Achievements

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.

Paul Cummings

Music

Associate Professor Paul Cummings has authored several entries in the most recent volume of "Teaching Music Through Performance in Band," published by GIA. This publication is unique in the series, as it includes only solo works with wind band accompaniment. Cummings contributed eight biographical sketches of composers, along with annotated listings of their works for solo instrument and band. He studied numerous monographs and journal articles, communicated with living composers and reviewed liner notes from a variety of recordings. http://www.teachingmusic.org/bandSolos.cfm

Sondra Schwetman

Art + Film

Sondra Schwetman will hold a solo exhibition at the Curris Center Gallery at Murray State University in Murray, KY from June 8 - July 30, 2012. For images of her work, visit www.Sondra-Schwetman.com.

Hayden Thomas and Brandon Durr

Politics

Hayden Thomas and Brandon Durr were selected as the winner and runner-up, respectively, of the 2012 David Kalb Awards. Established by former Associated Students President David Kalb ('76, Political Science), the awards recognize students who have demonstrated personal commitment and leadership by taking an active role in student government.

Nicholas Klein-Baer

Geography

Junior Nicholas Klein-Baer was one of 12 U.S. students awarded a fellowship by the Russian Geographical Society to conduct archeological fieldwork in Tuva, Russia. Nick will spend June 2012 at the "Valley of Kings" camp near Kyzyl, the capital of the Tuva province. His work will focus on salvaging cultural artifacts before the construction of a new railway connecting Kyzyl to the Kuragino transportation node in Krasnoyarsk. The international expedition aims to bring together Geography and Archeology students from around the world.

Matthew Derrick

Geography

Assistant Geography Professor Matthew Derrick co-authored an article titled “A Splintered Heartland: Russia, Europe, and the Geopolitics of Networked Energy Infrastructure” in _Geopolitics_. The paper interrogates the geographical logic of Russia’s role as an energy provider to Europe by focusing on the provision of gas to Europe via Nord Stream, an underwater pipeline that went online last year. The paper describes a rapidly evolving networked space that effectively “splinters” the territorial integrity of the region and thereby complicates notions of Eurasian geopolitics that emphasize proximity, territorial hegemony and state-centric international relations.