Achievements

Joshua Frye

Communication

Joshua Frye was recently featured on the podcast, HEADSCRATCHER: Making Sense of Young Adulthood. The host of the podcast, Benjamin Laufer, talked with Frye about strategies for effective activism within the contemporary environmental movement and public speaking, among other topics. The podcast is focused on diverse issues relevant to young adults coming of age in the current moment to help inform and inspire the next generation with lessons on leadership, social advocacy, and innovation. Frye appeared on episode 8 within the EXPERT series. The HEADSCRATCHER podcast's episodes are available on iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn Radio app, and other social media platforms.

Armeda Reitzel

Communication

Armeda Reitzel was selected as one of twenty-eight scholars in the United States to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar/Institute on “Understanding Middle Eastern Millennials through Literature, Culture, and Media.” The seminar will take place at the University of Arizona from August 4 through August 10, 2019.

James Floss

Communication

James Floss, in AY 18-19 studied undocumented immigrant experiences locally, within the state of California, and internationally. The stories, originally published on KHSU are now available through NPR One. The guests were from Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Columbia, El Salvador and the United States. Some were undocumented, some were legal residents, one was a newly minted citizen and one was deported two days after being recorded.

Armeda C. Reitzel

Communication

Armeda Reitzel has been selected to serve as the Midwestern Culture subject area chair of the Midwest Popular Culture Association.

Armeda C. Reitzel

Communication

Armeda Reitzel presented her paper titled "Voices of Fayetteville, Arkansas: Down-home Stories with a Touch of Hollywood Pizzazz" at the Popular Culture Association conference in Washington, DC on April 17, 2019. This paper was based on research that she conducted during her sabbatical leave spring semester 2018.

Leslie L. Rossman

Communication

Dr. Leslie L. Rossman and Dr. Joshua S. Hanan (HSU '04) published an article in Communication Currents titled "Trump’s Promise to Make America Manufacture Again: USMCA and the Rhetoric of Neoliberal Exception". It can be viewed at: https://www.natcom.org/communication-currents/trump%E2%80%99s-promise-make-america-manufacture-again-usmca-and-rhetoric-neoliberal?fbclid=IwAR0TjwIGB_ETJ4Uv3hczuqmAw_AkGu7NPWTzzKOEsfAh_8sSYhq1o8fcxAc

Leslie Rossman and Josh Frye

Communication

Presented their research project at the Virtual Food: Edible Matter the Techno-Playground preconference at the National Communication Association Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Leslie Rossman

Communication

Presented Performing Academic Labor Precarity: Working Class to Class and Paycheck to Paycheck at the National Communication Association Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah

Joshua Frye, Leslie Rossman

Communication

Joshua J. Frye was on the Convention Planning Team for the 104th annual National Communication Association held November 7-11 in Salt Lake City, Utah. With the help of his colleague Dr. Kristen Blinne from SUNY, Joshua coordinated a full week of programming consisting of over 15 sessions, Chaired 3 sessions himself, and along with colleague Dr. Leslie Rossman (Communication, HSU) presented work in progress during a virtual food seminar on social media influencers who are Instagram foodies.

Hunter Hawkins Fine

Communication

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