Breadcrumb
Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Sing C. Chew
Sociology
Professor Emeritus Sing C. Chew has a book in press entitled, Living Wisely in the Digital Dark Age: Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, Ecology, and Life. This monograph is a follow-up to his three-volume work on World Ecological Degradation over 5,000 years of world history.
Josh Meisel
Sociology
Josh Meisel gave an invited lecture, "Navigating 'Legal' Cannabis," as part of the Cannabis in Context lecture series at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. This lecture was based on his qualitative work with a student research team examining bad experiences with cannabis edibles and a survey of a national panel. He also attended the First Annual Research Briefing given by the Berkeley Cannabis Research Center.
Sing C. Chew
Sociology
Following official retirement, Professor Emeritus Sing C. Chew, Sociology, published his 8th book: The Southeast Asia Connection: Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy 200BC-AD500 New York/Oxford: Berghahn Press 2018. He is also finishing another monograph entitled: Choices: Living Through the Next Dark Age to be published by Berghahn Press in 2019.
John Veit
Sociology
John Veit (SOC MA 2018) published a book reviewed in High Times of “Where There’s Smoke: The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana (University of Kansas Press 2018, which featured two chapters written by Dr. Silvaggio and one by Sociology lecturer Karen August.
https://hightimes.com/culture/book-review-where-theres-smoke-will-light…
Anthony Silvaggio
Sociology
Dr. Anthony Silvaggio presented his research on the environmental impacts of cannabis in Vienna, Austria on December 8, 2018. Silvaggio opened a two-day conference on cannabis sustainability sponsored by FAAAT (For Alternative Approaches to Addiction, Think & do tank). The conference followed the 61st meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at the United Nations Vienna headquarters. His presentations was featured in High Time Magazine in an article written by a recent HSU Sociology MA graduate Jon Veit.
https://hightimes.com/news/world/un-drug-commission-delays-thc-reschedu…
Brandie Wilson
Sociology
2018 HSU Distinguished Alumni Awardee, Brandie Wilson,(SOC BA 2009; SOC MA 2011) was recognized in New York Times as a memorable person of the year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/us/18-memorable-people-in-2018.html?…
Anthony Silvaggio
Sociology
Dr. Anthony Silvaggio presented his research on the post-prohibition environmental impacts of cannabis agriculture at the International Cannabis Policy Conference (ICPC) in Vienna, Austria. The ICPC is an overlapping and parallel conference at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (UNCND).
Renée M. Byrd
Sociology
Dr. Renée M. Byrd, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has a new peer-reviewed journal article out in Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics. Titled 'Prison Treated Me Way Better Than You': Reentry, Perplexity and the Naturalization of Mass Imprisonment, the article can be read at: https://abolitionjournal.org/prison-treated-me-way-better/
Dr. Laura Johnson
Sociology
Dr. Laura Johnson, lecturer in Sociology and Environmental Studies, authored the cover story in the April 20th issue of the North Coast Journal, highlighting the environmental and socio-political power of Humboldt County's community food system.
Full article can be found here
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/grab-it-by-the-horns/Content?…
Dr. Renée M. Byrd
Sociology
Dr. Renée M. Byrd was awarded a 2017-18 American Association of University Women Publications Grant to finish her book, "Punishment's Twin: Carceral Logics, Abolitionist Critique and the Limits of Reform."