Department of Anthropology professor Antoinette Martinez has been selected as this year’s Outstanding Teacher by the Faculty Recognition and Support Committee, and CELT is pleased to share the news with you. Read what Dr. Martinez has to say:
"Like many other excellent faculty on this campus, and in the department of Anthropology, I have been committed to quality education on this campus. The twelve courses I have prepared and taught here at CSU Chico have ranged from general education courses, laboratory and field courses, and graduate seminars, to community venues such as the Anthropology Forum. Most recently I have had the pleasure of introducing students to the prehistoric and historic archaeology of the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve. Faculty-student contact through the integration of teaching and research has been demonstrated in students I have sponsored for the Grad Equity Fellowship, BSS student symposia, the statewide CSU research competition, honors projects/papers, professional meetings, the Cassanova pre-doc program, numerous internships at the Northeast Information Center, and over 20 MA theses, including two Outstanding theses in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the university’s Outstanding thesis for Spring 2007. Students are also included in agency cooperative field efforts and graduates are distributed throughout agency offices in the North State.
Twenty years ago when I faced life as a single mom and a school bus driver here in Chico, I took anthropology classes whenever I could. Eventually I earned a BA and applied for an Equal Opportunity Fellowship. The fellowship facilitated acceptance into the graduate program in the Anthropology Department at UC Berkeley where I completed my PhD in 1998.
When I took a tenure-track position here at Chico in 1999 my area of expertise had became contact period archaeology. In North America "culture contact" is usually associated with the period of initial contact between the indigenous peoples and European colonialists, missionaries, traders, and trappers in multi-ethnic or pluralistic contexts. As a minority woman, and anthropologist, my research interests began to center on the role of women as cultural mediators. A 2003-2004 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and draft manuscript Keepers of Tradition: Two Thousand Years of Cultural Continuity, provide specific examples of this research interest.
I guess my most recent teaching philosophy has been one of “transparency.” Rather that worrying about expectations, I try to convey the same motivation and interest in anthropology that I felt when I was a student and hopefully that comes through when I teach."
Please join CELT in congratulating Dr. Antoinette Martinez for her well-deserved selection as 2007-08 Outstanding Teacher.
CELT is pleased to announce that Recreation and Parks Management professor Roger Guthrie has been selected by the Faculty Recognition and Support Committee for the 2007-08 Outstanding Academic Adviser Award. Read about Dr. Guthrie:
Dr. Roger Guthrie has been teaching at California State University, Chico since 1989. He is currently the option coordinator for both the Community and Commercial Recreation Option (CCR) and the Set Events and Tourism Option (SET) in the Department of Recreation and Parks Management. Before coming to CSU, Chico he spent 14 years as the division director for the Recreational Administration Division within the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at Southwest Texas State University (currently Texas State University). He holds a BBA in finance from the University of Portland, a BS in parks and recreation management from the University of Oregon, an MA in recreation administration from California State University, Chico, and a PhD in leisure studies from the University of Illinois.
Dr. Guthrie currently teaches the Recreation Budgeting and Finance Management course and the Resort and Lodging Seminar course. During his career he has taught more than ten different recreation and park management courses. He is the academic advisor for 85 to 100 undergraduate CCR and SET option students. He has been both a member on and chaired graduate student committees. He is active in both state and national professional recreation and park organizations. During his career he has served as president of the Educator’s Section of the California Parks and Recreation Society for two separate two-year terms. Dr. Guthrie is a retired lieutenant colonel from the United States Air Force Reserve with 25 years of active and reserve service.
Research activities include a long list of contracts through the California State University Research Foundation with the U. S. Forest Service, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the California Parks Hospitality Association, California State Parks, the California Department of Water Resources, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and several other agencies collecting recreational user data and economic impact information. These contracts which total over $870,000 are always accomplished in partnership with one or two other members of the Recreation and Parks Management Department and employ undergraduate and/or graduate students from the department.
When asked by the editor of Inside Chico State his reaction to be selected as the University Outstanding Academic Advisor Dr. Guthrie replied:
"Being selected as the University Outstanding Academic Advisor means my mentors, both alive and dead, are still making a difference. My professional persona has developed through the influence of my parents, my major professors and my colleagues. I teach, I advise, I do research and I do service. These are the key parts of my career. The tools I use to perform these key functions are a direct reflection of the influence of my mentors. It is my good fortune to have received the very human touch of their tutorage."
Please join CELT in congratulating Dr. Roger Guthrie as this year’s truly Outstanding Academic Advisor.
To learn more about the Outstanding Academic Advisor awards visit Academic Advising Programs.
