 Taking
Dance to Russia
Sue Pate, Theatre and Theatre Arts, Musical
Theatre and Dance, traveled with student choreographer Julie
Cosenza to Pushkin, Russia to teach American modern
and contemporary dance and culture and to share American teaching
styles with Russian teachers. Pate plans to make return trips
to Pushkin, accompanied by other student choreographers. She
received her Ph.D. in dance history from Cornell University,
and has been at CSU, Chico since 1986.
South Africa is Classroom for Educators
Hassan B. Sisay, History and International
Programs, led a study tour to South Africa for 16 Northern
California educators in the summer of 2004. The tour, funded
by the U.S. Department of Education, is designed to train
U.S. teachers in diversity and socioeconomic issues. The $62,900
grant to support the trip to three universities in South Africa
is under the auspices of International Studies, the Department
of History, and the Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies.
 Professors
Help Re-create Life in 1628 on PBS Show
Donald Heinz, professor of religious studies
and former dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts,
and Carolyn Heinz, professor of anthropology,
participated in Public Broadcasting System’s experiential
history series Colonial House, filmed in the summer
of 2003 on the Maine coast. The eight-episode series aired
on PBS in May 2004.
Linguists Study Disappearing Languages of China
CSU, Chico linguists Frank Li and Graham
Thurgood received a two-year, $188,300 grant from
the National Science Foundation to document three endangered
languages of China. In collaboration with Sun Hongkai
of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Lindsay Whaley
of Dartmouth College, Li and Thurgood have undertaken the
documentation of Tsat, Anong, and Oroqen, languages spoken
by fewer than 7,000 Chinese.
Founding Father Bidwell Subject of Book
John
Bidwell and California: The Life and Writings of a Pioneer,
1841-1900, by Michael Gillis and Michael
Magiliari, History, published in fall 2003, was published
in paperback in spring 2004. Gillis also published Soper-Wheeler
Company: A Century of Growing Trees History (Documentary
Media, 2004), a corporate history of California’s oldest
privately owned timber company.
 Heroes,
Saints, and Ordinary Morality
Andrew
Flescher, Religious Studies, had Heroes,
Saints, and Ordinary Morality published by Georgetown
University Press in 2003. He also created and taught an honors
course in altruism with Dan Worthen, Psychology,
based, in part, on the concepts in this book. Flescher is
the director of the campus Center for Applied and Professional
Ethics.
Support for Sculptors’ Work
Two sculptors from the Department of Art
and Art History received CSU research awards. Sheri
Simons received an award to work on an exhibit at
the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Nationally
recognized sculptor Michael Bishop was awarded
a grant for a residency at the Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan,
Wisconsin.
Photographers Share Spotlight
Tom Patton, chair of Art
and Art History, had eight photographs published in
Black & White Magazine (August 2004) in a “Spotlight”
article written about his work by CSU, Chico professor emeritus
Ira Latour.
2004 Scholars Move On to Graduate School
Michael Collins, History,
was accepted for graduate study at the University of Chicago;
Ken Brown, English, was accepted for graduate
study at UC Santa Barbara; Dianna Winslow,
English, was accepted for graduate study at Syracuse University.
Professor Gets Part in Conference Production
Joel Rogers, Musical
Theatre, was cast in the David Mark Cohen Playwriting
Award production at the 2004 Association for Theatre in Higher
Education conference in Toronto.
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