Achievements

Publications

Kenny Chan, Finance and Marketing, Dan Pence, Sociology, and Stephanie Bianco-Simeral, Nutrition and Food Science, have had their manuscript “Marketing Healthy Food to the Least Interested Consumers” accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Foodservice.

Jacquelyn Chase, Geography and Planning, had “Their Space: Security and Service Workers in a Brazilian Gated community” published in The Geographical Review, Vol. 98, No. 4, 2008.

Sara Cooper, Spanish and Multicultural and Gender Studies, had “Cuba and the United States in a Sandbox: Tit for Tat in the Cuban Funny Papers Then and Now” published in the electronic book A Changing Cuba in a Changing World, Bildner Publications/CUNY Graduate Center, 2008.

James Matray, History, had “Building a Beacon: The United States and the Republic of Korea” published in Diplomatic History, Vol. 33, No. 3, January 2009. He also published entries on “Harry S. Truman,” in the Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History, ABC-CLIO, 2008, and “Kaesong Truce Talks” and “P’anmunjom,” in The United States at War, ABC-CLIO, 2008. His electronic review of Gregg Brazinsky’s Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy was posted on H-Diplo Online on July 31, 2008.

Michael Perelman, Economics, published “Comment: Primitive Accumulation in Modern China” in Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2009.

Char Prieto, Foreign Languages and Literatures, published “Debate and Historical Recuperation: The Culture of Memory in the Spanish Literature of the New Millennium” in Burgos, Corazon de Castilla, Fundacion Instituto Castellano y Leones de la Lengua, December 2008, and “The Disappeared in the Hispanic World. The Right for Justice Yesterday and Today” in The Pacific Coast of Latin American Studies, 2008.

Kristina Schierenbeck, Biological Sciences, co-authored “The Enigmatic Invasive Spartina Densiflora: A History of Hybridizations in a Polyploid Context,” published in Molecular Ecology, Vol. 17, 2008.

Ed Seagle, Recreation and Parks Management, published, with Ralph Smith, Internships in Recreation & Leisure Services: A Practical Guide for Students, 4th ed., Venture Publishing, 2008.

Marc Siegall and Susan Gardner, Management, published “Virtues of Virtual Textbooks: Lower Student Costs for Business Law Textbooks Examined” in the National Association of College Auxiliary Services’ journal College Services, December 2008.

Cynthia Siemsen, Sociology, co-authored “ ’Doing Gender’ as Canon or Agenda?” and “A Symposium on West and Zimmerman,” both in Gender & Society, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2009.

David Welton, Communication Design, published a chapter, “Shifting the Light: A Look at Lens Filters,” in The Videomaker Guide to Video Production, Focal Press, 2007.

P. Willey, Anthropology, co-authored “Holocene Human Footprints in North America,” published in Ichnos: International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces Vol. 16, No. 1–2, 2009.

Awards and Activities

Kalea Allen, Undergraduate Business Advising, presented “Emerging Adulthood—Do We Know Who Our Students Are?” at the National Academic Advising Association regional conference in Las Vegas in March.

Pilar Alvarez-Rubio, Foreign Languages and Literatures, is a visiting professor at UC Berkeley’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese during the 2009 spring semester.

Kenny Chan, Finance and Marketing, presented “Who We Are Dictates What We Eat: An Exploration of Gender and Eating Patterns” at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association FAMPS and NEC-63 joint conference in San Diego in February.

Sara Cooper, Foreign Languages and Literatures, was the recipient of a MLA Florence Howe Award for outstanding Feminist Scholarship in Foreign Languages. She also was the guest editor of the January–March 2009 special issue of Journal of Lesbian Studies, Lesbian Images in International Popular Culture, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Robert Cottrell, History, will serve as the Fulbright Nikolay V. Sivachev Distinguished Chair in U.S. History and American Studies at Moscow State University in spring 2009.

Andrew Flescher, Religious Studies, and Daniel Worthen, Psychology, had their book, The Altruistic Species, designated a 2008 Outstanding Academic Title of the Year by Choice Magazine.

Anthony Graybosch, Philosophy, spoke on Vasilij Grossman’s romanticism at the second international conference on Grossman’s novel Life and Fate in Torino, Italy, February 21.

Richard Gitelson, Recreation and Parks Management, presented his paper “Computer Use Among Older Adults Living in a Retirement Community” at the California Parks and Recreation Leisure Research Symposium during the California and Pacific Southwest Recreation and Park Conference March 6 in Santa Clara.

Amy Lance, Undergraduate Business Advising, received a scholarship from the National Academic Advisors Association to help cover costs for her participation in an Administrators Institute in Clearwater Beach, Florida, Feb. 15–17. She presented “Assessment and Advising: Where Do I Start?” at the National Academic Advising Association regional conference in Las Vegas in March.

Stephen Lewis, History, received the Hubert Herring Book Award for his book, The Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chiapas, Mexico, 1910–1945.

David Martins, English, was chosen as a recipient of the Two-Year College English Association’s 2009 Teaching English in the Two-Year College (TETYC) Best Article of the Year Award for “Scoring Rubrics and the Material Conditions of Our Relations with Students” (TETYC, Dec. 2008).

James Matray, History, delivered “Needless Quarrel: The Second North Korean Nuclear Crisis,” at the Institute for Asian Research Seminar Series at the University of British Columbia in October 2008. He also was appointed to a second two-year term on the editorial board of ABC-CLIO’s American Military History Series.

Michael Perelman, Economics, presented “The Economics of Kapital and the Capital of Economics” at six colleges in China in January.

Char Prieto, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented “Antidote against Historical Amnesia: The United States Press and the Spanish Civil War” at U of W at Seattle, Jan. 16, and “The Cid as Model of the Creation of National Identity during the Spanish Dictatorship” and “Unburying History: Reconciliation, Historical Memory and the Aesthetics of Remembrance in Spain and the USA” at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Jan. 14 and 15.

Kristina Schierenbeck, Biological Sciences, presented “Invasive Species Hybridization and Its Significance to Conservation” and “The Importance of Evolutionary Context in the Management of Plant Species and Communities in N. California” at the California Native Plant Society statewide conservation conference in Sacramento in January.

Patricia Smiley, Kinesiology, demonstrates yoga postures for a new revision of Annalisa Cunningham’s Healing Addiction With Yoga, to be published fall 2009.

Jason Tannen, Art and Art History, had his short film, The Pressman Negatives, selected for showing at the Sacramento International Film Festival April 3; at the Swansea Life Film Festival (where it was nominated for a Tinny Award in the Film Noir category) in the UK, June 2008; at the Moving Image Film Festival in Toronto, November 2008; in addition to three other 2007 festivals.

Ela Thurgood, English, presented “Tone, Phonation and Vowel Quality in Hainan Cham” at the Linguistics Society of America Meeting in San Francisco in January.

P. Willey, Anthropology, was the second recipient of the George Armstrong Custer Award from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, Feb. 13. He presented the keynote address, “Prehistoric Crow Creek Massacre and Contemporary Forensic Cases,” at the symposium “Archaeology and the Law: How the Law Has Shaped Cultural Resource Management” at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, Feb. 12.

Grants

Jim Fletcher, Recreation and Parks Management, and Program for Applied Research and Evaluation, received a $456,417 grant from the California Department of Fish and Game to conduct an economic analysis of the impact of fishing in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River System. Frederica Shockley, Economics; Richard Gitelson, Recreation and Parks Management; and Jon Ebeling, professor emeritus, Political Science, will work with Fletcher on the project.

In the News

Michael Perelman, Economics, was interviewed on Old Mole Variety Hour, KBOO, Portland, Ore., Feb. 9..