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The COSS Herald A Semi-annual Publication Produced by the Faculty of the College of Social Sciences
Welcome back everybodyFall! 2014
NEW ADDITIONS TO THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THIS ISSUE American University in Washington, DC. Welcome back for the Fall 2014 semester! A Pub. Crawl lot of interesting events happened since our She worked in the Pajaro and Salinas Valleys The latest faculty publications and forthcoming last issue for the College of Social Sciences, for 3 years, documenting the health and work titles. including several new hires, and Fresno experiences of farmworkers, both mestizo and State’s being ranked number 21 in the nation indigenous. She also organized with Central Page 3 Coast communities in their campaigns against in terms of accessibility, affordability, and Research Roundup completion by TIME Magazine. pesticides, especially methyl iodide, and An overview of faculty research agendas and worked in solidarity with rural residents, migrant students', indigenous farmworkers in accomplishments. New Faculty their own advocacy projects, including Page 3 immigrant rights, community gardening, and Last spring produced several successful the founding of a health and wellness program The Rumor Mill at the newly revitalized Springfield Grange. What are people up to? searches for new faculty and staff, resulting in hires for the Departments of After a year of postdoctoral studying between Page 5 Anthropology, Sociology, Criminology, and 2013-2014 with the Social Science Political Science. Environmental Health Research Institute at Paparazzi Northeastern University in Boston, MA, Dvera Pics of what we have been doing. Dvera Saxton (ANTH) has the great pleasure and honor to return to Page 8 California this summer to start a new job at
Fresno State. She looks forward to teaching Faculty and Staff News Anthropology added anthropology classes, doing ethnographic and Who is newly tenured? Who got promoted? to its faculty with environmental health research in the Central Who is on sabbatical? Dvera Saxton, who Valley, and supporting the children of
received her farmworkers to pursue their educational goals. Page 2 doctorate in Student News The comings and goings of our students. anthropology, race, (continued on page 2) gender and social Page 4 justice from the THE COSS HERALD A SEMI-ANNUAL PUBLICATION PRODUCED BY 2 THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES | Issue 2
(continued from page 1) Jenna Kieckhaefer (CRIM)
Christopher Sullivan (SOC) Jenna Kieckhaefer worked as an Faculty and Staff News Christopher ORISE Research Sullivan joins the Fellow for the National Center for Tenured and Promoted ranks of the Faculty 2014 Sociology the Analysis of Violent Crime Department, T. Hasan Johnson (AFRS) coming from UC (which houses the FBI's Behavioral Analysis units) prior to Berkeley, where De Anna Reese (AFRS/HIST) he received his joining the Department of Criminology. She doctorate in received her masters and doctorate in Legal Yoshiko Takahashi (CRIM) Sociology and Psychology from Florida International Demography in University, and did her BAs in psychology Promoted Faculty 2014 2013. His research examines ethnicity and and criminology at UC Irvine. She received a inequality in China using a mixture of research fellowship from the National Kenneth Hansen (PLSI) qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Institute of Justice for her dissertation James Mullooly (ANTH) He spent over 18 months conducting entitled, “Understanding rapport-building in investigative interviews: Does rapport’s ethnographic research and unstructured Faculty on Sabbatical Fall interviews with a group of Uyghur Muslim effect on witness memory and suggestibility entrepreneurs in a large Chinese city, and depend on the interviewer?” Her research 2014 found that as the climate of everyday includes examining the impact of likability on violence intensified, individuals became memory accuracy and memory conformity of Lori Clune (HIST) eyewitnesses, the malleability of bystanders’ more innovative in adopting strategies of Cristina Herrera (CLAS) resistance to police tactics of control. Chris memories, and the effects of rapport specializes in quantitative methods, and in building on the recall accuracy of adult Emma Hughes (CRIM) addition to teaching statistics and methods witnesses. for the department, he hopes to create a William Skuban (HIST) course in Development and Globalization. As Lisa Bryant (PLSI) (continued on page 5) Sociology Chair Matthew Jendian notes, "I'm very excited that Dr. Chris Sullivan will be Lisa Bryant joins joining our sociology faculty in fall 2014, as the Political The COSS Herald he will be sure to reinvigorate our course Science offerings in statistics and quantitative Department, The COSS Herald is a semi-annual research methodology!" having finished her publication by the faculty of the College of doctorate in Social Sciences, highlighting the activities Political Science at of the faculty, staff, & students, and Hollianne Marshall (CRIM) University of New providing a venue for social bonding Mexico. Her among members of nine departments Hollianne Marshall dissertation, entitled, “Mobilizing the spread over five buildings on campus. The comes to the Immigrant Vote: A Comparison of COSS Herald is not an official university Department of Mobilization Methods to Increase Turnout publication. Criminology from Among Minority and Naturalized Citizens,” Fairmont State received the Graduate Dean's Dissertation of The COSS Herald Staff: University, where she the Year Fellowship for the 2012-2013 school served as an year. Lisa also recently won the Graduate Cristina Herrera, Co-editor (on sabbatical) Assistant Professor Student Mentor Award (2012), a one time of Criminal Justice. award for an outstanding graduate student Andrew Jones, Co-editor She attained her MA at the University of New Mexico who has and PhD in Sociology from the University of provided exceptional service and excellence Submissions for the next edition of The Central Florida. Her dissertation, ”Italian- in mentoring other graduate students in his COSS Herald should be sent via email to
American Ethnic Concentration, Informal or her own or in other departments. Her either [email protected] or Social Control and Urban Violent Crime: A primary research interests are in the areas of [email protected]. Images should be
Defended Neighborhoods Approach,” political behavior and campaigns and submitted in ‘jpeg’ format, while text focused on how violent crime is mediated by elections, focusing particularly on voter materials should be in rich text format context. Her research looks at violent crime mobilization and election administration. (rtf). The editors retain the right of refusal in urban areas, the impacts of informal social to publish any materials they deem to be control on violent crime in urban areas, and obscene, pornographic, threatening, or sex crimes against children. (continued on page 6) boring.
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Book Chapter, “Annie Turnbo Malone and Pub. Crawl African American Beauty Culture in the Research American West” pgs. 102-112 in Consuming In this section of The COSS Herald, we Modernity: Changing Gendered Behaviour And highlight faculty accomplishments in Consumerism before the Baby Boom, eds. Roundup scholarship since our last issue and provide Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Dan Malleck, an opportunity to showcase future University of British Columbia Press, 2014, Numerous faculty received release time and publications on the verge of acceptance. DeAnna Reese. mini grants to conduct research for the
upcoming academic year: Accepted Works Book Chapter, “What Died with Ethel and Julius Rosenberg?” In Losing Hearts and Annabella España-Nájera will be examining Journal Article, “A Luta Minds in 1950s America, Avital Block and voter turnout in Latin America and analyzing Continua: Afro-Brazilian Rosario Rodriguez, eds. University of Colima anti-violence policies in Guatemala. Poets Navigating Pan- Press, 2014, Lori Clune. African Terrain,” Obsidian: Literature in the Emma Hughes is researching community Journal Article, “Struggles over an ‘Old, volunteers in prisons and jails, looking at the African Diaspora, Special Nasty and Inconvenient Monopoly,’: Issue – Afro-Brazilian nature and context of service provisions. Municipal Slaughterhouses and the Meat Literature, Vol. 13, No. 1, Industry in Rio de Janeiro, 1880-1920s,” In Meta Schettler. Ethan Kytle and Blain Roberts are working on The Journal of Latin American Studies, 2014, the historical memory of slavery amongst Maria Lopes. Book Chapter, “Radical Connections/Radical citizens in Charleston, South Carolina.
Breaks: African American Writers and the Journal Article, “European Integration, Haiku Form” in Ethnic Literatures and Fred Vermote is engaged in historical Migration, and Representation: The Case of research on global finances and missionaries Transnationalism, edited by Aparajita Nanda, Roma in France,” Ethnopolitics 13, no. 3 (May th Routledge, September 2014, Meta Schettler. in 17 century Asia. 2014): 203-224, Melanie Ram.
Journal Article, Jennifer Randles is pursuing research on Journal Article, "Social Movements and support for engaged and positive paternal “Partnering and Collective Memory.” Sociology Compass, 8/6 Parenting in Poverty: A involvement among low-income fathers in 2014: 865, Timothy Kubal and Rene Becerra. Fresno. Qualitative Analysis of a Relationship Skills Book Chapter, “Leaning In and Letting Go: Sarah Whitley is delving into the coping Program for Low- Feminist Tools for Valuing Non-Work,” in Income, Unmarried strategies and effects of the 2014 drought on Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice food acquiring strategies for people in Families,” Journal of Insights and Activism, edited by Donna King Policy Analysis and poverty in cities in the Central Valley. and Kay Valentine. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt Management, Spring, 2014, Jennifer Randles. University Press, Jennifer Randles. Segun Ogunjemiyo is comparing CO2 and
Journal Article, “Framing global warming: An water vapor exchanges in Fresno and Book Chapter, “The Marriage Movement,” in Potsdam, New York. international comparison of the influence of Families as They Really Are, Second Edition, climate contrarians on news media edited by Barbara Risman and Virginia William Skuban is working on his historical coverage.” National Social Science Journal, Rutter. New York: Norton, Avishai, Orit, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 49-65, May, 2014, Andrew analysis of the formation of the Chilean Melanie Heath, and Jennifer Randles. nation, focusing on the period of 1810-1932. Jones.
Forthcoming De Anna Reese is working on a case study of Kerry Washington and her interactions with Book, Contemporary Book Chapter, “An African High Priestess of the power dynamics of Hollywood. Chicana Literature: Haiku: Sonia Sanchez and the Principles of a (Re)Writing the Maternal Black Aesthetic,” Cross-Cultural Visions in Jeff Cummins is looking at the politics of Script, Cambria Press, African American Haiku, edited by John diversity within the state of California. March 28, 2014. Cristina Zheng, University Press of Mississippi, 2014 Herrera. (forthcoming), Meta Schettler. Kenneth Hansen is conducting research on native learning communities within Journal Article, "Tactical Decision-Making: California. Community Organizers Describe Ethical Journal Article, "Ethical Values and Social Considerations In Social Action Campaigns." Thomas Holyoke is investigating the Change: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. dynamics of state charter school laws and King, Jr., and Ahn Chang Ho" in Korean Social (Forthcoming), Donna Hardina, Matthew Ari their impact after enactment. Science Journal, Vol. 40. No. 2, Dec., 2013, Jendian, Catherine Garoupa White. 101-111, Marn J. Cha. Melanie Ram is pursuing research on tracking (continued on page 7) international organization issue emergence and policy outcomes within Europe. THE COSS HERALD A SEMI-ANNUAL PUBLICATION PRODUCED BY 4 THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES | Issue 2
Maria Ortega-Reyes semester. The Club gathered more donations Student News than they were able to distribute, and have Maria Ortega-Reyes, material to distribute for another personal
the Dean’s medalist hygiene drive this semester. Applied Creativity in for the College of
California’s Central Valley Social Sciences 2014 and double major in The Fresno State Food Six current and former anthropology sociology and political Recovery Network science, received the students presented papers at the Southwestern Anthropological Association President’s Annual Meeting, Garden Grove, CA, April 24- Scholarship and was 26, 2014. The session, entitled, Applied accepted into the Creativity in California’s Central Valley: CSU doctoral program in Fresno’s Institute of Public Anthropology, was sociology at Brown University, where she will organized by Professors Jim Mullooly and begin attending classes this fall. Hank Delcore, and included student papers: Nicole Hoke Michael Blanchard, “Emerging Virtual Reality Nicole Hoke, Applications: How Technology is Redefining outstanding graduate Creativity.” and Dean’s medalist nominee in Kim Amico, "Creative Approaches to Geography and City Understanding Technology Use Amongst ‘At and Regional Risk’ Students.” Planning, accepted the position of Jia Lu and Kia Lee, “Creative Approaches to Sarah Whitley and Janine Nkosi established Regional Nutrition Education: Nutrition and Exercise six community partnerships so Fresno State Transportation Education Development.” students enrolled in SOC 3 Critical Thinking Planner for the about Society could engage in service- Madera County Transportation Commission Peter Yang, “Cultural Inflections of Pain: learning activities (partnerships were formed (MCTC). Technologies of the Body in a Central Valley with The Bulldog Pantry, Wesley United Hospital.” Sean Kiernan Methodist Base Camp Hot Meal Program, Millbrook Presbyterian Friday Hot Meal Jenise Coates, “Understanding Financial Aid Program, Hope Lutheran Tuesday Food at Fresno State: Creative First Steps.” Sean Kiernan, Dean’s medalist for Pantry, St. Paul Newman Center Hot Meal Program, and Wolter’s Elementary). Faculty Humanics Scholars the Division of Student Affairs and and students held the first Fresno State Food political science Security and Hunger Awareness Banquet at major, has worked the St. Paul Newman Center on April 28, in the California 2014. Locally the Fresno State Food Assembly Speaker’s Recovery Network has recovered 18,114 Press Office and pounds of food to date. Nationally, FRNs traveled alongside have recovered 358,275 pounds of food. President Castro to
Washington D.C. and Sacramento to lobby elected officials on behalf of the CSU. He is planning on pursuing a degree in law and a career in politics.
Eighteen Humanics Scholars, along with Don Sociology Club Simmons, and Matthew Jendian, partici- pated in the 51st International Conference of Members of the the Association of Fundraising Professionals Sociology Club in San Antonio, Texas, March 22-25, 2014. distributed personal hygiene products to Outstanding Graduates Fresno’s homeless population on May Several of the College’s 2014 outstanding 3, 2014, after a graduates have news to share: successful donation drive that lasted much of the spring (continued on page 7) THE COSS HERALD A SEMI-ANNUAL PUBLICATION PRODUCED BY 5 THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES | Issue 2
Criminology has been given the green light civilizations of Asia and Europe that in many Rumor Mill for four hires, and if all searches are ways marked a turn toward greater successful, they will bring the department multiculturalism and more concertedly close to being up to full strength in terms of pursued globalization. While focusing on the Staff to attend Women’s full-time faculty. The Department will Mongol era, its historical contexts and Conference prospectively hire two in the Forensic subsequent impacts, the program also offers Behavioral Sciences, one in Law resources for enhancing engagement with Staff members of the College will be Enforcement, and one in Victimology. multiculturalism, its challenges, and creative attending The Central California Women’s possibilities. DenBeste notes, “The institute Conference on September 16, featuring will result in a much greater inclusion of keynote speaker Valerie Bertinelli, at the CSA conference Mongol history in all of my Russian history Fresno Convention & Entertainment Center. The California Sociological Association will courses and perhaps ultimately in the The Central California Women’s Conference hold its annual conference on November 7 development of a Central Asian history was founded in 1988 by the late State and 8 at the Mission Inn in Riverside. Please course. In addition, the group is working on a Senator Ken L. Maddy of Fresno. The mission consider submitting a paper to our publication, Teaching the Mongols.” of the conference is to educate, motivate and conference. Students (both undergraduate inspire women to excel in their professional and graduate) are welcome to present their In the beginning of August, DenBeste took a and personal lives. work at our conference More information is group of 20 students to Russia. They available on our Website at http://cal- traveled to St. Petersburg and Moscow (see CARI grant award soc.org. You can register for the conference Paparazzi photo on page 8).
online on our website. If yo have any Jennifer Randles received a Community questions, please contact Ed Nelson, Staff honored for service Action Research Initiative (CARI) Grant Executive Director, at 978-9391. Award from the American Sociological Association's Sydney S. Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy. The grant will go towards her research on Faculty and engaged and positive paternal involvement among low-income fathers in Fresno. Staff News
(continued from page 2) Spirit of Service Awards ‘Suicide by Cop’ talk given in Germany Harald Otto Schweizer was invited to give a two hour presentation on the topic “Suicide by Cop” (in German) at the Karlsruhe, Germany police headquarters on July 2, At the Staff Training And Recognition (STAR) 2014. The presentation was co-sponsored by Day awards ceremony on May 29, 2014, the the International Police Association. University honored members of the staff of the College of Social Sciences for years of Cold War discussed in service. Fabiola Alvarez (pictured above on Switzerland the left), Christopher Cruz (pictured below), Lori Clune presented at the International and Julie Watson were acknowledged for 15 Conference on New Narratives of the Cold years of service to the University. Susan Michelle Rodriguez and Don Simmons were War in Lausanne, Switzerland in July, and Sandoval (pictured above on the right) presented with "The Spirit of Service" Award had a chapter accepted and translated in received acknowledgment for 35 years, by President Joseph Castro on May 7, 2014. Spanish in the book La Guerra Fría y las including service in the Department of Both Michelle and Dr. Simmons also received Américas. History for the past seven. the U.S. Presidents Volunteer Service Award, with Dr. Simmons receiving the "Lifetime Eurasian history seminar in Award" for his dedicated volunteer service of Hawaii focuses on the Mongols more than 10,000 hours. Michelle DenBeste spent the month of June in Hawaii attending a seminar on Eurasian New Faculty Searches history. The Mongols and the Eurasian Nexus of Global History provided participants with The Africana Studies Program and five weeks of lectures, discussions, museum Department of Sociology have approval for a visits, and films focused on investigating the joint hire, and have already formed a Mongol period of the thirteenth and committee to conduct that search. fourteenth centuries—an era of extraordinary interactions among the peoples and (continued on page 6) THE COSS HERALD A SEMI-ANNUAL PUBLICATION PRODUCED BY 6 THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES | Issue 2
interacting with her co-workers and Valley region. Students enrolled in this New Hires expanding her knowledge of Fresno State. option will be exposed to a wide variety of physical and environmental planning issues (continued from page 2) and problems and will learn about the array Faculty and of methods and techniques employed by Chih-Hao Wang (GEOG) planners in their work. The courses are Staff News carefully selected to introduce the The department techniques and approaches of city planners of Geography and (continued from page 5) and provide excellent preparation for City & Regional graduate studies in urban and regional Planning is Cha appointed to board of planning and in public policy analysis. pleased to trustees welcome a new Marn Cha has been Summer Research faculty member, appointed to serve Dr. Chih-Hao Dr. Segun Ogunjemiyo worked on research a four-year term as projects supported from a grant received Wang, to the a member of the department. Dr. from the United States Department of Board of Trustees Agriculture (USDA). The $250,000 grant Wand will begin of Pacific States his appointment this semester as an provides opportunity for him to hire three University in Los Geography majors to work full time, for eight Assistant Professor of City and Regional Angeles. In addition weeks, as student research assistants on Planning. Before joining the department, Dr to that position, Wang was a Visiting Assistant Professor in projects that include measurements and Cha has been modeling of greenhouse gasses emissions the City and Regional Planning Section of the appointed to a Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture at from manure lagoons, assessment of the professorship emeritus of the School of effects of July 4 and New Year fireworks on The Ohio State University. Politics and Public Management of East PM2.5 concentration and air quality in China University of Political Science and Law, Dr. Wang received PhD in City and Regional California cities, and measurements of Shanghai, China. Planning from The Ohio State University. His temperatures in parked cars for modeling of research focuses on environmental planning hyperthermia in children left in hot cars. from the perspective of natural hazard Statistics book now available mitigation, and on application of spatial on SSRIC statistics to analyze spatial or social Transitions The SSRIC's website (http://www.ssric.org) interactions in transportation behavior, social has a number of resources for teaching and Colleges and their respective Departments inequality, and water management. Dr. research. SPSS for Windows A Basic Tutorial are subject to periods of equilibrium and Wang’s teaching assignments will include Version 22, co-authored by Ed Nelson, is now moments of transition when it comes to the environmental planning and GIS courses. available on this website. Visitors can access people who make up the faculty and staff. via: http://ssric.org/node/459. While visitors The College of Social Sciences experienced New Staff to the site are checking it out, Nelson such a transition in 2014 with the FERP of suggests taking a look at the other resources one faculty member and the departure of A new Department Administrative Support available on the website, and observes, both a faculty member and a member of the Assistant joined the staff in Criminology after “Please note that the SPSS tutorial is staff. the beginning of spring semester, 2014. available without cost.” Malik Simba Amber Hornberger (CRIM) Malik Simba New Program – Option in City entered into the Amber Hornberger and Regional Planning Faculty Early joined the Following the approval of a new name for the Retirement Department of department of Geography and City & Program at the Criminology in Regional Planning, the department is end of Spring, Spring of 2014. pleased to announce a new program that 2014, and She attained a BA gives students opportunity to obtain a BA received the in Fine Arts from degree in Geography with Option in City and designation CSU Fullerton, and Regional Planning. The option program, Professor brings over a which starts this fall, is designed to provide Emeritus at the decade of administrative experience to the the knowledge, skills, and values that will University Department. Amber moved from southern enable students to secure professional Commencement ceremony in May. He joined California to Clovis in August 2013 and is employment, to perform effectively as the College in 1989 and has served as enjoying the people of the Central Valley and planners, to think critically, and to participate Coordinator of the Africana Studies Program visiting the Sierra's with her husband. She meaningfully in the planning profession. The since 2006. can usually be found jogging around campus program emphasizes practical experience during lunch, attending wellness classes, or with a rich diversity of planning applications (continued on page 7) visiting the Gibson Farm Market. 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adviser on projects, but also as a speaker on contextualizing Anti-Extractivism: Buen Vivir Transitions various McNair panels and workshops. For and the New Left in the Andes.” him, the reward is seeing a student either (continued from page 6) continue on into Fresno State’s graduate Geography Bee Toni Dupont-Morales program or gain entrance directly into a doctoral program. Described as having a Annually, the National Geographic Society Toni Dupont- genuine concern for his students, he has stages an event in Washington, D.C. called Morales served in been both an effective graduate mentor and the Geographic Bee. Each November the Department a successful scholar. He has published through January, elementary and middle of Criminology numerous articles based on his research on schools throughout the U.S. hold Geographic for six years. She Chile and Peru and has published a book with Bees for fourth through eighth graders at was hired in 2008 the University of New Mexico Press, “Lines in their school sites. These students, having with two years of the Sand: Nationalism and Identity on the undergone intense study, demonstrate their service credit and Peruvian-Chilean Frontier.” In the classroom, prowess in many areas of Geography, attained tenure he challenges and inpsires his students. including, but not limited to physical in 2011. At the Through his efforts, he has inspired dozens of geography, economic geography, cities and end of the spring students to enroll in Fresno State’s graduate states, world geography, etc. National semester, she made the decision to leave the program in History, including the 2013 Geographic then determines the 100 top Department and is now employed with the Dean’s Medalist from the College of Social qualifiers for the State Geography Bees, held Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole. Sciences. He has also directed numerous the following spring, in the 50 states and master’s theses, one of which was honored three territories of the U.S. Those top 53 Kristi Larkin with the College of Social Sciences Thesis of finishers are invited to compete every May in
the Year Award in 2012. Bill will be on the National Geographic Bee in Washington, After 13 years of sabbatical in the fall semester, traveling to D.C. serving as a Chile to conduct research on his next major member of the work. This year the department of Geography and staff in the City & Regional planning hosted the State College, Kristi Geography Bee, and for the first time the Larkin is moving event was held at Fresno State on April 4, to the Jordan Pub. Crawl 2014. The event was directed by Sean Boyd, School of (continued from page 3) a lecturer in the department of Geography Agricultural and City & Regional planning who is also the Sciences and California State Geography Bee Coordinator. Technology to Book Chapter, “Stories Worth Telling: How Participants include 98 students from as far work in the Kerry Washington Balances Brains, Beauty, away as McKinleyville to the north, and Dean’s Office. During her years of service to and Power in Hollywood” in Smart Chicks: Coronado to the south and approximately the College, Kristi worked in the Department Representing Women’s Intellect in Film and 350 people were in attendance – mainly, the of Geography (and City and Regional Television, edited by Laura M. D’Amore, competitors and their parents. The winner of Planning), the Office of Development, and Rowman & Littlefield, 2015 (forthcoming), the state contest, Tuvya Bergson-Michelson, the Dean's Office. DeAnna Reese. represented California and took third place at the National Geography Bee held May 19 Book Chapter, “Hmong Americans.” In Asian through May 23 in Washington, D.C, and American Society, ed. Mary Danico, received a scholarship prize of $10,000. Provost Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (forthcoming), Franklin Ng. Dr. Castro has now offered a $5,000 Awards 2014 scholarship to any State Geographic Bee Book, California: The Politics of Diversity. 8th winner who, in the future, qualifies to attend rd From the 103 Commencement Program Edition. 2015. With David G. Lawrence. Fresno State, and chooses to do so, as long Boston: Cengage Learning, (forthcoming), as the event remains at Fresno State. Jeff Cummins. Graduate Teaching and It is the intent of the Department of Mentoring Geography & City and Regional Planning to William Skuban Student News keep this annual event at Fresno State. To has been at that end, the department has applied for, Fresno State and has been approved for, a modest grant (continued from page 4) since 1998. For from the College of Social Sciences to help more than a A critique of modernity fund the event next year. For more decade, he has information, go to: served as a Matt Ford, BA ’10 Sociology and current http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2014/04/n Ronald McNair graduate student in History, recently ational-geographic-state-geography-bee-to- mentor, which published in Climate and Capitalism, “Re- be-held-at-fresno-state/ has allowed him to guide under-graduates no only as an THE COSS HERALD A SEMI-ANNUAL PUBLICATION PRODUCED BY 8 THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES | Issue 2
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(Above right) Humanics Students4Giving at Fresno State celebrated its eighth year of grant making by awarding three $8,000 grants to local community benefit organizations (CBOs) focusing on: (1) Education; (2) Environment; and (3) Poverty Alleviation. Grants were presented by student scholars to the Fresno Arts Council, GRID Alternatives-Central Valley and Good Neighbor Center, Inc. at a reception on May 12, 2014, at Arte Americas.
(Above left) Thomas Holyoke and Andrew Jones walk towards the capital building to participate in CFA Lobbying Days in Sacramento on behalf of their fellow faculty, staff, and students. April 2, 2014.
(Right) Fresno State’s Allstar Mock Trial team competed at the National Championship Finals in Orlando, Florida. April 7, 2014. The group finished as one of the top 48 teams in the nation. Left to right. Front row: Kevin Piercy, Hailey Bonds, Ashley Eggleston, Maddy Martinez, Kaitlyn Sims, Deasha Brown, Head Coach Gordon Park Esq.; Left to right. Back row: Asst Coach Steven McQuillan, Esq., Grant Mason, Gage Marchini, Andrew Bunting, and Asst. Coach Christopher Irwin Esq.- Deputy. District Atty.
(Left) Socializing before the dinner in honor of Dean’s medalists at President Castro’s house. Dean Luz Gonzalez poses with the College of Social Sciences medalist, Maria Ortega-Reyes and her mother, Patricia. May 15, 2014.
(Right) Geography Majors, Eric Melton, Kevin Wichman, and Karen Jimenez, download data from a weather station set up to measure temperature in parked cars for Segun Ogunjemiyo’s research.
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(Above left) T Hasan Johnson talks about issues facing Black males at Chicago’s DuSable Museum for Question Bridge’s “A Dialogue Amongst (Above right) Linda Ragus (left) and Susan Sandoval (right) Men” symposium, April 24, 2014. pose with Adriana Belmonte, who worked as a student office aid in History for five years, and graduated with her degree in Criminology, May 16, 2014. She now works for the Department of Corrections in Madera County.
(Left) Jan Slagter (left) and Loretta Kensinger (right) pose with Marie Lerma, Women’s Studies outstanding graduate for 2014. Marie has been accepted to the highly prestigious Ph.D. program in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. May 9, 2014.
(Right) Michelle DenBeste and Andrea Johnson pose with history students in front of the Moscow Centre Bakhrushina on their tour of Moscow and St. Petersburg. August 5, 2014.