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Fall 2014 Semester! a Pub THE COSS HERALD A SEMI-ANNUAL PUBLICATION PRODUCED BY THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Issue 2 The COSS Herald A Semi-annual Publication Produced by the Faculty of the College of Social Sciences Welcome back everybody! Fall 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 in terms of accessibility, affordability, and Coast communities in their campaigns against Research Roundup completion by TIME Magazine. pesticides, especially methyl iodide, and worked in solidarity with rural residents, An overview of faculty research agendas and 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 Berkeley, where FBI's Behavioral Analysis units) prior to De Anna Reese (AFRS/HIST) he received his joining the Department of Criminology. She received her masters and doctorate in Legal doctorate in 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 includes examining the impact of likability on found that as the climate of everyday 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) witnesses. addition to teaching statistics and methods for the department, he hopes to create a William Skuban (HIST) course in Development and Globalization. As Lisa Bryant (PLSI) Sociology Chair Matthew Jendian notes, "I'm (continued on page 5) 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. THE COSS HERALD A SEMI-ANNUAL PUBLICATION PRODUCED BY 3 THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES | Issue 2 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
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