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Program Overview and Special Events Wednesday, April 8, 2015 WSSA Executive Council Meeting 7:30am to 4:00pm Columbia Conference Registration 3:00pm to 6:45pm Ballroom Lobby Publishers’ Book Exhibit 3:00pm to 6:45pm Ballroom Lobby Association for Borderland Studies Board Meeting 3:00pm to 6:00pm Hawthorne WSSA Welcome Reception All attendees invited 6:00pm to 7:30pm Mt Hood Thursday, April 9, 2015 Conference Registration 7:30am to 5:00pm Ballroom Lobby Publishers’ Book Exhibit 8:00am to 6:00pm Ballroom Lobby Concurrent Panel Sessions 8:00am to 6:00pm See Program Coffee Break 9:15am Ballroom Lobby Coffee Break 2:30pm Ballroom Lobby American Indian Studies Business Meeting 4:30pm to 6:00pm Salmon ABS Plenary Session: ABS Lifetime Achievement Award 4:30pm to 6:00pm Salon E Association for Institutional Thought Banquet and 6:15pm to 9:30pm Alexis (Off-Site ) membership meeting Friday, April 10, 2015 Conference Registration 7:30 am to 5:00 pm Ballroom Lobby WSSA Breakfast All attendees invited 7:15 am to 8:45 am Mt Hood WSSA Give-Back: At this complimentary breakfast, donations will be solicited for the The Oregon Food Bank* Poster Session 7:15am to 8:45am Mt Hood Scholars’ Choice Award for Best Poster to be decided by attendee vote. Poster session co-located with WSSA complimentary breakfast. Publishers’ Book Exhibit 8:00 am to 6:00 pm Ballroom Lobby Concurrent Panel Sessions 8:00am to 6:00 pm See Program Coffee Break 9:15am Ballroom Lobby Presidential Luncheon: Ticketed Event 11:30 am to 1:00 pm Mt Hood WSSA President Prabha Unnithan: "Title: TBA" ivv PROGRAM OVERVIEW AND SPECIAL EVENTS Friday, April 10, 2015 continued Coffee Break 2:30 pm Latin American Studies Section Business Meeting 2:45pm to 4:15pm Portland WSSA Business Meeting 4:30pm to 5:00pm Mt Hood WSSA Section Coordinators Meeting 5:00pm to 6:00pm Mt Hood ABS Business Meeting 6:00pm to 7:00pm Salon E ABS Reception By Invitation to Association for Borderlands Studies members only 7:00pm to 9:00pm Mt Hood Saturday, April 11, 2015 Conference Registration 7:30 am to 12:00pm Ballroom Lobby WSSA Executive Council Meeting 8:00am to 1:30pm Sunstone Publishers’ Book Exhibit 8:00am to 1:00pm Ballroom Lobby Concurrent Panel Sessions 8:00am to 6:00pm See Program Coffee Break 9:15am Slavic Studies Business Meeting 2:45pm to 4:15pm Medford WSSA President’s Reception All attendees invited 6:30pm to 8:00pm Mt Hood * _____________________________________________________________________________________________ In 2012, the Western Social Science Association revitalized our organizational mission of service at the Annual Conference in Houston, by hosting a fund drive for a local charity. Conference attendees gave generously and we were extremely pleased to raise more than $2,100 for the Houston Food Bank. The following year(2013), in Denver, we were thrilled to raise even more, a total of $2,671 for the Food Bank of the Rockies, and last year (2014) we raised $2070 for Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico. Your donation is tax deductible and receipts will be available at the donation table, along with information about hunger in Oregon and the types of programs offered by the food bank. The Oregon Food Bank Network (http://www.oregonfoodbank.org) is dedicated to eradicating food insecurity by helping individuals and their communities increase self-sufficiency and food security status. However, with unemployment rates and food, gas, and housing prices remaining high, demand for their services has increased. It has climbed 41% since the economic downturn in 2008. For the third year in a row, the Oregon Food Bank Network has distributed more than 1 million emergency food boxes in Oregon and Clark County, Washington. A typical emergency food box provides a three- to five-day supply of groceries. Those boxes provide meals for 270,000 people per month, 92,000 of which are children (34%). In addition, the food bank provided the resources to provide 3.9 million emergency meals at soup kitchens and shelters. viv WSSA Spotlight on Local Organizations: Mercy Corps Mercy Corps is an international development and disaster response organization dedicated to poverty and oppression alleviation, and conflict and disaster response around the globe. While headquartered in Portland, Mercy Corps responds around the globe, working in 40 countries, to meet urgent needs for food, water and shelter. They stay partner with communities for their long- term recovery. http://www.mercycorps.org/ WSSA is proud to sponsor Mercy Corps as our Spotlight Local Organization. Mercy Corps also offers internship opportunities for students and is seeking to improve partnerships with the local academic community. Please check out their table in the book display area for more information. vi WSSA Awards 2015 Awards to be presented at the President’s Luncheon Friday April 10, 2015 - 11:30 am to 1:00 pm (Mt Hood Room) Past-President's New Scholar Award Dr. Amanda Johnson Ashley, Boise State University President's New Scholar Award Dr. Manish Madan, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey President-Elect's New Scholar Award Dr. Zek Cypress Valkyrie, University of Colorado Colorado Springs Scholar's Choice Award for Best Poster TBA - To be voted at the WSSA Breakfast Awards to be presented at the WSSA President’s Reception Saturday April 11, 2015 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm (Mt Hood Room) WSSA Distinguished Book Award Dr. John Skrentry, University of California San Diego, for After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace Princeton University Press, 2014 Larry Gould Best Article Award Jeonghun Min and Daniel Savage, Northeastern State University, for "Why do American Indians vote Democratic?" Social Science Journal, Volume 51, Issue 2, 2014 John Wicks Dissertation Award Dongjae Jung, Arizona State University, School of Public Affairs "The Federal-Local Nexus in Immigration Enforcement Policy: An Evaluation of the Secure Communities Program" Vine Deloria, Jr., Student Paper Competition Award TBA Bert & Phyllis Lamb Prize in Political Science TBA WSSA Student Paper Competition Award - Best Undergraduate Paper Travis Van Horn, Western Oregon University "F*** You Dan Savage: A Queer Criticism of the It Gets Better Project" WSSA Student Paper Competition Award - Honorable Mention Remington Sterling Krueger (North Dakota State University) "A Norwegian Immigrant and Homesteader in the Dakota War: Private Ole N. Orland" AFRICAN and AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Stephen Brown Mt. San Antonio College Panel 1 A Look Back THURSDAY 8:00 - 9:30 am “Blacks and Other People of Color in World War I” George Junne, Jr., University of Northern Colorado Salem Panel 2 Education “Internalized Racism, Black Collegiate Football THURSDAY Players, and Career Aspirations” 9:45 - 11:15 am Jordan Logan, New Mexico Highlands University Salem “Excuse Me, the No Child Left Behind Act Still Leaves Me Behind” Brenda Randle, Arkansas State University Panel 3 The African American Landscape “An Examination of Critical Social Settings Affecting the Development of African American Youth” THURSDAY Barbara Hewins-Maroney and William P. Austin, 11:30 – 12:45 pm University of Nebraska Omaha Salem “Residential Redlining and Education in Detroit” Hugh Potter and Bryan Beverly, Michigan State University “Aiding Black Empowerment: Procedural Equality vs. Substantive Equality and an Alternative Approach to American Liberalism” Chaz Briscoe, University of Colorado Denver 1 AFRICAN and AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Panel 4 Women’s Issues THURSDAY 4:30 - 6:00 pm “How Does Race Complicate Sexual Violence Among Women of Color?” Salem Sessyon Crawford, New Mexico Highlands University 2 AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES Emery Tahy Arizona State University Panel 1 American Indian Studies Discourse Moderator Nick Peroff, University of Missouri-Kansas City “Improving the Discipline: The Future of American Indian and Indigenous Studies” THURSDAY Leo Killsback, Arizona State University 8:00 – 9:30 am “The Paradigm Shift: American Indian Studies and Salmon Social Transformation” Laura Medina, Arizona State University “AI/AN Within the Margin of Error! A Critical Analysis of the American Indian and Alaska Native U.S. Census Data from an American Indian Studies Perspective” Emery Tahy, Arizona State University “A Diné Epistemological Approach to Mitigating and Adapting to Global Climate Change: A Conceptualization of an Indigenous Diné Scientific Research Methodology” Mario Atencio, Arizona State University “Colonialism: It’s What’s for Dinner: Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Agriculture and Taking Back the Indigenous Table” Mark Langenfeld, Arizona State University Panel 2 American Indian Identity Moderator Cynthia-Lou Coleman, Portland State University “How Authenticity Emerges in Science Fiction, Cinema and Literature” THURSDAY Grace L. Dillon, Portland State University 9:45 – 11:15 am “The Role of Mascots in Identity and the Salmon Deconstruction of Indigenous Identity” Cornel Pewewardy, Portland State University “Forging Linkages Between Environmental, Health and Healing Efforts and Indigeneity” Judy BlueHorse Skelton, Portland State University “Buckshot for Brains: How Science Determines 3 AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES Identity” Cynthia-Lou Coleman, Portland State University Panel 3 De-colonizing Research Moderator Stephen M. Sachs, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis “The Northern Paiute History Project: Engaging Undergraduates in De-colonizing Research with Tribal Community Members” Kevin Hatfield, Jennifer O’Neal, Spencer Kales,