- Ph.D. Candidate Denisa Jashari has received the Richmond Brown Award for Graduate Student Scholarship from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies for her paper, “Containing Unrest, Charting a Geography of Violence: Modernization and Authoritarianism in Chile’s Late Twentieth Century.”
- Colin Johnson’s 2013 book Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America as been named a 50th Anniversary Title by Temple University Press. According to TUP, the titles that appear on this list were chosen because they “represent the strengths of our past and in turn lay the groundwork for our next 50 years.” They’re also currently 50% off when you use promo code TUPLANV. Excess inventory reduction scheme? Colin thinks that’s a real possibility. But the list also includes books such as Kathy Peiss’ Cheap Amusements and George Lipsitz’s The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, so he’s choosing to take it as a compliment.
- Mark Roseman was interviewed in the Podcast Series of the Athenaeum Review, University of Texas. Entitled “Rescue and Resistance: A Conversation with Mark Roseman”, the Podcast is accessible at https://creativedisturbance.org/podcast/rescue-and-resistance-a-conversation-with-mark-roseman/
- On Thursday January 30, Ellen Wu lectured on "How Asians Became America’s Model Minority and Why That Matters” for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's Office of University Diversity and Inclusion Distinguished Speakers Series. She participated at the invitation of Dr. Damon A. Williams, a leading expert on strategic diversity leadership.
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