ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS
Emily Dean is currently co-authoring a book (with Bill Sillar) titled Mountains, Myths, and Monuments: An Andean Landscape Biography as well as contributing three chapters to two edited volumes, Recent Archaeology at Formative Chiripa and Tenahaha (ed. by C. Hastorf, M. Bandy, and W. Whitehead) and The Wari State: A View of the Middle Horizon from the Cotahuasi Valley (ed. by J. Jennings and W. Yépez Álvarez). All three books have projected publication dates of 2009.
Dr. Dean actively participated in several academic conferences in the 2007-8 year. She organized the programs, co-wrote a paper (“The Many Levels of Ceremonialism at Chiripa”), and chaired a session at the 2007 and 2008 Institute of Andean Studies meeting in Berkeley, CA. She also presented a paper (“Deconstructing the ‘Collcas’: re-evaluating the evidence for Inca state storage at Cacha,” with Bill Sillar), chaired a session (“New Horizons in Inca Archaeology”), and participated in a working group on “Inka Imperial Expansion” at the 2007 Society for American Archaeology Meetings in Austin, TX.
In summer 2008, she attended the World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland where she gave a paper titled: “Tinkuy: Critical encounters between ethnography, ethnohistory, oral tradition and archaeology in the Andes.” Following her Ireland trip, she traveled to the Vilcabamba region of Peru where she initiated a new archaeological project with her Peruvian colleague, Amelia Perez Trujillo.
Check out the Anthropology Club webpage: http://www.suu.edu/orgs/anthropology
HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEWS
Dr. Larry Ping had an article entitled, "Gustav Freytag's Bilder aus der deutschen Vergangenheit and the Meaning of German History." accepted for publication in the German Studies Review, which is the premier venue for interdisciplinary studies of German History and Literature. His article is currently "in press" and may be included in the October 2009 issue of the journal.
Mark Miller recently secured a contract with the University of Oklahoma Press to publish a book tentatively entitled “Blood Brothers and Others: The Five Tribes of Oklahoma and Unrecognized Tribes of the Southeast.” He has an article, “The Death Valley Timbisha Shoshone and the National Park Idea” scheduled for publication in The Journal of the Southwest (2008). In the spring of 2008 he also presented a paper, “An Outsider’s Experience Teaching Mormon History in Utah,” at the Annual Conference of the Mormon History Association in Sacramento, California.
Professor Curtis Bostick, Department Chair, was selected for participation in the "Utah Tuning Project," funded by the Lumina Foundation. Professors in History and Physics from three states, including Utah, were chosen to be involved in this major curricula evaluation project. The impetus for this project is the European "Bologna Project," which has been hailed as the 'most significant educational reform' in the modern era.
SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT NEWS
Dr. Michael Ostrowsky's article “Are Violent People More Likely to Have Low Self-Esteem or High Self-Esteem?” has been accepted for publication in Aggression and Violent Behavior, a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal. Dr. Ostrowsky has recently reviewed a manuscript for Social Problems, which is one of the most respected and widely read professional journals in the social sciences. Dr. Ostrowsky was interviewed by SUU-TV about recycling and SUU’s Earth Club. Dr. Ostrowsky is now the Faculty Senate representative for the undergraduate University Curriculum Committee. Also, Dr. Ostrowsky has been invited to give two guest lectures: “The Sociology of Blacks in Sports” for SUU’s 2010 Black History Month, and “Russian Deviance” for SUU's 2010 International Week.
Dr. Randle Hart, visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Sociology, has been invited (and awarded a travel grant) by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies to present his research on American radical movements at the “UNESCO and the Cold War” conference, hosted by the University of Heidelberg in March 2010. Professor Hart’s most recent research, “Practicing Birchism in Unsettled Times: The Assumption and Limits of Idiocultural Coherence in Framing Theory,” was recently published in Social Movement Studies (2008). He has also presented his current research on “biographical sociology” in Boston, MA, Vancouver, B.C., and Fredericton, N.B.
In Summer 2008, Dr. Shobha Hamal Gurung visited Maiti Nepal, an internationally known leading NGO that fights against human trafficking and the sex trade. During her visit, she met with Anuradha Koirala, the founder of Maiti Nepal, and other staff members and discussed establishing international service learning/ internship opportunities for SUU students. Maiti Nepal is excited to build the partnerships with SUU. Currently, Dr. Hamal Gurung is working on the logistical aspects of these student-based opportunities.
Link to Maiti Nepal
Dr. Hamal Gurung published a book chapter, “Growing Up Hindu: Mapping the Memories of a Nepali Woman in the US” in an edited book Living Our Religions: Hindu and Muslim South Asian-American Women Narrate Their Experiences by Anjana Narayan and Bandana Purkayastha (2008).
In September 2008, Dr. Hamal Gurung presented two papers at the First International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology in Barcelona, Spain. The papers, entitled “Human Trafficking and the Sex Trade: Telling the Tales of Nepali Women” and “Informal Global Economy: The Case of Nepali Female Migrants in Boston and New York” were presented at the Human Trafficking: Gender, Racism, and Ethnicity panel and at a joint session panel of Migrant Women: Human Rights Violations and Resistance / Human Rights and Social Justice.
Dr. Hamal Gurung presented a paper with Dr. Bandana Purkayastha (University of Connecticut) entitled, “Dynamics of Gendered/Racialized Labor: Examining the Experiences of Nepali Women in Informal Labor Markets in Boston and New York” at a conference on Low-Wage Work, Migration, and Gender sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Jane Addams Hull House, at the University of Illinois, Chicago, March 12-13.
http://www.uicsociology.org/low-wage-work-migration-and-gender-conference-2009.html
Dr. Hamal Gurung is the Chair of Women’s Week 2009, SUU. In this capacity, she invited and hosted Dr. Dorothy Smith, world renowned feminist scholar, to SUU.
Dr. Hamal Gurung is also a member of the New England Environmental Justice Research Collaborative (NEJRC), which is housed at Northeastern University, Boston. She is currently working on a book project with Dr. Daniel R. Faber.
GENERAL DEPARTMENT NEWS
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