Faculty Accomplishments (page 8)


June 22, 2021

Cindy Forster – History

Professor Forster published two articles in the Peoples Dispatch: ·      “Bolivia for the Record: The People Speak.” Peoples Dispatch (Cindy Forster): Bolivia for the record – the people speak ·      […]

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Hao Huang – Music, Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music

 Professor Huang published the following: ·      “From Passive ‘Vessels’ of Traditional Culture to Symbolic Cultural Markers: The Geetharines in Mauritius,” by D. V. Ballgobin and Hao Huang, co-authored book chapter […]

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Nancy Macko – Art, Mary W. Johnson Professorship in Teaching

Professor Macko was guest speaker for the Scripps Fine Arts Foundation and presented the video lecture, “The Story of Lola’s Tapestry and Works from The Fragile Bee.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlQl2HTwgY New York art […]

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Jane Mi – Media Studies

Professor Mi participated in the following exhibitions: ·      “Deception Island” as a part of the exhibition Soil Strings – Commoning & Compost at Blockadia*Tiefsee, Frankfurt, Germany; ·      “The Church of Life” as […]

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Trang Tran – Art

Professor Tran received one of three Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship grants. Available through nomination only, these Fellowships are meant to encourage and support mid-career artists with funds and a […]

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Cheryl Walker – English, Emerita

Professor Walker’s article “Religion” was included in the collection Elizabeth Bishop in Context published by Cambridge University Press, April 2021.  

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Rivka Weinberg – Philosophy

Professor Weinberg’s article “Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It; We Can’t Get It; and We Should Be Very, Very Sad,” was published in Journal of Controversial Ideas 2021: 1(1): 4-24.  

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Stacey Wood – Psychology, Molly Mason Jones Professor of Psychology

Professor Wood was a training panelist for the National Association of Attorney Generals (NAAG), where she spoke on how consumers process information related to advertising and disclosures, March 2021. She […]

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October 23, 2020

Theodore Bartholomew – Psychology

Professor Bartholomew became President-Elect of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and was appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research.

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Suchi Branfman – Dance

Professor Branfman performed “ROPE – An evening of intertwining dance and film about incarceration and freedom,” at the Miles Memorial Playhouse, Santa Monica, CA, February 2020. https://www.ladancechronicle.com/suchi-branfmans-rope-an-evening-of-performance-activism-hope-and-freedom/ She gave a […]

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Roswitha Burwick – German, Emerita

Professor Burwick published a three-volume edition of Achim von Arnim’s handwritten manuscripts on natural Science: ·      Achim von Arnim. Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften II. Handschriftlicher Nachlass 1798-1811. Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe. Vol. 3: 3/1,  3/2 and […]

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Lahnna Catalino – Psychology

Professor Catalino was interviewed about her research on the Science of Happiness podcast Episode 56: How to Make Time for Happiness Keltner, D. (Host). (2020). How to make time for happiness. [Audio […]

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Myriam J. A. Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities

Professor Chancy published  the Spanish translation of Loneliness of Angels (A Novel). Tr. Mónica Del Valle. Bogóta, Colombia: LaSirén Press; August 2020. She published the academic book Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony […]

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Wendy Cheng – American Studies

Professor Cheng published: ·      The article “Landscapes of Beauty and Plunder: Japanese American Flower Growers and an Elite Public Garden in Suburban Los Angeles,” in Environment Planning D: Society and Space (Vol. 38, […]

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Melissa Coleman – Biology

Professor Coleman’s paper “D2 dopamine receptor activation induces female preference for male song in the monogamous zebra finch,” was short-listed at the Journal of Experimental Biologists for the Outstanding Paper […]

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Michelle Decker – English

Professor Decker published the following: ·      “Tatamkhulu Afrika, Queer Heroism, Triangulated Forms.” Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. (Published online June 8, 2020; print forthcoming); ·      “Mesochronous Marechera: African Aesthetics, Violence, and […]

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Christina Edholm – Mathematics

Professor Edhom received an AMS-Simons Travel Grant administered by the American Mathematical Society with support from the Simons Foundation, providing $2,500 per year for two years to be used for research-related […]

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Cindy Forster – History

Professor Forster published the following articles and interviews: ·      Bolivia. La unidad africana e indígena a través de fronteras: una entrevista con Pambana Bassett – Resumen Latinoamericano  Resumen Latinoamericano, 4 […]

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Martha Gonzalez – Chicanx-Latinx Studies

Professor Gonzalez published the book Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles, UT Austin Press, Summer 2020. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/gonzalez-chicana-artivistas   She was featured in a Los Angeles […]

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Anne Harley – Music

Professor Harley prepared the Crossroads Inside Out Choir to sing alongside members of the choirs of the Joint Music Program in True Witness: A Civil Rights Cantata (which she commissioned for Scripps in 2013), […]

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