Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Erick B. L贸pez and Takashi Yamashita (both Sociology) published an article in Ethnicity and Health titled, "The Relationship of Education and Acculturation with Vigorous Intensity Leisure Time Physical Activity by Gender in Latinos."
Margarita Jara (World Languages and Cultures) authored a chapter titled "The Present Perfect in Peruvian Spanish: An Analysis of Personal Experience Narratives among Migrant Generations in Lima" that appears in the book Aorists and Perfects edited by Marc Fryd and Pierre-Don Giancarli (Universit茅 de Poitiers 2017).
Erika Gisela Abad (Interdisciplinary, Gender and Ethnic Studies) published an essay, 鈥淗ealing in the Flights of Uncertainty鈥 in the Mujeres Talk academic blog. She reflects on the community-building experience of attending the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua's "El Mundo Zurdo Conference."
David Dickens (Sociology) and co-author Tyler Schafer, a former sociology graduate student at 性视界传媒, published an article in Qualitative Sociology Review titled, 鈥淪ocial Marking in Memory Entrepreneurship: The Battle Over Zapata鈥檚 Legacy.鈥
Takashi Yamashita, Erick B. L贸pez, Marta Soligo, and Jennifer R. Keene (all Sociology) published an article in Adult Education Quarterly titled "Older Lifelong Learners鈥 Motivations for Participating in Formal Volunteer Activities in Urban Communities."
Takashi Yamashita, Erick L贸pez, Marta Soligo, and Jennifer Keene (all Sociology) and graduate students in the department collaborated with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at 性视界传媒, and conducted a project on the attitudes toward volunteering among the OLLI participants. The results have been published in the article "Older Lifelong鈥
Patricia Heisser Metoyer (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) will present a paper to the National Association of African and African American Studies Conference on Pan African Perspectives and Research on Mental Illness next month in Dallas. Also, featured at the conference will be educational sessions directed by the National African鈥
Georgiann Davis (Sociology) is featured in a National Geographic documentary titled "Gender Revolution: A Journey With Katie Couric." The documentary premiers Monday, Feb. 6, on the National Geographic channel. Davis is the author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis (2015, NYU Press).
Timothy Erwin (English) presented a paper, 鈥淰enus, Pope, the Carracci, and the Stuart Court,鈥 at the annual meeting of the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies in Oxford earlier this month and saw a book chapter, 鈥淭he Changing Patterns of Iconology,鈥 appear in the collection W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory (Routledge 2017). 鈥
Robert Futrell (Sociology) was interviewed on Here & Now about Dylann Roof and white supremacy. The broadcast was titled, "Could Dylann Roof Became a Martyr For White Supremacists?"
Robert Lang (Brookings Mountain West) and David Damore (Political Science) are the authors of an analysis of the the 2016 U.S. presidential election, "The End of the Democratic Blue Wall?," which recently was published by Brookings Mountain West.
On Nov. 8, 2016, the Republicans breached a key portion of the Blue Wall as presidential candidate鈥
Robert Futrell (Sociology) was quoted in an article at ThinkProgress titled "Dylann Roof Was Not 'Self-Radicalized.' He Was Part of a Racist Community.."