Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Patricia Heisser Metoyer (Psychology) was selected to attend the Yale University class Leadership Strategies in Magazine Media Publishing. The program included professionals in the international media and the publishing world as well as speakers from Yale School of Management. Her peers in the class included representatives 鈥
John Hay (English) has been awarded a 2016 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship. The ACLS annually selects its Fellows from across the humanities and social sciences. Fellows may be scholars at any stage of their careers. The last 性视界传媒 professor to receive an ACLS Fellowship was Joanne Goodwin (History) in 1995.
Nikki Davis (Journalism and Media Studies) was named one of the most promising multicultural students of 2016 by the American Advertising Federation (AAF). She was one of 50 students selected for the prestigious program鈥檚 20th anniversary class. She was one of only three students from the western United States.
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Lizbeth Arias (International Programs) has been awarded a Diversity and Diplomacy Fellowship through Humanity in Action, a collaborative transatlantic program in international relations and global diversity. A graduate student in the political science department, she was one of 24 fellows chosen from a 10-nation applicant pool. The fellowship,鈥
Patricia Heisser-Metoyer (Psychology), along with actress Ann-Marie Johnson and Darnell Hunt of UCLA, created "The African-American Television Report," which studies issues that concern African-American primetime performers. She has been a media researcher consultant in Hollywood and former national director for diversity and鈥
Manoucheka Celeste (Interdisciplinary Degree Program) authored "Entertaining Mobility: The Racialized and Gendered Nation in House Hunters International,鈥 which appeared in Feminist Media Studies (early online edition mid-February, hard-copy available in October). The article features analyzes of the popular show and鈥
Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) is the author of the recently published book Sociology in Everyday Life (Waveland Press).
Over multiple successful editions, this distinctive text puts day-to-day life under the microscope of sociological analysis, providing an engaging treatment of situations and interactions that are resonant with readers鈥 daily鈥
Claudia Keelan (English) reads poems from her recently published translation Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz with five members of the creative writing master's and doctoral programs, Michael Berger, Olivia Clare, Kristian Einstman, Shaun Leonard, and Autumn Widdoes (all English) in a video edition of Huffington Post鈥
Ranita Ray (Sociology) gave an invited presentation at the UCLA Department of Sociology Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series Ethnography Working Group in February. Titled "Making of a Teenage Service Class," the talk related to her upcoming book with University of California Press.
Abstract: Many of the stereotypes of low-income urban youth鈥
Michael Green (History) is the author of the book, Nevada: A History of the Silver State (University of Nevada Press), which recently was selected by Choice magazine as one of the outstanding academic titles of 2015.
Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) is the author of the article "Measuring Positive Attitudes Toward Persons with Dementia: A Validation of the Allophilia Scale," which appears in the journal Dementia.
The abstract states "Efforts to combat ageism typically focus on negative attitudes toward members of an out-group. Changing attitudes also requires鈥
Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) recently published an article, "Re-sensing Las Vegas: Aesthetic Entrepreneurship and Local Urban Culture," in the Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, which now is available online before it is published in print in the next few months. In this article, Borer 鈥