Congratulations to Ellen A. Rogers (Ph.D. candidate, political science) and Cynthia R. Wiecko (Ph.D. candidate, history), who have been awarded the 2008 Boeing Graduate Fellowships in Environmental Studies. Rogers will use her award to study the effects of community involvement in the redevelopment of former industrial sites with potential environmental contamination, and Wiecko will explore the ecological history of the tangan tangan tree on Guam as a case study of how post-war biological introductions figure into war memory among the local population.
Thirty-one students from majors across the university have been named Auvil Fellows and will each receive $1,000 to further their research work. The program is funded by a gift from the estate of Grady and Lille Auvil, Wenatchee tree fruit leaders. The names, majors, and advisors of the fall 2008 Auvil Fellows in liberal arts are:
Loren Redwood (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) is participating in a yearlong grant-bearing study sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Thirty-five academics and activists from the U.S. and Mexico were invited to be a part of the project, titled "Low Wage Immigrant Women's Labor." The activities of the project include a strategy meeting (held this past June), a conference in spring 2009, and a publication that will include the work of the participants.
A paper by Marc Robinson (Ph.D. candidate, American studies), "The Early History of the UW Black Student Union," has been published online by the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project.
Brandon Chapman's (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology) article "Comparative Institutions and Management Resiliency in Latin American Small-Scale Fisheries" was published in The Social Science Journal 45(2). The article was coauthored with Doug Jackson-Smith and Peg Petrzelka, associate professors of sociology at Utah State University. Chapman and Matthew Carroll (professor, natural resource sciences) were awarded a $4,000 grant through the Inter-mountain Region International Conservation (IMRICO) program to research economic and natural resource management strategies of cattle-raisers at the Bar U Ranch near Longview, Alberta. The study will focus on the ownership tenure of George Lane during the early 20th century and how he adopted techniques from fellow rancher Conrad Kohrs of Montana. The project is titled "Ranch Management at George Lane's Bar U: Transmission of Practices from Conrad Kohrs of Montana" and will result in a report for the National Park Service by December 2009.
Andrea Campbell's (Ph.D. candidate, English) anthology New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism will be released in December 2008 from Cambridge Scholars Press. The book explores literature of the U.S. as well as parts of Africa using an ecofeminist/environmental justice theory lens.
Donna Evans' (Ph.D. candidate, English) paper Turned Inside(r)-Out(sider): Finding Middle Ground in a Rural–Urban Rift is forthcoming in the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery's (SISSI) proceedings, The Image of the Outsider in Literature, Media, and Society: Selected Papers—2008 Conference.
"Collaborative Crosscurrents in First Year Composition," a panel proposed by Donna Evans, Ben Bunting, and Julie Meloni (all Ph.D. candidates, English), has been accepted for presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), to be held March 11–14 in San Francisco.
Andrew McCarthy (Ph.D. candidate, English) was recently quoted by Stanley Fish in his online New York Times column celebrating the birth of John Milton. McCarthy presented a portion of his dissertation, "Marlowe Mourning: The Lament in Doctor Faustus," at the 6th International Marlowe Society Conference in Canterbury, U.K. He also presented a paper, "Antinomian Milton," at the 9th International Milton Symposium in London, U.K. His review of Heather Hill-Vasquez's Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama recently appeared in Comitatus 39.
Chris Ritter and Jim Haendiges (both Ph.D. candidates, English) will give presentations on their dissertations at the 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Their presentations, respectively entitled "Working in the Metaverse and the Academy: Composing a Game Studies Dissertation Online" and "Multiple Texts/Voices in Conversation: Designing a Multi-Textual Dissertation," will describe their experiences composing digital dissertations. Their panel will be chaired by Cynthia Selfe.
Chelsey Waters (M.A. candidate, English) will present "Let's Go Exploring: How Multimodal Composition Opens the Door to Responsible Sourcework" at a CCCC panel in San Francisco in March 2009. The panel is about nontraditional students in the composition classroom.
Two digital prints of a cut paper piece by Lauren McCleary (M.F.A. candidate) will be part of a show at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. The name of the show is Paperwork, and it is geared toward artists who experiment with the medium of paper and use it in non-traditional ways.
Garric Simonsen (M.F.A. candidate) was published in the Open Studios Press premier edition of Studio Visit Magazine. Over 1,000 entries were received, with less than 1/3 of those accepted. The publication is distributed to hundreds of contemporary galleries, collectors, and art museums across the U.S. There were only a few artists from Washington State to be accepted, and only 2 from eastern Washington.
Senior ceramics student Dane Youngren showed his work at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Washington, August 6–30.
Julian Reyes (junior, German minor) received a RISE scholarship from the German Academic Exchange for a 2-month internship in a research lab at the university in Kassel, Germany.
T. Chris Allan (Ph.D. candidate, history) received an award for the best history article of 2007/2008 published in the Alaska History Society's journal Alaska History. The article was about community-led historic preservation efforts in Eagle.
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