Margo Tamez (Ph.D. candidate, American
studies) has had "The Daughter of Lightning" accepted for
publication by Yellow Medicine Review (Heid
Erdrich, guest editor). She published "The First Stitch"
in the special women's issue (Autumn 2007) of Sable
LitMag. Her article "Casta, Creed,
Congo—Binational Indigenous Women of the
MX–US Militarized Zone of Occupation" has been
solicited by Wicazo Sa Review, D. Anthony Tyeeme
Clark, editor.
Tamez was a panel member for "Gender,
Indigeneities, and Militarization at the Peripheries of
U.S. Empire," presenting the paper "Casta, Creed, &
Congo—the Ultra Colony!" at the American Studies
Association national conference in Philadelphia October
10–14. She presented the guest lecture "Indigenous
Women of the Binational MX-US International Boundary:
Responses to Militarization" at Yavapai Community College
in Prescott, Arizona, on November 6, and "Get to the
Point! Undergraduates Writing for Social Change" at
Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus, in Mesa,
Arizona, on November 8. She has also given public
readings from her book Raven Eye (University of
Arizona Press, 2007) at Prescott College, ASU-EAST, and
Antigone Book Store in Tucson.
Tamez was delegate and representative of
Jumano Apache and Lipan Apache Women Title Holders at
Subregional Intercontinental de Pueblos Indigenas,
"Social, Economic, and Political Conditions of Apache
Women and Children of Binational MX–US
communities," held at Rancho Penasco, Sonora, Mexico,
October 8–9. She also gave the delegate's
presentation "Women and Mothers in the Ultra Colony!
Indigenous Women of the MX–US Militarized Zone of
Conflict" at the Indigenous Border Summit II,
International Indigenous Treaty Council, hosted by San
Xavier Indian Community, Arizona, on November 9.
Xianghong Feng (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology) has 3 papers forthcoming as journal articles, which compose the body of her dissertation. The first article, "Preliminary Evaluation on the Socio-Economic Impacts of Tourism Development in Fenghuang County, China," is accepted with revisions for Human Organization 67(2), 2008 summer issue. This article is revised on the basis of her 2005 winning paper of the Peter K. New Prize, Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). It is based on her field work in the summer of 2005, which was funded by the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service Summer Doctoral Fellowship and by the International Research Award from the Department of Anthopology at WSU. The second article, "Gender and Hmong Women's Handicraft in Fenghuang's 'Tourism Great Leap Forward,' China" is forthcoming in Anthropology of Work Review 28(3), 2007 winter issue. The third article, "Comparison of Two Village Tourism Development Models in Fenghuang County, China," is forthcoming in Journal of Northwest Anthropology 41(2), 2007 fall issue. This article is her 2007 winning paper of the First Prize of Graduate Student Paper Competition at the 60th annual meeting of the Northwest Anthropology Conference.
Samantha Jacobsen (senior, communication) received the 2007 Barbara Ericksen Scholarship. The award was created by the Matrix Foundation to assist in sending Assocation for Women in Communications (AWC) student members to the AWC annual professional conference, covering the registration fee for the conference in Orlando in October and up to $300 for travel and/or accommodation expenses related to the conference. Jacobsen is president of the WSU chapter of AWC.
Jessica Fitts (senior, communication)
was awarded an undergraduate research fellowship by the
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program at WSU. Her
advisor for the project is Stacey J.T.
Hust (assistant professor, communication).
Katey Roden (M.A. candidate, English) presented a paper entitled "Reified Rhetoric: Quintilian's Phantasiai and Female Speech in Measure for Measure" at the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference in October.
Erin Mae Clark (Ph.D. candidate, English) and Anthony Dell'Ario (M.A. candidate, English) presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association conference, held in Philadelphia November 2–4. Their presentation, "Modern Day Myth of the West: Dr. 90210 and Traveling Through the Body," examines the Beverly Hills–based reality show as a contemporary revision of American Western travel narrative. In its permanent and invasive alteration of the body, plastic surgery has become the map through which 21st-century Americans navigate their conceptions of the body and the West. Dell'Ario and Clark demonstrate the degree to which location serves to dictate the specific curves and angles of the modern day body, the last great frontier. The presentation grows out of Debbie Lee and Peter Chilson's (both associate professors, English) spring 2007 graduate seminar "The Reciprocal Gaze: Travel and Travel Writing as Creative and Critical Practice."
Tim Hetland's (M.A. candidate, English) paper "From Town Squares to Town Multiplexes: Notes on the Political Discourse of the Torture Porn Film Genre" was accepted to the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association regional conference, to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 13–16.
Lauren McCleary (M.F.A. candidate) won the 2008 Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival art contest. The winner recieves $1,000, and their art appears on that year's catalogue, posters, T-shirts, and any other advertisments. There will also be a one-page bio about McCleary in the new catalogue. The festival takes place in May. McCleary's entry was a small cut-paper piece (of sheep, of course!).
Amitava Chowdhury (Ph.D. candidate, history) has accepted a tenure-track position in Caribbean history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Apart from teaching Caribbean history, he will teach world history and hopefully launch a program in world history as a minor for graduate students.
Maryanne Rhett (Ph.D. candidate, history) has accepted a tenure-track position in Middle East history at Monmouth University in Long Branch, New Jersey. In addition to teaching Middle Eastern history classes, she will be involved in developing the world history M.A. program, which is only a year and a half old.
Amy Canfield (Ph.D. candidate, history) has published "'The Wheels of Progress Must Not Be Closed': The 1902 Land Rush on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation" in the Journal of the West 46(4) and "Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne and Rose Madder: A Literary Backlash Against Domestic Violence" in the Journal of American Culture 30(4).
Elizabeth Wollstein, a junior flute performance major in the School of Music, was a winner in the Young Artist Competition sponsored by the Washington–Idaho Symphony. Wollstein is a flute student of Ann Marie Yasinitsky (clinical assistant professor, music). The competition draws competitors from across the region and is open to college and high school instrumentalists and voice students. Recorded CD performances are required for the preliminary round, then finalists chosen from those recordings perform for judges in the final round of the competition. The finals were held at Gladish Auditorium in Pullman on Sunday, October 28, and were open to the public. Wollstein will perform as soloist with the symphony orchestra February 2–3. Wollstein is a native of Olympia, Washington; her parents are WSU alumni.
Lauren Richter (M.A. candidate, sociology) has been awarded the Boeing Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Studies.
The Chronicle, College of Liberal Arts, Washington State University