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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Faculty

Sociology

Justin T. Denney.Justin T. Denney, associate professor, sociology, Pullman & Spokane, and colleagues coauthored “Neighborhood Concentrated Disadvantage and Adult Mortality: Insights for Racial and Ethnic Differences,” Population Research and Policy Review. Denney and colleagues also coauthored “Families in Context: Food Insecurity among Hispanic Immigrant and non-Immigrant Households with Children” in Family & Community Health and “Does Sexual Orientation Complicate the Relationship Between Marital Status and Gender with Self-Rated Health and Cardiovascular Disease?” accepted for publication in Demography.

Music

Scott Blasco
Blasco
Greg Yasinitsky
Yasinitsky

Scott Blasco, assistant professor, music, has been invited to present his surround-audio electroacoustic composition The Deeps at the Society of Composers National Conference in Tacoma, Wash., where the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra will premiere Regents Professor of Music Gregory Yasinitsky‘s Concertino for Flute and Orchestra.

Blasco recently presented The Deeps at the Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival at Jacksonville University in Florida.

Also this spring, another new Yasinitsky composition, Heartfelt and Diabolical, will receive its national premiere at the national conference of the North American Saxophone Alliance at the University of Cincinnati.

Anthropology

Jeannette MageoJeannette Mageo, professor, anthropology, co-edited Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters: Making Likeness in Time, in Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations (Berghahn Press). She authored the chapters “Introduction: Mimesis in Theory and in History” and “Transitional Images and Imaginaries: Dressing in Schemas in Colonial Samoa” in Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters (Berghahn); and authored “Nightmares, Abjection, and American Not-quite Identities” in Dreaming, published by the American Psychological Association.

Sociology

Justin DenneyJustin Denney, associate professor, sociology, coauthored three articles: “Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same-Sex Couple Families Fit?” in Journal of Marriage and Family; “Racial Disparities in Health and Health Behaviors Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Heterosexual Men and Women in the BRFSS-SOP” in Ethnicity and Health; and “Neighborhoods and Food Insecurity in Households with Young Children: A Disadvantage Paradox?” in Social Problems.