Sociology
adrianaJennifer Sherman, associate professor, sociology, received the Rural Sociological Society’s Frederick H. Buttel Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award for a Book, 2018, for her co-edited volume Rural Poverty in the United States (Columbia University Press).
Music
adrianaScott Blasco, assistant professor, music, composed and published the CD Pentecost (Irritable Hedgehog Music).
Sociology
adrianaDon Dillman, Regents professor, sociology, was appointed by the Committee for National Statistics of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine to a steering committee for conducting a workshop on improving the American Community Survey. Dillman also was a guest professor at the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) In Mannheim, Germany; and he was an invited facilitator for the Australian Bureau of Statistics’s Workshop on Improving Data Collection Practices held in Melbourne.
English
adrianaPeter Chilson, professor, English, received Peace Corps Worldwide’s Best Travel Book award 2017 for his co-authored publication Writing Abroad: A Guide for Travelers (University of Chicago Press).
Sociology
william.herringNamrata Ray, doctorate student, sociology, presented “The Education-Occupation Nexus: Examining inter- and intragenerational mobility using India Human Development Survey” at the 4th Asian Population Association Conference in Shanghai, China. Ray’s participation was hosted and funded by the Asian Demographic Research Institute.
Languages, Cultures, and Race
adrianaVilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Cathartic Fear, Television, and Memory: ‘The Archives of the Cardinal'” at the 36th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Barcelona, Spain, where she also organized and chaired a panel on Human Rights and Memory.
Anthropology
adrianaAndrew Gillreath-Brown, graduate research assistant, anthropology, coauthored “An Experimental Study of Turtle Shell Rattle Production and the Implications for Archaeofaunal Assemblages” in PLOS ONE.
Biological Sciences
adrianaHeather Watts, associate professor, and Ashley Robart, postdoctoral researcher, biological sciences, coauthored “Increasing photoperiod stimulates the initiation of spring migratory behavior and physiology in a facultative migrant, the pine siskin” in Royal Society Open Science.
Music
adrianaFran Meserve, principal assistant, music, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award for July 2018.