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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Honors and Achievements

Anthropology

Tim Kohler.
Kohler
Laura Ellyson.
Ellyson
Kyle Bocinsky.
Bocinsky

Tim Kohler, regents professor, Laura J. Ellyson, doctoral student, and R. Kyle Bocinsky, alumnus (PhD ’14), anthropology, coauthored “Beyond One-Shot Hypotheses: Explaining Three Increasingly Large Collapses in the Northern Pueblo Southwest” in Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response and Collapse (Berghahan Books, New York).

Languages, Cultures, and Race

Vilma Navarro-Daniels.Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, edited a special volume of Contextos: Estudios de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, a peer-reviewed journal by the Metropolitan University of Sciences of Education Press, Santiago, Chile, on  “Approaches to Teaching the Humanities and Cultural Studies Through Latin American and Spanish Theater.”

She also authored the article “Dibujar para subvertir: Cuerpo, género y poder en las crónicas y los diarios gráficos de Marcela Trujillo” (“Drawing to Subvert: Body, Gender, and Power in Marcela Trujillo’s Chronicles and Graphic Diaries”) in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos published by the Canadian Association of Hispanists; and she authored the chapter, “De himno y elegía: La Guerra, de Gabriela Mistral, y Mientras los Hombres Mueren, de Carmen Conde” (“On Hymn and Elegy: The War, by Gabriela Mistral, and While Men Die, by Carmen Conde”), in Spanish Civil War Poetry: A Comparative Approach (Peter Lang Publishing).

Biological Sciences

Cheryl Schultz
Schultz
leslie new.
New

Cheryl Schultz, professor, biology, WSU Vancouver, coauthored “Demographic costs and benefits of herbicide-based restoration to enhance habitat for an endangered butterfly and a threatened plant” forthcoming in Restoration Ecology. She also coauthored with Leland D. Bennion, graduate student, biology, and Leslie New, assistant professor, mathematics and statistics, both of WSU Vancouver, and another colleague “Community-level effects of herbicide-based restoration treatments: Structural benefits but at what cost?”

History

Andra Chastain.Andra Chastain, WSU Vancouver professor, history, authored Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City, now under contract with Yale University Press. She also co-edited Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War to be published in March by University of Pittsburgh Press.

English

Tabitha Espina Velasco.Tabitha Espina, doctoral candidate, English, presented “​Toward Decolonial Oceanic Futures: (Re)mapping Settler Relations through Island/Indigenous Feminisms in Guåhan and Hawai’i” at the American Studies Association National Conference at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa, Honolulu. She also coordinated and moderated the roundtable, “Visions of the Past, Present, and Future with the Filipino American Community in Yakima,” at the Filipino Community Hall in Wapato, Wash., as part of her Humanities Washington Graduate Fellowship and sponsored by Humanities Washington, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions.