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.
Andrew Gillreath-Brown, graduate research assistant, anthropology, coauthored “An Experimental Study of Turtle Shell Rattle Production and the Implications for Archaeofaunal Assemblages” in PLOS ONE.
Heather 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.
Fran Meserve, principal assistant, music, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award for July 2018.
Kirk McAuley, associate professor, English, was awarded an American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Keough-Naughton summer fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. He also presented his research on Robert Louis Stevenson at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Supernumerary Conference at the University of Roma Trė in Rome, Italy.
David Watkins, emeritus professor, and Jared L. Aurentz (PhD ’14), mathematics and statistics, and two colleagues received the Outstanding Paper Prize at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) annual meeting for their paper “Fast and Backward Stable Computation of Roots of Polynomials,” published in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Volume 36, Issue 3 (2015). They also co-authored with three colleagues Core-Chasing Algorithms for the Eigenvalue Problem (SIAM).
Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, professor and chair, sociology, was invited to present at RC34’s session on “Youth in North America” at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association in Toronto, Canada. While there, Kirkpatrick Johnson also presented “Work Value Transmission from Parents to Children: Seeds That Sprout in Adolescence and Bear Fruit in Adulthood.” She also presented on behalf of herself, professor Christine Horne, and a colleague “The Conditionality of Adolescent Pregnancy Norms” at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence in Minneapolis.
Sue Peabody, professor, history, received a fellowship through the WSU Office of Research 2018 Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program for her project “Gender and Colonialism Humanities Symposium.”
Carol Siegel, professor, English, WSU Vancouver, received a fellowship through the WSU Office of Research 2018 Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program for her monograph project, “Sexed, Raced, and Erased: Jews in Contemporary Visual Media.”
Claudia Leeb, assistant professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, authored The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence (Edinburgh University Press).
John Streamas, associate professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, authored “The Real War That Got Into the Movies: Eastwood and Spielberg in the Pacific” in The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical Perspectives (University of New Mexico Press). Streamas also authored the poem “My Blue Whale” in the Inflatable Celebration exhibit at Third Street Art Gallery in Moscow, Idaho.