John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “Not Down but Different: Depression in the Shadow of the Black Dog” in Re/Imagining Depression: Creative Approaches to “Feeling Bad” (Palgrave Macmillan).
Mark Fagiano, lecturer, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, authored Practicing Empathy and Pragmatism: The Value of Relations (Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming in January 2022).
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “‘Sobreviviremos como dos robinsones’: La pérdida de referentes sociopolíticos como disolución del sujeto en ’La muerte mientras tanto’, de Ignacio Martínez de Pisón” (“‘We will survive as two Robinsons’: The loss of sociopolitical referents as the dissolution of one’s own subjectivity in Ignacio Martínez de Pisón’s ‘Death meanwhile'”), a chapter in Crear Entre Mundos. Nuevas Tendencias en la Metaficción Española (Albatros Ediciones, València, Spain, 2021).
Alexander Khapalov, professor, mathematics and statistics, authored the monograph Bio-Mimetic Swimmers in Incompressible Fluids: Modeling, Well-Posedness, and Controllability (Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics), forthcoming from Birkhäuser.
Charles Weller, associate professor, history, received a Learning Communities Excellence Award from the WSU Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement.
R.J. Murphy, doctoral candidate, English, received a Learning Communities Excellence Award from the WSU Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement.
Allyson Beall King, associate professor, environment, received the Richard G. Law Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching.
Faculty, staff, and students in languages, cultures, and race publish and present widely on an array of topics and receive honors for their work. Numerous examples appear in the school’s newsletter.
Many recent and forthcoming publications by English faculty can be found in the department newsletter, English Matters.
An article coauthored by criminal justice and criminology faculty Mary Stohr, Dale Willits, David Makin, Craig Hemmens, Duane Stanton, and John Snyder; emeritus professor Nick Lovrich; and doctoral students Ruibin Lu, Guangshen Wu, and Mikala Meize, “The Cannabis Effect on Crime: Time-Series Analysis of Crime in Colorado and Washington State,” became the most read article in the nearly 40-year history of Justice Quarterly, with more than 41,000 views.