David Makin and professor, Dale Willits, assistant professors; Mary Stohr and Craig Hemmens, professors; Wendy Koslicki, Duane Stanton, and John Snyder, doctorate students, criminal justice and criminology, and Nicholas Lovrich, regents professor emeritus, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, with colleagues authored “The Effects of I-502 on Police Clearance Rates: A Time Series Analysis” in Police Quarterly (forthcoming).
Melissa Kowalski, doctorate candidate, Laurie Drapela, associate professor, Mary Stohr, professor, Elizabeth Tollefsbol, doctoral candidate, Youngki Woo, doctoral student, Mei Xiaohan, doctorate student, and Zachary Hamilton, associate professor, and Michael Campagna, former associate professor, criminal justice and criminology, authored “Understanding offender needs over forms of isolation using a repeated measures design” in The Prison Journal (forthcoming).
Amy Mazur, professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, co-edited “Special Issue on Research Frontiers in Comparative Gender Equality Policy: Contributions from the Study of Equal Employment Policy Practice in France and Canada” in French Politics, and she co-authored two of its articles: “Introduction” and “Pathways to Concrete Outcomes in Equal Employment Policy Implementation in France and Canada: Toward Better Theory in Comparative Policy Studies.” Mazur also co-authored “Taking Implementation Seriously in Assessing Success: The Politics of Gender Policy In Practice” in European Journal of Gender and Politics.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored three book chapters: “A Mottled Minority” in Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education (Northwestern University Press); and “How We Lost Our Academic Freedom: Difference and the Teaching of Ethnic and Gender Studies” in Teaching with Tension: Race, Resistance, and Reality in the Classroom (Routledge); and “Not Same, Not Different: Counting Temporalities in Peter Malekin’s Alchemy of Time and Ruth Ozeki’s Time Being” in Time, Consciousness, and Writing: Peter Malekin Illuminating the Divine Darkness (Brill Rodopi).
Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey, instructor, English, WSU Tri-Cities, authored “‘What is he whose grief bears such an emphasis?’: Hamlet’s Development of a Mourning Persona” in Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.
Veronica Sandoval, doctoral candidate, languages, cultures, and race, was keynote speaker at the annual Children of Aztlan Seeking Higher Education (CASHE) conference whose theme was “You are the ripple that causes the movement.” She also was awarded the Arnold and Julia Greenwell Scholarship for Social Sciences and Humanities from the Graduate School at WSU and received the Chicana Caucus Student Scholarship at the 45th Annual Meeting of National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. Sandoval authored “Immigration, Surveillance, and Unaccompanied Minors in the Rio Grande Valley: Nepantla Praxis in the Works of Borderland Artist Celeste De Luna” in 2018 El Mundo Zurdo 6 (Aunt Lute Press).
Stephanie Bauman, associate professor, psychology, WSU Tri-Cities, co-authored “Exploring and Promoting the College Attendance and Success of Racial/Ethnic Minority Students” in Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development.
Youngki Woo, doctoral student, Dale Willits, associate professor, Mary Stohr, professor, and colleagues authored “Children of Mixed-Ethnic Heritage and Adverse Life Outcomes: A Comparison of Two Korean Adolescent Samples” in Youth and Society.
Xiao Li, graduate student, sociology, Pullman & Spokane, authored “Challenging Both Rural Advantage and Disadvantage Narratives: The Effects of Family Factors on American Student College Expectations in the Early 2010s” in Journal of Research in Rural Education 35(5):1-16. Li also presented “Migration Behaviors and Educational Attainment of Rural and Non-Rural Youth” at the 2019 annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society in Richmond, Virginia.
Gregory Yasinitsky, Regents Professor, music, with a colleague released the CD Mediterranean Connection and performed in various venues in Italy, where he also presented a masterclass at the Frescobaldi Conservatory at the University of Ferrara.