Stephen Henderson, associate professor, environment, and Nikolay Strigul, assistant professor, mathematics and statistics, coauthored “Efficient three-dimensional reconstruction of aquatic vegetation geometry: Estimating morphological parameters influencing hydrodynamic drag” in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Sciences.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, professor, environment, coauthored “The cosmic zoo: The near inevitability of the evolution of complex, macroscopic life” in Life.
Philip Marston, professor, and Daniel Plotnick, postdoctoral research candidate, physics and astronomy, coauthored “High frequency imaging and elastic effects for a solid cylinder with axis oblique relative to a nearby horizontal surface” in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Ming Xian, professor, chemistry, coauthored “A single fluorescent probe to visualize hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen polysulfides with different fluorescence signals,” in Angewandte Chemie.
Erin Thornton, assistant professor, anthropology, coauthored “Testing osteometric and morphological methods for turkey species determination in Maya faunal assemblages” in Journal of Archaeological Science.
Andrew Storfer, professor, biological sciences, coauthored “Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils” in Nature Communications.
Rebecca Goodrich, clinical assistant professor, English, won the Dead Bison Editor’s Prize in nonfiction for her essay “Guns I Know,” which appears in Arcadia Magazine.
Amy Mazur, professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, co-edited the forthcoming Oxford University Handbook on French Politics and coauthored three of its 30 chapters. She also authored “Does Feminist Policy Matter in Post Industrial Democracies?: A Proposed Analytical Roadmap” forthcoming in Journal of Women, Politics and Policy; coauthored with Season Hoard, clinical assistant professor, and another colleague, “Comparative Strength of Women’s Movements Over-time: Conceptual, Empirical and Theoretical Innovations” in Politics, Groups and Identities; and coauthored “Gender and Causal Concepts: Implications for Comparative Theory-Building” in Politics and Gender.
Kristin Arola, associate professor, English, was elected to a three-year term on the national Conference on College Composition and Communication Executive Committee. Arola also coauthored with Lucy Johnson, graduate student, English, the article “Tracing the Turn: The Rise of Multimodal Composition in the U.S.” in the Polish Rhetoric Society journal Res Rhetorica.
David Makin, assistant professor, criminal justice and criminology, authored “When the Watchers are Watched: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Body Worn Cameras” in Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology. He also coauthored three publications: with Sanne Rijkhoff and Christopher Campbell, PhD ’15, “A rhetorical balancing act: Popular Punitivism in the Netherlands” in Punishment and Society; with Caroline Bye, MA ’16, “Commodification of Flesh: Data Visualization Techniques and Interest in the Licit Sex Industry” in Deviant Behavior; with Andrea Walker and Amber Morczek, doctoral students, “Finding Lolita: A Comparative Analysis of Interest in Teenage Pornography” in Sexuality & Culture; and with Michael Gaffney, director, governmental studies and services, and Gary Jenkins, “Civilizing Surveillance Practices: The Pullman Police Department Public Safety Camera Monitoring Internship Program” in Journal of Applied Security Research.
Makin was a featured presenter in the “Body Worn Camera and Wearables Panel” of the VQiPS workshop hosted by the U.S. departments of Justice and Homeland Security in Seattle. He received the Outstanding Thesis Advisor Award from the WSU Honor’s College in May.