by Currently
August 3rd 2020
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Every week during the academic year, Currently celebrates faculty and staff accomplishments, including appearances on panels, presentations, recent publications or performances, and research grants.
- Talya Bauer, business faculty, joined the editorial board of Journal of Education for Business. Published by Taylor & Francis, the journal features basic and applied research-based articles in entrepreneurship, accounting, communications, economics, finance, information systems, management, marketing and other business disciplines.
- Julia Freybote, business faculty, was appointed a National Association of Industrial and Office Property (NAIOP) Research Foundation Distinguished Fellow.
- Akiko Hashimoto, sociology visiting faculty, produced a podcast on memory and cultural trauma titled “Something Dreadful Happened in the Past: War Memories in Japan,” which is now featured in the Connecting Memories Series at the University of Edinburgh (UK).
- Andres Holz, geography faculty, was featured in an article titled “Journey to the World’s Southernmost Tree” By National Geographic. Holz discusses his project “Documenting and monitoring climate change effects at the edge of the world: Isla Hornos and the world’s southernmost tree,” which was supported by the National Geographic Society.
- Maura Kelly, sociology faculty, has been elected Vice-Chair of the Oregon Commission for Women (OCFW), which — in collaboration with the Commissions for Black Affairs (OCBA), Hispanic Affairs (OCHA), and Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs (OCAPIA) — advises the Oregon Legislature and Governor on intersectional equity issues.
- Maura Kelly, sociology faculty, joined the Regional Respectful Workplace Models Review Committee. The committee is reviewing programs designed to address harassment and discrimination on construction job sites that disproportionately impacts women and people of color in the trades. The goal is to produce a recommendation for the adoption of a program that will be contractually required on public projects in the Metro region.
- Amy Lubitow, sociology faculty, received the John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teaching Award for Sociology in 2020.
- Melody E. Valdini, political science chair and faculty, received the American Political Science Association's 2020 Victoria Schuck Award, for her book, “The Inclusion Calculation: Why Men Appropriate Women’s Representation.” The award is presented annually for the best book on women and politics published in the previous calendar year.
- Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty, was elected to be a member of the Faculty Advisory Board at PSU’s Institute for Asian Studies. Woo will serve a 3-year term through; 2023.
- Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty, has been elected as a council member of the American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America, and will serve a 3-year term until 2023.