Black Studies

Currently Accolades: Presented for April 22, 2024

by Currently April 17th 2024

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  1. Shelby Anderson, Anthropology faculty, co-organized a workshop on Student and Early Career Professional Development, co-chaired by Kate Monti Barcalow, Anthropology, and Laurel Diciuccio, Anthropology Graduate Student, at the Northwest Anthropological Association meeting.
  2. Shelby Anderson, Anthropology faculty, co-organized and co-chaired an invited symposium on Willamette Valley Archaeology and Heritage Research at the Northwest Anthropological Association meeting.
  3. Shelby Anderson, Anthropology faculty, co-authored a presentation with Kate Monti Barcalow titled “Rethinking College Curricula: Preparing Students with the Skills Needed for Successful Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Careers,” presented Mar. 6-9 at the Northwest Anthropological Association meeting in Portland, Oregon. 
  4. Shelby Anderson, Anthropology faculty, co-authored a presentation with Dianna Wilson, PSU graduate student, titled “Taking Thermally Modified Rock Seriously: An Analysis of Use-Wear Attributes,” presented Mar. 6-9 at the Northwest Anthropological Association meeting in Portland, Oregon. 
  5. Shelby Anderson, Anthropology faculty, and Dianna Wilson, graduate student, co-authored a presentation titled “Burning the Record in Order to Save It: Cultural Fire as Archaeological Survey Method,” presented Mar. 6-9 at the Northwest Anthropological Association meeting in Portland, Oregon. 
  6. Shelby Anderson, Anthropology faculty, and Nathan Jereb, graduate student, co-authored a presentation titled “Plowzone Archaeology in the Willamette Valley,” presented Mar. 6-9 at the Northwest Anthropological Association meeting in Portland, Oregon. 
  7. Daniel Jaffee, Sociology faculty, delivered a presentation on his research on bottled water to the Canadian water advocacy organization Water Watchers.
  8. Daniel Jaffee, Sociology faculty, had an excerpt of his book Unbottled appear in translation in the Korean publication Magazine F.
  9. Paola López-Duarte, ESM faculty, presented an invited talk titled, “Larval Journeys in Changing Environments: Harnessing Lunar and Tidal Cycles for Recruitment Success” at the Odum School of Ecology, in March in Athens, GA.  
  10. Byeongdon Oh, Sociology postdoc, Ned Tilbrook, Sociology graduate student, and Dara Shifrer, Sociology faculty, co-authored “Shifting Tides: The Evolution of Racial Inequality in Higher Education from the 1980s through the 2010s,” which was featured on Berkeley Letters & Science, Scienmag, KOIN, Mirage, Phys.org, My Droll, Swift Telecast.
  11. Cassio de Oliveira, World Languages and Literatures faculty, gave a presentation titled “In Defense of Mark Twain: Late Soviet Journalists and the American Culture Wars” on Apr. 12 at the 2024 Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS Northwest) in Seattle.
  12. Ryan Petteway, Public Health and Black Studies faculty, gave an invited talk for the University of California Merced School of Public Health titled “Resistance, Rememory, & Refusal: Toward a Social Epi of Radical Possibility” on Mar. 12.
  13. Ryan Petteway, Public Health and Black Studies faculty, was an invited panelist for a University of Michigan School of Public Health event, We Make the Road by Walking: Advancing a Health Equity Movement, on a panel titled “Charting a Critical Course for the Study of Racial Health Inequities” on Apr. 2.
  14. Ryan Petteway, Public Health and Black Studies faculty, gave an invited talk for the Washington University in St. Louis Public Health Speaker Series, “Toward an Antiracist Public Health of ‘Radical Possibility’: On Power, Epistemology, and Creative Resistance for (Poetic) Health Justice” on Apr. 4.
  15. Ryan Petteway, Public Health and Black Studies faculty, gave an invited poetry reading for the Washington University in St. Louis Public Health Speaker Series for National Poetry Month and National Public Health Week on Apr. 4.
  16. Dara Shifrer, Sociology faculty, developed and facilitated a workshop, “Recognizing your Inner Student,” for the Community Safety Worker Model: 2023-25 Pilot. 
  17. Dara Shifrer, Sociology faculty, gave an invited talk, “Mentoring toward Girlboss-dom,” for the American Association of University Women in Ashland, Oregon.
  18. Hyeyoung Woo, Sociology faculty, presented “Work and Family Pathway and Their Associations to Health of Young Adults in South Korea” at the annual meeting of Association of Asian Studies in Seattle, WA.
  19. Hyeyoung Woo, Sociology faculty, was an invited panelist for “Doing More With Less: Teaching Sociology During the Time of Austerity and Disinvestment in Liberal Arts Education" at the annual meeting of Pacific Sociological Association in San Diego.
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