Currently Accolades: People for Sept. 15, 2025

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Martín Alberto Gonzalez, Chicanx/Latinx studies faculty, was interviewed about his short film animation for an article titled The Pacific Northwest Multicultural Readers Series and Film Festival fills a gap in Portland’s creative scene by Street Roots.

Elizabeth Almer’s, business faculty, paper Private Equity Investments in Accounting Firms: Evidence from Structured Interviews and Surveys on Career Implications was listed on SSRN’s top downloads list for Auditing eJournal.

Berrin Erdogan and Talya Bauer’s, business faculty, 2020 Journal of Management paper Perceived Overqualification at Work: Implications for Extra-role Behaviors and Advice Network Centrality was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Best Paper Award of the journal and recognized at the annual meeting of Academy of Management from July 25-29 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Tom Gillpatrick, business faculty, delivered the keynote Strategic Resilience in a Chaotic World for the 11th Global Business Research Conference hosted by ITU and Isik Universities, Istanbul, Turkey on July 3.

Kimberly Kahn, psychology faculty, was elected fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (APA Division 9).

Kimberly Kahn, psychology faculty, was elected president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (APA Division 9) from 2025-2026 and began her presidential term on Sept. 1.

Susan Kirtley, English faculty, co-led a workshop on Teaching and Learning with Comics as part of the educational programming at San Diego Comic Con and participated in a panel on Comics Under Fire, featured on KPBS.

Jesse Locker, art history faculty, co-lectured for Art and Conversation: Artemisia Gentileschi at the Portland Art Museum on Sept. 4.

Carmen Ripollés, art history faculty, was interviewed by Oregon ArtsWatch about the Tillamook Pioneer Museum, in connection to research with Jesse Locker, art history faculty, on the so-called Beeswax Wreck, thought to be the Santo Cristo De Burgos, shipwrecked off the Oregon Coast near Manzanita in 1693.

Ken Ruoff, history and Japanese studies faculty, was interviewed about Japanese Prince Hisahito’s coming-of-age ceremony and the future of the Japanese imperial family featured in Channel News Asia, The Japan Times and France24.

Ken Ruoff, history and Japanese studies faculty, taught a one-week intensive course at Hokkaido University about how to analyze heritage sites.

Eva Thanheiser, chair of the mathematics and statistics department, was co-featured on the Amidon Planet podcast discussing her role as co-editor of the newly released AMTE Professional Book Series volume, Building Community to Center Equity and Justice in Mathematics Teacher Education and motivation, process and vision for advancing equity in math teacher education.

Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty and chair, and Robert Northman, sociology graduate student, attended the Alpha Kappa Delta - International Honor Society of Sociology Distinguished Lecture and Awards Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association to accept the PSU’s Department of Sociology Chapter of the Year Award.

The following School of Business faculty were part of the annual meeting of the Academy of Management that brought together professors, doctoral students, and practitioners from around the world from July 25-29 in Copenhagen, Denmark:

  • Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan were facilitators in the Organizational Behavior division research incubator.
  • Talya Bauer was a participant in the HR division research roundtable networking forum.
  • Talya Bauer was a panelist in the HR division late-stage doctoral student consortium.
  • Berrin Erdogan was a panelist in the Conflict Management division doctoral and post-doctoral consortium.
  • Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan coauthored the poster presentation The Paradox of Externally Competitive Pay: Influence on Newcomer Proactivity and Veteran Undermining.
  • Berrin Erdogan was a moderator in the Careers Division research roundtable and networking forum.
  • Talya Bauer coauthored the poster presentation Does the ‘Why’ Matter? Differences in Replacement vs. Expansion Hiring.
  • Berrin Erdogan was the discussant in the symposium Overqualification in Focus: Overcoming Challenges and Harnessing Potential.
  • Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan were participants in the symposium Loneliness at Work: How it happens and How it Affects Stress, Resilience, Behavior and Well-being.
  • Talya Bauer was the discussant in the symposium New Frontiers of Organizational Socialization: Micro Foundational Responses to Recent Macro Shocks.
  • June Ryu coauthored a paper titled Silent Struggles: Asian Employees Experience More Exploitation at Work presented as part of the symposium Hidden Barriers and Opportunities: Unpacking Asian Employees’ Workplace Experience.
  • Carlos Mena coauthored the paper titled Extreme Agility in Newly Formed Supply Networks: Leveraging Cognitive and Physical Capabilities presented as part of a paper session.