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Monday, May 25, 2020
»Sharon Carstens, anthropology faculty emerita, and Ang Lay Hoon, anthropology faculty emerita, coauthored “Conversational Codeswitching: Languaging Chinese Identities in Multilingual Malaysia,” published in Asian Journal of Social Science.
Monday, May 11, 2020
»Ken Ruoff, history faculty, received a $4,589 grant from the Northeast Asian Council of the Association of Asian Studies for a research trip to Hokkaido and Okinawa (Japan) for his project “National Heritage Tourism of the Far Right in Postwar Japan.”
Monday, May 4, 2020
»Paula Carder, Institute on Aging director, and Jaclyn Winfree, Institute on Aging research analyst, co-authored “Variability in State Regulations Pertaining to Infection Control and Pandemic Response in US Assisted Living Communities.”
Monday, April 27, 2020
»Pronoy Rai, international and global studies faculty, has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the Research Grants Committee of the American Association of Geographers.
Monday, April 13, 2020
»Mel Gurtov, political science faculty emeritus, published two articles, “Hong Kong, Xinjiang and the Insecurity of China's Leadership,” published in Global Asia; and “The Coronavirus and China-US Relations,” published in Foreign Policy in Focus.
»Michele Gamburd, anthropology faculty, published a chapter titled “Migrant Emplacement: Gendered Subjects, State Regulations, and the Discursive Erasure of Elders in Sri Lanka,” published in Caring for Old Age from Heidelberg University Press.
»Gerry Sussman, urban studies and planning and international and global studies faculty, wrote an article titled “Making Enemies: The Mainstream Media Spectacle and US Foreign Policy,” published in Perspectives in Global Development and Technology.
Monday, March 30, 2020
»Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty, was an invited participant at “The U.S. Census Bureau Asian American Pacific Islander Summit,” at the Los Angeles Regional Census Center, U.S. Census Bureau, in Irvine, California, on Feb. 26.
Monday, March 16, 2020
»Pronoy Rai, International and Global Studies faculty, has been awarded the 2020 Emerging Scholar Award by the American Association of Geographers’ Regional Development and Planning Speciality Group.
Monday, March 9, 2020
»Pronoy Rai delivered an invited talk titled “Seasonal Masculinities: Seasonal Labor Migration, Masculinities, and Gender Relations in Rural Western India” at the University of British Columbia’s Social Justice Institute on Feb. 26.
»Priya Kapoor, International and Global Studies faculty, authored a chapter titled “Shah Rukh Khan: Journey from Charisma to Celebrity” in the anthology “Stardom in Contemporary Indian Cinema,” published by Springer in January.
»Priya Kapoor, International and Global Studies faculty, presented “Democracy, Power Play and Politics in India: Citizenship Amendment Act” at World Oregon in Portland on Feb. 28.
Monday, March 2, 2020
»Suwako Watanabe, World Languages and Literature faculty, has been appointed to serve on the Development Advisory Committee for the Japanese PRAXIS test administered by the Educational Testing Service.
»Sharon Carstens, Anthropology faculty emerita, presented “Languaging Resistance and Accommodation in Chinese Malaysian Political Speech” at the CALA 2020 Conference in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia, on Feb. 8.
»Sharon Carstens, Anthropology faculty emerita, presented “Conversational Codeswitching: Languaging Chinese Identities in Multilingual Malaysia” at the Malaysian Chinese Research Center at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, on Feb. 20.
»Ken Ruoff, History faculty, gave a lecture titled “From Heiwa to Reiwa: The People’s Emperor” at the Japan Society of Chicago on Feb. 20.
Monday, February 24, 2020
»Ken Ruoff, History faculty, was interviewed by Radio 1490 WGCH Greenwich Connecticut about his new book, “Japan’s Imperial House in the Postwar Era 1945-2019.”
»Ken Ruoff, History faculty, gave a lecture titled “The Use and Abuse of History in Japan and Korea” at Lewis & Clark College on Feb. 17.
»Pronoy Rai wrote an article titled “The Geographies of Intermediation: Labor Intermediaries, Labor Migration, and Cane Harvesting in Rural Western India,” published in the journal Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
Monday, February 17, 2020
»PSU celebrates seven 2019-2020 Fulbright students