Department of Sociology

CLAS Grad Student Accolades: Presentations & Media Coverage for Fall 2024

by College of Liberal Arts and Sciences January 7th 2025

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  1. Madi Lou Alexander (Sociology Ph.D.) presented "Trans for Trans (t4t) Beyond Sexuality" at the Center for Positive Sexuality’s Sexuality Scholars Symposium in September 2024.
  2. George Anim (Earth, Environment and Society Ph.D.) co-presented “Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) of shergottites Northwest Africa (NWA) 15628, NWA 12241, and Dhofar (Dho) 019” at the Lunar & Planetary Science Conference in March 2024.
  3. Paola Arroyo-Vargas (Earth, Environment and Society Ph.D. ‘23) and Sebastian Busby (Earth, Environment and Society ‘21) co-presented “Efectos sobre la estructura y regeneración arbórea tras incendios forestales severos en bosques de Araucaria-Nothofagus en el centro-sur de Chile” at the IX Congreso Nacional de Ciencias Forestales in October 2024.
  4. Alex Bentley (Earth, Environment and Society Ph.D) co-presented “AFRP Legacy Tree Monitoring: Differential Responses of Pinus spp. and Douglas-fir to Basal Area Reduction” at The Nature Conservancy of Oregon, Ashland, Oregon
  5. Thien-Kim Bui (Earth, Environment and Society Ph.D.) and Bryce Sprauer (Geography MS) co-presented on pumped storage hydropower and offshore wind (respectively) as part of a panel on “Water Infrastructure and Opportunities – Built and Natural” at the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Changing Currents Tribal Water Summit in August 2024. Thien-Kim also presented “Twenty Questions about Collaborative Governance” at the annual meeting of the University Network for Collaborative Governance in June 2024.
  6. Natalie Cholula (Sociology Ph.D.) presented her first-authored report, “Unjust and Unsafe: The Eviction Experiences of Latine Immigrant and Farmworker Tenants in Oregon” at a webinar with Fair Housing Council of Oregon in October 2024. Natalie's co-authored report, “Fight, Flight, Freeze: How Access to Support Shapes Tenant Responses to Eviction in Multnomah County," was featured in an Axios news brief in June 2024.
  7. Jenna DePasquale (Sociology Ph.D.) presented "#Clandestini: How Italy's Center-Right Parliamentary Coalition Frames the Migrant Crisis on Twitter" as part of the "Right-Wing Politics in Comparative Perspective" panel at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2024.
  8. Alley Henrici (Communication MS) and Lillian Mantel (Communication MS) presented "Navigating weight stigma: An exploration of weight-related communication apprehension," at the annual conference of the National Communication Association in October 2024.
  9. Charlie Huxley (History MA) presented “ "Present in the Papers, Missing from the Land: Lower Memaloose Island, Fictional Indians, and White Tourism in the Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Columbia River Gorge” at the Cascadia Environmental History Conference in September 2024.
  10. Nicole Javaly (Chemistry Ph.D.) presented “Aryl transfer from diarylhaloniums: The impact of halogen centers on chemoselectivity” at the Fall meeting of the American Chemical Society in August 2024.
  11. Anne Johnson (Sociology Ph.D.) co-presented “Responses to Adolescent Same-Sex Behavior: A Vignette Experiment,” at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2024. Anne also presented at the Council of Graduate Schools’ Three Minute Thesis competition in St. Louis, Missouri. We thank Anne for her excellent representation of PSU in a national forum.
  12. Nakeshia Knight Coyle (Sociology Ph.D. ‘24) presented “Experiences of Black Women Direct Care Workers in Long Term Care” and “Caregiving and the Direct Care Workforce” at ADvancing States’ HCBS Conference in August 2024.
  13. Ayumi Naraoka (Japanese MA ‘24) co-presented “Acquisition of Spatial and Temporal Vte-kuru by Learners of Japanese at a University in the U.S.” at the COFLT-WAFLT Fall Conference in October 2024.
  14. Bodhi Norton (Sociology Ph.D) presented “Preliminary Research Study Results on Therapeutic Harm Reduction in Oregon Psilocybin Services and Beyond” at PsyCon Denver in October 2024.
  15. Benjamin O'Connor (TESOL MA) presented “Pushing back on pushing learners through (English) programs” at the Fall ORTESOL conference.
  16. Daniel Sheikh (Earth, Environment and Society Ph.D.) co-presented “The most spinel-rich sample from the Moon: A first look at pink spinel anorthosite (PSA), pink spinel pyroxenite (PSP), and spinel-cordierite assemblages (SCA) in Northwest Africa (NWA) 16400” at the Lunar & Planetary Science Conference in March 2024.
  17. Wynn Strange (Sociology Ph.D.) facilitated a teaching workshop titled “Intersectional Solidarity in Practice: Supplanting Sociological 'Classics' with Scholarship from the Trans Justice Syllabus” at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2024.
  18. Elliot Wiley (Communication MS) co-presented (with other students in PSU’s Comics Studies Program) "Noticing the Boxes: A Formalist Romp/Rant" at Rose City Comic Con in September 2024.
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