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Written by Karen L. Bystrom<\/p>\n
John C. Bean<\/strong>, PhD, Emeritus Professor, English, and June Johnson, Associate Professor of English, have recently provided a two-month series of Zoom consultations for a five-person faculty team from Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT), Uzbekistan. The team\u2019s goal was to create a new undergraduate course focused on sustainable development in Uzbekistan using American pedagogical strategies for fostering critical thinking and argument. Employing principles of backward design, the faculty team will adopt pedagogical strategies modeled in Johnson\u2019s textbook \u201cGlobal Issues\/Local Arguments\u201d and in Bean\u2019s \u201cEngaging Ideas: The Professor\u2019s Guide to Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom.\u201d The request for these consultation sessions came from Uzbek Professor Zilola Ijobat, a 2019 participant in Seattle University\u2019s Study of the United States Institute, funded by the US State Department and co-directed by Dr. Charles Tung (English) and Ken Allan (Art History). Professor Ijobat\u2019s original request was for either Bean or Johnson to spend a month in Uzbekistan providing workshops in writing-across-the-curriculum, active learning pedagogy, and course design. Because of Covid, Professor Ijobat\u2019s request was put on hold until 2022 when, under Dr. Tung\u2019s leadership, it was re-imagined as consultation assistance for designing the new course. Simultaneously, Bean\u2019s co-author for the 3rd edition of \u201cEngaging Ideas\u201d (Dan Melzer of UC Davis) provided six 50-minute digital workshops on writing across the curriculum for a larger group of professors at WIUT.<\/p>\n Andrew G. Bjelland<\/strong>, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Philosophy, published an op-ed in The Salt Lake Tribune, \u201cShow tolerance for the religious orientation of American companies<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Kathryn L. Bollich-Zeigler<\/strong>, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychology, interviewed Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab<\/em> podcast for \u201cWhatever Happened to Happiness?\u201d as part of The Crosscut Festival.<\/p>\n Elizabeth Dale,<\/strong> PhD, Associate Professor, Nonprofit Leadership, published a chapter on \u201cLGBTQ Philanthropy<\/a>\u201d in \u201cAchieving Excellence in Fundraising, 5th Ed.\u201d It is the leading publication of its kind for teaching the theory and practice of fundraising and the second time she authored this chapter for the textbook.<\/p>\n Theresa Earenfight<\/strong>, PhD, Professor, History and Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, appeared on the \u201cTalking Tudors<\/a>\u201d podcast, discussing her book, \u201cCatherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England.\u201d<\/p>\n Christie Eppler<\/strong>, PhD, LMFT, Program Director and Professor, Couples and Family Therapy, was named co-editor of Springer’s \u201cStepping into Socially-Just Teaching: Lived Experiences of Family Therapy Educators,\u201d a forthcoming text (2023).<\/p>\n Rob Efird<\/strong>, Professor, Anthropology and Asian Studies, gave an invited lecture on April 15 at Willamette University entitled “Nature to Nurture: Nature Education and Urban Chinese Childrearing.”<\/p>\n Maureen Emerson Feit<\/strong>, PhD, Director and Assistant Professor, Nonprofit Leadership, published \u201cThe Dissonance of ‘Doing Good:’ Fostering Critical Pedagogy to Challenge the Selective Tradition of Nonprofit Management Education.\u201d Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gabriella Guti\u00e9rrez y Muhs<\/strong>, PhD, Professor, Modern Languages and Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies, published a chapter in \u201cThe Many Voices of the Los Angeles Novel<\/a>\u201d from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.<\/p>\n Haejeong Hazel Hahn,<\/strong> PhD, Professor, History and affiliated with Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies, and Film Studies, published \u201cFeminism and Empire\u201d in The Routledge Global History of Feminism, edited by Bonnie Smith and Nova Robinson, Abingdon, UK & New York: Routledge, 2022.<\/p>\n Jacqueline Helfgott<\/strong>, PhD, Professor, Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Forensics and Director, Crime & Justice Research Center, co-authored \u201cMeasurement of Potential Over- and Under-policing in Communities<\/a>\u201d with Loren T. Atherley<\/strong>, MACJ, and Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Forensics faculty members Matthew J. Hickman<\/strong>, PhD, and William S. Parkin<\/strong>, PhD, published in \u201cPolicing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. Loren Atherley, the lead author, is also the Director of Performance Analytics and Research at the Seattle Police Department and a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology.<\/p>\n Other reports include:<\/p>\n She was interviewed on KING 5 News for \u201cVictims say Seattle-based charity bail group should stop freeing people charged with violent crimes<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n She is also featured in \u201cCrime is up in Seattle. So why are city residents less fearful<\/a>?\u201d in The Seattle Times.<\/p>\n Audrey Hudgins<\/strong>, EdD, Clinical Associate Professor, Matteo Ricci Institute, contributed to the analysis and writing of \u201cAn\u00e1lisis de contexto migratorio – Primer semestre de 2021,\u201d a report produced by the Investigativo-Te\u00f3rica Dimensi\u00f3n of and for the Red Jesuita Con Migrantes Centroam\u00e9rica-Norteam\u00e9rica. The report was published on October 6, 2021 and is available\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alexander Mouton<\/strong>, MFA, Chair and Associate Professor, Art, Art History, and Design, attended CODEX VIII International Art Book Fair & Symposium in Berkeley, CA. His artist book, \u201cReconfigured Families\u201d (2020) was purchased for the Rhode Island School of Design Fleet Library. A second artist book, \u201cTo A Place of Time, Held Within Four Walls\u201d (2022) was purchased for Columbia University\u2019s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.<\/p>\n Reconfigured Families<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0follows the experience of one 21st century family, sometimes referred to as the \u201cpostmodern family\u201d or even the \u201cbrave new family,\u201d using my family as a case study. The sequence of images was made over the six-year period 2009\u20142015. During this time, I also learned of other parent\/child configurations who traverse geographies to juggle career and family, moving between Seattle and Hong Kong; Berlin and Bonn; Columbus, OH and Melbourne, Australia; Los Angeles and London; and Boston and Berkeley, CA, to name just a few configurations.<\/p>\n To A Place of Time, Held Within Four Walls<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a limited-edition box of thirteen different related photo books, each exploring the unique possibilities of combining and juxtaposing images and texts according to its particular structure. How can new historical perspectives on the synergy between Hitler and Stalin\u2019s terror resonate in the contemporary moment? My personal experience of loss led me in 2016 to seek a deeper understanding of this history through a direct experience of select locations in Eastern Europe. As I photographed locations of mass killings such as the Bikernieku forest outside Riga, Latvia and the Ponary woods south of Vilnius, Lithuania, I was struck by the way the Soviet and Nazi overlap carried over into the physical environs. It was as if upon the Bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow where millions were killed, socialist block buildings sprouted up like mushroom rings to support the utopian vision of a new \u2018socialist man\u2019. Yet this vision, now itself fifty years old, is an ideological ruin in the flesh of the built environment. And new nationalisms are on the march. Indeed with the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the 2021 US Capitol attack, this question is more pertinent now than ever.<\/p>\n Carmen Rivera<\/strong>, MA, Criminal Justice, Criminology & Forensics, was featured in 425 Magazine\u2019s \u201cThe List.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n Nova Robinson<\/strong>, PhD, Associate Professor, International Studies and History, published a volume she co-edited, \u201cThe Routledge Global History of Feminism,\u201d edited by Bonnie Smith and Nova Robinson, Abingdon, UK & New York: Routledge, 2022.<\/p>\n James Sawyer<\/strong>, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Public Service, published \u201cAre LDS \u2018True Believers\u2019 more likely to fall for conspiracy theories<\/a>?\u201d, an op-ed in The Salt Lake Tribune.<\/p>\n Tom Taylor<\/strong>, PhD, Acting Chair and Associate Professor, History, and affiliated with International Studies, is publishing a new book in June, \u201cModern Travel in World History<\/a>\u201d, (New York: Routledge, 2022). It is part of their \u201cThemes in World History\u201d series. This book focuses on both the evolving nature of travel, from land and sea routes in the 1500s, to the domination of planes and cars in the modern world and the important stories of travellers themselves. Taking a global perspective, the text places travel within the larger geopolitical, social, religious, and cultural developments throughout history. It emphasizes not only the role of technology innovation in the ways people travel but also how those changes affect social structures and cultural values. Tom Taylor explores the journeys of well-known travellers as well as ordinary people, each with different perspectives through the lens of gender, social class, and cultural background, and considers how fictional travellers define the importance of travel in the modern world. Why people set out on the sojourns they did, what they experienced, who they met and how they understood these cross-cultural encounters are important to not only understanding the travellers themselves but the world they lived in and the world their travels made. Several maps help illustrate important routes and destinations.<\/p>\n Kirsten Moana Thompson,<\/strong> PhD, Professor and Director, Film Studies, presented an invited keynote talk, \u201cThe Doors of Perception: Color, Surrealism and Disney Animation\u201d, on March 12, 2022 at The Third International Symposium for Color, Science and Art, The International Research Center for Color, Science and Art, Tokyo Polytechnic University (TPU), Japan. She also reviewed Deborah Walker-Morrison\u2019s book, \u201cClassic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire,\u201d in Projections, 16.2 (August 2022).<\/p>\n Charles M. Tung,<\/strong> PhD, Professor and Chair, English, presented the conference paper, \u201cModernist Clockwork and the Rescaling of Historical Possibility,\u201d at the Modernist Studies Association Digital Conference, April 6, 2022.\u00a0 The paper was part of three panels on modernism and technology featuring contributors to the forthcoming volume,\u00a0The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Zachary D. Wood<\/strong>, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute of Public Service, was interviewed for \u201c \u2018Another tool for the toolkit\u2019: Can social housing initiative help make Seattle more affordable?\u201d on Dave Ross\u2019s KIRO News Radio podcast.\u00a0Read it here<\/a> or listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n