Ph.D. student Becca Chalit-Hernandez has been awarded the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) Graduate Student Research Paper Award for her paper, “Hunger Strikes and Differential Consciousness: Impure Contestation, Hunger, and the Building of Symbolic Futures.” AFHVS is a leading interdisciplinary food studies association. The committee for Becca’s prestigious award wrote, “This paper is […]
Two Sociology Ph.D. students have been accepted into the CSU Summer Extension Internship Program. The award for each internship is $4000 for ten weeks. Interns each make a final Extension program and poster presentation at CSU’s annual Extension Forum held on campus each fall. Emilia Ravetta was selected for the Larimer County Farmers’ Market internship. […]
Faculty member and alum Matt Greife is also an attorney in Denver. In February, he secured the largest K-9 unlawful use of force settlement in Colorado history. In March, he helped a young adult sue for excessive force and was interviewed by Denver media. Story by Rob Low. Originally published by KDVR. Teen sues Adams County Sheriff’s […]
Emma Casey “Victimhood and Actorhood: Constructions of agency in anti-trafficking advocacy” Emma’s thesis identified and critically analyzed patterns among antitrafficking organizations in their constructions of victimhood and victim agency. Emma will continue her intellectual pursuits as a PhD student in sociology at Stanford University. Committee: Lynn Hempel, Tara Opsal, Tony Roberts, and Sammy Zahran (Economics). […]
Dr. Pat Mahoney has been named the recipient of the 2020 International Award for Excellence for The Journal on Tourism and Leisure Studies. The Tourism and Leisure Studies Research Network selected Dr. Mahoney’s article “Behold, The Horror Of Man: Dark Tourism In The Anthropocene” from among the highest-ranked articles emerging from the peer-review process. The research […]
Jeni Cross talked about the science of team science during her podcast for the Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging at CSU. She presented her work around why humans work better in teams and how research benefits from a transdisciplinary approach. She discussed how teams of people foster innovation, how they communicate effectively with […]
What is the appropriate role of the U.S. on the world stage? It’s a question that has been hotly debated by politicians and scholars alike for decades.
Article by Jeff Dodge. Originally published on SOURCE. The walls between us: Building and rebuilding trust Liberal arts faculty examine role of U.S. in the world What is the appropriate role of the U.S. on the world stage? It’s a question that has been hotly debated by politicians and scholars alike for decades. The transition […]
Story by Seraphina Seow. Originally published by WELL+GOOD Why Access to Safe, Clean Water Is a Wellness Issue Photo: Getty Images / MStudioImages When Malini Ranganathan, PhD, an associate professor at American University and interim faculty director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center, conducted research in Exeter, a flourishing agriculture town in California’s Central Valley, […]
Faculty member and alum Matt Greife is also an attorney with Baumgartner Law in Denver. His recent legal victory is the largest K-9 unlawful use of force settlement in Colorado history. With assistance from Dr. William Terrill (Arizona State), Matt was able to empirically demonstrate an unreasonable basis for using the force as well as […]
