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The John C. Livingston annual Faculty Lecture celebrates the academic life and legacy of the late Dr. Livingston, professor of Government at Sac State from 1954 to1981. Its purpose is to honor a distinguished faculty member who has played an active role in the life of the University.

This year’s recipient of the Livingston award is Thomas Krabacher, professor of geography, who has taught 10 different courses since his arrival at Sacramento State in 1988. Considered the department’s most versatile instructor, Krabacher teaches both the natural science and social science aspects of geography. His ability was cultivated by completing a master’s thesis in climatology and a dissertation in economic geography.

Krabacher has inspired scores of future K-12 teachers with creative assignments involving mental mapping, family migration, historical geographies and unusual maps. His regional course on Africa is a particular favorite with students, leveraging his personal experiences there and his broad understanding of contemporary conditions and events across the continent.

Student appreciate his suburban-rural field class, in which they do field work to understand selected local issues involving water, agriculture, tourism,land use, economic development and transportation.

The quality of Krabacher’s teaching at Sac State, plus his participation in the weekend college program at Folsom Prison, earned him the 1994 National Council for Geographic Education Outstanding Teaching Award. The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics gave him its Outstanding University Service Award in 2005. "He brings people together, listens to them, proposes solutions to problems, listens some more, and ends up with wide support for a thoughtful outcome," Krabacher’s nominators say. "His skillful service has been a great force for building community on our campus."

Professor Krabacher will present his lecture, “The Public University as Public Good,” at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, in University Union Ballroom I. A reception will be held immediately following.

NOTE: In accordance with University policy, classes may be cancelled at the discretion of the instructor to allow students to attend the convocation.

Previous Livingston Award Recipients

Year:	Name:	Department:	Lecture Title:
2010-2011	Jeffrey Lustig	Government	"The University Besieged: Local Harms and Larger Costs"
2009-10	Roberto Pomo	Professor of Theatre and Film Studies	"In the Eye of the Storm: Preparing for California's Higher Education Restructuring Paradigms"
2008-09	Jackie Donath	Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies	"Aphorisms for the Academy"
2007-08	Cristy Jensen	Professor of Public Policy and Administration	"Faculty As Academic Leaders: Our Students Are Counting on Us (Whether They Know It or Not)"
2006-07	William Dorman	Professor of Journalism and Government	"A Teaching Life: Values Then and Now"
2005-06	Alexandre Kimenyi	Professor of Linguistics, African Languages and Ethnic Studies	"The Cliché Paradox"
2004-05	Craig Kelley	Professor of Marketing	"Structuring Business Education to Meet the Needs of Business Practitioners"
2003-04	Valerie Wheeler	Professor of Anthropology	"The Art of Farming: Ethnography Enlightened by Photography"
2002-03	Dan Decious	Professor of Chemistry	"Making Use of the CSUS ‘Web’: A Small Town Retention Model"
2001-02	John Henry	Professor of Economics	"Property and the Limits to Democracy"
2000-01	Joseph Morrow	Professor of Psychology and Behavior Analysis	"Applied Behavior Analysis and the Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder"
1999-00	Scott Farrand	Professor of Mathematics	"Opportunities and Responsibilities for the Professoriate in K-12 Education"
1998-99	Otis Scott	Professor of Ethnic Studies and Government	"Duboisian Insight: Problematics of the Color Line Then and Now"
1997-98	Erwin Kelly	Professor of Economics Emeritus	"Taking Stock: Fifty Down, Fifty to Go--CSUS, the First Hundred Years"
1996-97	Juanita C. Barrena	Professor of Biological Sciences	"The Promise of the CSU--Dead or Alive?"
1995-96	William A. Dorman	Professor of Journalism	"Mass Media and the American Conversation: Money, Culture and the Marketplace of Ideas"
1994-95	John W. Connor	Professor of Anthropology	"The Cultural, Ecological Antecedents of Chinese and Japanese Modernization Endeavors in the Nineteenth Century"
1993-94	John F. Brackmann, Jr.	Professor of Psychology Emeritus	"Never Mind"
1992-93	David Covin	Professor of Government and Ethnic Studies	"The African Race: The Politics of an Idea in the United States"
1991-92	Betty Ch'maj	Professor of Humanities	"We Who Believe in Freedom…Multicultural America and the PC Debate"
1990-91	Perry D. Weddle	Professor of Philosophy	"A Case for Historical Thinking"
1989-90	Robert Metcalf	Professor of Biological Sciences	"Cooking with the Sun: A CSUS Contribution to the Global Environment"
1988-89	Robert L. Curry, Jr.	Professor of Economics	"Prospects for Africa's Development"
1987-88	Leland L. Nichols	Professor of Communication Studies	"Democracy and the Manipulation of Consent--Three Decades Later"
1986-87	Angus Wright	Professor of Environmental Studies	"Poisoned Development: Pesticides and Social Change in Mexico and Central America"
1985-86	Albert Cook	Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering	"Attacking Disability Byte by Byte"
1972-73 through 1984-85 awards discontinued
1970-71	Martin Rogers	Professor of Psychology	"The Evolution of Community"
1969-70	Rollo Darby	Professor of Biological Sciences	"Is Concern for our Environment to be our Final Fad?"
1968-69	Marc Tool	Professor of Economics	"A View of Relevance"
1967-68	no award made
1966-67	Robert Good	Professor of Psychology	"Drop-outs, Push-outs, and Cop-outs--Students and Schools"
1965-66	Victor Comerchero	Professor of English	"The Underground Man"
1964-65	George Tokmakoff	Professor of History	"The Soviet Dilemma in the Sixties"
1963-64	Gerard Larson	Professor of Theatre Arts	"The Comic Condition"
1962-63	Thomas Billings	Professor of Education	"The Nerve of Failure"
1961-62	Norman Rudy	Professor of Business Administration	"The Student and the Reform of the Colleges"
1960-61	John Linnell	Professor of Philosophy	"Facts and Values (A Preliminary and Tentative Examination of Some of the Fundamental Metaphysical and Epistemological Considerations Involved in Axiological Judgments with Special Application to Some Recent Judicial Decisions on Leasing, Letting, and Licensing)"
1959-60	Robert Else	Professor of Art	"Art and an American Ideal"
1958-59	John C. Livingston	Professor of Government	"Democracy and the Manipulation of Consent"

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