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Professional Activities

Scholarship

Francis Yuen, Social Work, is the co-editor of a new book, Asian Tsunami and Social Work Practice: Recovery and Rebuilding published by Haworth Press in March. The book presents an inside look at the complicated nature of disaster preparedness and how it relates to poverty, trauma, community development and service delivery system.

Joe Harralson, Mechanical Engineering, was part of a team that designed and built a motorcycle that set a new world record for speed with a two-wheeled vehicle on Sept. 5, 2006. The vehicle achieved a world record speed of 350+ mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Harralson will be presenting an upcoming lecture on this experience.

Timothy Capron, Criminal Justice, has been awarded a fellowship to study terrorism. He will attend the Academic Fellows Program of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies from May 26 through June 6 in Israel.

Darryl Freeman, Government, presented a research paper titled, “The Paradoxical Implications of Mexico's Official Color Blind Public Policy and Its Racist Perception in Afro-American Political Thought," at the Southwestern Social Science Association Eighty-Seventh Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 14 - 17.  

Jonathan Skinner, Anthropology, currently a visiting international scholar at Queen's University-Belfast, Northern Ireland, will present "Salsa in the City," a lecture about his ongoing ethnographic fieldwork on salsa and cosmopolitanism in three urban centers: Hamburg, Germany; Sacramento, California; and Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Wayne Maeda, Ethnic Studies, is a consultant for "Pasture of Plenty: A History of California's Farm Workers," a public radio documentary series.

Roger Sullivan, Anthropology, has articles based on his research of schizophrenia in Palau, Micronesia published in the April editions of Current Anthropology and the American Journal of Psychiatry.