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Professional Activities, October-December, 2025
From book and article publications, to research and creative activity, to appearances at speaking engagements and events, to awards, honors and recognitions, the contributions of Sacramento State faculty go beyond campus, with profound impacts on the region and world. Read on for the latest highlights of faculty professional activities.
Argüello and Kenney garner top sexuality and gender research manuscript
Oct. 30, 2025 - Tyler M. Argüello (Social Work) and Jennifer L. Kenney (Social Work) received the 2025 Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Award at the recent Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). This award recognizes research that demonstrates high impact and advances the core values of the social work profession regarding LGBTQIA+ communities.
It honors excellence in scholarship in social work education and practice that celebrates lives, promotes social justice, equity and inclusion, and expands understanding of intersectional topics affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, sexual-expansive, gender-expansive, two-spirit and all others under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. Drs. Argüello and Kenney’s recent manuscript is the only quasi-experimental evaluation of a queer elective (created by Argüello) demonstrating effectiveness in cultivating queer-affirmative practitioners.
Argüello named Distinguished Recent Contributions awardee by CSWE
Oct. 30, 2025 - Tyler M. Argüello (Social Work) has received the 2025 Distinguished Recent Contributions to Social Work Education Award from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), which recognizes distinguished contributions of a social work educator within the last 10 years. This award is one of the Professional Awards bestowed each year at CSWE’s Annual Program Meeting and is among the highest honors recognizing outstanding educators’ significant contributions to social work education.
Argüello was nominated and reviewed by national peers. The award recognizes his meritorious pedagogy in behavioral health, recognized scholarship around HIV and queer well-being, servant leadership in social work academia, and impact as a community-embedded clinician. The last 10 years include his work, contributions and service while on faculty at Sac State.
A. Williamson’s article published in SCOTIA: Journal of Scottish Studies
Oct. 13, 2025 - Arthur Williamson (History) discusses the Scottish roots of the French Enlightenment in “James Hume of Godscroft and Scotland’s Intellectual Diaspora and in Early Modern Europe,” SCOTIA: Journal of Scottish Studies, Vol. XLVI (2024), pp. 1–36.
Tyler M. Argüello named Moya M. Duplica Distinguished Alumni
Oct. 7, 2025 - Tyler M. Argüello (Social Work) received the 2025 Moya M. Duplica Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater, the School of Social Work at the University of Washington, Seattle. Argüello was nominated for this award for his meritorious pedagogy in behavioral health, scholarship around HIV and Queer wellbeing, servant leadership and impact as a community-embedded clinician.
This award recognizes alumni who have demonstrated a career of exceptional service, social innovation, professional leadership and impact locally, nationally or internationally in the areas of research, education, direct practice and/or community and public service. Argüello is a four-time alumnus of UW Seattle. In 2025, the UW School of Social Work was rated the No. 7 best school of social work in the nation. The University of Washington is ranked No. 8 among global universities, No. 16 among public institutions and No. 42 among national universities by U.S. News & World Report.
Ardeni’s review of fairy-tale studies book published in H-Italy
Oct. 7, 2025 - Viola Ardeni (World Languages and Literatures) published the review of Elena Emma Sottilotta’s Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland (Princeton University Press, 2025), a book mapping how female folklore collectors established themselves as important voices in an emergent field while bringing folkloric material of European insular contexts to the written page between the late 1800s and the early twentieth century.
The book review highlights how Seekers of Wonder offers a precise and compelling analysis of how popular past stories, related traditions and histories have much to teach about female authorship, class relationships and transnational politics. The review appeared in H-Italy, an online network made by and for humanities scholars and dedicated to Italian language and culture.
Tracking impacted U.S. government information
Oct. 7, 2025 - Ben Amata (University Library) — with two other librarians, Sanga Sung (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Jenny McBurney (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) — presented their project of tracking government information impacted by the Trump administration at the Federal Depository Library Program Council’s fall 2025 meeting. The council is an advisory body to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
Two additional team members, Molly Blake and Kate Sheridan, librarians at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, created and maintain the project’s Government Information Tracker, a database of affected government information. If you are aware of impacted U.S. federal government information, please submit it using the project form or contact Ben Amata.