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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.
Tyler M. Argüello named Moya M. Duplica Distinguished Alumni
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
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
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.