- Award Recipients 4/18/08 — 6/18/09
- Tracy Buenavista (Asian American Studies)
has received $5,969 from the Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project Grant for 2009-10 in support of a project entitled “Asian American Studies 453 Course Redesign: Implementing ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ as a Pedagogical Tool.”
- Irene Clark (English)
has received $5,924 from the Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project Grant for 2009-10 in support of a project entitled “Academic Argument and Disciplinary Transfer: Fostering Genre Awareness in the First Year Writing Students.”
- Scott Kleinman (English)
has received $4,969 from the Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project Grant for 2009-10 in support of a project entitled “Discovering the Digital Humanities.”
- Marta Lopez-Garza (Women’s Studies, Chicana/o Studies)
received $10,000 from the California Council for the Humanities, in support of a project entitled “When Will Punishment End? Stories by Formerly Incarcerated Women.”
- Ana Sanchez-Muñoz (Chicana/o Studies)
has received $4,969 from the Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project Grant for 2009-10 in support of a project entitled “Preserving our Cultural Roots: Engaging Students in the Study of Spanish Heritage Language Maintenance and Loss in the San Fernando Valley.”
- Elizabeth Say (Dean)
has received $200,000 from Cal State Long Beach and the Department of Homeland Security, in continuing support of a project entitled “Strategic Languages Initiative.”
- Yarma Velazquez Vargas (Chicana/o Studies)
has received $4,969 from the Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project Grant for 2009-10 in support of a project entitled “Chicana/o Studies Debate Tournament.”
- Linda Rader Overman (English)
is the author of an essay entitled “Goodbye, Rita Hayworth. Hello, Margarita Cansino,” due to appear in “Reflect, Inform, Persuade: College Writing in the 21st Century,” scheduled for publication by Longman in 2009.
- Martin Pousson (English)
has sold his story, “Wanted Man,” to Epoch. The story is a chapter from “The Nerves,” Pousson’s novel-in-progress.
- Nayereh Tohidi (Gender and Women’s Studies)
wrote a commentary for Women’s E News entitled “Iran’s Women’s Rights Activists are Being Smeared.” In the September 17 commentary, Tohidi said Iranian women’s rights activists have faced smears and arrests in their move to stall a bill easing “polygamy, temporary marriage and male-bias in divorce.”
- Marta Lopez-Garza (Chicana/o Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies)
completed a documentary entitled “When Will the Punishment End?”.
Updated on 9/25/09
