Content Tagged with: College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production faculty reel in awards
Some faculty and staff were recognized for their lifetime achievements, others for efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Six staff members recognized The Citizens University Committee kicked off its fall scholarship fundraiser by recognizing the contributions of six staff members: Alan A. Call, technical director; Alif Emil Marchi, lighting and...
Laila Lalami winner of 2020 Arab American Book Award
Lalami’s novel “The Other Americans” was selected as the winner in the fiction category
Department of Creative Writing announces annual award and scholarship winners
E ach year, UCR’s Department of Creative Writing bestows multiple awards to its undergraduate and graduate students. Below are this year’s winners. The Chancellor’s Performance Award The Chancellor’s Performance Award recognizes excellence in creative writing. Winners: Vanesa Ruvalcaba Manisha Prakash Marvin Contreras Adam Schwartz Cole Deyo Emily...
Theatre professor named book award finalist
Donatella Galella, an associate professor of theatre history and theory, is a finalist in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s annual Outstanding Book Award.
Sociologist named 2020 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader
Victoria Reyes, an assistant professor of sociology, is one of 10 recipients of the award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Sociologist’s first book wins Independent Publisher Book Award
Victoria Reyes released “Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines” in September 2019
Historian’s book added to ‘Escape the News Reading List’
Clifford Trafzer released “Fighting Invisible Enemies: Health and Medical Transitions Among Southern California Indians” in May 2019
UCR creative writing professor wins literary grant
Tod Goldberg’s “The Outside In” was the first essay awarded a grant as part of a California Desert Arts Council initiative
Two UCR professors awarded career enhancement fellowships
Armando García and María Regina Firmino-Castillo are both recipients of 12-month fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation
UCR distinguished professor named Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Allison Hedge Coke, a distinguished professor in the Department of Creative Writing, was named the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals for the spring 2020 semester at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Manipulating mosquito behavior through their odorant receptors
UC Riverside research could help design new tools to combat deadly diseases like malaria and dengue fever that affect nearly a billion people worldwide
Two films produced by UCR screenwriting professor recognized at Sedona International Film Festival
"Foster Boy" and "The Great 14th" won Director’s Choice awards at the 2020 Sedona International Film Festival, which took place Feb. 22-March 1
Two professors win Emory Elliott book award
Steven Brint and Jade Sasser are this year’s recipients of the Emory Elliott book award for outstanding publications authored by faculty members in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, or CHASS. Sasser, an associate professor of gender and sexuality studies, is being honored for her book “On Infertile Ground: Population Control and...
Getting scientists to talk ethics
UC Riverside Graduate Division and Center for Open Science partner to evaluate research ethics training intervention
Sociologist awarded for advancing Czech science
Lucie Kalousová, an assistant professor of sociology, received the largest scientific early career award given in the Czech Republic
Donatella Galella awarded Best Article of the Year for research on ‘yellowface’
The paper was published in The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Sociologist wins dissertation fellowship for women scholars
Allison Monterrosa is studying the effects of mass incarceration on black women’s intimate romantic relationships
Professor awarded Order of Civil Merit from Korean government
Edward Chang, founding director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies, received the award
UCR author Susan Straight nominated for 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal
Susan Straight, a distinguished professor of creative writing at UC Riverside, has been nominated for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for her debut memoir, “In the Country of Women.”
Novel by UCR author Laila Lalami shortlisted for 2019 National Book Award
UC Riverside Professor Laila Lalami's latest novel, “The Other Americans,” has been selected as a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for fiction.