Honors And Awards

Dr. Pat Cleary (HIST): “The World, the Flesh and the Devil — A History of Colonial St. Louis”

Cortney Smethurst — Tue, 29 May 2012 21:22:06 +0000

Dr. Pat Cleary examines an 18th-century French trading post in her new book The World, the Flesh and the Devil: A History of Colonial St. Louis.

Click here to read Inside CSULB’s news story about Cleary’s book.

Norma Stoltz Chinchilla (SOC) Receives “Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Central American Studies”

Cortney Smethurst — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:02:11 +0000

Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of Sociology Norma Stoltz Chinchilla received a “Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Central American Studies” by the Lozano-Long Institute for Latin American Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies. Norma was recognized at the 2012 Lozano-Long Conference at the University of Texas in Austin. The conference title was “Central Americans and the Latino/a Landscape: New Configurations of Latino/a Studies”.

Associate Director of the Institute for Latin American Studies Professor Arturo Arias presented Norma with the award. Prior to co-authoring the award-winning book Seeking Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles (2001), Norma was the co-founder of the Guatemala Information Center, a human rights group that provided refuge to Guatemalans who arrived in Los Angeles in the early 1980s.

Norma is a distinguished academic, activist, and sociologist. Through her activism and scholarship, Norma helped create Central American studies in the U.S.

Carl Lipo Receives the Society For American Archaeology’s Book Award for “The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island”

Cortney Smethurst — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:01:49 +0000

Professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo received the Society for American Archaeology’s (SAA) Book Award in the public category for The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, a book co-authored with Professor of Anthropology Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Lipo and Hunt were honored at SAA’s Annual Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 20th, 2012, in Memphis, Tennessee.

Click here to read more about Lipo’s honor.

In addition to teaching and research, Lipo is co-founder of CSULB’s Institute for Integrated Research in Materials, Environments and Society (IIRMES), a laboratory for interdisciplinary research.

Carl Lipo (L) and Terry Hunt with their fabricated moai statue for the forthcoming NOVA/National Geographic television documentary about Easter Island.

Dr. Maulana Karenga: Presentations

Cortney Smethurst — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:00:40 +0000

Dr. Maulana Karenga is a professor in the Department of Africana Studies. On January 6^th, 2011, he presented his paper “Reaffirmation and Renewal in Black Studies: Framework for an Ongoing Initiative” at the State of African American and Diaspora Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy and Research Conference. In addition, Dr. Karenga gave a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day lecture, “King and the Psychology of Freedom: Self-Respect, Resistance and Resilience,” to the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization on January 13^th, 2011. He lectured on “Towards a Culturally Grounded African American HIV/AIDS Strategy: Obstacles, Essentials and Possibilities” at the NIMH-sponsored UCLA Conference on Health, Hope and Healing (H3): A National Conference on HIV among Black MSM and MSMW on January 31^th, 2011. He presented a lecture-discussion on “The Black HIV/AIDS Crisis: Towards an Ethics of Care and Active Commitment” before the Augustana Lutheran Church and Lutheran Campus Ministry in Chicago on February 8^th, 2011.

Dr. John Jung: Presentations

Cortney Smethurst — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:59:54 +0000

Dr. John Jung is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology. He presented talks to the Honors Program at the University of Memphis on his book Southern Fried Rice, to a general audience on the “History of Chinese in the South During the Jim Crow Era,” and to the fifth-grade students of the Campus School on “What Your History Books Left Out About the History of Chinese in America”. This latter talk took place on September 12^th, 2011, and was sponsored by the Confucius Institute. In addition, he gave a talk, “On Being Chinese Where Everyone Else is Either Black or White,” to the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at the University of Mississippi in Oxford on September 15^th, 2011, gave an interview on Mississippi Public Radio about Delta Chinese grocers, and held a conversation hour, “Beyond Black and White: The Chinese American Experience,” at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, on September 20^th, 2011. He presented his talk “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Retirement” at the Signal Hill Community Center on September 26^th, 2011, as well as at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia on September 29^th, 2011. This last event was sponsored by the APA Historical Society, the U.S. China People’s Friendship Association, and the National Association of Chinese Americans. He gave an interview on Atlanta NPR on September 29^th, 2011. During his interview, Dr. Jung addressed the long-term harm of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and the significance of an official apology from the U.S. government. Moreover, he spoke on a Creative Nonfiction panel and at a book signing for Southern Fried Rice at the Crossroads Writers Conference and Literary Festival, which was held in Macon, Georgia on October 1^st -2^nd, 2011. He also presented “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Retirement: How A Psychologist Morphed into A Historian of Chinese America” to the Alumni Association and Association of Emeriti at CSULB on October 21^st, 2011.