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A shout out to Yasemin Irvin-Erickson, assistant professor of Criminology, Law and Society, who was awarded the Faculty Teacher of the Year Award by the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) Division of Victimology (DoV). This award is given to a teacher who shows excellence in teaching victimology and/or victimology-related courses during the past two academic years. She will be recognized by the DoV at ASC in San Francisco in November for the annual meeting.
Congrats to Roger Lancaster, professor of cultural studies, for receiving this year's annual Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize presented by Human Sexuality and Anthropology Interest Group (with support from the American Anthropological Association) for his book The Struggle To Be Gay In Mexico, for Example. The HSAIG gives this award annually to a book of significance in the field of human sexuality. Read more about the award and Lancaster’s book.
Congratulations to Sue-Ming Yang, Charlotte Gill, Yi-Fang Lu, Muneeba Azam, and L. Cait Kanewske, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, who received the American Society of Criminology Division of Experimental Criminology Outstanding Experimental Field Trial award for their co-authored paper “A police‑clinician co‑response team to people with mental illness in a suburban‑rural community: a randomized controlled trial” published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology. They will be recognized at the DEC’s meeting at ASC in San Francisco. Read the full paper.
Benjamin Gatling, associate professor of English, received funding from the Modern Endangered Archives Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, for a project in which he will digitize a significant portion of the archive of the Folklore Fund at the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The collection is the primary repository for the expressive culture of Tajikistan, and the materials that it includes uniquely preserve the country’s cultural patrimony. He aims to train local archive staff in best practices, the preservation of materials, and digitization and metadata creation for the majority of the archive’s holdings, as well as the curation of digitized materials.
Congratulations, Benjamin! Read more about the project.
October 15, 2024