FACULTY NEWS: Department of Languages

Pilar Valenzuela, Ph.D., associate professor of Spanish, Department of Languages, has recently published an article called, "Ethnic-racial reclassification and language revitalization among the Shiwilu from Peruvian Amazonia."

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FACULTY NEWS: Department of Art

Department of Art adjunct faculty member Jamie Kough worked this spring and summer as a set designer and prop person for the soon-to-be- released film Not Today. which is about a California college student’s adventures in Hyderabad, India.

FACULTY NEWS: Department of Art

Department of Art Professor Richard Turner recently completed work on a new public artwork for Market Square Park in Houston, Texas. The piece is a walkway inset with fragments of masonry from local buildings. Professor Turner was a member of the original artist team that designed the park in 1992. Changing demographics of the local area required new design programmed for more intense usage. His new work salvages material from the previous park walkways, which used material originally salvaged from historic buildings in downtown Houston. Professor Turner is currently working on a sculpture for the City of Long Beach Transit Authority.

FACULTY NEWS: Department of Communication Studies

Wenshan Jia, Associate Professor of Communication Studies: Keynote Address on "Sino-globalization and the Intercultural Paradigm of Management" at The First International Conference on Eastern-Western Cultures and Management cosponsored by the Research Center for Eastern-Western Cultures and Management and the Intercultural Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, June 18-20, 2010.

FACULTY NEWS: Department of Art

Lia Halloran, assistant professor, Department of Art, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, is co-curator of The Los Angeles Art Association’s exhibit, Measure for Measure, an unprecedented all-media exhibition at Gallery 825. The exhibit, conceptualized and curated by globally renowned Harvard Physicist Lisa Randall, Ph.D., opens Friday, Sept. 10, with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. The gallery is at 825 N. La Cienega Blvd.

FACULTY NEWS: Department of Sociology

Victoria Carty, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, recently published a book with Routledge Press titled, Wired and Mobilizing: Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics. The manuscript examines how new information technologies, including the Internet and new forms of social media, facilitate and enhance collective behavior to promote social change through both contentious and electoral processes.