春梦直播 faculty and staff are educators, scholars, and leaders in their respective fields. Following are highlights and accolades celebrating the outstanding research and creative activities conducted by Salem State faculty and staff in November 2022.
Annmarie Bedard, Sport and Movement Science Operations Coordinator earned a certification in Open Educational Resources (OER).
Professor Tim Dacey (sociology) published an article in Sociological Inquiry titled 鈥溾. Using survey data, he shows that Republicans who report higher levels of personal environmental harm also report stronger support for environmental regulation. This pattern holds across varied measurement specifications suggesting that exposure to environmental harm might directly challenge and change partisan opposition to environmental reform.
On November 18, Head Women's Ice Hockey Coach Julian Giantonio recorded his first career win as a Viking with the 2-1 victory over Plymouth State.
Professor Joanna Gonsalves (psychology) and Professor Emeritus Richard Levy (politics, policy and international relations) with others produced and appeared in a podcast published in The International Journal of Equity and Social Justice in Higher Education. The podcast discusses and explains the problems of campus capital debt and borrowing on public higher education campuses and ways to organize against it to create more diverse, equitable and increasingly low-cost public higher education as a public good.
Professor Emeritus Richard Levy (politics, policy and international relations) was one of the featured guests on a segment of WBUR Radio Boston entitled 鈥.鈥 They discussed what campus capital debt is, how it affects students, public higher education workers and undermines public higher education as a public good and ways to address the problem, including the role that the recently passed Fair Share Amendment can play.
Professor Miguel Montalva Barba (sociology) published an article in Urban Studies that challenges and addresses the racist base of urban studies. The article, titled focuses on the Chicago School that solidified and inscribed in the city their obsession with the 鈥楴egro Problem鈥, race, race relations, and (im)migration. Their fixation not only framed modern sociology with an emphasis on the 鈥極ther鈥 but cemented a taken-for-granted undergirding of Whiteness at its base.
Professor Miguel Montalva Barba (sociology) was featured in an article about Ballot Question 4, and its implications for undocumented drivers in MA. The article, titled features Professor Montalva Barba's experience as a queer undocumented person and police abuse.
Professor Shelley Steenrod (social work) published an article in honor of National Adoption Month. Titled the article can be found in the November issue of The New Social Worker.
Professor Stephen Young (geography and sustainability) and master鈥檚 student Jeannette Miranda (geo-information science) traveled to Guatemala from November 7-14, 2022, to run a 鈥淧articipatory Mapping鈥 workshop for 15 conservation organizations from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. After the three-day workshop in Antigua they traveled to the mountainous Mayan indigenous region of Totonicapan to teach organizations from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala how to use drones for forest monitoring. Learn more here.
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