Events

Five CHABSS faculty have contributed their expertise to events celebrating this year's CSUSM Common Read selection, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. On October 16, Vincent Pham (Assistant Professor, Communication) gave the introduction to and lead a Q&A session following the presentation of  “A Village Called Versailles”, a documentary film about the post-Katrinaefforts to put a toxic landfill where the Vietnamese American community lives in east New Orleans. The film was part of the San Diego Asian Film Festival and was co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific Islander Faculty Staff Association. On October 24, Greig Guthey (Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies), Jessica Mayock (Assistant Professor, Philosophy), and Pamela Stricker (Associate Professor, Political Science) were members of the Environment & Ethics faculty panel discussion on issues related the book in terms of business ethics, environmental ethics, and sustainability; click on this link for a video recording of the panel discussion. Upcoming events include the announcement of the Common Read Essay Contest winners in Spring, and Earth and Science Day on Saturday, March 16; Wes Schultz (Professor, Psychology), will give a presentation at this event.

Vivienne Bennett (Professor, Liberal Studies) was the speaker at two separate events in October, 2012; her talk, “Politics inMexico's Periphery.” at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego was given in honor of Wayne Cornelius, Founder of the Center; she gave the keynote presentation, “How to Live the Good Life in SoCal with Less Water” for the Association of California Water Agencies, Regions 9 and 10 Joint Conference, ‘The Future of California Water,’ at the Western Metropolitan Water District, Riverside, CA.

CHABSS Welcomed two new faculty in Fall 2012!  Catherine Cucinella (Ph.D., UC Riverside) has been appointed as Assistant Professor, Literature and Writing Studies and GEW Director. Dr. Cucinella has served as Interim GEW Director since Fall 2009 and has been a lecturer in Literature and Writing and Women’s Studies for several years; her research interests include 20th Century Literature, American Literature, Women Writers and Poets, Body and Gender Theory, Ethnic American Literatures, and Feminist Theory.  Sara Bufferd (Ph.D., Stony Brook University) has been appointed as Assistant Professor, Psychology. Her area of specialization is clinical psychology. She completed her undergraduate work in human development at Cornell University, post-baccalaureate research in child psychiatry at Columbia University, and predoctoral clinical internship at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Bufferd’s research interests lie within a developmental psychopathology framework.