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Professional Announcements 5/16/05 |
Elaine Leeder, Dean of the School of Social Sciences, has been named the newly elected State Coordinator of the Northern California Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education of the American Council on Education. Leeder will serve for a term of two years. Elizabeth C. Martínez, CALS and Modern Languages and Literature, contributed to the recent annual Mexican Conference at UC-Irvine, which included professors, grad students, and special presentations by a film director and playwright from Mexico. Martinez's paper, titled, "The Inception of Mestizo Consciousness in Post-Revolutionary Society and Josefina Niggli's Second Novel, `Step Down, Elder Brother,'" related the significance of a little-known novel by this early century writer, and its portrayal of rapid changes in Mexican society shortly after the Revolution. Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, History, reviews two books on Arab and Palestinian immigration to Mexico and Central America in this month’s_International Journal of Middle East Studies_ (May 2005). In the review, she cites SSU geography professor William Crowley’s pioneering research in Honduras. In addition, Professor Alfaro-Velcamp authored “Immigration and Social Welfare Policy (Mexico),” in the _Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America_, edited by John M. Herrick and Paul H. Stuart, Sage Publications, 2005. Tony White, History and Global Studies, recently addressed the World Affairs Council of Sonoma County on "Recent Issues in United States - Latin American Relations, Economic and Political." Submit
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