Accomplishments - February, 2023
Omid Kamran Disfani, assistant professor, School of Management and Marketing, recently provided information on moneygeek.com about strategies for breaking out of credit card mistakes.
A paper written by an SIU researcher on using conversation as a vehicle for social influence on sustainability topics has been published online. Kristin Hurst, assistant professor of sustainability in the School of Earth Systems and Sustainability, is the paper’s first author. Titled “Increasing Sustainable Behavior Through Conversation,” the paper also will be published in March in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. It describes an experiment in which the researchers tested the causal effects of peer-to-peer conversation on sustainable behavior and examined the roles of psychological safety and partner stance in this process.
Jaemin Park, assistant professor of practice, School of Theater and Dance, won the 2023 Barbizon Lighting Company Jonathan Resnick Lighting Design Award. The United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) for Young Designers Managers and Technicians in the Performing Arts presents the annual award. Park will be honored at a ceremony on March 16 during the USITT conference in St Louis.
Allison Joseph, professor and director of the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, will present a poetry reading in celebration of Black History Month on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at John A. Logan College.
David Sutton, professor, anthropology, recently published “Tacit and Embedded as Forms: A Tropological Approach to Neoliberalism” in the journal, Anthropological Theory, and “The Horror/Beauty of the Harga: Midsommar and the Western Imaginary of a Screen-Free Life” in Visual Anthropology. Sutton also recently published “Changing Continuities and the Scholar-Activist Anthropology of Constance R. Sutton,” a collection of essays by his mother, who was pioneer of Caribbeanist anthropology and a political and social activist.
Jonathan Bean, professor, history, has been a member of the Illinois Advisory Panel to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission (USCCR) for 12 years. Each year, the panel selects a topic and investigates by calling witnesses to their hearings, asking USCCR staff for additional information before deliberating and making recommendations. This year’s report, “Examining Equal Access to Post-Secondary Education in Illinois” was released in November. SIU President Dan Mahony was among those to present testimony for that report. Previous reports have examined such topics as incarceration, voting rights, immigration reform and religious hate crimes. Cindy Buys, professor, SIU School of Law, has been on the 12-member committee since 2015 and became vice chair in 2022.
