Field Notes APSS - 2018-19

Dr. Bob Zeidel presents at the Civil Liberties Symposium

Dr. Jason Walter Named 2019 UW-Stout Outstanding Emerging Researcher

Faculty Updates

Dr. Avigdor Edminster

teaching a section of Cultural Anthropology

Notes Chris Freeman was named 2018-19 Outstanding Teacher for the College of Arts, Communication, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Jason Walter was named the University’s Out- standing Emerging Researcher for 2019. He was also named a Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation Fellow. Tina Lee was named program director for the Gen- eral Education program at UW-Stout. Nels Paulson served on an NSF review committee in Alexandria, VA. Bev Deyo-Svendsen and husband Mark were named Dunn County Philanthropists of the Year. Innisfree McKinnon is the new Academic Sustain- ability Liaison for UW-Stout, and is participating in an arts & science residency through the SciArt Initiative. Kim Zagorski was an invited speaker on gerry- mandering and redistricting reform by the League of Women Voters of the Greater Chippewa Valley. Jim Handley facilitated a day-long nonviolence training for the staff of the Qube. He and Avigdor Edminster also organized workshops at the Diver- sity and Intersectionality Conference Experience in March 2019 entitled “A System of Privilege Hurts All” and “The Beloved Self: Self-Acceptance and Social Justice Work.” Tom Pearson gave a reading from his recent book, When the Hills Are Gone, at the Chippewa Valley Book Festival in October. David Seim and Bob Zeidel gave talks during the UW-Stout Civil Liberties Symposium in October 2018. Zach Raff recieved a 2019 Research Fellowship.

Publications Myles, C., M. Tobias, M., & I. McKinnon , 2019. “‘A big fish in a small pond’: How Arizona wine country was made,” Agritourism, Wine Tourism, Craft Beer Tourism: Local responses to peripherality through tourism niches , eds. Pezzi, M., A. Faggian, & N. Reid. Routledge. Pearson, Thomas, 2019. “A Daughter’s Disability and a Father’s Awakening,” SAPIENS, January 10. Raff, Z. and D. Earnhart, 2019, “The effects of Clean Water Act enforcement on environmental employment,” Resource and Energy Economics, 57: 1-17. Wentz, M., Brown, A., & Sweat, J. 2018. “Infusing Data Campus-Wide to Drive Institutional Change.” Mid-West- ern Educational Researcher, 30(4):204-226 Presentations Arnab Biswas et al. - “Do Vacant Property Registrations Ameliorate Foreclosure Externalities?” American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association, Washington, DC, May 2019.; “Mortgage Losses Under Alternative Prop- erty Disposition Approaches: Deed-in-Lieu, Short Sales, and Third-Party Sales,” American Real Estate Society Conference, Phoenix, AZ, April 2019. Chris Ferguson (with Xanthi Gerasimo - class of ‘13) - “Honors Contracts - An Alternative Approach,” National Collegiate Honors Conference, Boston, MA, November 2018. Jim Handley - “Using Human Connectedness and Self-Interest to Motivate Students to Struggle for Justice,” Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 2018. Tina Lee - “Child Protection and the Carceral State: Intersections and Resistance,” American Studies Associa- tion, Atlanta, GA, November 2018. Innisfree McKinnon - “Mapping Global Connections: Teaching the Anthropocene through Mapping,” Ameri- can Association of Geographers Conference, Washington, DC, April 2019. Tom Pearson - “Toward an Anthropology of Fossil Fuel Transport Systems in the Great Lakes Region,” Amer- ican Anthropological Association Conference, San Jose, CA, November 2018 and “Confronting the ‘Forever Chemical’: Community Responses to PFAS Contamination in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan,” Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR, March 2019 Genevieve Sabala - “Principles, Effectiveness, and Challenges of Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms: A Review of Cases from Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda,” International Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, New York City, NY, November 2018. David Siem - “Computers and Human Values: Is There a Midwestern Story to Tell? “ Symposium on the History of Midwest Science and Technology, Ames, IA, March 2019; “Short Cuts: Mad Scientists in the Movies,” Film and History 2018, Madison, WI, November 2018; “Stories of Migratory vs. Independent Knowledge: An Aspect of a Global History of Science & Technology,” World History Association, Milwaukee, WI, June 2018; “As They Knew Him: Veblen,” History of Economics Society, Chicago, IL, June 2018.

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