UCSD Communication

The Communication Department at UCSD is a unique academic community of scholars and media artists from disciplines across the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, and famous for its cutting edge work in communication scholarship and practice.

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CURRENT NEWS

Ricardo Guthrie, UCSD PH. D. alumni and professor of ethnic studies at Northern Arizona University, received the award for Most Significant Artistic/Creative Work. Guthrie’s historic Southside mural at the Murdoch Center in Flagstaff represents a visual history of African Americans of significance to the city. Guthrie has received widespread recognition for the project and will present a research paper on the creation of the mural in Liverpool, England, in July.

Michael Schudson, Emeritus Professor of Communication, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy is among the oldest honorary societies in the US for academics as well as those in public affairs and the performing arts.

One of our former grads, Regina Marchi was granted tenure at Rutgers. Her new position was awarded in large part for her book, “DAY OF THE DEAD IN THE USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon”. Rutgers University Press, 2009.

We are thrilled to announce that J.R. Osborn's documentary feature "GLITTER DUST: FINDING ART IN DUBAI" will have its premiere at the Gulf Film Festival in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from April 10-16, 2012. trailer more . . .

The American Sociological Association has chosen Chandra Mukerji's book Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi to receive its Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, presented annually for the best single book published in the two calendar years preceding the award year. This is the highest publication award that the ASA gives out.

COMM at the Martin Luther King Parade more . . .

Carol Padden has been elected as a Fellow of the "American Association for the Advancement of Science".Congratulations, Carol. Fantastic news!

Yael Warshel's dissertation, which previously was awarded "Top Dissertation" awards from both the International Communication Association and the Central New York Peace Studies Consortium, has now also been awarded the National Communication Association's International and Intercultural Division's Distinguished Scholarship Award for the Dissertation. Her dissertation, about Palestinian and Israeli children's reception of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street was entitled, How Do You Convince Children that the “Army”, “Terrorists” and the “Police” Can Live Together Peacefully?: A Peace Communication Assessment Model. She will be receiving the award at the upcoming NCA convention in November 2011.

Lords of the Landscape: Israeli Settlements as Catalysts of Conflict and Obstacles to Peace
by Gary Fields

KNOWLEDGE-EXCHANGE CORRIDORS: THE UCSD COMMUNITY STATIONS INITIATIVE is an exhibition and summer workshop program by Teddy Cruz and Mike Cole.
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Patrick Anderson has been appointed Director of the Critical Gender Studies program at UCSD.

Patrick Anderson--in collaboration with scholars from UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, the University of Pennsylvania, and NYU--has received a grant from the Institute for Research in the Arts to design and run the "Art Inclusion: Disability, Design, Curation" residency at UC Irvine in June 2012.

Valerie Hartouni's promotion to Full Professor has been approved.

Fatma Ulgen accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication of Bilkent University, Ankara.

Nadine Kozak, who defended her dissertation last year, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee School of Information, for the 2011-2012 year.

Ph.D. student Katrina Peterson represented UCSD at the Graduate Research Advocacy Day, in which UC showcased graduate research to State Legislators. One of only two social scientists included from around the UC system, Katrina presented her research on the way information is used to map California wildfires http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/25530.

Yael Warshel has won the best dissertation award from the Global Communication and Social Change Division of the ICA. Her dissertation was titled How Do You Convince Children that the “Army”, “Terrorists” and the “Police” Can Live Together Peacefully? A Peace Communication Assessment Model, and it focused on Israeli-Palestinian Sesame Street.

Two UCSD graduate students have been awarded SSHRC doctoral fellowships, Sarah Klein for her project on interaction between scientists and experimental participants in laboratories of psychology and cognitive Science, and Hannah Dick for her research on the negotiations of religious and secular identity in comparative national contexts.

Michael Cole was awarded with the Relating Research to Practice Award from the American Educational Research Association.

Kelly Gates has been promoted to the position of Associate Professor.

Tom Humphries has been awarded the Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education from the American Education Research Association.

Mauro Porto, who received his Ph.D. in the Department in 2001, has been promoted to tenure at Tulane. Mauro is currently on leave from his job there, and serving as Program Officer of Media Rights and Access at Ford Foundation's office in Rio de Janeiro.

Michael Cole has been selected as the 2011 recipient of the SRCD (Society for Research on Child Development). His contributions to understanding the linkages among culture, cognition, and development in both theory and methodology have had a significant impact on the field.

Carol Padden, Professor of Communication and Associate Dean of Social Sciences at UCSD, has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Prof. Padden is a specialist on sign language and deaf culture. Her most recent work focuses on Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, a language created in a Bedouin community a few generations ago which offers an opportunity to study the emergence and stabilization of linguistic conventions within a community of language-users. Prof. Padden is the second faculty member in UCSD's Communication Department to be recognized with a MacArthur "genius" grant. Michael Schudson, now Emeritus at UCSD and teaching at Columbia University, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990.
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http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.6241263/k.7598/Carol_Padden.htm
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Don’t miss two wonderful programs making their debut at the City Heights Performance Annex!
	Zeinabu Irene Davis. Co-Motion: Stories of Breastfeeding Women of Color is a half hour documentary essay that explores the world of breastfeeding from a perspective that is primarily African American.

And the winner is...

Congratulations to Elizabeth Li, an undergraduate Communication major, who designed the new Communication department
t-shirt!
The t-shirts are available for purchase and are only $10! Please bring exact change (cash only) to the front Communication office (room MCC 127) Monday—Friday between 8am-12pm or 1pm-4:30pm.

Hurry in to get your shirt before summer break!

Poketo at UCSD! Teach-in with LA indie art and fashion gurus Ted Vadagan and Angie Myung (UCSD Comm class of 1997) in Lisa Cartwright's Communication and Culture class, May 2011.

http://poketo.com/blog/2011/05/27/the-future-today/