Yehuda Sharim, UC Merced professor of media and performance studies, has received an Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship Program award from the University of California Humanities Research Institute.
Sharim is a writer and filmmaker. His latest film, “Flora,” was honored...
A Cornell University professor acclaimed for his study of the evolution, acquisition and processing of language is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award presented by UC Merced’s Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences .
Morten Christiansen, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology at...
UC Merced’s Department of Sociology earned a quartet of awards at the American Sociological Society annual meeting, held this year in Montreal on Aug. 9-13.
Professor Stephanie Canizales received an Early Career Award in the Children and Youth section.
Professor Ed Flores received the Dan Clawson Activist-Scholar Award from ASA’s...
Public Health fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Kesia Garibay has a new first-authored article titled, “Examining the Role and Strategies of Advocacy Coalitions in California’s Statewide Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Debate (2001-2018).” Her research interests include the impact of health policy on underserved communities and understanding how policy addresses health disparities. She is currently working with Professor Nancy Burke in the Health Equity Research (HER) Lab in understanding the perspective of parents from the Central Valley in vaccinating their children.
Political Science lecturer Cameron Dehart's research on the political representation of Native Americans was published in the journal State Politics & Policy Quarterly. Dehart and co-author Elliot Mamet (of Duke) studied the representation of Native American tribes in the Maine state legislature and the findings have important implications for the representation of minority groups across the United States, in both national and state government.
The article was published online and is available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/state-politics-and-policy-quarte...
English Literature Professor Katherine Steele Brokaw published a book titled, "Shakespeare and Community Performance."
This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performances put on by community theatres and grassroots companies, and in applied drama projects. It looks at Shakespearean productions created by marginalized populations in Greater London, Harlem, and Los Angeles, a "Hamlet" staged in the remote Faroe Islands, and eco-theatre made in California’s Yosemite National Park. The book investigates why different communities perform Shakespeare, and what challenges, opportunities, and triumphs accompany the processes of theatrical production for both the artists and the communities in which they are embedded.
