speaker international relations scholar Stephen Zunes
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US Army colonel Ann Wright
Dean Gerry Riposa is proud to announce the 2008 College of Liberal Arts Scholars Program winners, which are Drew Evans (undergraduate award) and Nelly Goswitz (graduate award).
Pictured above Student Drew Evans
Drew Evans is currently an English major at CSULB, who plans on attending graduate school after completing his degree. Drew has already completed the requirements for his Bachelors degree, but has postponed graduation so that he can more formally take classes in history, philosophy, linguistics and art. Drew has also dedicated himself to improve his language skills in both French and Spanish in anticipation of the rigorous proficiency requirements in two languages that are common in most PhD programs in English. It’s is because of Drew’s discipline and focus on his education he has received the 2008 College of Liberal Arts Scholars Program award for an undergraduate student.
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Pictured above Student Nelly Goswitz
Nelly Goswitz is a graduate student in the MA Spanish program. Her two areas of study are Peninsular and Latin American Literature with a special interest in nineteenth-century women in Latin America. Recently, Nelly’s ground-breaking research paper was selected for presentation at the Graduate Colloquium at UC Berkeley this past April. A few of Nelly’s accomplishments include being inducted as a member in the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society in the Spring 2007 and residing as President of Sigma Delta Pi Honor Society – Chapter Pi Chi at CSULB during the 2006-2007 academic year. Nelly is currently a Teaching Associate within the Department of Romance, German Russian Languages and Literatures and teaches Spanish 101B.
The College of Liberal Arts Scholars Program is designed to encourage and assist outstanding Liberal Arts majors by providing financial support for collaborative project between CLA students and faculty members. Each undergraduate student selected for support will receive a $2,000 scholarship, and each graduate student will receive a $3,000 scholarship. These funds will be used to underwrite the costs of proposed collaboration and provide the student with direct financial assistance.
If you would like to make a gift or have questions about the College of Liberal Arts Scholars Program, please contact Kevin Crowe, Director of Development, College of Liberal Arts at 562/985-1619 or kcrowe2@csulb.edu.
The 2008 Osher Reentry Scholarship is awarded to twenty-five reentry students who have had at least a 5-year break in their education and demonstrate financial need. I would like to congratulate your college for having nine students who will receive this award. This $2,000 scholarship is highly competitive and is awarded on several criteria including the student’s motivation for returning to school and their career goals. The following students from your college will be receiving the scholarship:
STUDENT ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS SCREENED AT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Two student films from the Department of Anthropology have been selected for the The Society for Visual Anthropology's 2008 Film, Video and Interactive Media Festival in San Francisco, CA from November 19th to November 23rd. The festival is held in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meetings. The films were both produced during the Fall 2007 Semester in Dr. Scott Wilson and Dr. Jayne Howell’s Anth 478: Anthropology & Film course. The SVA Festival is one of the two most prestigious film festivals in the field of visual anthropology, and it is quite an accomplishment for students to have films selected for exhibition. It is an extremely competitive international event, so it is quite rare for one Anthropology Department to have two successful submissions in one year.
Mark Booth and Nino Palaminos shoot “Tunnel Vision”
Tunnel Vision,” a film by undergraduates Hector Alarcon, Mark Booth, Marissa Flores, and James Gilpatrick, explores how Cal State Fullerton student Jesus "Nino" Palaminos deals with the gradual loss of vision due to retinitis pigmentosa. In collaboration with Nino, the filmmakers show how technology and music provide new, non-visual ways of relating to the world and people around him.
“Gracias a los Gringos,” a film by graduate student Sarah Taylor, examines how one rural Mexican community negotiates tourism and development, and is based on fieldwork conducted during the summers of 2004 and 2007. Levels of change over the past three years in particular aspects of community life are presented as individual vignettes that, when taken together, frame the village and the nearby archaeological site of Ek’Balam. As arrivals continue to increase with the site’s popularity residents are forced to decide how they will negotiate with tourism in their community and in their homes. This is made more complex by the existence of a government-funded community-based tourism project run by the ejidatarios of Ek’Balam. It becomes apparent that while community-based strategies can be successful, the actual benefits are dependent on the existing community power structures and the effects that external actors and institutions have on them. The film affords the viewer a glimpse of the cultural, social, and economic change occurring in Ek’Balam.
Production still from “Gracias a los Gringos” by Sarah Taylor
As the Department of Anthropology expands its emphasis in visual anthropology we hope to continue producing quality short and long-form ethnographies (whether film or multimedia projects), and anticipate more success in the future. For a limited time low-resolution versions of these films can be viewed at rscottwilson.blogspot.com. For further information about pursuing visual anthropology at the Beach, contact Professor Steven Rousso-Schindler at sschindl@csulb.edu, or Professor Scott Wilson at swilson4@csulb.edu.
