Honors
Larry Dietz, former ISU president, will receive a Distinguished Service Award from Southern Illinois University. Dietz is one of four individuals recommended by SIU-Carbondale Chancellor Austin A. Lane for honorary degrees and distinguished service awards.
Simón Rodriguez, CAS, will receive the Office of Alumni Engagement 2024 Andrew Purnell Jr. Trailblazer Award during a ceremony in April.
Traci Carte, IT, was named a 2023 Association for Information Systems (AIS) Fellow at the Annual International Conference on Information Systems in India. The honor is a lifetime achievement award recognizing individuals who have made excellent research, teaching, and service contributions to information systems, both on the local and global levels.
Publications
Ali Riaz, POL, has published an essay in New Age titled, Many Decembers: Where is Bangladesh heading?, which highlights the political history of Bangladesh since 1971. He also published in The Diplomat – Bangladesh’s Blueprint for Engineering an Election and in Bangladesh’s Daily Star – Elections without choice: A leaf out of autocrats’ playbook.
T.Y. Wang, POL, published a co-authored paper titled, ‘’The Chinese Threat and Changes of Identity in Taiwan,” in Asian Survey. Analyzing recently collected survey data, the study examines the effect of Chinese threat on Taiwanese citizens’ identity.
Allison Harris, PHY, has published an article titled, “Controlling electron projectile coherence effects using twisted electrons,” in Physical Review A, a leading atomic physics journal.
Matt Himley, GEO, co-edited a collection, Mining, Mobility and Social Change in the Global South, which focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining.
Janice Jayes, HIS, published an article in the continuing Public i series on the Shamar Betts case.
Presentations
Janice Jayes, HIS, was invited to speak at the Champaign-Urbana AAUW chapter on the Guatemalan Community in Champaign-Urbana in November and participated in a panel discussion on the role of U.S. policy in creating global refugee crises for Indivisible Illinois in December.
Katie Jasper, HIS, delivered a paper titled, “The Cell is a Workshop: The Labor of Hermitism,” for the Midwest Consortium on Ancient Religions at The Ohio State University.
Dawn Beichner-Thomas, CJS, was invited to speak at the UN Women’s 6th Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces Global Leaders’ Public Forum. The forum, held in Quito, Ecuador, in November, brought together government leaders and experts from more than 20 countries worldwide.
