Research and Honors is a monthly column of the Illinois State Report newsletter, celebrating recent Honors, Publications, and Presentations of faculty and staff.

Honors

Susan Chen, ECO, was selected as Second Vice President of the Midwest Economics Association (2024-2025).

Nobuko Adachi, ANT, was selected as a member of Japan Foundation American Advisory Committee, which recently met in New York with other notable Japanese studies scholars from the United States, Japan, Europe, and members of the Japanese government.

Linda Clemmons, HIS, received the Western Writers of America 2024 Spur Award for Best Western Biography for her book, Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville and the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876.

Publications

Ali Riaz, POL, published Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2024: Another indictment of Bangladesh’s state of governance in The Daily Star, in March 2024, and a book titled, The Charade: Bangladesh’s 2024 Election, Publisher: Prothoma (Dhaka: Bangladesh).

Michael Hendricks, POL, Jordan Arellanes, PSY, and Chang Su-Russell, FCS, co-authored “Cultivating a Collectivist Community on a College Campus for Latinx Students,” in the Journal of Latinos and Education.

Michael Sublett, GEO, has self-published a referenced, illustrated, and indexed book titled, An Outstate Missouri Family Connects with Canada’s Capital: A Memoir of 1953.

Presentations

Dan Lannin, Dan Ispas, and Alex Ilie, PSY, delivered a presentation titled, “Are open-book online exams actually assessments or just gifts to students? An analysis of validity,” at the National Institute on the Psychology of Teaching in Bonita Springs, Fla., in January 2024.

Katie Jasper, HIS, presented a paper at the Medieval Academy of America meeting at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

Kate Driscoll, ANT, presented a poster at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) meetings in Los Angeles, Calif., in March.

Ali Riaz, POL, presented “Spiraling Towards Autocratic Abyss: The Turbulent Journey of Bangladesh” to the South Asia Reading Group at the University of Illinois – Chicago in March.

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