News, information and highlights from the CSS family.
Congratulations to CSS faculty
Tenure and Promotion
- Darrah, Jennifer — Associate Professor, Sociology
- Gorbach, Julien — Associate Professor, Communications
- Neo, Rachel — Associate Professor, Communications
- Quintus, Seth — Associate Professor, Anthropology
- Rubin, Ashley Theresa — Associate Professor, Sociology
Tenure
- Bremer, Leah Lodge — Assistant Specialist, Social Science Research Institute/UHERO
Promotion
- Barile, John — Professor, Psychology
- Beilman, David Wesley — Professor, Geography and Environment
- Bremer, Leah Lodge — Associate Specialist, Social Science Research Institute/UHERO
- Buente, Wayne — Professor, Communications
- Greaney, Theresa — Professor, Economics
- Masuda, Akihiko — Professor, Psychology
- Mora Saavedra, Camilo — Professor, Geography and Environment
- Pauker, Kristin — Professor, Psychology
- Saethre, Eirik — Professor, Anthropology
New Department Chairs
- Political Science — Jairus Grove
- Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies — Lani Teves
Recognized for excellence
Each year, UH Board of Regents honors the leadership and service of faculty, staff and students committed to enhancing the university’s mission of excellence. Three 2020-2021 awardees are from CSS.
Mary Mostafanezhad, associate professor, Department of Geography & Environment, won a Medal for Excellence in Teaching for “extraordinary level of subject mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness and creativity and personal values that benefit students.”
Heewon Kwon, a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology, earned the Frances Davis Award for dedication and demonstrated excellence as a teacher of undergraduate students. She works with faculty member Joni Sasaki in the Cognition, Neuroscience and Social Program.
Victor Kilonzo, a senior double majoring in psychology and molecular cell biology, accepted the Student Excellence in Research Award for outstanding scholarly research endeavors by a student pursuing a degree at the doctoral, master’s or bachelor’s level.
Also, CSS Excellence awardees for 2020-21 are:
Excellence in Teaching
- Kelly Bergstrom – Assistant Professor – Communications
- Joni Sasaki – Associate Professor – Psychology
Excellence in Service
- Patti Au – Dean’s Office
- Mindy Scordilis – Economics
Excellence in Application
- Philip Garboden – Assistant Professor – Urban & Regional Planning and UHERO – Social Science Research Institute
A media ethics maven
Ann Auman, a journalism professor in the School of Communications with more than 30 years of teaching experience, was awarded the 2021 Teaching Excellence Award in the Media Ethics Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Jiang receives Fulbright Scholar award
Congratulations to Geography and Environment Associate Professor Hong Jiang, who was awarded a Fulbright Scholar award for research on tea cultures in Taiwan for the Fall 2021 semester.
Authorship accomplishment
Congratulations to Sociology Associate Professor Ashley T. Rubin on the publication of her second book, Rocking Qualitative Social Science: An Irreverent Guide to Rigorous Research (Stanford Press).
PhD graduate receives UCLA appointment
The University of California, Los Angeles, has announced that Stephen Acabado, an associate professor in the department of anthropology, was appointed director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the UCLA International Institute. He earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in Anthropology at UH Mānoa.
