News, information and highlights from the CSS family.
Dubai Cares awards $900,000 grant
Sociology Professor Manfred Steger and College of Education Assistant Professor Brent Edwards lead a UH project awarded a $900,000 grant to ensure inclusive and quality education in Latin American countries under current COVID-19 pandemic conditions. The grant was obtained from Dubai Cares, a philanthropic organization based in the United Arab Emirates.
Literary laurels
Pat Kirch, professor of Anthropology, was invited to write a “News and Views” commentary in conjunction with a September 2021 Nature paper on the results of DNA analysis that unravels the sequence of early Polynesian settlement.
Authors, authors
White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States: From Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall (Beacon Press) is the latest book by Reece Jones, Geography and Environment professor and chair. Jones is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, author of four books and editor-in-chief of Geopolitics journal.
Jonathan Padwe’s new book, Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and other lives in the Cambodian Highlands (University of Washington Press), received a glowing review in the Journal of Peasant Studies. Padwe is an associate professor and undergraduate chair of Anthropology.
A virtual book launch celebrated Political Science Assistant Professor Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio’s first book, Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo’olelo, Aloha ‘Āina, and Ea (University of Minnesota Press).
