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Faculty Notes
Design professors are on staff at the California Lighting Technology Center, which produces more energy-efficient lighting and design.
HArCS faculty guide students in their exploration of new avenues of study. Their works and research are published internationally, and each have something unique to offer to the division and all UC Davis students and community. Here is a glimpse of some of those faculty and recent news.
Professor of theatre and dance Sarah Pia Anderson directed two episodes of the Emmy-nominated television series Big Love. She also directed an episode of the highly-popular and critically-acclaimed ABC television drama Ugly Betty.
Susan Taber Avila, associate professor of design, had a solo exhibition of her textile artwork at the Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery in Portland, Ore.
Professor of art Tom Bills and associate art professor Robin Hill participated in a group exhibition, Gift Shop at Another Year, in Los Angeles, Calif.
Larry Bogad, theatre and dance associate professor, won an award for his live installation-performance art piece, "The Contractors" from the nationally-known experimental art/performance space, The Mattress Factory.
Theatre and dance professor Della Davidson was commissioned by the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts to create a new work to be part of the Creativity Project in conjunction with the Merce Cunningham residency of 2008. She was also commissioned by Repertory Dance Theater in Salt Lake City for a new dance/video work in collaboration with Ellen Bromberg 2008.
Glenda Drew, assistant professor, design, had a solo show at Galeria Merida, in Yucatan, Mexico.
Associate professor of art Robin Hill had solo exhibitions at the Lesley Heller Gallery in New York as well as the Don Soker Contemporary Art Gallery in San Francisco.
The Knights of Prosperity, a new half-hour comedy on ABC, featured the production design of John Iacovelli, professor of theatre and design, for its first episode. Iacovelli designed sets for the ABC family program Lincoln Heights, beginning with the fifth episode.
Darrin Martin, assistant professor of art, premiered Learning Stalls: Lesson Plans, in Beijing, China. Two of his videos were also included in a historic DVD compilation of video artworks.
Assistant professor of design Tim McNeil provided design direction for a range of custom product and packaging elements that promote the exhibition "Noah's Ark" in Los Angeles, Calif. And he did exhibition design and related graphic identity for "Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted" at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Malaquias Montoya, professor of Chicana/o studies and art, participated in six exhibitions across the country in the past six months, including Los Angeles, Calif., Chicago, Ill., and Albuquerque, NM.
Maggie Morgan, associate professor in theatre and dance, won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination for best costume design for "Bach at Leipzig," a South Coast Repertory Theatre production. She was also the costume designer for "Defiance" at the Pasadena Playhouse and "Sleeping Beauty Wakes" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. And, she designed costumes for "Urinetown" at UC Davis' Main Theatre.
Music professor Pablo Ortiz had several works performed this summer: "Milonguitas for Bass Clarinet" was performed by Moran Katz at the New York Museum of Modern Art, Summergarden, and his "Thomas Hardy Songs" premiered by Paul Hillier and Storstroms Ensemble in Copenhagen, Denmark. He also issued a new CD entitled Oscuro, featuring music composed by him and performed by the San Francisco New Music Ensemble.
Associate art professor Hearne Pardee had a one-person show of paintings about the city of Davis at the Bowery Gallery in New York City.
Lucy Puls, professor and chair of art and art history, exhibits a number of shows this fall, in Benicia, Davis, San Francisco, and Santa Barbara.
Art professor Annabeth Rosen, who holds the Robert Arneson Chair in Ceramic Sculpture, exhibited her work in a show at the Fleisher Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia.
Associate professor of design Ann Savageau was the curator for the Design Museum's exhibition, "Stories Through Needle and Thread." She also exhibited in Ann Arbor, Mich. and in San Francisco, Calif.
Eric Shroeder, lecturer for the University Writing Program, directed a production of The Comedy of Errors, performed by students from the integrated studies honors program in Wyatt Theatre.
Gina Werfel, professor of art history, had a solo exhibition, "Paintings," at the Prince Street Gallery in New York City.
Susan Taber Avila, associate professor of design, won a silver medal the International Fiber Art Biennial Exhibition in Suzhou, China for her piece Recuerdos de Guatemala.
John Boe, lecturer in the University Writing Program, received an Excellence in Teaching award from the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Northern California. Boe is editor of Writing on the Edge, an interdisciplinary journal focused on writing and the teaching of writing, published twice a year at UC Davis.
African history professor Cynthia Brantley received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research.
Anna Maria Busse Berger, chair of the Department of Music, is the recipient of the Deems Taylor Award for her book, Medieval Music and the Art of Memory. She is also a recent recipient of the Society for Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award for 2006.
Xiaomei Chen, professor of Chinese literature, was elected as a member of the advisory board for the American Association of Comparative Literature.
Associate professor of English Joshua Clover received a book of the year award for his book of poetry, The Totality for Kids, from the VillageVoice and KQED, and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award.
Sergio de la Mora, associate professor, Chicana/o studies, has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, for his book Cinemachismo:Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film.
Jesse Drew, acting director of the Technocultural Studies Program, has been appointed to the city of Davis Telecommunications Commission. Commission members advise the City Council on the use of cable, Internet and media resources, and act as liaisons between the city and community cable partners.
Gail Finney, professor of comparative literature and German, received the Distinguished Graduate/Professional Teaching Award from the UC Davis Academic Senate.
Lorena Garcia, assistant professor of Chicana/o studies, became a 2007-09 Interdisciplinary Women's Health Research Scholar.
Noah Guynn, associate professor of French and Italian, received the Martin Stevens Award for the best new article in early drama studies from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society.
Choice Magazine's annual edition, which lists outstanding academic titles each year, highlights Righteous Riches by Milmon Harrison, associate professor of African American and African studies.
Beth Levy, assistant professor of music, won the Society of American Music's annual Irving Lowens Article Award for best article on American music.
Timothy Morton, professor of English, gave the annual De Luca Lecture in the Humanities at the University of Toronto in November and was distinguished visiting fellow at the University of London in the fall.
The prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellowship was awarded to two German professors. Gerhard Richter, associate professor of German at UC Davis, will spend part of 2007 at the University of Bonn conducting research for his book Afterness: Effects of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics. Elisabeth Krimmer, a fellow associate professor of German, will spend this academic year in Berlin. Krimmer also won the annual essay prize awarded by the Goethe Society of North America.
Catherine Robson, associate professor of English, won the North American Victorian Studies Association's Donald Gray Prize for best essay for Standing on the Burning Deck: Poetry, Performance, History.
Lynn Roller, professor and program director in art history, received a fellowship from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation at Harvard University.
Ann Savageau, associate professor of design, won the UC Davis Sustainability Award.
Barbara Sellers-Young, professor of theatre and dance, was elected to the Congress on Research in Dance.
Jeffrey Thomas, the Barbara K. Jackson Professor of Choral Conducting, received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency. Thomas will spend a month in Bellagio, Italy.
Patricia Turner, professor of American and African Studies, and vice provost of undergraduate education, was a speaker at the 2007 Uncle Tom's Cabin in American Culture and Across Disciplines.
Associate professor of art history Heghnar Watenpaugh was appointed to the board of directors at the Society of Architectural Historians.
The British Arts and Humanities Research Council has funded a documentary just completed by Larry Bogad, associate theatre and dance professor.
Chengzhi Chu, an assistant professor in East Asian languages and cultures and the Chinese language program coordinator, published a software program called ChineseTA enabling Chinese teachers to create, adjust, and evaluate their teaching materials more efficiently to adapt to the needs of their students.
Theatre and Dance professor Della Davidson was awarded a $15,000 Irvine Foundation grant for the creation of a new dance/theater piece.
Ines Hernandez-Avila, professor of Native American studies and director of the Chicana/Latina Research Center at UC Davis, has won a $10,000 Contemplative Practice Fellowship from the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society through the American Council of Learned Societies.
The National Science Foundation awarded Native American studies professor Martha Macri $276,000 in funds to continue their J.P. Harrington database project, including transcription, coding and indexing Native American languages from California and neighboring states.
Cristina Martínez-Carazo, associate professor of Spanish, has launched an international research project, financed by the Ministry of Education in Spain, analyzing images and representations constructed around immigration in Spain in literature, photography, film, and painting.
Julie Sze, assistant professor in American studies and environmental justice project director at the John Muir Institute for the Environment, received $109,000 in grants from a variety of foundations including the Ford Foundation and the Consortium for Women and Research.
Associate professor of religious studies Keith David Watenpaugh was awarded a major grant from The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq for research on the role of a series of massacres of Assyrian Christian refugees in Iraq during the 1930s in the formulation of the interwar international human rights regime.
Michelle Yeh, professor of East Asian languages and cultures, was awarded a grant to visit scholars at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, where she conducted research on Chinese lyricism.
The History Project has won a $180,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support completion of its Marchand website, a collection of nearly 11,000 U.S. historical images from the collections of Roland Marchand and Karen Halttunen.