College of Arts and Sciences programs offer a wide variety of opportunities for students and alumni to collaborate with faculty.
Caitlin Carlson, PhD, Chair and Associate Professor, Communication and Media, presented a paper at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference in D.C. this August with Public Affairs student, Trevor Buchan. Our paper was titled "Fighting Words: A Women's Issue?"
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, PhD, Professor, Modern Languages and Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies, is the first editor of "Indomitable / Indomables: A Multigenre Chicanx/Latinx Women's Anthology," which includes contributions by Claudia Castro-Luna, MFA, MA, Adjunct Professor, Matteo Ricci Institute, and Jeannette Rodriguez, PhD, Professor: Theology and Religious Studies and Couple and Family Therapy, and Director, Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, and from former English Department visiting artists Kathleen Alcalá and Kirsten Millares Young.
Jacqueline Helfgott, PhD, Professor, Criminal Justice and Director, Crime and Justice Research Center co-wrote a Seattle Times op-ed with Brandon Bledsoe and Katie Kepler (MACJ ’23 grads and SPD MCPP Research Analysts): Bledsoe, B.N., Kepler, K., & Helfgott, J.B. (2023, June 14). Take a seat at the table of Seattle community-police dialogues. The Seattle Times. The Seattle University-Seattle Police Department Micro-Community Policing Plans research team (Department of Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Forensics undergrad students Elaria Zakhary, Quinn Priebe and Zachary Dar and graduate students Ana Carpenter and Eden Sedgwick) has been working all summer facilitating weekly Community-Police Dialogues. They will be conducting special dialogues focused on the Seattle Police Before the Badge program this fall. The Seattle Micro-Community Policing Plans is also being replicated in Denver Fall 2023. She be working on this with Matt Hickman and MACJ alums who were previous MCPP Research Analysts who are now in doctoral programs, Brandon Bledsoe (now in the Criminology and Criminal Justice doctoral program at the University of Cincinnati) and Shannon Christensen (now in the Criminology and Criminal Justice doctoral program at the University of Southern Illinois.
Audrey Hudgins, EdD, Clinical Associate Professor, Matteo Ricci Institute, and affiliate faculty in International Studies presented the paper “La experiencia de trabajadores H-2A: Changes in lives through cohort circular migration” with Cullin Egge, BA, Spanish and Social Work '23, as part of the panel “Mexican H-2A Labor Migration, Transnational Families, and Communities: Plataforma Huaya-Puebla-Seattle Research Collaboration” at the Latin American Studies Association 2023 Congress in Vancouver, Canada. A team of Seattle University faculty and students, Audrey Hudgins, Marissa Olivares, Cullin Egge, Abi Berhane, and Claire Wiener, together with faculty and students from Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, completed a second phase of fieldwork in Wenatchee valley in support of their transregional research collaboration on H-2A temporary agricultural visa migration. Nearly 120 interviews were conducted in June 2023 with H-2A workers and community members in and around Mattawa, Washington.
Randall Souza, PhD, Assistant Professor, History co-directed an archaeological excavation in Sicily. Claire Hood, Communication and Media with a minor in History and Ramona Jagge, Design, graduating in 2024, joined the American Excavations at Morgantina: Agora Valley Project for the 2023 season. Claire and Ramona learned and practiced proper excavation methodology on the site of an ancient public building, possibly a sanctuary, and also spent time with the post-excavation materials analysis, geospatial recording, ceramics analysis, and environmental analysis teams, all while adapting to life in a rural town in central Sicily.