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History professor Louis Warren giving a talk on Buffalo Bill, who was the subject of his recent book Buffalo Bill's America.
SS faculty help develop today's undergraduates to become critical thinkers – to ask the "why" questions in the tradition of great philosophers and to answer the "why" questions of economics, anthropology, psychology and politics. They guide these answers through their own research, some of which is detailed below.
Suad Joseph, professor of anthropology and women and gender studies, was elected president-elect of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). MESA is the primary scholarly association for scholars who do research on the Middle East. Its membership is global. She will serve as president-elect in 2009-2010; president in 2010-2011; past president in 2011-2012
Suad Joseph, professor of anthropology, has been nominated as one of two candidates to run for the presidency of the Middle East Studies Association, the main professional association for scholars of that region. The election is in the fall of 2009.
Stanley Sue, professor of psychology, has won two awards. He received a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association, and he also received the 2009 Distinguished Service to the Profession of Psychology Award from the Los Angeles County Psychological Association.
Michael McQuarrie, an assistant professor of sociology, is a 2009-10 UC Davis Hellman Fellow. The UC Davis Hellman Fellows Program has been established to provide support and encouragement for the research of promising assistant professors who exhibit potential for great distinction in their research.
Suad Joseph, professor of anthropology, has received two grants totalling $70,000 from Doha. They are for her work in international family studies and development for the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, and to train a new generation of scholars for research on Arab families, to development partnerships with the Doha Institute and Qatar University and UC Davis, and to develop research programs at the Doha Institute.
Peter Lindert, professor of economics, has received $481,925 for research in economic history from the National Science Foundation.
Alan Taylor, professor of economics, received a grant from the National Science Foundation Economics Program for economic history research. It will cover research for three years.