Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. College of Arts and Humanities Jung Sun Park, professor of Asian studies, attended and presented at several workshops and conferences this summer. On May 15, she was invited to present a talk on “The Emergence and Success of the Korean Wave (Hallyu): With a Brief Note on 'Gangnam Style'” at the annual Korean American lecture series at the University of California, Riverside's Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies. Also in May, Park traveled to Osaka, Japan, to attend a workshop on ... Read More
Faculty Highlights
Faculty Highlights: July 2014
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. College of Arts and Humanities Gilah Hirsch, professor of art, has been invited as the featured artist at the Songambele Arts Festival in Nairobi, Kenya, in August. During the weeklong festival, Hirsch's art will be publicly displayed and she will be giving presentations on her research in the area of healing through art, as well as visiting with doctors and patients in local hospitals and educators in schools regarding the importance of ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: June 2014
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. College of Arts and Humanities Michael Desrochers, adjunct faculty member in history, contributed revisions to his chapter "Religions of Antiquity" to the survey text "World Religions: Western Traditions, Fourth Edition" (Oxford University Press, 2014). Ken Roth, lecturer in digital media arts, co-authored a chapter, "Realizing Race: Media Representation and the Uneasy Adjustment of Asian International Students and African American ... Read More
Marie Palladini: 2014 Lyle E. Gibson Dominguez Hills Distinguished Teacher
For 30 years, Marie Palladini was a federal law enforcement officer with the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Service, working undercover to catch smugglers of endangered species and investigating all kinds of criminal cases involving wildlife, both in the field and as a manager. It was her dream job and she could have easily retired content with having led a successful career. Instead, she found herself starting a whole new career, one she said she equally loves–as associate professor of public administration, and currently acting associate dean of the College of Business Administration and Public Policy at California State University, Dominguez Hills. “I said I'm going to ... Read More
Richard Malamud: 2014 Outstanding Professor
In Hebrew, the surname Malamud translates to English as “teacher,” which makes Richard Malamud, professor of accounting, aptly named. A certified public accountant and tax lawyer, Malamud first got interested in teaching while working for the national accounting firm, Laventhol & Horwath. “I taught about six courses as part of their continuing education and loved every minute of teaching. I also wrote one or two of [the courses],” Malamud recalls. “That is where I got the bug to teach.” When a faculty position in the Department of Accounting and Finance at California State University, Dominguez Hills opened up in 1990, Malamud crunched the numbers, so to speak, and took the ... Read More
