SBS Developments 2016

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

DEVELOPMENTS Celebrating Anthropology’s Centennial with a $3 Million Gift Investing in Tomorrow’s Problem Solvers

SBS DEVELOPMENTS 2015-2016 A Publication for Alumni and Friends of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences http://sbs.arizona.edu Jennifer Yamnitz, director of marketing and communications Lori Harwood, writer and editor John Stobbe, graphic designer Contributing Writers Dave Cuillier Amer Taleb Development Office Ginny Healy, senior director of development Colleen Bagnall Perra, director of development Marisa Pope-Malings, assistant director of development Jennifer Rascon, development operations Oona Feddis, events and donor relations manager Inquiries may be addressed to: SBS DEVELOPMENTS The University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences P.O. Box 210028 Tucson, Arizona 85721 520-626-3846 harwoodl@email.arizona.edu

On the cover: Anthropology student Riley Duke with Philip and Kathe Gust. The Gusts have made a $3 million estate gift to the School of Anthropology. Photo by John de Dios.

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FEATURES

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16 DEPARTMENTS

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Q&A with the Dean

20 The Magellan Circle

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Family History: The Benjamin A. Hesketh Memorial Scholarship and the William H. Hesketh Scholarship Reward the Original Research and Global Perspectives of History Students

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Alumnus Wills Estate to the School of Journalism to Spread Truth, Not Propaganda

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A Wonderful Romance: Frank DeFazio Establishes the Julie Christakis DeFazio Excellence in Teaching Award

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Silent Investors: New Scholarship Benefits Students in Care, Health & Society Major

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Celebrating Its Centennial: Anthropology Through the Years

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A Renaissance Couple: $3M Gift Supports Student Field Research in Anthropology

26 Richard Ruiz Scholarship Created in Honor of Beloved Professor

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SBS Advisory Board Profile

28 Community Connections 32

Perspectives

36 The Buzz: News & Notes 40 How to Give

SBS has so much going on downtown. Why?

John Paul Jones III Photo by Michelle Burley

Everything we do downtown is guided by two premises: First, as a part of our underlying mission, SBS has a responsibility to our public—which of course includes our staff, faculty, and students—to enhance the cultural, social, and economic vitality of our city, region, and state; and second, our limited resources can be best leveraged and realized right here in our own city, and in particular in our downtown, which has seen tremendous changes in the past several years and which is primed for even more activity in the future. I strongly believe that SBS’s faculty, across their myriad research, teaching, and outreach activities, can help downtown in positive ways, including by enhancing diversity while promoting responsible growth.

You’ll notice in this issue of SBS Developments a number of brief descriptions of our downtown-based projects, such as the Downtown Lecture Series at the historic Fox Tucson Theatre, now in its third year, or the new living and gathering space at Studio 44. While we don’t have plans to move any undergraduate programs downtown, we are delighted that we have a large professional graduate degree, the Masters of Public Administration, offered by the School of Government and Public Policy, at UA Downtown (a.k.a. the Roy Place Building). In addition, UA Downtown provides space for one of our newest outreach partners, the Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA).

Led by UA’s public folklorist, Maribel Alvarez, the SFA is the presenting organization for the annual Tucson Meet Yourself festival. Its downtown location makes it closer to the people of Tucson as it fulfills its mission of enhancing and celebrating the everyday expressions of culture, heritage, and diversity that make our city and region so unique. I should add that UA Downtown would not be possible without the support of Pima County, and we’re grateful for that partnership.

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What’s new on the academic horizon?

We are always generating ideas aimed at expanding and improving education and research in the college. I’m reminded of the tagline “Total Quality Management,” which we used to hear a lot about in the 1980s. We strive daily to create a culture responsive to problems and embracive of new ideas and opportunities. In the past couple of years, our new undergraduate interdisciplinary degrees have grown considerably, including popular new offerings such as criminal justice; eSociety; care, health and society; environmental studies; and American Indian studies. We even began, in collaboration with the James E. Rogers College of Law, a U.S. first: a B.A. in law.

“We strive daily to create a culture responsive to problems and embracive of new ideas and opportunities.”

In addition, as of last year we are the new home of the Department of English and the Department of American Indian Studies, and this year we began the new School of Information, which resulted from a merger of one of our units and one from the College of Science. Helping these units integrate with the rest of the college is a major goal this academic year.

Finally, our 14 graduate programs continue to be highly ranked. We protect these at all costs, for without strong graduate programs the UA would not be a research university, nor would the college be known for its research expertise. Of course we are committed to education at all levels and have new and expanded undergraduate offerings and professional master’s degrees to prove it, but the key to holding on to the world’s best faculty is to maintain Ph.D. programs of the highest caliber.

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What are the college’s priorities for the UA “Arizona NOW” Campaign?

Well, I’m really proud of the goals we’ve achieved so far.

Thanks to the support of many, during the campaign the college has more than doubled its historic annual giving. But we need to do more in order to underwrite permanent excellence throughout the college. Also, each unit’s needs are different, and we are uneven in our progress in meeting them. But generally speaking, the college’s priorities are: (a) endowing more faculty professorships and chairs, so that our units can hire excellent faculty and retain those they already have; (b) providing tuition scholarships, travel, and research funds for our undergraduate and graduate students so that they can, not only be successful here, but also have an academic and financial head start when they leave; and (c) investing in our infrastructure, both on campus and in our outreach facilities. For our success, we are very grateful to our friends and alumni who have given, or “given back.”

As many of the articles in this issue illustrate, each gift makes a difference in the lives of faculty, students, and our community.

What do you like to read in your spare time, assuming you have any?

Oh, this is embarrassing. Well, I get hundreds of emails a day, and I continue to read the literature and write articles in my own discipline of geography. But I think this question is really about reading for pleasure, which is mostly confined to winter and summer breaks, when things do slow down a little bit. This winter I’m hoping to read Jonathan Franzen’s Purity—I was a big fan of The Corrections. Next spring break I’m looking forward to Paul Mason’s yet-to-be-published book Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future. During the semester, my bedside table is littered with issues of The New Yorker and several car magazines like Car and Driver, Road & Track, and Automobile. Sometimes the writing is really excellent; sometimes it’s sleep inducing!

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Two families (who coincidentally both have the surname of Hesketh) have funded scholarships in the Department of History to memorialize loved ones. These scholarships encourage and reward original research and global perspectives.

These named scholarships serve history in more ways than one: They memorialize a loved one—so the honoree’s face, name, and story live on—and the gift itself facilitates the education of future historians. This act of generosity advances the preservation of knowledge that can be shared with generations to come.

Benjamin A. Hesketh Memorial Scholarship After high school, Ben Hesketh followed his brother, Matt, who was three years older, to the UA. At the end of his freshman year, Ben still hadn’t decided on a major. Maybe history, which he had loved since his early years watching the History Channel. Perhaps he would pursue a career in physical therapy, which he had benefited from after a sports injury in high school.

Before that story could unfold, however, Ben died in a car accident near Lake Mary in Northern Arizona on an early Saturday morning in 2008. He was 19.

Five years later, Matt was feeling Ben’s absence as he planned his upcoming wedding to his fiancée, Lindsay.

Together, they decided to marry on Ben’s birthday and asked that guests forego a customary wedding present and instead donate to a scholarship fund in Ben’s name.

With the generous donations from wedding guests combined with personal funds, Matt and Lindsay were able to kick off the Benjamin A. Hesketh Memorial Scholarship in the UA Department of History. The first scholarship was awarded to a student during the fall 2015 semester.

“The generous support of the Hesketh family helps us to encourage and reward history students who are engaged in original research,” said Kevin Gosner, head of the Department of History. “The Benjamin A. Hesketh Memorial Scholarship will help undergraduates visit archives and special collections and also to travel to regional and national conferences, where they can share their work with other young historians.”

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Ben Hesketh

When he was at the UA, Matt majored in political science and history before obtaining a law degree. “An interest in history was one of the things that Ben and I shared, which was one of the reasons that creating a history scholarship felt right,” said Matt.

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Ben and Matt grew closer during their joint year at the UA. “It was the first time we had lived together. Our parents divorced when we were fairly young, and Ben lived with my mom, and I lived with my dad,” said Matt, adding that his parents created many opportunities for them to spend time together. “It was a really good year for us. Sometimes I feel bad that he didn’t have the traditional freshman experience of living in a dorm, but at the same time, I wouldn’t give up that year that I got to spend with him.”

Matt said Ben was outgoing and fun to be around. “I have always been more of a serious person, and Ben helped me to find balance in life,” said Matt.

“He showed me that life is more than working really hard and studying all the time. You need to make time for finding passions and enjoying what you are doing.”

“We were raised in an atmosphere that valued higher education, and we understand the need for students to come back after graduation and help the next group of students going through.” ~Matt Hesketh

Both Matt and Lindsay understand the importance of education. Matt’s dad worked at Northern Arizona University for 40 years, and his mom was a schoolteacher.

Lindsay, who is also a lawyer and a Lindsay and Matt Hesketh UA alumnus, majored in philosophy and minored in sociology. She went Matt adds that he has been touched and grateful for on to get an M.A. in higher education the support of family and friends. “To this day, people before earning her J.D. degree. come together on the anniversary of Ben’s passing and “We were raised in an atmosphere that valued higher his birthday to remember and celebrate him,” said Matt. education, and we understand the need for students to “I think that serves as a testament to how much of an come back after graduation and help the next group of impact he had on the world around him.” students going through,” said Matt.

“I was in full support of doing a scholarship,” said Lindsay. “We were both on the same page about wanting to honor Ben in that way.”

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William H. Hesketh Scholarship For more than 15 years, Jennifer Hesketh Aviles, a longtime UA supporter and Tucson activist, has helped fund a history scholarship to honor her father, William Howard Hesketh, a chemical engineer who adored history.

William Hesketh, a New Jersey native, began his career with Standard Oil in 1941. After honorable discharge from the U.S Army Air Force (1943-1945), he continued with ESSO Research and Engineering, then Standard Vacuum, and finally Mobil Oil, which took him, his wife, and three children to Colombia, India, the Philippines, Australia, Japan, and France.

Bill believed in cultural immersion, so Jennifer and her siblings attended the local schools rather than the American schools offered on the compound. In South America, Jennifer went to a school where 12 grades were taught in two rooms. In India, where Jennifer attended an all-girls school in Bombay, she had her first exposure to racism when she was not allowed to bring a friend to the compound swimming pool because of her dark skin. In the Philippines, Jennifer went to school with kids whose parents worked at embassies from all over the world. During Jennifer’s college years, her Japanese boyfriend couldn’t bring her to his house because she was a gaijin, or a foreigner. All said, Jennifer found her eclectic upbringing fantastic.

At the age of 54, Bill retired to Tucson with his wife, Marguerite. Travelled out by that point, he preferred to indulge in his love of golf, swimming, genealogy, and history. Bill was a member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Huguenot Society. He frequented the UA and public libraries. He also read voluminously and particularly enjoyed historical fiction and the history of the United States.

After Bill died in 1999 at the age of 82, Marguerite and Jennifer decided to create scholarships in his name in the UA Honors College (for engineering students) and in the UA Department of History, one to reflect his occupation and the other his avocation.

Jennifer said it seemed obvious to honor her father by donating to the UA, because throughout his life, Bill emphasized the value of education to his children.

“My grandmother was deserted when my father was a little boy, so she had to open a boarding house to make ends meet,” said Jennifer. Later, Bill’s stepfather insisted he go to college, which Bill credited with his ability to succeed in his career. Bill told all three of his children that they would go to college.

Bill’s enthusiastic endorsement of the value of lifelong learning was also reflected in his membership in numerous rotary clubs and school boards.

Jennifer’s history has led her to champion student scholarships; women’s and girls’ opportunities; and issues related to diversity, leadership, and social justice.

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Following her international upbringing, Jennifer earned her B.A. in business administration from Simmons College in Boston. She moved to Tucson with her first husband, who was a professor at the UA. After her divorce, Jennifer began working for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences as a “secretary receptionist” and then advanced into positions of increasing responsibility, including serving as program

Jennifer Aviles

coordinator at the UA for the Commission on the Status of Women and the Diversity Action Council, which she says was her dream job.

Jennifer’s lifelong interest in women’s rights was reinvigorated during a trip to Washington, D.C., to attend her son’s graduation from Georgetown. At the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Jennifer noticed that much of the art wasn’t signed. She learned that prior to the 19th century, many women didn’t put their names on their art, or they just wrote their initials or a man’s name. Jennifer felt the injustice of this, so when she learned about the Women’s Plaza of Honor project at the UA, created by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, she jumped at the opportunity to get involved. She ended up becoming co-chair of the executive committee of the Women’s Plaza of Honor and chair of the Plaza’s design and construction committee. Her husband, Enrique Aviles, honored her in the Plaza with a tree in her name.

“History is a discipline that increasingly takes a global perspective on nearly every critical topic, so the support for international travel provided for by the William H. Hesketh Scholarship is invaluable as we train students for professions in and out of academia.” ~ Kevin Gosner, head of the Department of History

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Jennifer’s time working at and for the UA makes her very familiar with student needs and their struggles to cobble together funds for tuition, so she is happy to contribute to a scholarship that gives them a boost.

“I have a real soft spot in my heart for this university and the students,” said Jennifer.

Meet the Scholars In recent years, the William H. Hesketh Scholarship has been devoted to enabling doctoral candidates to travel abroad.

Here are some of the recent projects and students funded by the scholarship: Luis Coronado Luis researches religion and politics in Mexico. The Hesketh Scholarship, which he received in 2013, helped with his travel expenses to Mexico City, where he conducted archival research on how the 1910 revolution and its resulting regime created new conceptions of justice and citizenship.

Kathryn Gallien Kathryn received a Hesketh Scholarship in 2012 to support her research in Bolivia. Her dissertation examines how ideas about race, and the proper place of Bolivia’s indigenous people within the nation, influenced the development of obstetric medicine and maternal-infant care programs in the country.

Mary Pierce The Hesketh Scholarship allowed Mary to travel to England to find archival materials related to her dissertation, “Controversy Surrounding 17th-Century English Coffeehouses.” Some of the material she examined included 17th-century English manuscripts, pamphlets on coffee and coffeehouses, broadside ballads, religious treatises, marriage advice literature, court trials, cookbooks, and travel accounts.

Marguerite and William Hesketh

Jamie Stoops Jamie used her scholarship to fund her most recent archival research trip to London.

Jamie studies the history of the British pornography trade between 1900 and 1939 and also examines the links between British pornographers and their counterparts in Western Europe, the U.S., and the colonies.

Robin Zenger Robin received the Hesketh Scholarship twice: in 2011, to help fund her summer research in Panama City, and, in 2012, to allow her to travel to Vancouver to present a paper at the Social Science History Association. Robin’s dissertation is about how the laborers from the West Indies who helped build the Panama Canal influenced Panama’s development.

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By David Cuillier, director of the School of Journalism

A Vietnam War veteran bequeaths part of his estate to the School of Journalism to ensure truth in the media lives on after he’s gone.

Al Litzow, a 1973 journalism alumnus, talks with School of Journalism Associate Professor Carol Schwalbe about the upcoming edition of SciView, a magazine produced by a science journalism class with Litzow’s financial support.

During the Vietnam War, Albert Litzow worked in psychological operations, loading U.S. propaganda leaflets onto military planes to be scattered over villages.

“We dumped some crazy things,” said Litzow, who had just graduated from the University of Arizona in political science in 1968. “We called them the Bullsh-Bombers. Once we dropped DayGlo transistor radios tuned to propaganda channels, coming in over villages at 100 feet. Those things went straight through the thatched roofs.”

Litzow’s interest in the world started in Webster Grove, Missouri, where he was raised. He wanted to go to college in California, but his dad insisted those schools were too liberal. When Litzow threatened to join the military instead of going to college, his father’s friend provided advice: “Send him to Arizona. They’ve got Barry Goldwater—it’s the most conservative place in the world.”

Initially at the University of Arizona he was going to study engineering, but gravitated to political science.

During school he earned his pilot license and spent his free time parachuting for fun.

“I wanted to be a pilot since I was 3 years old,” Litzow said.

Following Vietnam and his return to the UA, he thought he would earn a teaching degree. His friend Bill Mooney, however, convinced him to sign up for journalism instead.

“He said it’s a blast, you’ll love it,” Litzow remembers.

It was. He said he was particularly fond of Don Carson, a longtime journalism professor and former director of the program.

“He was an absolute excellent teacher,” Litzow said. “He was funny. He was patient.”

Al Litzow peers at a Gila monster held by Cecil Schwalbe, former state herpetologist and spouse of School of Journalism Associate Professor Carol Schwalbe. Cecil is certified to display rare snakes and lizards for educational purposes and often Carson remembers Litzow, speaks to journalism classes. as well: “Al was a quality reporter and writer with an After Litzow served a tour he returned to the UA to get adventurous spirit, a zest for living, and a great sense a second degree in journalism, finishing in 1973, and of humor.” then embarked on a successful career in aviation. This Adventures awaited Litzow after graduation, where he year the 70-year-old Tucson retiree included the School immediately jumped into aviation, teaching pilots and of Journalism in his estate planning, a gift that could occasionally flying private jets for billionaires. He raced exceed $1 million. motorcycles, built sidecars, and remains passionate The voracious reader—a subscriber to more than 40 about cars. magazines—said he wants to help spread truth through Litzow married and divorced, but always kept his the world, not propaganda. house in Tucson. Now he spends a lot of his time “I’m amazed at how much time I spend every day reading magazines with his calico pound friend, reading what some journalist has written,” Litzow MizKat. said. “And how very much I depend on that for my very “I depend on journalists so much,” he said. “Without happiness and well-being.” journalists I would have no reading.”

In addition to the planned gift, Litzow also pays for That’s why, he said, he decided to support good the publication of SciView, a color magazine produced journalism forever through willing part of his estate to by students in the school’s science journalism class. the UA School of Journalism.

The class is led by Associate Professor Carol Schwalbe, “One day I was sitting down and thinking I won’t be who worked for decades at National Geographic. able to take it with me,” he said. “What is one of the “We’re so grateful to Al for his recent gift,” Schwalbe most important things? Reading. Without it the world is said. “His generosity will enable us to continue lost. Think how many more people would die without publishing our science magazine. His support will good journalism. How many would starve. Our world is also help our science journalism program grow changing so fast that you can slip behind in a breath.” and prosper.”

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Romance A Wonderful

Everlasting love inspired Frank DeFazio to create a scholarship for talented new English teachers.

One day in 2007, Frank DeFazio shot awake at 2 a.m. He suddenly knew what he must do to honor his wife, Julie, who had died a year previously of heart failure. At the time, Frank was living in San Diego, getting up at 5 a.m. every day to volunteer in the kitchen of a homeless shelter, finding that it was only in helping others that he could ward off the deep depression that had rammed into his life since the death of his beloved Julie.

Seized with the rightness of his revelation—Julie had loved her English classes at the UA, he would honor her there!—Frank jumped into his car, drove to Tucson, and walked into the English department.

He said he half expected to be laughed at; he knew his initial $5,000 offering paled in comparison to the major gifts they surely must see every day. He was pleasantly surprised, however. The people he met in the department—Anne-Marie Hall and Meg Lota Brown—were thrilled by the gift and quickly moved to set up a scholarship that would honor Julie.

Helping Others Julie Christakis DeFazio, who grew up in Massachusetts and the Bronx, loved her Greek heritage.

She was fluent in Greek and remembered fondly her father, John Christakis, teaching her to sing and dance to Greek music.

Julie met Frank when she and her friends walked into the club house of a Phoenix race track looking for Barney, the chef.

Instead they found Frank, who was the new club manager.

“I knew at that moment Julie would be the love of my life,” Frank said. “And she was. I was so fortunate to find her.

“I wasn’t paying attention to people as I should have,” Frank added. “I was trying to make money, but there is a lot more to life than that. And I found out.

She educated me a lot about that.”

The couple married in 1966.

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Julie Christakis DeFazio

Julie had a strong sense of justice and a commitment to helping others less fortunate than herself.

Throughout her life, Julie was the one who gave money to the homeless vet with the sign and wrote notes to the managers of the hotel maid or the store clerk, praising the employee’s exceptional service. She always wanted to help, to use her way with words to elevate others.

Frank recalled the lengths Julie went to to help a busboy who worked for him at the racetrack. The teenager, who had a disfiguring birthmark over half his face, was beset by

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The 2015 Julie Christakis DeFazio award recipients: Alan Kohler, Catherine Chaterdon, Jan Bindas-Tenney, and Madelyn Tucker Pawlowski with Frank DeFazio (second from right). Photo by Lori Harwood.

teasing. Julie promptly informed Frank that they had to help the young man. She called doctors all over the county and eventually found one in San Diego exploring the emerging technique of laser surgery. Julie and Frank took the boy to the doctor, raised money for his treatment, and found accommodations for him in San Diego for the months of laser treatment required.

When Frank and Julie moved to Tucson in the 1970s for Frank’s work, Julie began taking classes at Pima Community College and then attended the UA, majoring in public administration.

Julie loved the UA, especially her English classes, always sitting in the front row and asking questions.

Julie loved to write and in addition to writing letters in praise of ordinary people, she kept a journal and wrote essays and poems.

After graduation, Julie considered social work but found her brief

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exposure to the work heartbreaking and dispiriting. She went on to enjoy a successful career as a real estate broker.

Always open to new adventures, Julie encouraged Frank to apply for a government job managing officer clubs in Europe. So in 1988, they moved to Germany and lived there for around five years. She volunteered to teach English to some of the officers’ wives. Her class of four students eventually became a class of 80.

After further stints in Crete and Idaho, the pair retired in California.

After treatment for breast cancer, Julie developed arrhythmia and passed away in 2007 from complications from the prescribed blood thinner.

“Julie was so fit and so beautiful.

There was not a wrinkle on her face,” Frank said. “I truly miss her.

It was a great romance for all those wonderful years.”

Frank, who returned to Tucson a few years ago and is the director of

the Rillito Park Foundation, is pleased with his decision to honor Julie with this scholarship, which honors not only Julie’s passion for writing but also her appreciation of teachers who encourage their students.

Due to increased donations from Frank every year, the Julie Christakis DeFazio scholarship is now awarded every year to four graduate students in the Department of English who have an established record of exemplary teaching in the Writing Program.

“It’s been the best thing in my life to see these young students get those awards. You should see the wonderful letters that they write me,” Frank said. “I’m so thrilled to receive those letters.”

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A secret bequest left more than 40 years ago appears just in time to support students in the new care, health & society major.

Last spring, Al Bergesen, director of the School of Sociology, discovered that the school was the beneficiary of a $400,000 estate gift from Frederick A. and Margaret S. Conrad.

Unbeknownst to the UA, the couple had added the School of Sociology to their estate some 40 years ago.

When Frederick passed away in 1974 and his wife in 1985, the funds went to their daughter, Jean Ames. When she died in 2012, the money then transferred to the UA. This generous couple established an endowment that will fund scholarships in perpetuity for deserving and promising sociology students “seeking careers in health and welfare services.”

Fortuitously, the school launched a new major in care, health & society (CHS) just last year. The CHS major is part of a growing number of programs, such as criminal justice and eSociety, created by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences to respond to student, employer, and societal needs. With an aging U.S. population, there is an increased demand for healthcare professionals, especially those versed in the social dimensions of healthcare.

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toward interdisciplinary health studies,” said Terrence Hill, associate professor of sociology and director of the CHS major.

The CHS major, which is a bachelor of science, examines the nature of care and suffering in society and has already enrolled nearly 300 students. Students are prepared for careers in disciplines that include medicine, nursing, and pharmacology. Coursework includes classes in chemistry, biology, and nutrition, as well as on topics such as philosophy, religion, ethics, and advocacy.

Students are also required to take a semester-long internship.

“The Conrad family was committed to supporting health and welfare services, so we are excited that the new Conrad Scholarship will continue that commitment by sponsoring CHS students,” Hill said.

For academic year 2015-2016, six undergraduate students received the $2,000 Conrad Scholarship. At right, the recipients explain how they plan to make their mark in the field of healthcare.

Yamayra Castanos Yamayra wants to become a clinical therapist and eventually earn her Ph.D. in social work.

“The care, health & society major helped me be more aware of our healthcare system, the needs of people, and the process of what suffering really is.”

Martin Forstrom Martin has set his sights on becoming a public defender, which he says is “one of the most essential social services in this country, especially considering our highest-inhistory incarceration rate and the enormous number of people unfairly or even falsely imprisoned.”

Ashley Moran After graduation, Ashley wants to work in the field of family health, focusing on education and health promotion in South Africa. Future goals include graduate school and working for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

“I want to leave a mark in the healthcare world, even if it is just a small impact. My main goal is to help those in third world countries, especially South Africa.”

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Conrad Scholarship recipient Marisa Rossy at her internship at Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital.

Photo by John de Dios.

Marisa Rossy Marisa wants to become a nurse practitioner, specifically dealing with end-of-life care.

“It has always been my passion to serve the elderly population and to honor their dignity in their last stages of life.”

Margarita Verdugo The first in her family to go to college, Margarita plans to obtain a graduate degree in social work. Growing up in poverty led Margarita down her career path.

“I feel my own personal experience can help make me an advocate for individuals who suffer from poverty and drug abuse.”

Niza Zamudio Niza aspires to open an institute to help victims of sexual abuse.

“This institute will be dedicated to help people with their selfesteem and also help them overcome trauma.”

Photo (at right, l-r): Margarita Verdugo, Marisa Rossy, Niza Zamudio, and Yamayra Castanos.

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The School of Anthropology has been celebrating its Centennial throughout 2015 with a range of special events.

On Dec. 4-5, the school looks ahead to its next hundred years with a symposium on “The Future of Anthropology,” a formal gala dinner, and the Party of the Century. For details, go to: http://celebrate100. anthropology.arizona.edu/.

From its humble beginnings in 1915, the School of Anthropology has grown to be one of the top anthropology programs in the country, consistently ranked in the top five. Pictured here are a few highlights from over the years. (Many of the photo captions are adapted from Raymond H. Thompson’s article “Anthropology at the University of Arizona, 1893-2005.”)

In 1915, Byron Cummings assumed the directorship of the Arizona State Museum and became the first professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona. At the time, the UA had 70 faculty members and 463 students. Photo by Tad Nichols.

Emil Haury, who was named head of the UA anthropology department in 1937 (which became a school in 2009), established the camp at Point of Pines that served as the site for the archaeological field school for 15 years. Photo by E.B. Sayles, courtesy of the Arizona State Museum.

Emerita Professor Mary Ellen Morbeck in her lab with primate skulls circa 1990. Morbeck and Jane Goodall collaborated on research with chimpanzees. Photo by Mari A. Schaefer, courtesy of the Arizona Daily Star.

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Anthropology Professor Mimi Nichter in Karnataka, India. Since the 1970s, Nichter has been conducting longitudinal ethnographic research on local health cultures in rural South India.

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C E L E B R A T I O N

A LOOK BACK AT 100 YEARS OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

In 1962, the anthropology building (now the Emil W. Haury Anthropology Building) was completed. It was the first building at any American university to be planned from the start for the exclusive use of an anthropology department. Photo courtesy of the Arizona State Museum.

Regents’ Professor John Olsen at Rongbuk Glacier (Mt. Everest), Tibet, in June 2014. Olsen, a former head of the Department of Anthropology (1998-2008), is an archaeologist who is working to decode the Ice Age ebb and flow of ancestral human populations across some of the highest and driest territories on earth in Tibet and Mongolia. Photo by M. Steffen.

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Emeritus Professor Raymond H. Thompson became head of the department and director of the Arizona State Museum in 1964-65, during a time of explosive growth in American higher education. Photo

by Helga Teiwes, courtesy of the Arizona State Museum.

Distinguished Outreach Professor Diane Austin, current director of the School of Anthropology, with students and Mexican collaborators during fieldwork in Nogales, Mexico. Austin’s research has contributed to changes in Arizona policies regarding the construction and use of composting toilets. Photo courtesy of the Waste to Resource

This photo of Emerita Regents’ Professor Jane Hill, who specializes in linguistic anthropology, was taken in 1978 in San Miguel Canoa, Puebla, Mexico. Linguistic anthropology is the study of language as a social and cultural practice. Photo by Kenneth Hill.

The UA School of Anthropology has one of the best and largest anthropology programs in the country. Anthropology faculty and students strive to understand humans and human societies, from five million years ago to the present. Photo

by Christine Scheer.

Composting Toilet Initiative.

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UA alumni Kathe and Philip Gust have made a $3 million estate gift to the top-ranked School of Anthropology in support of field research for graduate students.

Philip and Kathe Gust have committed the bulk of their estate—a transformative $3 million gift—to the UA School of Anthropology to support field research for graduate students.

The connection between the Gusts and the school is not obvious at first, but if you dig deeper, you will discover that they share an abiding interest in the diversity of humanity and a desire to train future generations of anthropologists.

The Gusts have an eclectic and broad set of interests. “We think of ourselves as renaissance people,” Philip said. “We both enjoy learning and getting involved in whatever captures our interest.”

In their professional lives, the couple have built careers in the fields of library science and computer science.

While in high school, Philip won awards at the international Science and Engineering Fair that led to positions at Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Those jobs helped pay for his education at the UA, where he obtained B.S. degrees in mathematics and psychology and an M.S. in computer science. Philip also taught computer science at the UA in the mid- to late-70s and wrote the textbook for one of the classes.

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science from the UA. She worked in the UA main library to help pay for her education and helped move the library from what is now the Arizona State Museum North to its current location.

Kathe has worked in academic, public, and corporate libraries and is now an engineering librarian at Stanford University.

In their personal lives, the couple’s love of culture, history, and art is reflected in one of their favorite pastimes: historical and sci-fi/fantasy costuming.

Philip and Kathe, who have been married for 42 years, met in college during a tournament for the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), an

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COUPLE organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe.

After graduating and moving to Oregon, their busy careers didn’t give them much time for costuming.

That changed after they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area five years later. When the first Lord of the Rings movie came out in 2003, Kathe was

“This generous gift from the Gusts helps ensure that the School of Anthropology remains a leader going forward. Given the costs associated with field research, our ability to support this important aspect of students’ education will help us recruit top students and prepare them for the challenges and joys associated with careers in anthropology.”

inspired by Ngila Dickson’s costumes and converted a spare bedroom into the “Sewing Room of Shame.” She created the Rohan costumes of “King Theoden” and “Eowyn,” and Philip and Kathe wore them at the premier of the third Lord of the Rings movie in Wellington, New Zealand.

Philip also jumped into the fray. “I ~ Diane Austin, director of the can do some sewing, but I’m not School of Anthropology

nearly as good as she is,” said Philip, who is currently president of the International Costumers’ Guild and edits a costuming magazine. “I make the props, special effects, and prosthetic makeup for our costumes.”

They’ve gone on to create clothing for many historical periods and for various sci-fi and fantasy genres and have won numerous awards for their work. “One way to understand a culture, whether historical or fictional, is to dress like them,” said Philip.

The couple also enjoys collecting things, mostly artifacts. “We have a fairly substantial Oaxacan figure collection, and we have several medieval manuscripts on our wall,” Philip said. Other collections include production Disney animation cels and wooden bowls from all over the world.

They also plan to leave some of these collections to the UA.

Philip and Kathe Gust

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Supporting Anthropology Kathe says that the couple financially supports a variety of causes, leaning toward areas they are personally involved in, such as the arts. “But we wanted to make the last gift something that would have meaning going forward to a lot of people. We thought benefiting students was a really good way to do that,” Kathe said.

The couple’s interest in the field of anthropology stems back to their UA days.

“When I was in college I was thinking of going into archaeology but that was a bad time to go into the field, so I took another career path. But I have always been interested in it,” Kathe said.

Philip is interested in cultural anthropology, philology (the study of language in written historical sources), and “old world cultures.”

Philip and Kathe have taken archaeological tours to Egypt, the Yucatán, and Central America and visited several sites in England.

“Kathe would still like to go out and do fieldwork and participate in digs someday,” Philip said.

“As long as there’s a chance of discovering texts, I’ll be happy to join in.”

The Gusts were friends with the late author Barbara Mertz, an Egyptologist who wrote mysteries under the pen name of Elizabeth Peters. “Her books are set in Egypt in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods,” Philip said. “Her hero is an archaeologist who bemoans the lack of field technique in his colleagues.”

They are also friends with anthropologist and mystery writer Aaron Elkins, whose protagonist is a forensic anthropologist who insists on proper field technique at crime scenes.

Kathe said that she and Philip saw a need for students to get hands-on experience in the field and to be trained properly, which inspired the focus of their gift to the School of Anthropology.

“We are both deeply interested in furthering education for the next generation,” Kathe said. “We were really lucky to be able to go to the UA and have jobs to pay for it. I think that anthropology is an extremely important and diverse field, and it is something that we are happy to support.”

Kathe and Philip Gust in the UA Homol’ovi Research Program laboratory. Photo by John de Dios.

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Field Research at the UA School of Anthropology The School of Anthropology has more than 100 graduate students, and field research is an essential, yet costly, aspect of their education. When working in the field, graduate students contribute to faculty research while they develop knowledge and skills. They further apply their abilities through independent research for their masters’ theses and dissertations.

Below is just a sample of the research being conducted by UA anthropology graduate students: • Brandi Bethke studies the interactions between humans, animals, and the landscape among prehistoric and contemporary groups in the Northern Great Plains.

• Victoria Moses conducted fieldwork in Rome, Arcadia, and Sardinia for her research on early Roman animal sacrifice and consumption.

Emma Nelson Bunkley investigates the rise of chronic disease alongside recurring infectious disease in Senegal, West Africa.

• Angela Storey conducted fieldwork in Cape Town, South Africa, to explore community efforts to secure water, electricity, and sanitation for informal settlements, and to trace the impact of current struggles upon understandings of citizenship postApartheid.

• Christopher Yutzy examines how residents of impoverished neighborhoods in Fortaleza, Brazil, share information and establish avenues for free speech and social inclusion.

• Jessica Nelson traveled to Bahia, Brazil, where she worked with the PataxóHãhãhãe tribe on revitalizing their heritage language.

Jessica MacLellan has excavated an early residential area at the site of Ceibal, Guatemala, to understand the role of household ritual in the development of ancient Maya society.

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The funding graduate students receive from grants and special research awards—such as the recently established “Mentored Research Experiences for Success” program funded by the Cacioppo Foundation—helps cover travel, equipment, and other research expenses while students are in the field and the laboratory.

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A DONOR SOCIETY THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

The Magellan Circle is a society of donors who contribute to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The money raised in the Magellan Circle supports the Dean’s Fund for Excellence.

Over the years, Magellan Circle members’ generous donations have supported more than 480 students and funded many research projects and faculty awards.

This year, Magellan Circle funds supported our community activities in downtown Tucson, through helping fund the Downtown Lecture Series (page 30) and the build out of Studio 44 (page 28).

The Magellan Circle funded teaching awards, which were given to William Paul Simmons (gender and women’s studies); Elizabeth Oglesby (geography and development; Latin American studies); and Joseph Bonito (communication).

Magellan Circle Funds At Work!

Ben Irvin, an associate professor in the Department of History, is currently working on a book that explores the lives of Revolutionary War veterans with disabilities.

The book will not only examine the social construction of disability in the founding era of the United States, it will delve into issues of masculinity, class, and government bureaucracy.

Irvin began his research for the book in 2009, when he discovered a large number of online pension files underutilized by historians. With funds from the Magellan Circle, Irvin hired two undergraduate students to help him wade through the online records.

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Cita Scott, Sallie Marston, and Moses Thompson

Lifetime Achievement Award

At the Magellan Circle dinner in April, the Honorable Lillian Fisher received the Lifetime Achievement Award, just a few weeks before she passed away at the age of 93. The award recognizes a donor who has provided exemplary service to the college and the community. The former Superior Court Judge, who was an advocate for women and children, recently endowed her Magellan Circle gift, which means a student will receive a scholarship in her name in perpetuity.

Community Engagement Award At the Magellan Circle dinner, the UA Community and School Garden Program team received the Community Engagement Award, which celebrates our community partners—Joan Kaye Cauthorn and Cita Scott—and their collaborative work with SBS faculty and staff—Sallie Marston, professor in the School of Geography and Development, and Moses Thompson, SBS community outreach coordinator and TUSD ecology and sustainability program coordinator. Through the Community and School Garden Program, hundreds of student interns have helped teachers build and maintain gardens while developing lesson plans related to everything from ecology and soil science to math, art, and photography.

“When the stress of a financial burden is alleviated, you are allowed to concentrate that energy into matters that advance your academic career, and this is what the Magellan Circle Scholarship has done for me.” ~Fernanda Velasco, double major in history and political science and a double minor in Spanish and Middle Eastern and North African studies Photos from the 2015 Magellan Circle dinner (At right, first row): Gulshan and Neelam Sethi; Barbara Starrett, Chelsea Parraga, and Jo Ann Ellison. (At right, second row): Donald Daley, Alberto Moore, and Nacho Castro; Stephen, Brad, Anne, and Bob Segal.

Photos by Lori Harwood.

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2015 MAGELLAN CIRCLE MEMBER HONOR ROLL CIRCUMNAVIGATORS (LIFETIME MEMBERS) Rowene Aguirre-Medina and Roy Medina (P) Paul and Alice Baker *

Hervey Hotchkiss and Susan Parker-Hotchkiss (P) Jim and Joanne Hunter

Mary Voyatzsis and Fred Frelinghuysen Mel and Enid Zuckerman

Nicholas and Athena Karabots

FOUNDATIONS Charles G. Koch Charitable

Bob and Esther Berger

Tom and Reenie Keating (P)

Tom and Olga Bever *

Ken and Randy Kendrick

Betsy Bolding (P)

Bill Longacre *

Helios Education Foundation

Larry and Jana Bradley

Steve and Nancy Lynn (P) *

James McDonnell Foundation

Lyn Brillo

Fletcher and Elizabeth

Lessner Family Trust

Arch and Laura Brown (P) Earl and Louise Carroll (P)* Patricia Castro

McCusker Jim Meehan and Patricia White

Foundation

Marshall Foundation Melody S. Robidoux Foundation (P)

Joseph and Ruth Cramer *

Bill Nugent

Omidyar Network Fund, Inc.

Stephanie Denkowicz

Geertruida Oberman

Roshan Institute of Cultural

and Aydin Caginalp

Eleanor Olsen *

Heritage

Donald and Joan Diamond

Ken and Betsy Plevan

Southwestern Foundation

Steve and Ruth Dickstein (P)

Ken and Linda Robin

Vital Projects Fund

Richard and Mary Rose

Ron and Karen Rose

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Adib and Vivi Sabbagh (P) *

William & Flora Hewlett

Duffield (P) Karl and Sandra Elers Karl and Stevie Eller Jo Ann Ellison and Barbara Starrett (P)

Sally Drachman Salvatore

Foundation

and Robert Salvatore John and Helen Schaefer (P) *

Betty Feinberg

Luda Soldwedel *

Bruce and Edythe Gissing

Raymond and Tina Spencer

Matt and Julie Harelson

David and Andrea Stein (P)

Peter Hayes

Duane and Linda Whitaker *

Frederick Henninger

Laurel Wilkening

PATRONS ($1,500 LEVEL) Endowed Patron The late Lillian Fisher*

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Patrons

EXPLORER ($1,000 LEVEL)

Jeff and Tiana Ronstadt

Melany Berger

Endowed Explorer

James and Mary Rowley

Al and Susan Bergesen

Jan Lesher

Peter Salomon and Patricia Morgan

Richard and Behar Delgado Deanna Evenchik

Explorer

Curtis Scaife

Catherine Field

Tarlov Alvin and Janet Belkin

Gulshan and Neelam Sethi

William Ganley

Dennis and Sherrill Bambauer

John Teets

Pam Grissom *

John Becker

Don Harris

David Brown

(P) - Also Patron member

Michael Honkamp

George and Marjorie

* - Founding member

Margaret Houghton *

Cunningham

John Paul Jones III *

Adel Gamal

Mike and Beth Kasser

Philip and Sally Greenfeld

George and Anna Kennedy

John Hudak

Gary Marcus

Gustav and Ann Kaufmann

Bob and Sandra Maxfield

Robert Kaufmann and

Ben Menges

Giving Levels Circumnavigator A donor who gives a gift or a bequest of $100,000 or more to the College of SBS

Peter Petrakis

Jeffrey Mora

Jan Konstanty and Patricia Wallace

Tim and Fran Orrok

Jack and Robin Lavin

Richard and Shana Oseran

Todd and Carole Lundmark

Bonham Richardson

Philip and Carol Lyons

Leo Roop *

Sallie Marston

Bob and Anne Segal

Margaret Maxwell

Creston Shields and Elise

Margy McGonagill and Garry Bryant

Collins Shields Nick Soloway and Kay Ransdell Daniel and Susan Warmack Ed and Keeley Wright * Nicholas Mahon with Tom Keating

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Alberto and Gesine Moore Bill and Ann Moreau John Olsen and Ovadan Amanova-Olsen * Henry and Barbara Peck Reenie Keating with Kathryn Turney

Endowed Magellan A donor who gives $25,000 to endow lifetime membership in the Magellan Circle or $45,000 to endow lifetime membership and a student scholarship in perpetuity Patron A donor who gives an annual contribution of $1,500 to the Magellan Circle, $1,000 of which goes into the Dean’s Fund for Excellence, and $500 of which goes directly to a Magellan scholar Explorer A donor who gives an annual contribution of $1,000, which goes into the Dean’s Fund for Excellence

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Magellan Circle Excursions Slow Italy Tour From May 23 to June 3, 2015, Anthropology Regents’ Professor David Soren led 17 travelers on an excursion to Italy. The trip included guided walking tours; handson cooking classes; a visit to an archaeological dig; and lectures in Italian culture, history, and current affairs.

Next up: Cuba!

The Magellan Circle trip to Cuba, which is sold out, is scheduled for Jan. 3-11, 2016. Led by Dereka Rushbrook in the School of Geography and Development, the group will visit museums and botanical gardens; tour Havana and ViĂąales Valley; speak with a variety of experts, including a diplomat, an urban planner, and a foreign correspondent; and cruise Havana in classic American cars from the 1950s.

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BOARD PROFILE:

Augustine Jimenez

supports the research of UA archaeologists Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan, who study the origins of Maya civilization.

About five years ago, Jimenez and his family visited Maya sites in Guatemala where Inomata and Triadan study the ancient civilization. He said it turned out to be one of the best vacations the family ever took.

This past March, Jimenez went back to the excavation site and really got his hands dirty, working as part of Inomata’s and Triadan’s crew, where he “dug and measured and plotted.” He found the experience challenging but fun. “I loved every minute of it,” he said.

Favorite books: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides Least favorite books: I hate reading law books!

In 2015, Augie Jimenez worked with UA archaeologists Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan in Ceibal, an ancient Maya site in Guatemala.

Augustine Jimenez, a well-respected lawyer and dedicated UA supporter, grew up in Phoenix and graduated from Thunderbird High School. After three semesters at Glendale Community College, he transferred to the UA and majored in political science.

After graduating from the UA in 1985, Jimenez earned a law degree from Arizona State University in 1988 and served as an attorney in the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps until 1992 when he returned to Phoenix and began private practice.

Jimenez is a longtime supporter of UA Athletics and was named an Honorary Letterman in 2007.

Jimenez and his wife, Susan, are members of the Phoenix UA Alumni Chapter and the UA Foundation President’s Club.

Jimenez has a wide variety of interests, which led him to join the SBS advisory board and to donate to two different areas in SBS. Because archaeology is one of his first loves—dating back from his earliest years digging in the dirt—Jimenez

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Jimenez also supports programs in the Department of Mexican American Studies that empower Tucson high school students, such as the Social Justice Education Project (SJEP), which was offered in TUSD high schools, and the Jump Start Program in Social Justice, which provides high school juniors and seniors with college credit and provides them a pathway to college. His support was motivated by one of his favorite UA history professors, Juan Garcia.

“Dr. Garcia’s Mexican American history class, and the man himself, had a huge impact on how I saw myself,” Jimenez said. “For a young Mexican American who grew up in a very Mexican home, in a very Anglo part of town, “fitting in” and achieving in school was a challenge. I learned that I had every reason to be proud of who I was and where my family had come from.”

For Jimenez, education is critical, and “those of us who were lucky enough to have benefited from higher education have an obligation to give back.”

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SCHOLARSHIP IN HONOR CREATED

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BELOVED PROFESSOR When Professor Richard Ruiz

died unexpectedly in February 2015 at the age of 65, an outpouring of grief came from all areas of campus, from colleagues and students alike.

Although the impact of Ruiz’s academic achievements, of which there were many, were cited, it was what Ruiz was like as a person that was recalled most.

“Dr. Ruiz was a wonderful human being who dedicated his life to motivating others and helping them to succeed,” his colleagues in the Department of Mexican American Studies posted on the department website. “He was always present for us, providing support and words of wisdom. We will always remember him by his cheerful personality, unique wit, incomparable sense of humor, but most importantly his unconditional acceptance and willingness to help others.”

In addition to serving as department head for Mexican American Studies, Ruiz was a professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning

& Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education.

“In 2012, Richard Ruiz selflessly came to the aid of the Department of Mexican American Studies,” said John Paul Jones III, dean of the College of SBS. “He quickly earned the respect of the faculty, staff, and students in the department. Richard was a calm, wise, and effective leader with an open-door policy for everyone. He loved students and gave his time generously to their success.”

Because Ruiz was committed to mentoring students, it seemed fitting to create a student scholarship in his name. Funded by family, friends, colleagues, and the Colleges of SBS and Education, the scholarship will be given out each year to two students, one in the Department of Mexican American Studies and one in the College of Education.

One of eight children, Ruiz received degrees in French literature from Harvard College and in anthropology and philosophy of education from Stanford University. He met his wife,

After news of Professor Ruiz’s passing spread, students from the Chicano/Hispano Student Center planned a vigil and created a memorial board on the second floor of the César Chávez Building.

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Marie, while attending Harvard, and they married in 1971. Ruiz served in the U.S. Army from 1971-1976 and was honorably discharged as a Specialist Five. Before joining the UA in 1986, Ruiz taught educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin.

Ruiz was recognized internationally for his research in language planning and policy development and was a consultant to many foreign governments, including Mexico, Guatemala, Israel, and South Africa.

In 1992, he was named to the ClintonGore Education Transition Team.

Ruiz was involved with Project SEED, which brought indigenous teachers from rural Mexico to Tucson for professional development. He was also appointed director of social justice for the American Educational Research Association.

But amid all his academic accomplishments, Ruiz always carved out time for students. He served as a UA Faculty Fellow and a faculty adviser to the students in UA’s Chicano/Hispano Student Affairs. He kept his door open so students could grab a handful of the M&M’s he kept on his desk.

“Dr. Ruiz had such an influence on me as a student,” said former student Bonnie Bazata. “He held such an amazing balance between kindness and empathy along with an intellectual rigor that challenged us all. He breathed life into the word integrity.”

You can donate to the Richard Ruiz Memorial Scholarship online at http://bit.ly/RuizScholarship

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Richard Ruiz amassed many awards during his distinguished career, including the President Likins Inclusive Excellence Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the UA Hispanic Association.

“Richard was a calm, wise, and effective leader with an opendoor policy for everyone.

He loved students and gave his time generously to their success.” ~ John Paul Jones III

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OUTWARDBOUND SBS Takes Learning to New Places

The UA Tucson campus is the undisputed hub for the plethora of research and teaching that anchors our mission.

But these days, the College of SBS is reaching further into the community, not just to provide lectures, but to collaborate and work on solutions to regional and global problems.

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the College of SBS now has three properties that will help us expand our outreach, research, and teaching capabilities. As we continue to seek investments to turn these properties into fully functioning outreach arms of the UA, we are developing our vision for maximizing the value and impact of these spaces. Take a peek:

Studio 44 (in Downtown Tucson) Studio 44, located at 44 E. Broadway, is ready for use! Over the past year, the College of SBS has built out the interior space of this property in order to make it an inspiring place for lectures, salons, and community events.

Studio 44 will be used to educate and entertain; to contemplate and brainstorm; to make new relationships and strengthen existing ones. Below are just some of the ways we plan to use the space:

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Photos of Studio 44 (this page and top right) by Colin Prenger

• • • • •

Short-term residential space for visiting faculty Seminars with SBS and visiting faculty Donor cultivation and appreciation events Downtown Lecture Series receptions Meetings, presentations, and workshops with SBS partners • “Breakfast with the Dean” events • College and department advisory board meetings and retreats Studio 44 would not be possible without the generous donations of community members who latched on to our vision for this downtown hub and recognized the important role of the UA in developing a vibrant city core. A special thanks goes to The Shanty Café Inc; Northern Trust; Chuck and Pat Pettis; Sarah Smallhouse; Tom and Reenie Keating; Mike and Beth Kasser; Ken and Linda Robin; Jan Lesher; Vicki Jacobs; and an anonymous donor.

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The Raúl H. and Patricia M. Castro Center for Border Studies and Outreach (in Nogales)

La Búsqueda, a Southwest-Focused Humanities Institute (in Tucson)

When Governor Raúl H. Castro passed away on April 10, 2015, he left behind an inspiring legacy that included working to improve relations between the U.S. and Latin America. In addition, he—along with his wife, Patricia—bequeathed their property in Nogales to the College of SBS with the vision of it being turned into a center for border studies.

Built in 1910, the Castro house has been an anchor through the birth and growth of the modern Ambos Nogales community. However, time has taken a toll on the building. Many improvements are needed to turn the home into a community educational center.

The Raúl H. and Patricia M. Castro Center for Border Studies and Outreach will greatly enhance the connections between the City of Nogales and the UA. It will provide a place for scholarly research on border issues and collaboration between faculty in Arizona and Mexico. It will also contribute to economic development in the region as well as the social and cultural vitality of border communities.

The late Bazy Tankersley, a famed Arabian horse breeder, bequeathed her Tucson home to the Southwest Center for the express purpose of creating a meeting place for scholars to study the biggest challenges of our time.

For decades, students and faculty from the UA have visited Ambos Nogales to study border issues. In fall 2014, UA professors Celeste González de Bustamante (journalism) and Linda Green (anthropology and Latin American studies) taught two courses on the U.S.-Mexico border, making weekly trips to Ambos Nogales. The Castro house will allow future classes to host workshops and guest speakers and to explore the border issues of security, public health, and labor in more depth.

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The late Bazy Tankersley

Named La Búsqueda (“the Search”), the property will become a space where scholars, the community, and students will search for answers to society’s grand challenges, drawing upon the humanities to help illuminate new solutions. Issues slated for discussion at La Búsqueda include cultural and political polarization in the Southwest; humanity’s relationship to nature; and the societal effects of shifting demographics in the region. Researchers will disseminate their findings through public outreach programming—such as lectures, readings, and salons—and through special publications.

The College of SBS is raising funds to repair and renovate the Tankersley property and to create an endowment to support the intellectual activities planned for the space. With room to house as many as 20 visitors, host conferences for up to 40 participants, and provide public outreach programming for 100 attendees, the 9,100 ft2 facility will significantly impact Southwestern humanities scholarship.

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PARTNERS IN

COMMUNITY Corporate sponsors and partners have long been instrumental in the College of SBS’s ability to bring events to the Tucson community. Two examples are the Downtown Lecture Series held at the Fox Tucson Theatre in the fall and the LUNAFEST film festival held at The Loft Cinema each spring.

Downtown Lecture Series The College of SBS created the Downtown Lecture Series in 2013 to share faculty research with the community and to promote downtown Tucson as a vibrant place to live, work, play, and learn.

For five Wednesday nights in the fall, more than a thousand people stream into downtown Tucson to listen, learn, and discuss topics that make a difference to our lives. In 2013, we featured “happiness” and, in 2014, “food.” This fall, five SBS faculty members discussed “immortality” and how our beliefs about life beyond death shape the human experience.

(You can go to http:// downtownlectures.arizona. edu to watch the videos of the lectures from all three years.)

One of our title sponsors since the inception of the Downtown Lecture Series is Tucson Medical Center (TMC), which has donated $10,000 every year to help make this series possible.

“We believe that by sponsoring the Downtown Lecture Series, we are helping to provide an educational opportunity that may facilitate an individual’s ability to improve their health and wellness,” said Mary Atkinson, the director of wellness for

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our most prevalent chronic diseases. Immortality, and the notions associated with this concept, are things healthcare professionals deal with daily.”

In addition to TMC, other title sponsors include the SBS Magellan Circle; Arizona Public Media; UA Student Affairs and Enrollment Management; and the Arizona Daily Star, which provides advertising and hosts live chats with our speakers. The series also benefits from several other sponsors and community partners.

“We value all of our sponsors who make the lecture series possible,” said Lydia Breunig, director of outreach and special projects for the College of SBS. “Tucson Medical Center has been a special partner, because it supported us early and made a three-year commitment to the program.

Knowing we could count on their support made it possible to create a long-term vision for the series and attract additional partners. We are exceedingly grateful for TMC’s generosity and commitment.”

Photo by Robert Walker

TMC. “All of the topics are directly linked to our overall wellness. More and more, we are seeing the benefits of happiness on improved health outcomes and longevity, and we also know that proper nutrition can be a key factor in managing some of

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Mark Your Calendars!

11th Annual Tucson LUNAFEST! LUNAFEST 2016 March 8, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.

The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Tickets: $5 student $10 general admission This event will also feature a raffle, offering chances to win jewelry, gift certificates to fine dining and services, and a handmade LUNAFEST quilt.

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Films, feminism, and fun— it’s a winning combination! For the past 10 years, the Women’s Studies Advisory Council (WOSAC) has been selected by Clif Bar and LUNA® to host Tucson’s LUNAFEST. LUNAFEST is a nationally touring film festival that features award-winning short films by, for, and about women. The films range from animation to fictional drama, and cover topics such as women’s health, motherhood, body image, aging, cultural diversity, and breaking barriers.

Tucson LUNAFEST, held in March at The Loft Cinema, also features a short

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film contest, giving local filmmakers the opportunity to have their original film kick off the show for the hundreds of enthusiastic movie-goers who come to LUNAFEST each year.

All of the event proceeds benefit WOSAC and the Breast Cancer Fund (BCF). WOSAC, which is a memberbased community organization that promotes and supports the students, faculty, and activities of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, retains 85 percent of event profits for our local community.

Fifteen percent goes to the national BCF to support innovative research into cancer prevention.

Leigh Spencer, program coordinator for WOSAC, describes LUNAFEST as an inspirational night out not to be missed. Spencer recalls one fan who has made attending LUNAFEST her birthday tradition, inviting 20 of her closest friends to be part of the thunderous applause that always follows the show. “She likes to celebrate this way, she told me, because when you get a room full of powerful and inspired women together, you get the feeling there is nothing you can’t accomplish.”

In 2014, Tucson LUNAFEST was honored as one of the top 10 LUNAFESTS in the country, boasting the greatest student participation in the nation.

Spencer says last year’s Tucson LUNAFEST raised over $8,000.

WOSAC profits support critical research travel for students and faculty as well as lectures and events that strengthen the ties between the UA and the larger Tucson community.

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PERSPECTIVES

EMBRACING

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By Amer Taleb, Magellan Circle Scholar and UA journalism alumnus, class of 2015

“Yes or No?” It’s hard to believe that a singleword response could affect me as drastically as it has. To quell concerns that I’m overdramatizing, “yes” was the difference between spending another winter break in Tucson or going to Nigeria to live with a former president.

That story is toward the end of this article, but for the readers who may be short on time, here’s the crux and two of the most important lessons I learned at the University of Arizona: 1) Open new doors and 2) Embrace the journey.

Here are three quick stories to illustrate how my life has been shaped by a willingness to say “yes” to new opportunities while also remaining flexible enough to change directions at times:

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1) It was either pre-med or journalism. My preference prior to entering the UA was toward reporting, primarily because I thought it would give me a chance to travel, meet people, and tell their stories. But like a nail lodged deep into a rubber tire, my first day in Journalism 105 deflated my enthusiasm.

It seemed like every student was more experienced than I was, and even now, I can remember walking out of the Modern Languages Building feeling like this reporting thing was a mistake.

I’m not sure why I stuck with it, but I did. And though I couldn’t have known it at the time, deciding to dip my toes into the unknown was easily one of the most important decisions I’ve made in 23 years.

I’ve had the privilege of covering landmark Supreme Court cases, a presidential inauguration, and have helped write scripts for CNN anchors through reporting internships.

I said “yes” to journalism, and in turn, it gave me the ability to write well, think critically, and, via hundreds of interviews, develop a sincere appreciation for the beauty of the human spirit.

2) A week before my last interview for a summer internship with a prominent think tank in Washington, D.C., I typed one of the toughest emails of my life.

“As difficult as it is to write this,” my message read, “I have to rescind my internship application.”

Even just copying and pasting that line into this article stings, and so

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it begs the question: Why did I walk away?

It’s a long story, but here’s the short version: Even now, my love for journalism is as strong as it’s ever been. But since traditional, mainstream outlets typically require that reporters be as objective and non-partisan as possible, it became difficult to balance being a journalist with my desire to play a more active role in the issues I care about. So, I decided to try interning at a research institution, but after I found out I’d been named a finalist, I found myself yearning to have a more direct and immediate impact still.

Upon mulling my options, I ended things amicably with the think tank and signed up to volunteer at a Mexican orphanage last June.

Yet again, trying something new yielded an important learning experience, and in this instance, one of the most moving I’ve ever had. Not only because of everything the kids taught me, but also because of my familial connection to the country.

Though my mother wasn’t an orphan, she was born into severe poverty in Mexico—which, at

times, meant living in a cave with her family. Volunteering in the country my mom was born in, and seeing things come full circle, is an experience I’ll remember for as long as I live.

3) In my senior year, I was faced with a question I was not expecting: “Hey, would your mom have a heart attack if we sent you to Nigeria?”

What became one of the most eye-opening experiences of my life began as a joke, but once again, after careful consideration, I responded in the affirmative.

To conduct research for a book on African leadership I’m co-authoring with Leslye Obiora, a UA professor of law, I lived with former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo at his compound in Nigeria from last December to this past January.

While true that there were more risks associated with this trip than any I had done in the past, assessing these issues with my professor revealed that the trek was much safer than I initially thought. And it taught me not to dismiss a new opportunity without giving it its due contemplation —even if the stakes are higher than what you’re used to.

Being open to new opportunities, even if I wasn’t 100 percent sure where they were taking me, has led me to the realization that I would like to work toward increasing access to education in developing countries.

Every experience I’ve outlined here, as well as the countless others I’ve had at the UA, made me who I am.

I understand that this essay will be read by donors, and so I’d like to stray from the script and speak to them directly. To the people who have

supported the Magellan Circle, Arizona Assurance, or any of the other scholarship I’ve been fortunate enough to receive, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart.

You didn’t just pay for my books, you changed my life.

In addition to making everything I’ve done and all that I’ll become

Amer Taleb at an orphanage in Mexico

possible, you’ve also helped vindicate the sacrifices my parents made to get me an education in the U.S. I will never, ever forget how much I owe you, and I promise that if I’m ever in the position to help students the way you’ve helped me, I will.

To sum up this portion in a single sentence: Thank you for making me feel that my dreams are both legitimate and possible.

As I finish the closing lines to this piece, I’m in the last stages of packing my bags to head to Turkey in the morning. I’ll be working as a university English teacher on a Fulbright Scholarship over the course of the next year.

Once again, I’m entering a new world full of excitement.

Uncertainty. Opportunity.

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SOUND “In the United States, seeking asylum is increasingly treated like a criminal act, especially if you are a woman from Central America. These moms’ unconditional love and support for their children— which made them undertake the harrowing journey north— is greeted not with gratitude but punishment.”

Nina Rabin, Southwest Institute for Research on Women; Suzanne Dovi, School of Government and Public Policy “Ever the Protectors, Moms Seeking Asylum Need Protection, Too,” The America Prospect, May 10, 2015 http://bit.ly/1igRNoI

“The standoff in current U.S. politics is not because we disagree; every contemporary democracy is characterized by deep disagreements. I am skeptical about the value of any single-cause explanation of current American political life, but I do think one factor is the common belief among many Democrats and Republicans that the other side is stupid, corrupt and, indeed, evil.”

“So what do journalists and news organizations do when intimidated? Push back harder. Publications around the world are republishing Charlie Hebdo cartoons and satire. Whether this inflames cultural conflict, or justly holds the line on free expression, the ultimate outcome is that terrorists won’t muzzle speech with bullets.” ~Dave Cuillier, School of Journalism “Want to Protect Free Speech? Push Back Harder,” Arizona Republic, Jan. 10, 2015 http://bit.ly/1LIT5Cz

~ Gerry Gaus, Department of Philosophy “The Virtues of Political Disagreement,” The New York Times, June 11, 2015 http://nyti.ms/1NVPW4D

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“Not only in Russia, but in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and even Ukraine, ordinary people see the U.S. as an arrogant, hegemonic superpower that meddles in the affairs of other countries in a cynical pursuit of its own interests.”

“Stop asking about overpopulation and population growth rates. Ask, instead, about overconsumption, affluence, waste reduction, and sustainable technologies—they are the more difficult drivers of environmental change to turn around at this point.” ~ Diana Liverman, School of Geography and Development; Institute of the Environment “Fight Climate Change by Fighting for Women’s Rights,” Pacific Standard, Feb. 3, 2015 http://bit.ly/1UkNqKn

Jane Zavisca, School of Sociology “We Are Losing Hearts and Minds in the Former Soviet Empire,” Newsweek, Aug. 2, 2015 http://bit.ly/1hRTRUd

“It seems like famous people make headlines for lying almost every day. But we all lie. Lying may even distinguish human language from the communication systems of other animals.”

“I think the media is still largely focused on transition stories, the way there used to be a predominant focus on coming-out stories for coverage of lesbian and gay people…

But it’s not like the only thing transgender people do is change sex. We have whole lives.”

Susan Stryker, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies “The Academic Behind the Media’s ‘Transgender Tipping Point’,” The Awl, May 14, 2015 http://bit.ly/1HcSBzI

Cecile McKee, Department of Linguistics

“Public incivility is no longer confined to 2 a.m. smack down talk shows, obscure cable outlets, or political campaigns. It pervades ordinary citizens’ interactions online.”

Kate Kenski, Department of Communication “Incivility Gets Noticed, but It Doesn’t Get Things Done,” The Hill, March 5, 2015 http://bit.ly/1Q6ON9N

“Lying is Everyday Occurrence for Famous, Rest of Us,” Arizona Daily Star, March 2, 2015 http://bit.ly/1N0D8sX

“For girls wanting to feel beautiful and sexy—and why shouldn’t they—we send either mixed messages or worse, the message that they are only there for men’s viewing or tactile pleasure. We collectively shame any kind of sexuality, while bombarding children with images of sex.”

“The mobile app YouTube for Kids charts new territory in the digital exploitation of children. Advertising pays the bills for media products old and new, and caveat emptor has its place with adults. But children are different.”

Dale Kunkel, Department of Communication “Google Gaffe: YouTube for Kids Disregards Rules, Common Sense,” San Jose Mercury News, April 8, 2015 http://bayareane.ws/1XcxEAc

~ Monica Casper, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies “Keeping Kids Safe on Social Media,” Arizona Daily Star, June 13, 20015 http://bit.ly/1JKTmRL

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THE BUZZ NEWS & NOTES

Fishing and Fashion English Professor Alison Hawthorne Deming received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship! Deming, who is also a chair of the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice, will use her fellowship to write a book of essays about two lost cultures, taking her from fishing villages along the Canadian coast to the fashion parlors of Paris and New York City during the Gilded Age. Thanks to funding from the Haury Program, three creative writing graduate students joined Deming on Grand Manan Island this summer to help island youth tell their coming-of-age stories in a place where local culture is deeply tied to the sustainability of marine life.

Alison Deming (in blue) on Grand Manan Island. Photo by Peter Cunningham.

Racking Up the Regents’ Professors History Professor Julia Clancy-Smith was named a Regents’ Professor, the highest honor bestowed on faculty in the Arizona state university system. Clancy-Smith teaches about modern and early modern Africa and the Middle East and has received numerous fellowships and awards. The College of SBS currently has 12 Regents’ Professors!

Julia Clancy-Smith

Understanding “Dark Networks” Brint Milward, the director of the School of Government and Public Policy, applies network analysis and management theory to terrorism, human trafficking, drug smuggling, and other illegal activities to understand the organizational principles required to run “dark networks.” He is also collaborating with UA sociologist Ronald Brieger, as well as colleagues from electrical and computer engineering, to develop models of cyberattack characteristics.

Brint Milward lecturing on terrorist networks to the cadets at West Point.

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Inequality in Our Final Years A common assumption about older adults is that the inequities they may have experienced earlier in life dissolve or are diminished with age and with programs such as Social Security and Medicare. But in an ethnographic study into the lives of American seniors, UA sociologist Corey M. Abramson found that age is not the great equalizer some imagine. He details his findings in the book The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years, published by Harvard University Press in June 2015.

New Major in American Indian Studies UA students can now earn a bachelor’s degree in American Indian studies (AIS). The new degree program makes the UA the first and only university in Arizona to offer a B.A., an M.A. and a Ph.D. in the discipline! The introduction of a new undergraduate degree program in American Indian studies will make the UA more competitive, attracting Native and nonNative students interested in addressing issues that tribal nations face.

Photo by Jacob Chinn/UA Alumni Association

We Make Jazz Robots!

Professor Kelland Thomas received a grant from the Department of Defense to develop the program MUSICA, or Music Improvising Collaborative Agent. Thomas’ team will build up a database of music from jazz legends and use it to create an artificial intelligence system that can improvise jazz alongside a human musician. Thomas is the associate director of SBS’s new School of Information, which is poised to become a leader in the rapidly growing field of information science, capitalizing on already strong programs in library science, information technology, and digital arts.

Kelland Thomas, associate director of the School of Information. Photo by Emily Litvack.

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Center for Philosophy of Freedom Receives $2.9M Grant The Center for the Philosophy of Freedom received a $2.9 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

The gift allows the center to hire a postdoctoral fellow with the philosophy, politics, economics, and law (PPEL) undergraduate program, as well as help the center build a network of philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) programs spanning several universities and four continents.

The center is creating new hybrid online and traditional PPE degree programs, including a program in ethics, economy, and entrepreneurship for high school teachers.

David Schmidtz, the director of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom.

Photo by UA Foundation.

Graphic Novels, Virtual Harlem, and Other Cool Things Through grants from the UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, seven faculty members and seven graduate students received funds to embark on interdisciplinary research projects that dissolve the lines between traditional disciplines. For example, geography and development Ph.D. student Jeffrey Wilson received funds to create a graphic novel that explores the experiences of Detroit residents battling type 2 diabetes and housing insecurity. And Kelland Thomas, the associate director of the School of Information, is helping create a virtual reality representation of Harlem as it existed in the height of the Jazz Age. Graphic written by Jeffrey Wilson and illustrated by Eliseu Gouveia.

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Understanding Poverty In May, the School of Sociology hosted the first Poverty in Tucson Community Forum, where students in the Poverty in Tucson Field Workshop presented the results of their research. Over seven weeks, the students completed 257 surveys in eight high-poverty neighborhoods. One of the biggest surprises for the researchers was that almost 25 percent of those living in extreme poverty did not use government assistance and more than half reported never receiving any type of nonprofit or charitable funding.

Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity, Tucson

Helping the LGBTQ Homeless Did you know that between 20 to 40 percent of the homeless in Tucson between the ages of 18 and 24 identify as LGBTQ? To help, the UA Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) has received a $1.2 million grant to launch the ANCHOR Project to support chronically homeless LGBTQ young adults. The project promotes housing stability, employment skills, educational achievement, mental and emotional well-being, recovery support, healthy decision making, and community engagement.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Five SBS students (a third of the fellowships given to current UA students) received prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation, a great testament to the quality of our graduate programs in the STEM fields. These students, who come from the School of Anthropology, the Department of Linguistics, and the School of Geography and Development, are working on a wide range of projects, including examining how caregivers maintain productivity in the face of chronic illness in Senegal, West Africa; studying an emerging chronic kidney disease epidemic in rural Central America; analyzing the Kyrgyz language and bilingualism; investigating how agricultural adaption is shaped by hydroclimatic changes; and analyzing the neural mechanisms of language.

NSF Graduate Research Fellow Megan Mills-Novoa

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Anthropology student Erin Clair conducting research in Asia

In 2014, the University of Arizona launched a $1.5 billion fundraising campaign. Named Arizona NOW, the campaign is the largest in the University’s history.

As part of the campaign, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is committed to raising money for our most critical goals—enhancing the student experience, recruiting and retaining a world-class faculty, and expanding the college’s reach into our community. We also raise funds so that we can invest in infrastructure: better classrooms, improved research laboratories, and more space for community engagement and partnerships, all of which are necessary in pursuit of our mission.

Thank you for supporting the College of SBS with our fundraising goals and helping us create one of the most talented and forward-thinking colleges in the nation!

HOW TO GIVE Donating to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is making an investment in the future. Our goal is to match every potential donor with an area in SBS that speaks to their passion!

You can make a donation online at: http://uafoundation.org/give/sbs If you prefer to send a check, please make your check payable to “The UA Foundation/College of SBS” and designate a specific endowment, program, or unit in the memo section.

We believe there is no moment like right now for the University of Arizona and the College of SBS. Now is what makes every minute of the future possible. It’s when our fiercest supporters rise to the occasion. For our future, our legacy, and our place in history, what we can do together is boundless.

You can mail your check to: UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Attn: Jennifer Rascon Douglass 200W PO Box 210028 Tucson, AZ 85721-0028 You can also contact Ginny Healy, the SBS senior director of development, at 520-621-3938 or ghealy@email.arizona.edu Thank you for your support!

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Arizona Center for Judaic Studies Edward Wright edwright@email.arizona.edu 520-626-5759 http://judaic.arizona.edu

School of Sociology Albert Bergesen albert@email.arizona.edu 520-621-3531 http://sociology.arizona.edu

School of Anthropology Diane Austin daustin@email.arizona.edu 520-621-2585 http://anthropology.arizona.edu

Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies Susan Karant-Nunn karantnu@email.arizona.edu 520-626-5448 http://dlmrs.web.arizona.edu

The Southwest Center Joseph Wilder jwilder@email.arizona.edu 520-621-2484 http://swc.arizona.edu

Department of Communication Chris Segrin segrin@email.arizona.edu 520-621-1366 http://comm.arizona.edu

Center for Latin American Studies Linda Green lbgreen@email.arizona.edu 520-626-7242 http://las.arizona.edu

Department of English Leerom Medovoi medovoi@email.arizona.edu 520-621-1836 http://english.arizona.edu

Department of Linguistics Simin Karimi karimi@email.arizona.edu 520-621-6897 http://linguistics.arizona.edu

Department of American Indian Studies Keith James keithjames@email.arizona.edu 520-621-7108 http://www.ais.arizona.edu

Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Jadwiga Piper-Mooney jadwiga@email.arizona.edu 520-621-7338 http://gws.arizona.edu

Department of Mexican American Studies Anna Ochoa O’Leary olearya@email.arizona.edu 520-621-7551 http://mas.arizona.edu

School of Geography and Development Lynn Staeheli lstaeheli@email.arizona.edu 520-621-5096 http://geography.arizona.edu

Center for Middle Eastern Studies Anne Betteridge anneb@email.arizona.edu 520-621-5450 http://cmes.arizona.edu

School of Government and Public Policy Brint Milward milward@email.arizona.edu 520-621-7600 http://sgpp.arizona.edu

School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies Benjamin Fortna bcfortna@email.arizona.edu 520-626-9562 http://menas.arizona.edu

Department of History Kevin Gosner kgosner@email.arizona.edu 520-621-1586 http://history.arizona.edu

Department of Philosophy Michael Gill gillm@email.arizona.edu 520-621-5045 http://philosophy.arizona.edu

School of Information Bryan Heidorn heidorn@email.arizona.edu 520-621-3565 http://sirls.arizona.edu

Center for the Philosophy of Freedom David Schmidtz schmidtz@email.arizona.edu 520-621-3129 http://freedomcenter.arizona.edu

School of Journalism David Cuillier cuillier@email.arizona.edu 520-626-9694 http://journalism.arizona.edu

SBS Research Institute Beth Stahmer estahmer@email.arizona.edu 520-621-1135 http://sbsri.sbs.arizona.edu

Southwest Institute for Research on Women Sally Stevens sstevens@email.arizona.edu 520-621-7338 http://sirow.arizona.edu

Advisory Board 2015-2016 Steve Lynn, Chair John Paul Jones III, Dean Rowene Aguirre-Medina Melany Wynn Berger Betsy Bolding Kim Bourn Sheri Bracamonte Garry Bryant Elise Collins Shields Pamela Grissom Stephanie Healy Margaret M. Houghton John Hudak Augustine B. Jimenez III George A. Kennedy Jan Konstanty Janet Lesher Margaret McGonagill Francie Merryman Alberto Moore William Owen Nugent Richard Oseran Shana Oseran Luis Fernando Parra James Gordon Patterson Kenneth Robin Linda Robin Entisar Sabbagh J. Edward Wright Honorary Board Members Earl H. Carroll Michael A. Chihak Richard Duffield Gerald Geise Patty Weiss Gelenberg Selma Paul Marks John W. Olsen Anthony Vuturo

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