School of Humanities and Social Sciences Instructor of Distance Education George Ackerman, Ph.D., published a new book, 鈥,鈥 in memory of his mother, who passed away due to Parkinson鈥檚 Disease. All proceeds go to the .
Prison Education Program Instructor of Distant Education Lucas Alan Dietsche won the Lived Experience Story Telling Award by Stop the Stigma.
Prison Education Program Adjunct Professor Justin Gallant, Ph.D., presented on Post Reality and the Flux of Temporal Fantasms at SECAC 2025 and SLSA 2025;
Dr. Gallant also published:
Ecoability Anthology 2026- Chapter in an anthology on the intersection of ecology and disability;
Peace studies Journal 2025- Cancer, Garbage, and Mutation: Controlled Artistic Disruptions in Late Capitalism;
Transformative justice journal 2025- Carceral Psychogeography;
Lansing Feminists 2025- Queer and Two-Spirit Resistance;
Murwatt Collective 2025- Activism is messy;
Sublation: Journal of the Blur (2025)- Post-Reality Poetry: A manifesto that will inevitably degrade.
Assistant Professor of Music Melinda Leoce, D.M., recently wrote an article entitled, “No Meio da Roda: When the Music Takes Over, Listen,” covering her research trip to Salvador, Brazil, in May 2024. The article will be published in the February 2026 issue of the Percussive Arts Society’s publication,聽Percussive Notes.
Director of the Public Administration master鈥檚 program Michael Mumper, Ph.D., emeritus professor of political science, was elected president of the Alamosa School Board.
Director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Colleen M. Schaffner, Ph.D., recently co-published the online technical report, 鈥,鈥 with Brill International Publishers.
Dr. Schaffner, along with a research team, published a paper聽in聽Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology using long term dataset of 23 years, 鈥.鈥澛
Associate Professor and Department Chair of Sociology Heidi Schneider, Ph.D., recently signed a book contract with Routledge. Her forthcoming book, “Respect and Disrespect in Middle School Classrooms: Student and Teacher Perspectives” will be published in 2026.
In February, the Department of Music Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano James Wehe, D.M.A., will host Wehe/Vynogradov: A Rachmaninov Recital. The recital begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, in Leon Memorial Hall. The performance will feature Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22; Piano Sonata No. 2, Op.36, and selections from Preludes, Op. 23; Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39, Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17, and more.
Schools and Departments
The Prison Education Program is co-chairing the 12th Annual Transformative Justice and Abolition Criminology Conference.
School of Visual and Performing Arts Director John Taylor, Ph.D., created and completed successfully the “Finish the Final 50 in Year 100” campaign to name all remaining seats in the SLV Federal Bank Main Stage Theatre. At the beginning聽of the fall semester, there were 54 seats left out of 220 that still needed seat plates after 24 years in the theatre building.聽Each donation to name a seat plate goes directly to a Theatre Department Scholarship聽fund.聽In the 100th year of theatre, Dr. Taylor marks the occasion by getting all seats named.聽The project was completed six months early.
Dr. Taylor secured a $10,000 gift to underwrite a new theatre project, “The Democracy Project聽@ Adams State” scheduled for the 2027-2028 academic聽year.
