The Provost's Awards Lecture Series is intended to honor and showcase the recipients of the Provost's Awards and provide them an opportunity to present, share and discuss their work with the campus. Another goal of this series is to raise the level of academic and intellectual discourse among our colleagues, and to further enrich connections with others across the campus.

Date: Tuesday, April 27
Time: 3 - 4 p.m.
Location: All seminars will be on Zoom.
Meeting ID: 895 2142 6447
Passcode: 233547

Faith Sidlow, Department of Media, Communications and Journalism
2018-2019 Promising New Faculty
“No Longer the Enemy of the People: Restoring Trust in the Media in the Post-Trump Era”

Sidlow will discuss the damage caused by the deliberate and systemic attack on the media by the former president. She will outline some of the steps the media and others should take to restore public trust in journalism.

Dr. Jessica McKenzie, Department of Child and Family Science
2018-2019 Promising New Faculty
“Psychological Continuity and Change in a Changing World: From Southeast Asia to the San Joaquin Valley”

Modern globalization has transformed the lives of young people around the world, rendering them members of local and global cultures whether or not they have traveled beyond their hometown. How do young people negotiate these — at times contradictory — local and global cultural values to construct their identities? McKenzie will address this question by drawing from her ethnographic research with adolescents growing up in rapidly globalizing northern Thailand. She will also discuss how these findings overlap with the ways in which bicultural young adults in the San Joaquin Valley manage multiple sets of cultural values, and the implications of her work for educators who teach and serve a multicultural student body.