Members of the Institute community in Monterey and around the world are making their mark, whether in print, online, or both. Here, we share recent publishing news from alumni, students, faculty, and staff.
Jason Blazakis, Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies (NPTS) professor and director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, had his paper “Far-Right Online Financing and How to Counter It” published in August by the Global Center on Cooperative Security, a New York City-based think tank. The paper examines tech issues (e.g., crypto and NFTs) and how they can be exploited by right-wing actors.
Through the Soufan Center, Jason Blazakis has released a paper coauthored with his graduate research assistant, NPTS student Megan Rennebaum. In “Comparing Violent Far-Right Terrorist Designations among Five-Eyes Countries,” the two examine the array of terrorist designations undertaken by the Five-Eye countries—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States—against violent far-right terrorists.
Conference Interpretation alum, Valeriya Yermishova MACI ’22 had her Russian-to-English translations of Nikita Sungatov’s poetry published this spring in two anthologies: Verses on the Vanguard: Russian Poetry Today (Deep Vellum Press), a project sponsored by PEN America; and This Is Us Losing Count: Eight Russian Poets (Two Lines Press, Center for the Art of Translation Calico Series).
Professor Pushpa Iyer and four graduate students (Ellen King, Christina Guerrero, Chanel Leonard, and Alicia Clark) from Iyer’s spring 2022 course Decolonizing Knowledge have coauthored an article that was featured in Voices of Monterey Bay in July. “Decolonize Your Head” features an experiment, run by the students in the course, in decolonizing the classroom, its curriculum, and its pedagogy. It details the experiences of the five authors and builds recommendations for decolonized approaches to classroom design.
Professor Wei Liang and Karen Zheng are the editors of The Research Handbook on Trade Wars (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022), which provides a holistic understanding of the origins, dynamics, and implications of trade wars, which are growing larger and more frequent in today’s increasingly interdependent global society.
Publishers Weekly has announced that attorney and mediator Damali Peterman MAIPS ’02 sold the North American rights to her book Negotiating While Black: How to Be Who You Are to Get What You Want to U.S. publisher Putnam. Peterman is CEO of the dispute-resolution firm Breakthrough ADR. Her professional experience in conflict resolution together with her personal experiences as a Black woman will, Putnam says, make the book an “authentic guide that accounts for the bias that occurs in most negotiations.” Release is set for spring 2024.
Shahid Abrar-ul Hassan MATESOL ’07 led a session on English for specific purposes (ESP) at a convention, which resulted in a list of FAQs he used to create an in-depth piece that has become a go-to resource for people in the field. And Tarana Patel MATESOL ’22 did a needs assessment for her on-site English training program for engineers and managers in IT and manufacturing industries. When it surfaced that employees’ top motivation for learning English was to help their children with English homework, her team leveraged a flipped classroom approach that fostered engagement at home. For these accomplishments in ESP, the two MIIS alumni have been included in the recent book English for Specific Purposes Project Leader Profiles: The Leadership Communication of 55 ESP Project Leaders. The book is free to download.
| by Jessie Raymond
From foreshadowing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to translating one of the 100 most influential queer books of all time, see what members of the Institute community have recently published.
| by Emily Cipriani
From surrealist poetry translations to curriculum strategies for language teachers, see what members of the Institute community have recently published.
| by Jessie Raymond
From poetry on climate change to translations to the future of the global nuclear order, see what members of the Institute community have recently published.
