Congratulations to San José State University Communications Studies Associate Professor Andrew Carter on his recent publications in Taylor & Francis Group, OXFORD ACADEMIC, and Routledge journals and edited volumes!

Publications:
Carter, A. (2025) Planting justice: Co-constructing knowledge with Black women farmers for translatable research. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 53:1, 84-86. https://lnkd.in/ge8QhdQX

“Black women farmers are largely becoming an extinct population in the US; currently they represent a combined mere 1% of both Black and women farmers. The imminent demise of Black women farmers represents the erasure of a rich cultural legacy that has sustained Black sovereignty and community food security movements throughout history.”

Dutta, M., Basu, A., Kaur-Gill, S., Dutta, D., Pal, M., Basnyat, I., Metuamate, S., Pokaia, V., Elers, P., Mookerjee, D., Sastry, S., Robb, J., & Carter, A. (2025). Anticolonialism and qualitative methods: Culture-centered futures. Journal of Communication, jqaf021. https://lnkd.in/g5EZ36Gc

“Through our review of diverse culture-centered interventions, we explore the roles of voice infrastructures in anticolonial resistance, outlining the contribution made by the CCA [culture-centered approach] to decolonizing research methods by offering a theoretical-methodological framework for communication interventions for social justice.”

Book Chapter:
Carter, A. (2025). Navigating the terrain: Applying critical health communication methods to participatory action praxis with Black women farmers. In S. Sastry, H. M. Zoller, & A. Basu (Eds.), Critical health communication: Theory and practice. Routledge

Congratulations to San José State University Communications Studies Associate Professor Marie Haverfield on her grant awarded by the Veterans Administration (VA) Palo Alto Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i), entitled “Goals of Care Conversations During the Perioperative Period,” funded 2025-2027.

Congratulations to San José State University Anthropology Professor Roberto Gonzalez on his guest editorial in the journal Human Organization, published by Taylor & Francis Group, entitled “American technofascism.”

González, R. J. (2025). American technofascism. Human Organization, 1–5. https://lnkd.in/g97GAJ2F (free access)

“In recent months, ICE [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and other federal agencies have used AI-powered surveillance technologies to facilitate operations. Many tools are developed by tech startups funded by venture capital (VC) firms that have embraced the prospect of creating software and hardware for police, military, and intelligence agencies, even if this accelerates the demise of American democracy.”

San José State University School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies Lecturer Kelly Snider, in the San José Spotlight, comments on the efforts by the City of San José to update existing historic preservation regulations and procedures.

“Kelly Snider, a land use consultant and urban planning professor at San Jose State University, said the city should adopt a system where property owners are allowed to opt into historic designations and offered incentives for doing so. “Those (existing) regulations are imposed on property owners who don’t want it and who are burdened by this extra cost burden,” Snider told San José Spotlight.”

Matthew Spangler’s (Communication Studies) play Cowboys and East Indians, co-written with Nina McConigley and based on her award-winning collection of short stories, received an Edgerton Foundation New American play award this week. This national award supports the development and production of new plays. Over the last two decades, 16 Edgerton Award recipients have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, 43 have been produced on Broadway, and 21 nominated for Tony Awards. Cowboys and East Indians will be produced by the Denver Center for Performing Arts from January 16 to March 1, 2026.