Provost's Sabbatical Luncheon
Tuesday, November 10
Rika Ito, Associate Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies
Beckie Judge, Associate Professor of Economics
On behalf of Jim May, Provost and Dean of the College,
CILA announces the Fall 2009 "Provost's Sabbatical Series" Luncheon.
Rika Ito used her sabbatical to complete several small projects. She wrote and presented an article on the vowel production of bilingual Hmong Americans in the Twin Cities, comparing their phonology to the local white middle-class speech norm; and conducted additional acoustic analysis using the acoustic analysis software PRAAT for alternative analysis. She also presented papers with students that were the culmination of their Magnus the Good collaborative research projects (2007-08); presented at ACTFL on pedagogy, and prepared ILO for the Japan Studies concentration.
Rebecca Judge's sabbatical leave took her back to Argentina where, together with Tony Becker, she continued her on-going research exploring the impact of U.S. farm subsidies on agricultural production in other countries of the Americas. Because Argentina relies on its agricultural exports to raise revenue for its federal government, Beckie and Tony were able to document how, by lowering the world price of agricultural commodities, U.S. farm subsidies indirectly reduce revenues to both the Argentine farmer and the Argentine government.
