Writing in Action: A Visual Archive of CSU’s Writers
We were once told by well-meaning marketing folks that writers had a “PR problem” because what we do (mostly reading and writing) doesn’t look cool or exciting.
That the processes and products of writing appear ubiquitous, unremarkable…in other words…boring.
We at CSU Writes disagree.
Below are photos of CSU researchers and scholars from across disciplines, across career spans, and across the years that make writing look cool and exciting.
In our “action shots,” we see the energy of a robust and rigorous writing community. Where ideas grow, momentum builds, and scholars show up for one another.
We welcome you to add your own photos to the “Action Shots” page by submitting them to CSU Writes via the form below (SUBMIT HERE).
Silvia Terol
PhD Student, School of Education
Preliminary Examination Defense:
Expanding Nature Conceptualizations Beyond the WEIRD: A Photovoice Exploration
Part of Education and Human Resources program requirements, Colorado State University, 2026
Ashley Creighton
Research Associate, Laboratory Animal Resources
Thesis:
Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Hard to Swallow, Harder to Live With; Immunopathogenesis and Patient Impact
Author: Ashley Creighton
MIP-MS-B Program Completion, Colorado State University, 2026
Vanessa Cozza
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
Journal Article:
Mapping a Nation: Nineteenth-Century Board Games and U.S. Cultural Identity
Author: Vanessa Cozza
Board Game Academics, 2026
Carrie Chennault
Professor, Anthropology & Geography
Journal Article:
“This” Is Legacy Cooking”: Black Women’s Aesthetic Labor in Newberry County, South Carolina
Authors: Reagan Ross, Carrie Chennault, Shelby Ham, Judy Sanders
Antipode, 2026
2025
Emily Gross
PhD Student, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
Journal Article:
Barriers and benefits of rock climber participation in citizen science for bat conservation
Authors: Emily Gross, Katie Abrams, Shawn Davis, Robert Schorr, Jennifer Solomon
Conservation Science and Practice, 2025
Jessica Hurtado
PhD Student, Higher Education Leadership
Journal Article:
“What’s Next in my Arc of Development?” An Exploratory Study of What Medical Students Need to Care for Patients of Different Backgrounds
Authors: Julie K. Thomas, Josie Colbert-Getz, Rachel Bonnett, Mariah Sakaeda, Jessica M. Hurtado, Candace Chow
Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2025
Sarah Carter
Supervisory Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey / FORT
Journal Article:
Scientific Opportunities in the National Landscape Conservation System
Authors: Sarah K. Carter, Sarah E. Wipple, Samuel E. Jordan, Nicole Herman-Mercer, Robin C. Lewis, Karen L. Prentice, Zachary H. Bowen, & Frederick L. Klasner
Parks Stewardship Forem, 2025
2024
Catherine DiCesare
Professor, Art History
Book:
The Codex Borbonicus Veintena Imagery Visualizing History, Time, and Ritual in Aztec Solar-Year Festivals
Routledge, 2024
Rachel Pries
Professor, Mathematics
Journal Article:
The Torelli locus and Newton polygons
Author: Rachel Pries
Submitted to AMS Mathematical Surveys and Monographs. Abelian Varieties: Lectures from the Arizona Winter School
2024, 81 pages
Becca Windell
PhD Student, Fish, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology
Journal Article:
Coyote use of prairie dog colonies is most frequent in areas used by American badgers
Authors: Rebecca M. Windell, Larissa L. Bailey, Travis M. Livieri, David A. Eads, Dean E. Biggins, Stewart W. Breck
Delilah Lopez
Masters Student, Impact MBA
Artistic showcase:
Native American mask
Artist: Delilah Lopez
2023
2022
Jessica Hurtado
PhD Student, Higher Education Leadership
Book Chapter:
“More than Marketing: Professional Development and Learning to Integrate Diversity”
In book: Rethinking College Admissions (pp.133-148)
Authors: Douglas H. Lee, Joanne Song Engler, Jessica M. Hurtado, Ali Raza, OiYan A. Poon
Caridad Souza
Associate Professor, Race, Gender, & Ethnic Studies
Journal Article:
Dispatches from an Afro-LatinX Decolonial Feminism
Authors: Caridad Souza & Karina L. Cespedes
Chicana/Latina Studies, 2022
2021
Becca Windell
PhD Student, Fish, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology
Journal Article:
Using occupancy models to evaluate nonlethal tool efficacy for protecting an endangered species from a generalist mesocarnivore
Authors: Rebecca M. Windell, Larissa L. Bailey, Julie K. Young, Travis M. Livieri, David A. Eads, Stewart W. Breck
2020
2019
Becca Windell
PhD Student, Fish, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology
Journal Article:
Carnivore carrying behavior as documented with wildlife camera traps
Authors: Rebecca M. Windell, Jesse S. Lewis, Ashley R. Gramza, Kevin R. Crooks
2018
Becca Windell
PhD Student, Fish, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology
Journal Article:
An ounce of prevention: Quantifying the effects of non-lethal tools on wolf behavior
Authors: Rebecca M. Windell, Stewart W. Breck, Nathan J. Lance, Peggy Callahan
