ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Associate Professor Ho Hon Leung of the Sociology Department at the SUNY College at Oneonta has been awarded the College's 2008 Susan Sutton Smith Prize for Academic Excellence. Dr. Leung will deliver the fourteenth annual Susan Sutton Smith Lecture, a presentation entitled "Beyond Pacific Mall: Ethnicity, Identity, and Architecture," on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center. Admission is complimentary, and members of the community are invited to attend the presentation.
Dr. Leung's talk will explore the cultural context and implications of Pacific Mall, the largest indoor Chinese mall in North America, which is located near Toronto. Using a PowerPoint presentation with maps, photos, and video clips, Dr. Leung will examine the mall as a spatial organization of a cultural place as well as the mall's impact on Chinese ethnic identity in suburban Toronto.
Dr. Leung is the coordinator of the College's Center for Social Science Research. He is a co-editor of the upcoming book "Investigating Diversity: Race, Ethnicity, and Beyond," and his presentation will be based on a chapter that he contributed to the book. In 2005, Dr. Leung coordinated a conference at the College on Language and Globalization with support from a SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines grant.
Ho Hon Leung, who joined the SUNY-Oneonta faculty in 2001, holds a doctorate in sociology from McGill University, where he also worked as an instructor and researcher. He taught previously at Acadia University in Canada and Man Kiu College in Hong Kong.
Created to recognize faculty achievement outside the classroom, the Susan Sutton Smith Prize for Academic Excellence is named in honor of the late SUNY-Oneonta professor of English. The prize is made possible by an endowment created through the generosity of Dr. Thomas Smith and Mrs. Mary Smith in memory of their daughter, Susan, and in honor of her commitment to academic excellence. The recipient of the prize is chosen from nominations submitted to a committee of faculty and administrators.
The Susan Sutton Smith Lecture will cap a day of events recognizing
academic excellence at the College. At an awards breakfast, Dr. Leung will
receive the Smith Prize, and students with grade-point averages of 3.9 or
above in the fall semester will be recognized with gift cards to purchase
textbooks at the College store. The events and the student awards are made
possible by the generous gifts of College at Oneonta alumni to the 2007-08
Alumni Annual Fund.
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