Laura Silva

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Faculty Book: Exploring Rebellion on the High Seas: Why Sailors Mutinied Against the Odds, According to Steven Pfaff’s Latest Book

October 14, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Professor Steven Pfaff, one of the Sociology Department’s newest faculty members, considers himself an eclectic scholar who gets to study all the “interesting things” – politics, religions, conflict, and social change. In his most recent book, The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance and Mutiny in the Age of Sail (Cambridge University Press) Pfaff and co-author

Faculty Book: The Sandinista Revolution, A Global Latin American History

March 21, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences congratulates Dr. Mateo Jarquín (History) on his first published book, The Sandinista Revolution, A Global Latin American History (The University of North Carolina Press). “In my discipline (History), monographs are the name of the game; books are the main way that students and scholars consume research. So,

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Faculty Book: Exploring Rebellion on the High Seas: Why Sailors Mutinied Against the Odds, According to Steven Pfaff’s Latest Book

October 14, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

New Fiber Lab in Art Department

April 1, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Lorena Ochoa, Studio Manager for the Art Department,oversees the Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture Labs in Moulton Hall. She recently launched the Fiber Lab – an artistic practice that spans a wide range of techniques, such as quilting, thread painting, weaving, and soft sculpture, usually to create works made of natural or synthetic fibers such as

Faculty Book: The Sandinista Revolution, A Global Latin American History

March 21, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Chapman’s First Latina Sorority Provides Critical Support to Multicultural Community on Campus

February 23, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

First-generation students Natalia Trejo, Aizzy Portillo and Cintya Felix can add something else they have in common to their time at Chapman University: sisters in the university’s first multicultural Greek organization. Felix ’26 encountered Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated at a student organization fair during her first year. “I truly never saw myself pursuing Greek

Faculty Book: Ambiguous Cinema

February 23, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

The concept driving Dr. Kelli Fuery’s (Creative and Cultural Industries) latest book, Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film-Phenomenology (Edinburgh University Press) originated from one of her Film Theory classes when she and her students were discussing theories of spectatorship. “While many students were familiar with the ‘male gaze’ as coined by Laura

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Out of Hiding: Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can Be Stopped Faculty Book

February 9, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Dr. Pete Simi (Sociology) is known for his expertise in political extremism and his research focuses on both violence and extremist groups in the United States and around the world. His previous book, American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate, explores the difference between movements such as the Ku Klux Klan,

Faculty Book: Understanding Agency in Indigenous Translation and Interpretation through Indigenous Approaches to UX

January 24, 2024 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

The Voice of Wilkinson recently sat down with Dr. Nora K. Rivera (English) to discuss her new publication, The Rhetorical Mediator: Understanding Agency in Indigenous Translation and Interpretation through Indigenous Approaches to UX (University Press of Colorado, 2024). This is Rivera’s first published book as a single author, but the accomplishment caused some mixed feelings

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Systems Shift: Creating and Navigating Change in Rhetoric and Composition Administration Faculty Books

December 12, 2023 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

In 2017, Dr. Aurora Matzke (English) and a few colleagues started having casual conversations about how systems and networks stymie efforts to create more inclusive programs and institutions. Everything from academic labor issues and workplace boundaries to inclusive assessment benchmarks and equitable service requirements. Soon thereafter, Dr. Matzke and these colleagues presented this topic on

Wilkinson College Design Contest Winners!

December 12, 2023 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Each fall semester the Wilkinson Student Advisory and Leadership Council runs a contest for Wilkinson College students to create a design for new Wilkinson stickers to distribute at college events and a student-designed Wilkinson-themed canvas tote to distribute on Earth Day. This year we were flooded with amazing artwork. Thank you to everyone that participated!

Defining Democracy: Democratic Commitment in the Arab World

November 16, 2023 by Laura Silva | The Voice of Wilkinson

Assistant Professor Hannah Ridge (Political Science) recently published her first book, Defining Democracy: Democratic Commitment in the Arab World. The book focuses on how Arabic-speakers in the Middle East use the word dimuqratiyya. The English translation – democracy – fails to capture the nuance of how the word is employed, according to Dr. Ridge. “When

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