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
Wilkinson College English professor Tom Zoellner (whose Island on Fire: The Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire won the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for the best nonfiction book) recently published Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona – a story about his 46-day journey hiking through the redrock country
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
Wilkinson College English professor Tom Zoellner (whose Island on Fire: The Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire won the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for the best nonfiction book) recently published Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona – a story about his 46-day journey hiking through the redrock country
For more than 26 years The John Fowles Center (JFC) for Creative Writing in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, has hosted the Literary Art Reading Series every spring. The ’23 series will be hosting two prolific writers, Mikhail Shishkin (April 3) one of the most prominent writers in Russia today and Andrei
As a child, Professor Monique Charles (Sociology) loved to sing, write songs, and perform with her cousins. Her latest book, Black Music in Britain in the 21st Century is a combination of her lived experiences when she was young and her passion for studying intellectual pursuits … and of course her love of Black music
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences congratulates Richard Bausch (English), on the publication of his latest work, Playhouse (Alfred A Knopf, 2023). The story takes place in Memphis, Tennessee, where a theater company is putting together a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear for its gala opening, just after a complete renovation. But, the
Last spring the Guggenheim Gallery presented “Split Diopter” an installation that took over three years to create, which was developed out of a series of conversations between its three curators—Jan Tumlir (Art History at SCI-Arc), Reza Monahan (SCI-Arc Channel Producer/Director), and Marcus Herse (Guggenheim Gallery Coordinator)—concerning the relations of fine art and cinema. The principal
Dr. Patrick Fuery (Professor and Director of the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries) recently published his 9th book, Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh: Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis (Bloomsbury, 2023). “This was a book I have wanted to write for some time,” said Dr. Fuery. “All my previous books have looked at different
Creative Writing Professor Lisa Cupolo recently published her book Have Mercy On Us (Regal House Publishing, 2023). The new book is a collection of stories that explores love, relationships, and all the complications: loss, betrayal, and longing. The collection features not only romantic love and relationships, but also that of mothers and daughters, fathers
The Voice of Wilkinson sat down with new faculty member Dr. Maliheh Ghajargar and asked her why she chose Wilkinson College and what it means to be a part of the heart and soul of Chapman University. As always, we included those fun “get-to-know-you” questions we all love. Dr. Maliheh Ghajargar Assistant Professor of Graphic
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences congratulates Dr. Justin St. P. Walsh (Department of Art) and Dr. Alice Gorman (Department of Archaeology at Flinders University in Australia) who were recently presented with the Archaeological Institute of America’s 2023 Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology for their work on International Space Station Archaeological
Faculty Books: Rim to River 
Black Music in Britain in the 21st Century 
Intelligent Entertainment 
Have Mercy On Us