Between 2009 and 2020, 1,363 people in the United States were killed and 947 more were wounded in 240 mass shootings, an average of 20 shootings each year. The number of terrorist attacks on the United States between 1995 and 2019 totals 856, killing 3,492 Americans. Despite these trends, most Americans just don’t know what
Dr. Ann Gordon, Associate Professor of Political Science in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, is our 2022 Faculty Career Champion! In addition to teaching classes in Research Design and American Politics, Dr. Gordon is also the Director of the Ludie and David C. Henley Social Sciences Research Laboratory and the Director
A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant will establish a minor in Asian American Studies and support current ethnic studies courses and programming at Chapman University. The $150,000 award announced in January is the largest NEH grant in the university’s history and just one of 208 awarded to universities, museums and other organizations across
In December 2021, Dr. Renee Hudson, Assistant Professor of English in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences hosted a book manuscript workshop for her first book project, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Américas. The workshop highlighted the work of Dr. Hudson who was awarded an Institute for Citizens and Scholars
As part of a 4-book poetry series he calls “Green Party Tetralogy,” Dr. Brian Glaser, associate professor (English) in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, completes the collection with Difficult Joy (Shanti Arts, Dec. 2021). The final installment focuses on two main areas, leftist radical poetics of the Surrealists and the Dadaists, and
Millie Wilson’s light box photos are a series of haunting and humorous works that poke at stereotypes, gendered situations, and the mundanity of everyday life. The Escalette Collection of Art has two works of Wilson’s on display in Smith Hall: Untitled (boys in desert) from her 2013 exhibition Some People, and an earlier 2011 work,
Dr. Anna Leahy, Professor, Director, MFA in Creative Writing and Director of Tabula Poetica in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences recently published a chapbook titled, “What Happened Was:” which includes ten poems each using seven repetitions of “what happened was” to tell its story. Leahy’s poems analyze her own experiences of mismatched
Dr. Martin Nakell, (English), doesn’t subscribe to notions of the poet writing in isolation or imperatives to originality. He embraces the chaotic nature of experience in his writing, and his most recent publication is no exception. Within Consciousness, Dr. Nakell’s latest collection of poems, readers will not find a strong devotion to the typical conventions
7th Annual Chapman University Survey of American Fears By the Fear Team The annual Chapman University Survey of American Fears provides an in-depth examination into the concerns of average Americans, tracking changes and trends over the years. The survey asks about more than 100 topics ranging from government, health, and environmental matters, to crime, COVID-19,
Dr. Ashley Wendell Kranjac’s (Assistant Professor of Sociology) research seeks to understand scholarship in health inequalities, social stratification, and population studies. Dr. Kranjac investigates whether multifaceted determinants of risk persist after considering the sociodemographic characteristics of individuals and the neighborhoods in which they live. Her work has appeared in Pediatrics, Social Science & Medicine, Population