Faculty, staff, and students at Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences contributed more than thirty photographs and small offerings to build a community ofrenda for Día de Muertos, a Mexican holiday commemorating the return and living presence of passed loved ones each year at the end of October and the beginning of November.
This edition of From Our Eyes features Ysabella Rodriguez (Art History). Rodriguez attended The Structure of Photography lecture by event, Photographer Catherine Opie. Rodriguez reflects on the event and what it meant to her. Earlier this month, photographer and educator Catherine Opie took the audience on a journey through her body of work beginning with
Last month, Christine Chen, the co-founder and Executive Director of APIAVote, spoke to Chapman University students and faculty in a session hosted by Dr. Vivian Yan-Gonzalez, an assistant professor of Asian-American Studies and historian of Asian-American politics. In the session, Chen highlighted her organization’s mission to reinforce “Asian-American Political Power.” In recent election cycles, many
Partnering a major with the right minor can enhance a student’s overall career, broadening skill sets, increasing employment opportunities, and most importantly, fulfilling a personal interest. Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences offers 11 Interdisciplinary minors allowing students to learn from multiple disciplines that will enhance educational goals. On Thursday, October 10 students
Dr. Angelica Allen (Africana Studies) was selected to be a Society for the Humanities Residential Fellow at Cornell University for the 2024-25 academic year. The fellows include scholars and practitioners who all have projects that reflect on the 2024-25 theme of Silence. Allen’s study is a critical ethnography that focuses on the lived experiences of
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences students, faculty and alumni won awards and scholarships at the 2024 Orange County Press Club Awards and the 66th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, presented by the Los Angeles Press Club. “These awards are a testament to the hard work, dedication, and talent of our students and
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to two new primary source collections from ProQuest: Black Thought and Culture and Latinx Thought and Culture: The NPR Archive, 1979-1990. Black Thought and Culture is a comprehensive collection spanning over 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by prominent Black American leaders dating back to 1841. It includes
Dr. Justin de Leon (Ethnic Studies) was awarded a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Projects Media Arts grant for the Native Film and Storytelling Institute/ Creative Sovereignty Lab (CSL) project, which aims to address the issue of Native American communities being defined by cinema without active participation in their own representations.
Dr. Richelle Tanner (Environmental Science and Policy) was awarded a $494,256 National Science Foundation Leading Culture Change Through Professional Societies of Biology (BIO-LEAPS) grant to support the project, “Reforming organizational culture across Biology using a Community of Care framework.” What is the purpose of an academic conference? The general consensus might be to learn, to
Dr. Justin de Leon (Ethnic Studies) was awarded a $30,000 Strongheart Tribal Approach to Research (STAR) Projects grant from the Strong Heart Study (SHS) at the University of Oklahoma. SHS is a study of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors among American Indian men and women and is the largest epidemiologic study of American Indians