Second-year War and Society graduate student Gianni Barbera (pictured, far left) recently represented Chapman University at the Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference. The conference was held at the University of Colorado Boulder and brought in top scholars and graduate students from across the nation. Gianni served on a panel titled “Leveraging Identity and Fighting to Belong”
The Department of Sociology hosts monthly colloquia featuring faculty members and guest scholars throughout the academic year. All students and faculty in the Department of Sociology (Sociology; Anthropology; Women’s Studies; Law, Justice and Social Control; Latinx Studies, etc.) are encouraged to come. Sociology Colloquium Series Below is a list of when these will be happening
By Mariam Said MFA Program Assistant When I first started applying to MFA programs a little more than a year and a half ago, it was for the purpose of finding a writing community. I was in the middle of my second year of teaching, and I was miserable, I wasn’t writing, and I wanted
By Meg Boyles MFA Program Assistant A year ago, I started the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chapman University. I thought an MFA program would be like one really long, fantastic workshop. Summer workshops I had taken before showed me that the creative community, the diverse classes, and the serious assignments shaped me into
By Matthew Goldman Graduate Research Assistant Before I began the time-consuming process of applying for MFA programs, I spent hours researching the value of an MFA in Creative Writing. While there were plenty of results that described the MFA as an essential part of an aspiring writer’s career, there were an equal number of dissenting
The Political Science department gets requests by various parties to announce their internship opportunities. We do not endorse any of these offers, but we make them available to all of our majors. It is up to each student to determine if any of these offers suits their interests. We are completely non-partisan. We do not
Associate Professor Micol Hebron was recently asked to participate in a pioneering new project titled, “Coordinates”, the brainchild of LA-based artist Nancy Baker Cahill. “Coordinates” is an augmented reality project that places artists’ works in places all over the world. She was among five artists who were selected for the premiere of the project, and
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $344,690 grant to Dr. Pilar Valenzuela (World Languages and Cultures in Wilkinson College) and Robert Zariquiey for their project, Computational Tool and Corpora Development in Language with Complex Clause-marketing. About the project: The Amawaka are an Indigenous Amazonian people from Peru and Brazil. Their language, also called Amawaka, belongs
Many Americans across the political spectrum believe the American tradition of free enterprise has been corrupted by bad public policy giving special emoluments to a favored few. This cronyism is too often manifested at the local level, to the economic detriment of our towns and communities. Is cronyism a new phenomena, or is it embedded
You’re invited to a conference at the University of Southern California (USC), Town and Gown Ballroom, 665 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90089 with *Howard Ahmanson Sr., a businessman, philanthropist, and purveyor of the American Dream – Sponsored by Fieldstead and Company. This special event takes place on Wednesday, August 1 starting at 8:30 a.m.