Congratulations to Nicole Saito! Nicole is a senior Political Science, History, and Economics triple major with a minor in Mathematics. She was selected by the Wilkinson College Student Advisory and Leadership Council through the Commencement Speaker Contest. Watch her video submission that won her the contest!
“Who are you and what will you fight for? The world is big, and beautiful, and troubled. It needs you.” These were the words spoken by Nadia Murad, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Chapman University Presidential Fellow, during her commencement address on May 21, 2022. Nadia fights to preserve the memory of the attack
Nadia Murad was born in the village of Kocho in the Sinjar District of Iraq. On August 3, 2014, Islamic State militants attacked her village and murdered hundreds, including her mother and six of her brothers. Murad was captured and taken into sexual slavery along with more than 6,500 Yazidi women and children. Murad chronicled
The Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences graduating class of 2022 is currently entering a world where it might seem hard to get the job they want and deserve. Some may say that expecting to walk immediately into the right job is just setting yourself up for defeat. There is some truth
Wilkinson College’s Federico Pacchioni (Sebastian P. and Marybelle Musco Endowed Chair and Director of Italian Studies) recently had his seventh book published, “The extraordinary life of foreign language learners. Harnessing the rewards of the multilingual experience.” Co-written with author Gian Marco Faresea, the book investigates the foreign language learning experience, its deeper rewards, and implications
Coming into Wilkinson College at Chapman University this past fall as a first-year graphic design major, I would have never thought to consider how one class could change the trajectory of the beginning of my college experience. When I first saw the (First Year Foundations) FFC course, Exploring the Escalette Collection over the summer, I
Dr. Lori Cox Han’s (Political Science) latest publication is a two-volume encyclopedia on the history and implications of political violence in the U.S. Written in collaboration with her husband Tomislav Han, an independent scholar and author of The Transformation of Aristotelian Political Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century American Constitutional Discourse, the 657-page manuscript covers 300 years in
Dr. Renee Hudson, assistant professor of English in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, recently accepted an invitation to attend the Faculty of Color Working Group (FoCWG) 2022 Symposium. The two-day virtual symposium focused on the theme “Renewal,” building community among faculty of color as they shared creative ideas, solutions, and strategies. The
The 3rd floor of Beckman Hall recently got an art makeover by students in Professor Micol Hebron’s Contemporary Gallery Practices course. Throughout the Spring semester, the students in Gallery Practices worked together to conceptualize an exhibition and select artwork from the Escalette Collection in Wilkinson College, to be featured in Beckman Hall. Since the students
Angelina Hicks (‘23, Strategic and Corporate Communications, Journalism) was selected as the inaugural Tracy A. Wood Fellow for the Voice of OC. “Angelina represents the best of what Wilkinson’s journalism program has to offer,” said Director of the Journalism Program Dr. Susan Paterno. “As a high school senior, Angelina won the English Department’s Talent Scholarship