In a September 12, 2020 blog in Psychology Today, Dr. Timothy Pytell, Professor of the Department of History, deconstructs the appeal of Trumpism. Placing it within the context of fascism throughout history, he explains its appeal and relationship to the acceptance of Trump in the United States today.
You're invited to join us this Wednesday, September 16, at 4 p.m. for a panel discussion featuring activists and community-based scholars who will discuss the LAPD, access to Indigenous translators, the way race shapes the justice system, the policing of Indigenous people across the border and beyond, plus other related issues.
Panelists
Odilia Romero (Zapotec) is the first woman to be the bi-national coordinator of FIOB (Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales), an immigrant and human rights organization of Mexican indigenous groups. She is co-founder and executive director of Comunidades Indigenas en Liderazgo (CIELO). She is also an independent interpreter of Zapotec, Spanish, and English for indigenous communities in Los Angeles and throughout California. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and Democracy Now!
Stan Rodriguez is a tribal member and councilmember for the Santa Ysabel Band of Iipay Nation in San Diego County. He represents the Kumeyaay people from both sides of the US-Mexico border. He earned his Doctorate in Educational Leadership from UC San Diego and CSU San Marcos. Stan's work with Kumeyaay Community College, expertise in Native knowledge and relationships with numerous institutions helps bring native voices and healing to the center of this conversation on policing.
Dr. Daisy Ocampo is from the Caz'Ahmo Nation (Caxcan in Spanish). She is a professor in the History Department at CSU San Bernardino. Professor Ocampo's academic research centers Indigenous voices in public history institutions such as museums, preservation of sacred sites, and community-based archives.
Series organizers:
Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Marlo Brooks, and Yvette Relles-Powell.
Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series.
For questions or more information, contact Robie Madrigal (rmadriga@csusb.edu) or Jeremy Murray (jmurray@csusb.edu).
Panelists
Professor Vida Johnson, prior to joining Georgetown University Law Center, was a supervising attorney in the Trial Division at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS), where she worked for eight years. At PDS, she was assigned to the most serious cases at the “Felony One” level, and her experience included numerous trials in D.C. Superior Court representing indigent clients facing charges including homicide, sexual assault, and armed offenses. Her responsibilities at PDS also included supervising other trial attorneys and serving as one of the agency’s two representatives to the D.C. Superior Court Sentencing Guidelines Commission. In 2009, she was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Juvenile Justice Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. Before joining PDS, she was an E. Barrett Prettyman fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. As a fellow, she represented indigent adults in the D.C. Superior Court and supervised students in the Criminal Justice Clinic. Ms. Johnson earned her law degree from New York University Law School in 2000 and a B.A. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995.
German was an FBI special agent for 16 years, specializing in domestic terrorism and covert operations. He left the FBI in 2004 after reporting continuing deficiencies in FBI counterterrorism operations to Congress. He served as an adjunct professor of law enforcement and terrorism at National Defense University School for National Security Executive Education from 2006-2007 and as policy counsel for national security at the American Civil Liberties Union from 2006-2014. German is the author of two books, Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy (The New Press, 2019) and Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent (Potomac Books, Inc., 2007). He is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Northwestern University Law School.
Sam Levin is an American journalist based in Los Angeles, California, where serves as LA correspondent forThe Guardian. He reports on breaking news, technology, politics, labor, the environment, criminal justice, housing, immigration, and a range of other topics relevant to California and the west.
Levin graduated from Columbia University in 2012 with a Bachelor's degree in Urban Studies.
KKK in the PD: White Supremacist Police and What to Do about It https://law.lclark.edu/live/files/28080-lcb231article2johnsonpdf
"New Report: Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement"
"White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report
"The FBI warned for years that police are cozy with the far right. Is no one listening?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/28/fbi-far-right-white-supremacists-police
Join us on Wednesday, October 7 at 4 p.m. for a panel titled "Police Unions in the U.S.: Perspectives in Historical Context," featuring special guests, Seth Stoughton, Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, and Aaron Bekemeyer, Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Harvard University.
Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784
Panelists
Seth Stoughton is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he studies policing, including officer training, agency culture, and the use of force. His work has been published in leading academic journals, and he is the principal co-author of Evaluating Police Uses of Force (NYU Press, 2020). He has provided expert testimony in litigation relating to police procedure, investigations, tactics, and the use of force. He is a frequent lecturer on policing issues, regularly appears on national and international media, and has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, and other news publications. Seth served as an officer with the Tallahassee Police Department for five years. In that time, he trained other officers, helped write policies to govern the use of new technologies, earned multiple instructor and operator certifications, and taught personal safety and self-defense courses in the community.
Aaron Bekemeyer is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Harvard University studying the labor history of the American state and the ways labor struggles affect policy, politics, and citizenship. His graduate research explores how police unionism grew from a marginal phenomenon to one of the most important forces in policing and politics in the second half of the twentieth century, reshaping the labor movement, the carceral state, local politics, and American citizenship in the process. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, and his research has been featured in the NPR history podcast Throughline.
The program is part of the ongoing Conversations on Race and Policing series, hosted by CSUSB students Marlo Brooks and Yvette Relles-Powell.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Stan Futch (President, WAG), Marlo Brooks, and Yvette Relles-Powell.
Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series.
For questions or more information, contact Robie Madrigal (rmadriga@csusb.edu) or Jeremy Murray (jmurray@csusb.edu).
Please mark your calendars and plan to join the CSUSB History Club on Thursday October 15 at 12 noon when Nathanael Gonzalez and other History Club student leaders will host Dr. Robert Chao Romero (UCLA, History). Dr. Romero will present his most recent book, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice and Identity (InterVarsity Press, 2020), and there will be time for questions and discussion. The History Club and History Honors Society, Phi Alpha Theta are excited to host Dr. Romero, whose work is groundbreaking, wide-ranging, and timely.
See the attached flyer for details. Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496
"With a Mexican father from Chihuahua and a Chinese immigrant mother from Hubei in central China, Romero’s dual cultural heritage serves as the basis for his academic studies. His research examines Asian immigration to Latin America, as well as the large population of 'Asian-Latinos' in the United States. His first book, The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 (U of Arizona, 2010), tells the forgotten history of the Chinese community in Mexico. The Chinese in Mexico received the Latina/o Studies Section Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association. Drawing upon his background as attorney, Romero’s second area of research examines the legal history of Chicano/Latino segregation as well as immigration law and policy. His most recent research explores the role of spirituality in Chicana/o social activism. Romero received his J. D. from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. in Latin American history from UCLA." Click here for more information.
History Students,
Consider writing for the History Department student-run journal, History in the Making.
You can check out past issues of the journal as well as specifications for your submissions here.
The student editorial board invites submissions of original research papers on any historical topic or using a historical method of analysis, academically based travel essays, critical reviews of recently published history monographs, historical documentaries, feature films, exhibitions, or public history projects, critical analyses of the lives of significant individuals who have died in the past year, or "notes from the archives." Please see past volumes for more examples of the range of papers considered. The review process is blind.
Proposals for any of the short-form categories can simply be a paragraph, and these can be drafted and edited through winter-spring in collaboration with editors. Longer-form research pieces must be submitted (emailed to me) as completed drafts by the January 4 deadline.
Please remove author's name from submissions and email them to me.
If you have questions about submissions, please first visit the journal's web page and read the guidelines. Then please send me any remaining questions.
Submission deadline is January 4, 2021, but earlier work is encouraged. Email submissions to Dr. Murray at JMurray@csusb.edu.
History Department Students and Colleagues:
Please mark your calendar for the latest "Future History Teachers Information Panel" on Thursday November 12, 4pm.
It's important for you to be aware of what comes next in your careers if you plan to possibly teach in the short term or long term, or even if you just plan to work as a substitute while you plan your next move. This session will give you the benefits of hearing from alumni teachers and regional administrators, as well as College of Education faculty, plus get a rundown of the CSET, CBEST, credentials, sub work, hiring processes, etc., and you'll have a chance to ask any questions. See the below or attached for more information. If you'd like to send any questions in advance, please email Dr. Murray with anything you'd like to cover in the session.
Three Modern China Book Talks: Nov 9, Nov 7 & Nov 24th
The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures
with Dr. Justin Jacobs (American University, History)
Monday November 9, 2020, 12pm
In collaboration with the
Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art
Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940
with Dr. Eugenia Lean (Columbia University, History)
Tuesday November 17, 2020 5:30pm
To Embrace or Escape from the Communists, or Seek a Third Way? Three Chinese Prisoners' Odysseys in the Civil War, the Korean War, and the Cold War
with Dr. David Cheng Chang (Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology, History)
Tuesday November 24, 2020 5:30pm
Department of History
Presented by the CSUSB History Department, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the History Club/Phi Alpha Theta.
Contact Jeremy Murray with any questions: jmurray@csusb.edu
The Department of History hosted its fall graduation celebration and its Phi Alpha Theta “Ritual of Induction” on Friday, Dec. 4, at 6 p.m. via Zoom.
The event included remarks from national Phi Alpha Theta President Jacob M. Blosser, who is also a professor of history and director of Graduate Study in History and Political Science at Texas Woman’s University and Dr. Tiffany Jones, Chair of the Department of History.
CSUSB’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta is called Alpha Delta Nu. Phi Alpha Theta is a national honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history, whose mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians.
The ceremony was recorded and can be accessed on the CSUSB History Club Lecture Series youtube channel.
For more information see the CSUSB News article.
If you would like to learn about the fields of editing and publishing, and how your degree can help prepare you, please mark your calendar and plan to join us in a Zoom panel with industry veterans from around the country.
Find out more from this campus news item.
The panel is happening, Friday December 4 at 12pm, and you can join us live on Zoom. All are welcome.
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496
This event is presented by the CSUSB History Department, the History Club/Phi Alpha Theta, and the student-run academic journal, History in the Making.
Please contact Jeremy Murray (jmurray@csusb.edu) or Angel Rivas (005994946@coyote.csusb.edu) with any questions.
For the second year in a row, History in the Making: A Journal of History has been awarded first place in the 2020 Gerald D. Nash History Graduate Journal competition, given by the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society. Under the advisement of Drs. Jeremy Murray and Tiffany Jones, this 13th volume, which was published in spring, is a purely student-run and edited journal that publishes work from undergraduate and history graduate students alike. See the CSUSB News press release for further information.
Intellectual historian and CSUSB professor, Dr. Timothy Pytell published a piece on how "current and future Historians will make sense of the insurrection" that occurred recently on January 6th, 2021. The article examines the historical context of the attack on the Capitol, and ruminates about its impact on the future. To read the article, visit Psychology Today, Jan 23, 2021.
During AY 2020-21, Erika Kelley, junior and Public History major at CSUSB, has been interning at the Digital Giza Project through Harvard University. The Digital Giza project (http://giza.fas.harvard.edu/) has been making the Ancient Egyptian Great Pyramids of Giza and their associated cemeteries (now 4500 years) old come to life through 3D modelling and accessible archaeological archives. This prestigious project is used by Egyptologists, teachers, and kids to learn about the history, society, religion, and, of course, the wonders of Ancient Egypt.
Erika has been an integral member of the Giza Project team helping to develop the “Giza at School” function in order to streamline and organize classroom resources for K-12 teachers. Erika chooses and organizes the most helpful photos and 3D models related to fun topics about Ancient Egypt, such as mummification, daily life, and pyramids. Erika says, “Volunteering with the Giza Project has been an incredibly gratifying experience. Through my work, I have been able to learn so much about the history of Giza, the people who lived there, and the archaeology of the area.” As a Public History major and future Egyptologist, this internship will help her achieve her goals. Erika says: “Working with the Giza Project has been extremely helpful for my future educational and career goals. It has given me unique perspectives that I couldn’t get in the classroom. In addition, I have met many graduate students working towards becoming Egyptologists like myself. Hearing about what graduate school is like for them helped me gain a better understanding of what I can do now to prepare.”
Her internship ties in closely with CSUSB’s expanding program in the study of Ancient Egypt as well as their prestigious undergraduate degree in Public History that successfully prepares historians for careers doing history. Dr. Kate Liszka, the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology, says: “We are very proud of Erika and all that she has achieved. It’s great to watch our students bring history to life and make an impact on all education.”
Ian Johnson, who was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, will speak on the state of U.S.-China relations at the next Modern China Lecture on Monday, Feb. 22, on Zoom.
The program, which will begin at 2 p.m., can be accessed on Zoom from a PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android at https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496.
Since U.S. President Richard Nixon went to China in 1972, relations between the two countries have never been so poor over such a sustained period. Johnson has been studying and working in China for much of this era, and in this talk will reflect on how relations got so bad and the role of his profession, journalism, in the ongoing crisis.
“Ian Johnson is one of the most insightful observers of China in recent years,” said Jeremy Murray, organizer of the lecture series and CSUSB associate professor of history. “Hearing from him, and having the chance to ask him questions about the state of U.S.-China relations is a really wonderful opportunity. Attendees of this free and open event will be welcomed to join the conversation.”
Johnson was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work for The Wall Street Journal about victims of the Chinese government’s often brutal suppression of the Falun Gong movement and the implications of that campaign for the future. He is the recipient of two awards from the Overseas Press Club, and an award from the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2017 he won Stanford University’s Shorenstein Journalism Award for his body of work covering Asia. In 2019 he won the American Academy of Religion’s “best in-depth newswriting” award.
In 2006-07 he spent a year as a Nieman fellow at Harvard University, and later received research and writing grants from the Open Society Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. In 2020 he was an inaugural grantee of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation for work-in-progress.
Most recently, he was awarded a 2020-2021 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars fellowship for a new book he is writing on China’s unofficial history.
Johnson first went to China as a student in Beijing from 1984 to 1985, and then in Taipei from 1986 to 1988. He later worked as a newspaper correspondent in China, from 1994 to 1996 with Baltimore’s The Sun, and from 1997 to 2001 with The Wall Street Journal, where he covered macro-economics, China’s World Trade Organization accession and social issues.
He has also worked in Germany twice. From 1988 to 1992 he attended graduate school in West Berlin and worked as a freelancer, covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and German unification for Baltimore’s The Sun, The St. Petersburg Times, The Toronto Star, and other newspapers. In 2001 he moved back to Berlin, working until 2009 as The Wall Street Journal’s Germany bureau chief and senior writer. He headed coverage of European macro-economics, and wrote about social issues such as Islamist terrorism.
In 2009, Johnson returned to China, and lived there until 2020 as a writer for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. He taught undergraduates at The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies, and has served as an advisor to academic journals and think tanks, such as the Journal of Asian Studies, the Berlin-based think tank Merics, and New York University’s Center for Religion and Media.
After being expelled from China in 2020 as part of escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing, Johnson now writes books and is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig on Chinese religious associations.
Johnson has published three books and contributed chapters to three others. His newest book, “The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao,” describes China’s religious revival and its implications for politics and society.
His other books are on civil society and grassroots protest in China (“Wild Grass,” 2004) and Islamism and the Cold War in Europe (“A Mosque in Munich,” 2010). He has also contributed chapters to: “My First Trip to China” (2011), “Chinese Characters” (2012), and the “Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China” (2016).
Johnson was born in Montreal, Canada, and holds dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship.
The Modern China Lecture Series was initiated to promote awareness of important issues related to China for those on the CSUSB campus and in the community. In the series of more than 50 lectures, workshops, film screenings and roundtable forums since January 2014, China scholars from UC San Diego, UC Riverside, the Claremont Colleges, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine and other institutions have visited the CSUSB campus to share their expertise and opinions.
Speakers in the series have included specialists in history, economics, political science, philosophy, finance, security studies, literature, anthropology and other fields.
The series cosponsors this year are the CSUSB Department of History, the History Club/Phi Alpha Theta, and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
For more information on the Modern China Lecture Series, contact Jeremy Murray, associate professor of history, at jmurray@csusb.edu.
Join us on Wednesday, February 3 at 3 p.m. for a special presentation, "The Perils of Policing," featuring Dr. Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, whose research shows how danger and violence influence police culture, officer practice, and social inequality.
After the presentation, Sierra-Arévalo--who earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University and a B.A. in Sociology and Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin--will participate in a question-and-answer session.
Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784
Drawing on observations and interviews across 3 U.S. police departments, Sierra-Arévalo advances the concept of “perilous policing.” This approach to policing emphasizes danger and death in officers' understanding and practice of police work and has profound consequences for officer safety, public well-being, and social inequality.
His first book, Peril on Patrol: Danger, Death, and U.S. Policing, is under advance contract at Columbia University Press.
His writing and research have appeared in The Washington Post, Times Higher Education, NPR, Vox, GQ, and The New Republic.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Stan Futch (President,WAG), Marlo Brooks, and Yvette Relles-Powell.
View previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series.
For questions or more information, contact Robie Madrigal (rmadriga@csusb.edu) or Jeremy Murray (jmurray@csusb.edu).
The Pfau Library's Conversation on Race and Policing Presents:
"Slavery by Another Name"
A Film Screening and Discussion
February 24, 2021, 3 p.m.
After the film, which examines forced labor systems that targeted African Americans in the post-Civil War era, Dr. Marc Robinson, Assistant Professor of History, will engage students, faculty, staff, and campus guests in dialogue.
Please find details about a series of upcoming virtual campus talks on China at this slideshow link with flyers. Details of some events will be added through the semester.
All events are free and open to the public.
Join us this coming week:
Monday, March 1st at 5:30pm, a presentation and conversation with Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, a Hong Kong-based journalist and recipient of the Human Rights Press Award for his coverage of Hong Kong police actions during Hong Kong demonstrations.
Tuesday, March 2nd at 10am, a presentation and conversation with Rana Mitter, University of Oxford Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China.
Mitter will be discussing his new book, China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020).
Zoom details are in the slide show, and unless otherwise indicated will be at this Zoom meeting: Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android at https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496
Please send any questions to jmurray@csusb.edu, and I hope you'll join us for these virtual events.
Throughout March, CSUSB will hold a series of virtual events honoring the accomplishments of womxn in celebration of Womxn’s History Month.Throughout March, CSUSB will hold a series of virtual events honoring the accomplishments of womxn in celebration of Womxn’s History Month. For details on all events, see Womxn's Series news article.
March 9, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.: Route 66 Women, a video project highlighting the history of San Bernardino, women of color and the infamous Route 66 will be held by the Santos Manuel Student Union Women’s Resource Center, the John M. Pfau Library and the Department of History. The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer period with documentarian Katrina Parks (www.assertionfilms.com) and alumnus Mark Ocegueda ’10, BA history (Mellon Gateway Postdoctoral Fellow, department of history, Brown University).
Register at: www.tinyurl.com/route66women
For further information visit the Route 66 news article.
Info:
Mar 11, 11am to 1:30pm, “Inside the Lines: Voices of the Civil Rights Movement Panel,” San Bernardino Country Museum
Description:
Join panelists Jalani Bakari, Charles Bibbs, Hardy Brown Jr., Willie Ellison, Rachelle Malbrough, and Dr. Marc A. Robinson on Thursday, March 11th at 11:00am for a ZOOM panel hosted by the San Bernardino County Museum. In conjunction with the virtual exhibit “Inside The Lines: Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement.” Panelists will be discussing civil rights and social justice in the African American community, leaders in the fight for freedom, and more.
Exhibit:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c876878db8c647ec85b9ccb9ff5debca
Contact:
Ashley Lothyan, Curator of Education, San Bernardino County Museum, Phone: 909-798-8610, ashley.lothyan@sbcm.sbcounty.gov
Join us on Wednesday, March 24 at 3 p.m. for a screening and discussion of "Let the Fire Burn," an archival-footage documentary about the 1985 MOVE bombing.
On May 13 of that year, the Philidelphia Police Department dropped a military-grade satchel charge on a MOVE-occupied townhouse, igniting an inferno that killed 11 (including five children), destroyed 61 homes, and left more than 250 citizens homeless.
Author Betsey Piette, who reviewed the film, wrote: "Let the Fire Burn reminds its audience that city officials, with full knowledge that children were in the house, chose not to extinguish the blaze. Wilson Goode, then Philadelphia’s mayor, admits during testimony before a commission that 'there was a decision to let the fire burn'."
Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784
March 24, 2021 | 3 P.M.
Gene Demby, co-host of NPR's Code Switch, writes about the MOVE bombing in an article titled "I'm From Philly. 30 Years Later, I'm Still Trying To Make Sense Of The MOVE Bombing."
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Stan Futch (President,WAG), and CSUSB students Marlo Brooks, Zoralynn Oglesby, and Evelyn Jimenez.
For questions or more information, contact Robie Madrigal (rmadriga@csusb.edu) or Jeremy Murray (jmurray@csusb.edu).
Join us Wednesday, April 14 at 3 p.m. for a special program with Ben Montgomery, author of the award-winning and New York Times-bestselling Grandma Gatewood's Walk. He will discuss his most recent book, A Shot in the Moonlight, which tells the sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south.
Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784
Montgomery is also the author of The Leper Spy and The Man Who Walked Backward.
In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting and won the Dart Award and Casey Medal for a series called "For Their Own Good," about abuse at Florida's oldest reform school. In 2018, he won a National Headliner award for journalistic innovation for a project exploring police shootings in Florida. He was among the first fellows for Images and Voices of Hope in 2015 and was selected to be the fall 2018 T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Professor at the University of Montana in Missoula.
Introduction by Dr. Rafik A. Mohamed, Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, who will facilitate the question-and-answer session.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Stan Futch (President, WAG),and CSUSB student Marlo Brooks.
Special thanks to University Advancement, co-sponsor of the program.
View previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series.
For questions or more information, contact Robie Madrigal (rmadriga@csusb.edu) or Jeremy Murray (jmurray@csusb.edu).
Join us on Wednesday, May 12 at 3 p.m. for a screening and discussion of the film Pride Denied: Homonationalism and the Future of Queer Politics.
The post-screening conversation will include panelists Angela Asbell, who teaches courses in Gender and Sexuality Studies at CSUSB; Dr. Jacob Chacko, who serves as Associate Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the San Manuel Student Union; and CSUSB student Eloy Garcia, who is President of the Pride Pack.
Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784
Description of the film, from its website: "Pride Denied tells the story of how corporate sponsors coopted the concept of LGBTQ pride, turning it into a feel-good brand and blunting its radical political edge. The film locates the origins of pride in sites of grassroots resistance and revolt, going back to the anti-police Stonewall uprising led by queer and trans people of color in 1969. It then traces how the deeply political roots of pride morphed into the depoliticized big-business PRIDE™ spectacles of today -- multimillion-dollar events designed to project an image of tolerance and equality rather than calling attention to the relationship between normative identity, power, and sexual repression.
The film also offers a stunning case study in the politics of "pinkwashing," detailing how the government of Israel has used its purported tolerance of gay rights to deflect attention away from its systematic repression of Palestinian human rights. Drawing on the insights of activists, artists, and educators, Pride Denied makes a compelling case for returning to the progressive political activism and grassroots community support that characterized the early LGBT rights movement."
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Stan Futch (President, WAG), and CSUSB students Marlo Brooks, Zoralynn Oglesby, and Evelyn Jimenez.
View previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series.
For questions or more information, contact Robie Madrigal (rmadriga@csusb.edu) or Jeremy Murray (jmurray@csusb.edu).
On April 29th, 2021, Dr. Daisy Ocampo participated in the Faculty Center for Excellence and the Pfau Library inaugural Video Archive Series. The objective is to create rich, high-quality presentations and interviews archive with CSUSB faculty about their scholarly publications and/or creative works. This material will be archived, have a further pedagogical approach, and be more accessible to faculty and students in curriculums, as we are hopeful that our colleagues can teach each others' content as they see fit.
Dr. Daisy Ocampo presented on her work titled “People of the Land: Preserving Indigenous Sacred Sites” Dr. Daisy Ocampo and Distinguished Professor Cliff Trafzer (UCR) served as her discussant. Her work discusses the relationship between sacred sites and Native communities, an often overlooked component of soceignty and social justice today. Colonization disrupted this relationship and continues to do so through local, state, and federal preservation entities.
Click here to watch the video.
Fernando Sanchez, CSUSB history student and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program recipient, was recently accepted into UC Berkely's Department of Near Eastern Studies. He is also the recipient of the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. View full article.
On May 14th, the Department of History held its Spring virtual graduation and Phi Alpha Theta Induction Ceremony. The ceremony was recorded and can be accessed below.
Congratulations to all our graduates, inductees, and award winners!