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CSBS, Faculty in the News
March 8, 2023

Books by Diana K. Johnson (history and ethnic studies), Teresa Velásquez (anthropology) and Fabián A. Borges (political science) have published books in their areas of expertise, and their work is available in print or as ebooks.

J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI who ran the agency for 48 years.
March 3, 2023

Yale University professor Beverly Gage will discuss her biography on J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to until he died in 1972, at the next Conversations on Race and Policing.
 

University Hall, Faculty in the News
March 1, 2023

Jeremy Murray (history) is the recipient of CSUSB’s Outstanding Service Award, Claire Todd (geological sciences) described the conditions for avalanches in the local mountains, and Deidre Lanesskog (social work) cowrote an article on qualitative inquiry.

Jeremy Murray (left), professor of history, is congratulated by university president Tomás D. Morales (center) and Provost Rafik Mohamed upon being named the recipient of the 2022-23 Outstanding Service Award.
February 27, 2023

“His willingness to engage in activities that share knowledge within the community seems endless,” the nominating committee said.

JHBC Faculty in the News
February 24, 2023

Carolyn McAllister (social work) was interviewed for a segment about a grant that will enable the School of Social Work to expand the MSW program to the Palm Desert Campus, Diana K. Johnson (history and ethnic studies) published an article on the multiracial politics of the Mexican American diaspora in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, Zhonghui "Hugo" Wang (management) published an article on the impact of a founding family in corporate governance.

Illustration of police and multiracial, multiethnic silhouettes.
February 24, 2023

Cerise Castle, who wrote an award-winning investigative project on deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, appear on the weekly program at 1 p.m. Feb. 28 on Zoom.

Illustration of criminal justice: gavel, handcuffs, scale
February 17, 2023

Alec Karakatsanis, a civil rights lawyer and social justice advocate, will discuss his work and his book, “Unusual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Justice System,” at the next Conversations on Race and Policing, which will be livestreamed on Zoom.

art sculpture, Faculty in the News
February 13, 2023

Stuart Sumida (biology), Brian Levin (criminal justice), Michael Stull (entrepreneurship) and Michael Karp (history) were included in recent news coverage, and research by Leslie R. Amodeo was published.

A makeshift memorial placed during protests over the shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer in 2014. Photo by Jamelle Bouie via Wikimedia Commons.
February 10, 2023

St. Louis-based writer, journalist, and poet Jacqui Germain will read from and discuss her debut collection of poetry, “Bittering the Wound,” a first-person retelling of the uprising in the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown by a police officer.