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Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology

Faculty in the News, Student Housing
March 27, 2023

Kelly Campbell (psychology) was interviewed for an article about dealing with stress related to personal finances, Kate Liszka and Kasia Szpakowska (history) are featured in a new mini-series on ancient Egypt, Yunfei Hou (computer science and engineering) is helping to organize a data science summer fellowship, and Leslie R. Amodeo and Dionisio A. Amodeo (psychology) led a team of researchers that published a study on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), medications that are commonly used by pregnant women.

Screen capture from the Wondrium series “The Real Ancient Egypt”
March 24, 2023

Kate Liszka, associate professor of history and the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology, and Kasia Szpakowska, W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence in spring 2021, play major roles in the nine-episode series.

Aleksandra Ksiezak is the 2022-23 W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence.
September 30, 2022

Ksiezak is teaching an upper-division history course, “In the Land of Stone and Copper: An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Technology,” and will give a keynote lecture, “A gateway into the desert: History, exploration, and cyclical rediscovery of Wadi Tumilat,” at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art on Oct. 27.

University Hall,  Faculty in the News
September 28, 2022

Jessica Block Nerren (communication studies) led a team that included CSUSB faculty whose new book on autism-inclusion, education reform and communication, was recently published, Kate Liszka (history) served as a consultant on a new Disney movie, and Michael Stull (entrepreneurship) discussed the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship’s first-ever State of Entrepreneurship Minority Report.

The cast of Disney’s “Under Wraps 2.” From left: Sobek, Buzzy, Gilbert, Amy, Marshall, Harold and Rose.
September 23, 2022

Kate Liszka, the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology and associate professor of history, served as the Egyptological consultant for the film that will premiere on Sunday, Sept. 25, on the Disney Channel, and Sept. 30 on Disney+.

Pfau Library, Faculty in the News
June 9, 2022

Brian Levin (criminal justice), Kate Liszka (history), Ezekiel Bonillas (entrepreneurship) and Lacey Kendall (communication studies) were included in recent news coverage.

Kate Liszka
June 7, 2022

Kate Liszka was awarded the grant from the Antiquities Endowment Fund of the American Research Center in Egypt for conservation, restoration and 3D recording of more than a dozen ancient rock inscriptions that could provide new insights into the history of ancient Egypt.

 

Meredith Brand
March 14, 2022

Brand is the fourth Egyptologist to visit and teach at CSUSB since the start of the visiting scholar program in 2018. In addition to teaching in the departments of history and anthropology, she will present a keynote talk, “Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery,” at RAFFMA on April 5.

Faculty in the News, Visual Arts sculpture
October 25, 2021

Todd Johnson (music), Diane Vines (nursing), Kate Liszka (history), Breena Coates (management) and Vipin Gupta (management) were included in recent news coverage.