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From career advice, to keeping one’s information safe after a website hack, to the upcoming LEAD VIII Summit, and all things on the hate and extremism spectrum, Cal State San Bernardino’s faculty were sought-after experts in the past few days by the news media.

Amy E. Gusick, an assistant professor of anthropology at Cal State San Bernardino, was featured in an ongoing series, 'Job-Market Diaries,' in which Mark Tonelli interviews new faculty members about how they found their full-time teaching job.

She describes her career path to her current faculty position at CSUSB in the question-and-answer format.

Gusick directs the anthropology department’s master of arts in applied archaeology, cultural resource management.

The article was published Feb. 21, 2017, by the website ChronicleVitae.com and can be read at 'Job-Market Diaries: An archaeology professor.'

On Feb. 28, the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival producers sent an email warning about a breach to website users who had created accounts for the desert event, The Sun reported. That information can be used by criminals to confirm information they got elsewhere but wouldn’t necessarily pose a big threat, said Tony Coulson, director of Cal State San Bernardino’s Cyber Security Center and professor of information and decision sciences.

Coulson advised Coachella users to change their passwords and consider changing their user names.

The article was published Feb. 28, 2017, and also appeared in other Southern California News Group and Bay Area News Group newspapers, and can be read at “Coachella festival website hacked, users’ personal data stolen.”

With the 8th annual Latino Education and Advocacy Days Summit approaching, radio station KCAA’s “Inside Politics” invited Enrique Murillo Jr., professor of education and executive director of the Latino Education and Advocacy Days Project.

Murillo spoke about the upcoming LEAD VIII Summit, set for March 30 at CSUSB, as well as other education projects that take place throughout the year.

The interview took place on Feb. 26, 2017, and a video of the interview can be viewed online “KCAA — 2/26/17 — Inside Politics.”

Brian Levin, criminal justice professor and director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, continues to be a go-to expert for news reporters covering incidents and topics of hate and extremism.

In an article for the publication Foreign Policy, writer Freke Vuijust interviewed Levin about Dutch populist Geert Wilders, who is noted for his extreme views on Islam, and who has forged ties in the U.S.

Levin, Vuijist wrote, is someone who has followed Wilders for years. Levin called Wilders “one of the most effective spokespersons for the idea that Islam is a danger to national security. The fact that Wilders himself is under 24-hour protection gives him authenticity. He is seen as a seer and truth-teller.” It also helped in the United States that he wasn’t tainted by ties to anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi organizations, as other far-right European politicians have been, Vuijust wrote.

The article was published March 1, 2017, and can be read at “How Geert Wilders Became America’s favorite Islamophobe.”

Newsweek published an article from Capital & Main that included Levin in its report on the history of hate and extremism in California.

“California has been a cornucopia of extremism on all sides of the political spectrum,” Levin said in the article by Gabriel Thomson. “It’s the place where you can come from anywhere and define your own American Dream, and everybody’s got a gripe. The fringes are as hot here as they are anywhere.”

Muslims have borne the brunt of that hate. The Southern Poverty Law Center recently said that anti-Muslim hate groups nearly tripled in the last year, from 34 in 2015 to 101 in 2016. According to Levin, hate crimes targeting Muslims in California jumped 122 percent from 2014 to 2015, a period that coincided with the San Bernardino terror attack on Dec. 2, 2015, and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.

The article was published Feb. 28, 2017 and can be read at “Golden State of hate: Extremism's long history in California.”

Wisconsin Public Radio turned to Levin for comment about a reported shift in focus by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from monitoring threats from a wide variety of groups and individuals and, instead, concentrating on “radical Islamic terrorism.”

Such a move may be misguided, Levin said. 'We have the most multi-faceted threat matrix that we’ve had in recent American history,' he said. 'You can’t just concentrate on one part of the ice when the shot on goal might come from another.'

The problem, Levin said, is that the nation has a diverse mix of groups and individuals with the potential to do harm, from fringe political movements to so-called 'lone wolf' terrorists. And during a time of great change, any action could have a ripple affect among groups.

The interview was posted Feb. 27, 2017, and the article and online audio interview can be found at “Expert: More 'holistic' approach needed to address national security.”

The rash of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. prompted talk show host Ian Masters to invite Levin on his show, “Background Briefing with Ian Masters.” Levin discussed the possible motives and impacts that such acts can have on a community and a nation. The incidents include 500 headstones desecrated at a Jewish graveyard in Philadelphia less than a week after a similar outrage in St. Louis. In addition, more than 160 bomb threats have been made to more than 60 Jewish Community Centers.

Also discussed was President Trump’s slow reaction to these hate crimes and his response to Jewish reporters who raised the issue to Trump only to be met with hostility and evasion.

The interview was posted online on Feb. 27, 2017, and can be heard at “February 27 - What is behind the sudden rise in anti-Semitic attacks?; How social media and technology is undermining democracy; Trump's 10 percent Increase in defense spending.”

And Levin weighed in on the topic with his own article, focusing on the responsibilities of political leaders, for The Huffington Post, writing: “… political leaders must respond through words and deeds, so the seeds of religious liberty planted by our founders can continue to flourish. As Martin Luther King counsels, ‘In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.’”

The article was published Feb. 24, 2017, and can be read at “As anti-Semitic acts rise, so should our leaders’ resolve.”