Associate professor Kasia Szpakowska has joined CSUSB’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of History as the esteemed W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence for spring 2021.
The Center for the Study of Muslim & Arab Worlds (CSMAW) is among the organizations that will co-host a program on Zoom focusing on academic autonomy and freedom for university students and faculty at Boğaziçi University in Turkey. The webinar will be at 9 a.m. Thursday, March 4.
Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed for articles on the increase in hate incidents targeting Asian Americans, which many have tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The presentation, “Policing Different DNAs: How Our Focus on Diversity in Policing May Be Misguided,” will be livestreamed on Zoom beginning at 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 3.
The Modern China Lecture Series will host two talks today and Tuesday, both on Zoom. Hong Kong-based journalist Ryan Ho Kirkpatrick will speak at 5:30 p.m. today on the current situation in Hong Kong. Author Rana Mitter will speak at 10 a.m. Tuesday on how World War II shaped a new nationalism in China.
An accounting major in his first two years of college, Mohamed could have gone into corporate or tax law. What he saw on the streets of Washington, D.C., and learned in a Constitutional law class on civil liberties changed that.
Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, discussed his latest book, “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017,” during a livestream that was viewed by more than 100 people worldwide.
Brian Levin (criminal justice) commented on a bill by a local congressman that would help prevent white nationalists from infiltrating the U.S. military.
Larry Hygh (communication studies) talks about Black history from a personal perspective, Jing Zhang (management) wrote a research article about support for employees during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) was asked to help fact-check a TV news commentator’s statement about the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot.