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One of the poster presentations at the IE People’s History Conference.
May 6, 2025

Taking place at the university’s Center for Global Innovation, the day-long conference panel sessions included scholars from institutional and community-based organizations, as well as poster presentations and information tables for community groups and services.

An acrobat from the 81st Annual Great Y Circus, which will perform its 83rd edition the next three weekends, May 2-4, 9-11 and 16-18, in Redlands.
May 2, 2025

Tiffany Jones, professor of history, participates in the city of Redlands’ Great All American Youth Circus®, as a parent, backstage volunteer, coach … and performer. Tickets are now available for the 2025 shows, “Circus Fantasy,” set for the next three weekends, May 2-4, 9-11 and 16-18, in Redlands.

Alison Phipps
April 29, 2025

The presentation, “Sexual Violence as a Pretext for Disposal: Rape, Race and Carcerality,” will take place at an earlier time, 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.

CSBS building, Faculty in the News
April 25, 2025

Marc Robinson and Tiffany Jones (history), Meredith Conroy (political science), Guy Hepp (anthropology), Thomas Corrigan (communication and media), and Brian Levin (criminal justice, emeritus) were mentioned in recent news coverage, and research was published by the following faculty: Yasemin Dildar (economics), Eric Vogelsang (sociology), Keting Chen, Kevin Rosales, Lisa Looney (all child development), and Zachary Powell and Sishi Wu (both criminal justice).

“Annette Overstreet & Myrna Overstreet Spear, 2024,” From the report, "Remembering the Valley Truck Farms," photo by Tamara Cedré, courtesy of A People's History of the I.E.
April 24, 2025

The conference, which is free and open to the public, is set to begin at 8:30 a.m. at the university’s Center for Global Innovation. Registration may be done online at the IE People's History Conference registration webpage.

From left, panelists for the program “By the Shore of Lake Michigan” are Nancy Matsumoto, Mariko Aratani, Kyoko Miyabe and Eri Yasuhara.
April 23, 2025

Nancy Matsumoto, who translated the poems of her grandparents, Tomiko and Ryokuyō Matsumoto, and Eri Yasuhara, dean emerita of CSUSB’s College of Arts and Letters, will be among the panelists for the program, “By the Shore of Lake Michigan,” presented by the CSUSB Libraries at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 29.

Mary Jane McCoy
April 23, 2025

Mary Jane McCoy, a graduate of CSUSB who had a long career as an educator in the Inland Empire, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters on May 17. A member of the Class of 1967, the university’s first graduating class, she served as an elementary school teacher and a principal in San Bernardino.

Simon Balto
April 18, 2025

Simon Balto, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of history, is the author of “Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power.” His talk, free and open to the public, will begin at noon Wednesday on Zoom.

Thaddeus Johnson
April 11, 2025

“Reducing Community Violence to Close the Racial Gap in U.S. Imprisonment” will be presented by Thaddeus Johnson, assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, beginning at noon Wednesday, April 16, on Zoom.