Faculty Highlights

Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. To share faculty news, email ucm@csudh.edu. College of Arts & Humanities Salim Faraji, professor of Africana Studies, gave a guest lecture at Stanford University to students in Anthropology 134, “Museum Cultures: Exhibiting the African Imaginary,” where he addressed questions regarding museum stewardship of the material cultures of diverse African communities within the context of practices that prompt efforts of restitution, ... Read More

Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. To share faculty news, email ucm@csudh.edu. College of Arts & Humanities Katherine Chu, lecturer of Asian-Pacific studies, contributed comments to "Mandarin Hegemony and its Discontents: A History of Chinese Nationalism through the Lens of Dialects," a discussion at UC Irvine about Mandarin being the dominant representation of Chinese identity both in and out of the country, as well as pushback by speakers of other Chinese ... Read More

Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. To share faculty news, email ucm@csudh.edu. College of Arts and Humanities Lorna Fitzsimmons, professor of humanities, presented "'The memory bound to the window': Enabling Resistance to ASD Oppression," at the online Memory, Forgetting, and Creating—International Interdisciplinary Conference organized by the University of Gdańsk, Poland and Norwegian University of Science and Technology on Jan. 13 and 14. Benito Gómez, professor ... Read More

College of Arts and Humanities Brian Gregor, associate professor of philosophy, authored "On Narrating More Wisely: A Prosaic Supplement to Ricœur’s Poetics of Narrative Identity Abstract" for Roma TrE-Press. The essay examines 20th century philosopher Paul Ricœur’s account of narrative identity and asks the practical question of what it looks like to tell our stories—and narrate ourselves—well.     Bianca Murillo, professor of history, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for $37,500. Murillo's grant will fund the research and writing of a history of debt and finance in post-independence Ghana, from ... Read More

College of Arts and Humanities Nancy Erbe, professor of negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, authored the second edition (2021) of Negotiation Alchemy: Global Skills Inspiring & Transforming Diverging Worlds. Originally published by UC Berkeley, the second edition was published by Kendall Hunt.     Assistant Professors of English Mara Lee Grayson and Sherwin Kawahakui Ranchez Sales co-contributed the peer-reviewed article “The Difference BIPOC Mentorship Makes in the Academy” to the College Composition and Communication symposium. Grayson was also a featured guest on the Pedagogue podcast, where she discussed the purpose of first-year ... Read More