Publications
- Yarma Velazquez Vargas (Chicana/o Studies) has received $4,969 from the Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project Grant for 2009-10 in support of a project entitled “Chicana/o Studies Debate Tournament.”
- Beatriz Cortez (Central American Studies) the Spanish edition of Aesthetics of Cynicism: Passion and Disenchantment in Central American Postwar Fiction (published by F&G Editores in Guatemala in 2009) .
- Linda Rader Overman (English) is the author of an essay entitled “Goodbye, Rita Hayworth. Hello, Margarita Cansino,” due to appear in “Reflect, Inform, Persuade: College Writing in the 21st Century,” scheduled for publication by Longman in 2009.
Publications 2004 - 2005 [pdf]
Publications 2005-2006 [pdf]
Honors & Awards
2008 – 2010
- Tracy Buenavista (Asian American Studies) has received $5,969 from the Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project Grant for 2009-10 in support of a project entitled “Asian American Studies 453 Course Redesign: Implementing ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ as a Pedagogical Tool.”
- Irene Clark (English) has received $5,924 from the Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project Grant for 2009-10 in support of a project entitled “Academic Argument and Disciplinary Transfer: Fostering Genre Awareness in the First Year Writing Students.”
- Diana Contreras (Gender & Women's Studies) has been chosen as a Fulbright-Nehru scholar for Fall 2010. For four months she will act as an official "cultural ambassador." She will conduct a series of lectures on the Contemporary Issues of Indian Women at St. Teresa's College part of the Mahatma Gandhi University) in Ernakulam, Kerala. She will also host a Warrior Goddess Diva Women’s symposium.
- Scott Kleinman (English) has received $4,969 from the Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project Grant for 2009-10 in support of a project entitled “Discovering the Digital Humanities.”
- Marta Lopez-Garza (Women’s Studies, Chicana/o Studies) received $10,000 from the California Council for the Humanities, in support of a project entitled “When Will Punishment End? Stories by Formerly Incarcerated Women.”
- Ana Sanchez-Muñoz (Chicana/o Studies) has received $4,969 from the Judge Julian Beck Learning-Centered Instructional Project Grant for 2009-10 in support of a project entitled “Preserving our Cultural Roots: Engaging Students in the Study of Spanish Heritage Language Maintenance and Loss in the San Fernando Valley.”
- Elizabeth Say (Dean) has received $2;00,000 from Cal State Long Beach and the Department of Homeland Security, in continuing support of a project entitled “Strategic Languages Initiative.”
- Vahram Shemmassian (Armenian Studies) was awarded the “William Saroyan Medal” by the Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia. The award is in recognition of his contribution to the preservation of Armenian identity in the Diaspora.
- Jackie Stallcup (English) has won the 2008 Children's Literature Association Article Award in recognition of her essay “‘The Feast of Misrule’: Captain Underpants, Satire and the Literary Establishment”.
