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Student Speaker Application 2020
66th Commencement CHASS Ceremonies: June 13-14, 2020 Student Speaker Application Every year, CHASS invites students to speak to their fellow graduates. This year, the College invites students to speak on the following topic: We in CHASS say that “At Home in the World” is more than just a saying or a slogan. It really represents...

PEN America comes to Writer’s Week
Jonathan Friedman, PEN America’s Project Director for Campus Free Speech, will lecture as part of Writers Week on Thursday, Feb. 13, at noon in the InterDisciplinary South Building screening room, 1128. He will discuss why free speech and self-expression are important to college campuses. “I will be running a forum on free speech as part...
By Hannah Croft, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |

Loveridge Summer Fellowship Program prepares UCR students for Sacramento
Summer is a time for most students to slow down, take a vacation, or even enroll in a couple of summer classes. But UC Riverside Political Science Professor Ronald O. Loveridge believes the best way to spend the summer is gaining internship experience. That was exactly how I spent my 2019 summer - learning new...
By Melissa Sagun, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |

Honoring the paintings of the past
Cynthia Neri Lewis, Ph.D Candidate in UC Riverside’s Department of the History of Art, was selected as an emerging student to present her research at the second annual Getty Graduate Symposium. The symposium will be held Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The Getty Graduate Symposium highlights the...
By Melissa Sagun, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |

Beyond Campus Walls: Inspiring Students in Alternative High Schools
“In my life, I received help from all kinds of good people to get where I am now, and I am determined to pay it back anyway I can,” said Assistant Professor of Anthropology Worku Nida. For the past three years, Nida has been traveling to Central High School, an alternative school in Los Angeles...
By Hannah Croft, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |

Studying Identity
“Gender and Sexuality studies is not just an academic field, it’s a way of seeing the world,” said Jade Sasser, professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. “It gives you the tools to do an intersectional analysis of how the world works, and how you can shape and impact it.” The Department of...
By Hannah Croft, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |

CHASS professor/alumnus carries on legacy as Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair
Teaching creative writing has been a dream come true for Alex Espinoza. Espinoza, a 2000 UC Riverside graduate who majored in creative writing is now an associate professor in UCR’s Department of Creative Writing. In July, Espinoza took on the prestigious position of Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair, which provides financial assistance to senior CHASS faculty...
By Hannah Croft, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing and Communications |

Gluck/IGERT grad students create award-winning video to dispel water myths
“Getting to know H2O" is a video collaboration between UC Riverside's Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts and National Science Foundation Water SENSE Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program (IGERT). Mary Gauvain, CHASS Distinguished Professor of Psychology, is a developmental psychologist and was Principal Investigator on the IGERT award. Created by graduate students in...
By Chris Fleming, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing and Communications |

English and cannibalism
Cannibalism is a hard topic to write about positively. But to UC Riverside English Professor Michelle Raheja, cannibalism encompasses more than just negative images. “The class I teach on cannibalism, English 130, is a kind of prehistory to studies of American literature,” Raheja said. “It’s really a class that plays around with what a historical...
By Hannah Croft, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |

CHASS alumna turns her passion for media into an online magazine
Alissa Medina, M.A. is a journalist and has been since her days as a double-major in English and women’s studies at UC Riverside. As founder and chief digital strategist for the online feminist magazine, Fembot, Medina continues to showcase diverse voices to deliver fresh stories on topics that include homelessness and cultural appropriation. Created by...
By Chris Fleming, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing & Communications |