Greetings from the Dean's Office!
Today is Election Day, please remember to vote and have your voice heard! Last month, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences was honored to partner with the Fish Interfaith Center to host a lecture by Reverend Dr. William Barber who emphasized that our democracy only works when citizens vote. “We don’t know what this democracy can do, because we have never seen 75 or 80 percent participation,” he noted (read more about his lecture below). This issue of We are Wilkinson also commemorates Veterans Day, November 11th, with stories highlighting how our faculty are using courses, scholarship, fiction, and film to document the experiences of those who have served in the armed forces. Finally, we wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving later in the month. We are Wilkinson remains thankful for our students, staff, faculty, parents, and alumni who remind us on a daily basis why we are the “heart and soul” of Chapman University.
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Pictured Above: Graphic created by Wilkinson College Ideation Lab. For more information about CU At the Booth voting resources, click here.
Reverend Dr. William Barber: Hope, Not Hate
In an event hosted by Wilkinson College and The Fish Interfaith Center as a part of the Engaging the World initiative, Rev. Dr. Barber impressed upon over 200 attendees the need to couple hope with political agitation to combat systemic racism, poverty in our nation, and voter suppression.
Professor Claudine Jaenichen Develops CU Safely Back Signage
Professor Jaenichen (Art), who studies how people process information under various levels of stress and anxiety, helped develop the campus’s new look and describes the science behind the colors, design, and messaging.
Cupola with Clouds and Ocean, International Space Station – ISS, Low Earth Orbit, Space, Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller
What is Space Archaeology?
Dr. Justin Walsh (Art) and Dr. Alice Gorman (Flinders University) partnered with an international team of scholars for the first archaeological study of a space station, providing new information about successful and unsuccessful aspects of space habitation design.
The Fashion and Race Database, Rachel Cassandra Gibbons, La Periode Bleue, i
The Fashion and Race Database
Rachel Kinnard, who teaches the course Fashion: Culture and Industry, is collaborating on "The Fashion and Race Database" to provide an accessible, academic treatment of a critical topic in the fashion industry.
MA War and Society Program Welcomes New Director Dr. Kyle Longley
Dr. Longley has amassed a long and impressive list of scholarship that engages conversations across disciplines and within history as he combines military, diplomatic, and social history (race, class, gender) to better understand the modern American experience of war.
Career Corner: Gender Inequality in the Workplace
Wilkinson College Career Advisor Erin Berthon writes about gender inequality in the workplace, closing the gender pay gap, and maintaining a work/life balance.
Faculty Books: Film Adaptation of Richard Bausch's Peace
In honor of Veterans Day, Creative Writing Professor Bausch's 2008 novel Peace will debut as a World War II drama Recon.
November Events
Engaging the World Film Series
When: November 6 @1PM
Film: Children of Men
When: November 20 @1PM
Film: Slaying the Dragon & Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
Engaging the World Lecture Series
When: November 2 @7PM
Lecture: Working for Racial Justice and Human Rights
When: November 12 @12PM
Lecture: Following the Diasporic Roots of Grime: A Musical Family Tree
Remember and Reflect: Kristallnacht
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This event is made possible through the generous support of the John and Toby Martz Distinguished Lecture in Holocaust Studies and the Sally and Jerry Schwartz Endowment for Holocaust Education.
Monday, November 9 at 6 p.m., join the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, Fish Interfaith Center, and the Chapman Interfaith Council in welcoming guest speaker Timothy J. Boyce, editor of From Day to Day: One Man's Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps. From Day to Day is the 600-page concentration camp diary of Norwegian political prisoner, Odd Nansen, during a three and a half year imprisonment in Grini, Veidal, and Sachsenhausen.
Long out of print, Timothy Boyce tracked down one of the few remaining copies of the work in 2010, determined to make the book available once again.
As part of the fall 2020 lecture series, this event will remember and reflect on Kristallnacht in 1938.
Wilkinson Alumni News
Check out what some of our awesome alumni are doing:
Erica Hayes ('08, English) is a Digital Scholarship Librarian working at Villanova University. Kacie Wills ('09, Creative Writing) is an Assistant Professor of English at Illinois College and teaches British literature. Erica and Kacie contributed to the book Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe, recently published "Visualizing Sarah Sophia Banks' African Coins" in the June issue of Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts and Humanities, and have an ongoing digital project on Sarah Sophia Banks' collections.
Addison Rose Vincent ('15, Peace Studies & Women's Studies) was featured in the HuffPost in the article "I Have Been On A Journey To Come Out As The Person I Truly Am."
Andrew Calloway ('18, Political Science & Peace Studies) is a 2020 Census Field Supervisor for Los Angeles County, a long term substitute teacher, a mentor in the Lynwood Alumni Association, and an advocacy researcher for the Lynwood Partners Educational Foundation.
Cami Carlomagno ('19, War & Society) had her thesis "Women in a Man's War: The Employment of Female Agents in the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946" featured in the TIME article "Inside the Stories of the Most Daring Women Spies of World War II."
Nathaly Del Real ('19, Sociology) is the Internship Coordinator at Chapman’s Office of Career and Professional Development and works with students, faculty, employers, and on-campus partners in understanding Chapman's internship registration process.
Clarissa Cordova ('20, Sociology & Psychology) is an Enrichment and Tutoring Leader at Think Together, a non-profit in Santa Ana whose mission is to partner with schools to change the odds for kids.
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