Greetings from the Dean's Office!
Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Environmental Justice continues this month with events on endangered Antarctic eco-systems, environmental law, and faculty environmental justice research projects. We then head into a much-deserved Thanksgiving break for our students, faculty, and staff. Thanksgiving is a cherished time to reconnect with family and friends, but it is also a complex holiday that gives us the opportunity to acknowledge that Chapman University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and
contemporary Lands of the Acjachemen Peoples in the Juaneño Territory, adjacent to our Tongva/Kizh neighbors to the North and Payomkawichum/Luiseño and
Kumeyaay neighbors to the South.
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Pictured Above: Wilkinson College's Peer Advisors (left to right): Anika Manuel (Peace Studies & Political Science), Marisa Quezada (Sociology), Rithu Gurazada
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Wilkinson Parent Council
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is excited to announce the formation of its first-ever Parent Council. If you are interested in drawing upon your professional and personal interests to work with Dean Jennifer Keene and support Wilkinson’s strategic interests, or you would like more information, contact Mary Shockey
John Heilemann On Politics and the Power of Mass Media
Wilkinson College hosted John Heilemann in the inaugural installment of the Bill and Ronna Shipman Distinguished Speaker Series in Presidential Studies. Heilemann is a National Affairs Analyst for NBC and the co-host and executive producer of Showtime’s The Circus, a political documentary series that reports on significant American political issues.
Wendy Lower Speaks On Restoring Humanity to Holocaust Victims
Wilkinson College's Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education invited Dr. Wendy Lower to speak on her newest monograph, "The Ravine: A Family, A Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed." Lower said, "when we turn away from [atrocity images,] we promote ignorance...when we stop researching them, we cease to care about historical justice and the threat of genocide.”
Prayers for Flint
Karen Hampton recently spoke as part of the Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Environmental Justice series to examine the Flint water crisis. “Prayers for Flint” is her artwork reflecting upon the Black community of Flint, Michigan, who in the 2019 Flint water crisis discovered that the city’s water supply was contaminated with lead.
Alum Mariana Samuda Publishes Debut Book
Mariana Samuda ('18, MFA Creative Writing) speaks about her newest publication, Five Places You Meet Fifteen-Year-Old You. Samuda's book confronts the teenage years and the fragility of memory. "In writing this story and doing all this self-reflection," said Samuda, "it made me realize just how much my younger selves had to teach me."
Career Corner: Leading Your Life, Managing Your Career
Are you a student still struggling with what you want to do, or even questioning what your major can do for you? Are you unsure of how to build a professional resume, or wondering if an internship will help you? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then I have just the class for you!
Faculty Books: Dr. Martin Nakell on Consciousness
In Consciousness, his latest collection of poems, Dr. Martin Nakell (English) embraces the chaotic nature of experience in his writing. Dr. Nakell explores the incoherency of consciousness, and believes that there is a potential for poetic experience within all human engagement.
Gift of the Month
Over the past few years, Chapman University Board of Governors member Mark Hoover (’72), and his wife Donna Hoover, have generously made several sizable gifts to support Wilkinson College’s Fund for Academic Excellence and the MA War and Society Program within the Department of History. Their philanthropic acts have enabled programming for the Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation Series, viewed by hundreds over the past two academic years, and facilitated thesis research and conference travel by graduate students in the MA War and Society Program. Thank you, Mark and Donna, for your unwavering commitment to enhancing educational opportunities for students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences!
Events
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Wednesday, November 3 at 7 p.m.
Join Jill Heinerth for the upcoming virtual Bensussen Distinguished Lecture in the Arts, co-sponsored by Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Environmental Justice and the Department of Art. Heinerth will share her experiences as a deep-sea diver and Explorer-in-Residence of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, serving as the hands and eyes for a climatologists, archaeologists, and engineers worldwide.
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Tuesday, November 9 at 11:30 a.m.
Attend the virtual "Environmental Justice: Making A Difference," hosted by Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Environmental Justice, and hear from Dr. Mathew Ballew (Psychology) Dr. Jason Douglas (Public Health), and Dr. Richelle Tanner (Environmental Science & Policy) as they discuss their research in environmental health and environmental justice. This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Georgiana Bostean (Environmental Science, Health, & Policy; Sociology).
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Tuesday, November 9 at 7 p.m.
Join the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, in partnership with The Sally and Jerry Schwartz Endowment for Holocaust Education and the Fish Interfaith Center, for an Interfaith Service of Remembrance for Kristallnacht, "Who Will Tell Our History?" in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel. Dr. Glenn Kurtz, author of Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film will discuss the challenges of passing down historical memory to the next generation
Homecoming is Coming!
Join us November 5 & 6
Panthers, it’s time to reconnect with your Chapman Family! Chapman Family Homecoming will take place November 5 & 6, with a variety of in-person and virtual activities celebrating Chapman's 160th anniversary. We can’t wait to welcome you back for fun events like:
- A virtual 5K run/walk.
- A Chapman Family tailgate prior to Saturday’s big football game.
- The dedication of the brand new Swenson Family Hall of Engineering.
- Master Classes with some of Chapman’s favorite professors.
Wilkinson's Homecoming Master Classes
The Anthropology of Disneyland
Friday, November 5 at 10 a.m.
Join Dr. Stephanie Takaragawa, for "The Anthropology of Disneyland." What makes Disneyland so successful in compelling people to comply with its culture at the ‘Happiest Place on Earth’? Focusing on the environment of Disneyland, Dr. Takaragawa examines how architecture, the environment and other mitigating social factors encourage certain types of behaviors & expectations.
Escalette Permanent Art Collection
Friday, November 5 at 3 p.m.
Join Dr. Fiona Shen, Director of the Escalette Permanent Art Collection, as she leads a guided art tour through Roosevelt Hall, home of Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and Smith Hall. View recent acquisitions including work selected by students, as well as a sampling from the current exhibition Begin/Again: Marking Black Memories.
Wilkinson Alumni News
Check out what some of our awesome alumni are doing:
Alexis Garcez ('12, Women's Studies, Psychology) is the founder and CEO of Santanera Living, which caters to the local community by creating content and products to promote growth and inspire positive change in the city of Santa Ana. She is also the founder of Gente Market, a monthly open-air market and festival that provides space and resources for small business owners to grow their brands.
Adam D. Martinez ('14, Dual MA English, MA Creative Writing) published his debut poetry collection, Remyth: A Postmodernist Ritual.
Katie Peck's ('18, Art, Education Studies) recent artwork compares the landscape of her family's past with the climate crisis we face today. During her time at Chapman, she was awarded the Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship and created an eight-foot wave out of marine pollution collected from local beaches.
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