Alumni College Faculty Sessions
A History of the United States in 8 or So Artworks
Bill Anthes, Professor of Art
Broad Hall 210
Spanning the colonial era to the present day, this class presents a historical and thematic overview of art, visual, and material cultures in what is now known as the United States. With a critical emphasis on the project of imagining, founding, building, and resisting a nation in North America, we focus on the art and cultural expressions of settler-colonial, immigrant, Indigenous, colonized, and enslaved individuals and communities. We will focus on key moments, ideas, debates, artworks, and objects as we endeavor to understand how the arts have shaped and expressed evolving and contested notions about national identity, race, ethnicity, gender, religious belief, sexual orientation, class, nature, and capitalism.
Stereotyping & Prejudice: Scholarship & Pedagogy
Steffanie Guillermo, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Broad Hall 110
Professor Guillermo will share content from two new courses she developed at Pitzer: Stereotyping & Prejudice and The Psychology of Prejudice Towards Immigrants. She will also talk about how she incorporates Pitzer students in her lab and the current projects they are working on, such as research on racial bias in attitudes towards police use of force. In this session, we will also discuss ways to meaningfully connect coursework and research to current events, activism, and social justice.
