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Pitzer College Professor Gina Lamb Receives Cal Humanities Grant

Claremont, CA (May 10, 2012) — Pitzer College Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies Gina Lamb has received a Community Stories grant from Cal Humanities, a nonprofit that promotes the humanities in California. The grant will fund Lamb’s on-going documentary project about the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe’s culture and community. The Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe [Read More...]
May 10, 2012
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Pitzer College Professor Azamat Junisbai Awarded a 2012-13 IREX Research Fellowship

Claremont, Calif. (April 27, 2012) — Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Sociology Azamat Junisbai has been awarded a research fellowship by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) for his project “Norms of Social Justice and Welfare State Attitudes in Post-Soviet Central Asia.” With this fellowship, Junisbai plans to continue his study of social stratification [Read More...]
April 27, 2012
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Pitzer College Names 2012-13 Scholars-in-Residence

Claremont, Calif. (April 23, 2012) — Pitzer College has selected Associate Professor of Media Studies Ming-Yuen S. Ma and Assistant Professor of Political Studies Rachel VanSickle-Ward as the College’s Scholars-in-Residence for the 2012-13 academic year. In fall 2012, Rachel will teach a seminar entitled “The Battle over Birth Control: Gendered Dimensions of the Contraception Policy [Read More...]
April 23, 2012
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Pitzer College Professor Kathleen Yep Serves as Advisor for Asian Pacific Islander Women Oral History Project

Claremont, Calif. (January 23, 2012) — Pitzer College Associate Professor of Asian American Studies Kathleen Yep is the faculty advisor and co-principal investigator project director of Women, Faith & Action: Oral Histories of Asian Pacific Islander Women and Their Faith-Based Activism. Through interviews, digital archives and public forums, this oral history project explores and documents [Read More...]
January 23, 2012
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Pitzer College Professor Brinda Sarathy Authors New Book, Pineros

Claremont, Calif. (January 19, 2012) — Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Environmental Analysis Brinda Sarathy has authored a new book, Pineros: Latino Labor and the Changing Face of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest, published by University of British Columbia Press. While the exploitation of Latino workers in many industries is well known, “pineros,” Latino forest [Read More...]
January 19, 2012
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Pitzer College Professor Carina Johnson Authors New Book

Claremont, Calif. (October 10, 2011) — Pitzer College Associate Professor Carina Johnson has authored Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans published by Cambridge University Press. Johnson teaches history at Pitzer College. The book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman [Read More...]
October 10, 2011
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Pitzer College Students, Alumnus and Professors Presented at the Western Psychological Association

Claremont, Calif. (September 22, 2011) — Pitzer College students and alumnus Sophie Beiers ’13, Jessica Bowler ’11, Daniel Feinberg ’12, Ramon Flores ’11, Jyoti Gautam ’11, Abigail Kramer ’13, Jordan Myint ’13, Madison Noble ’12, Jason Rivera ’06, Mariana Schmalstig ’10, Jaime Tokioka ’11 and Timothy Williamson ’13 from the Research Practicum in Psychology course, [Read More...]
September 22, 2011
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Pitzer College Professor Alexandra Juhasz Publishes Video-Book About YouTube

Claremont Calif. (February 7, 2011) —Pitzer College Professor of Media Studies Alexandra Juhasz authors Learning from YouTube, an innovative video-book published by MIT Press. This video-book contains a series of more than 200 texts and videos – “texteos” – that encourage users to think about YouTube by experiencing and learning within this digital entertainment platform. [Read More...]
February 7, 2011