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Professor Peter Nardi’s New Book Fosters Critical Thinking Skills in an Era of Questionable Claims

Peter Nardi book cover - Critical Thinking, Tools for Evaluating ResearchClaremont, Calif. (August 21, 2017)—Professor Emeritus of Sociology Peter Nardi’s new book, Critical Thinking: Tools for Evaluating Research, gives students the tools they need to analyze and interpret the vast quantities of information they process during their undergraduate years. The 168-page volume, published by the University of California Press, is a concise primer written for [Read More...]
August 21, 2017
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Birthing Justice for Black Women

Birthing JusticeClaremont, Calif. (July 29, 2015)—Alicia D. Bonaparte, associate professor of sociology at Pitzer College, co-edited (with Julia Chinyere Oparah) Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, released this spring by Paradigm Publishers/Routledge. Birthing Justice addresses the global crisis in maternal health care for black women. In the US, black women are over three times more [Read More...]
July 30, 2015
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Pitzer College Sociology Professor Alicia Bonaparte Selected for Summer Residency in Jamaica

Alicia BonaparteClaremont, Calif. (January 27, 2014) — Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Sociology Alicia Bonaparte has been awarded a 2014 summer residency by NLS, a new contemporary visual art initiative in Kingston, Jamaica. During the eight-week residency, Bonaparte along with co-awardee and artist Andrea Chung will develop a collaborative art installation, Catchin’ Babies, Colonizing Black Bodies [Read More...]
January 27, 2014
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Pitzer Secular Studies Professor Phil Zuckerman Goes to Church to Debate Role of Religion

Phil ZuckermanClaremont, Calif. (October 26, 2013)—Pitzer Professor of Sociology Phil Zuckerman debated the question, “Does Christianity or secular humanism provide a better foundation for civil society?” at Adventure Christian Church in Roseville, CA on October 12. Billed as The Great Debate, the event was part of the church’s speaking series titled Courageous. Zuckerman, who created Pitzer’s [Read More...]
October 26, 2013
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Pitzer College Professor Roberta Espinoza Awarded a John Randolph Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship

Claremont, Calif. (March 25, 2013) – Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Sociology Roberta Espinoza has been awarded a John Randolph Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship for her research “The Emerging Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Creating a Path to College for Low-income and Minority Students.” In the past two decades, privately funded academic outreach programs have [Read More...]
March 25, 2013
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Pitzer College Professor of Sociology Phil Zuckerman Publishes Book on the Study of Religion and Society

Claremont, Calif. (January 17, 2013) — Pitzer Professor of Sociology Phil Zuckerman co-edited Studying Religion and Society: Sociological Self-Portraits, a book of essays written by leading experts in the field who explore how they approach and understand religion. In Study Religion and Society, Zuckerman and his co-editor Titus Hjelm examine why some of the most [Read More...]
January 17, 2013
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Pitzer College Professor of Sociology Erich Steinman Publishes in the American Journal of Sociology

Claremont, Calif. (April 2, 2012) — Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Sociology Erich Steinman authored “Settler Colonial Power and the American Sovereignty Movement: Forms of Domination, Strategies of Transformation,” published in the January 2012 issue of American Journal of Sociology. Steinman’s article analyzes the American Indian sovereignty movement by using a theoretical model that focuses [Read More...]
April 12, 2012
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Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman Authors New Book 

Claremont, Calif. (October 4, 2011)— Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman has authored Faith No More, published by Oxford University Press and available November 1, 2011. During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of “Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus–and nonbelievers.” It was the first time an American president [Read More...]
October 4, 2011
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Casey Scieszka ’06 Co-Authors To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story

Claremont, Calif. (August 26, 2010) — Casey Scieszka ’06 co-authored To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story to be published by Roaring Brook Press in March 2011. To Timbuktu chronicles Scieszka’s and illustrator Steven Weinberg’s first two years out of college teaching English, making friends across language barriers, researching and painting while traveling [Read More...]
August 26, 2010