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Professor Phil Zuckerman contributes to The Nation’s pro/con article “Do We Need Faith as the World Feels Like It’s Ending?”

"Do We Need Faith as the World Feels Like It’s Ending?" —The Nation, 10.29.21

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Professor Barbara Junisbai Elected to Board of Society Devoted to Studying Central Eurasia

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Professor José Zapata Calderón Recognized as a Community Leader and Scholar

Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis honored Pitzer College Professor Emeritus José Zapata Calderón during Hispanic Heritage Month for his decades of scholarship, activism, and community leadership.

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Pitzer Lecturer Teresa Sabol Spezio quoted in The Washington Post article “In California oil spill, pipeline critics find a way to push Biden.”

"In California oil spill, pipeline critics find a way to push Biden" [paywall] —The Washington Post

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Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies Phil Zuckerman pens article for The Conversation about John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ at 50

"‘Imagine’ at 50: Why John Lennon’s ode to humanism still resonates" —The Conversation, 09.13.21

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Keck Professor Patrick Ferree Receives NSF Grant to Study a “Selfish” Chromosome

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Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda ’96 talks with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! about the West Point grad convicted in murder of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres

"Glimmer of Hope in Honduras: Ex-Dam CEO & West Point Grad Convicted in Murder of Berta Cáceres" —Democracy Now!

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Academics, Ideas, Learning

Professor José Z. Calderón Co-authors Paper on Intersectional Solidarity

Pitzer Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies José Z. Calderón recently co-authored an article that explores how movements predominately focused on one issue can coalesce across causes. The article, “Intersectional Organizing and Educational Justice Movements: Strategies for Cross-Movement Solidarities,” appeared in a special spring 2021 issue of The Assembly: A Journal for Public Scholarship on Education, published by the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education.

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Associate Professor Suyapa Portillo ’96 featured on KPFA’s “Rising Up with Sonali” radio show about the Biden Administration’s recent stance on immigration at the southern border.

"Is The Biden Administration Trying To Have It Both Ways On Immigration?" —KPFA - Rising Up with Sonali

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Associate Professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies Suyapa Portillo Villeda pens op-ed about root cause of Central American migration

"The Root Cause of Central American Migration Is US Imperialism" —Jacobin

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