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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.

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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

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Bird Pairs Practice Mind-Control to Create Dovetailing Duets

Professor Melissa Coleman explores the neuroscience behind coordinated birdsong

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Publications

Roots of Resistance

"Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras," by Pitzer College Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda ’96, has just been released by University of Texas Press and is available online now.

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Documentary Produced by Pitzer Professor and Students Premieres at Outfest/Fusion Film Fest

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Professor Emerita of Mathematics Judith Grabiner and her Career of Math Advocacy Featured in the Claremont Courier

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Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies Phil Zuckerman pens Los Angeles Times Op-Ed about Record Pace of Secularization of US Society

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Pitzer Professor Judith V. Grabiner Wins American Mathematical Society’s Whiteman Prize

he American Mathematical Society (AMS) added another chapter to the storied career of Pitzer Professor Judith V. Grabiner when it named her the winner of its 2021 Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize.

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Research

Caregiving and Political Engagement in the Era of COVID

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