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2018-2019 DES Graduate Awards Announced

April 23, 2019

We are pleased to announce the recipients of our DES Graduate Research Fellowships and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award. Cassandra Gonzalez received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation project, Remnants of Chattel: Black Women, Sex Trafficking, and the Criminal Justice System Deanne Grant received a Graduate...

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Dr. Yesika Ordaz accepted for a summer fellowship at Duke University!

April 22, 2019

Dr. Yesika Ordaz has been accepted for a summer fellowship program at Duke University called, Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement (SITPA). Congrats Dr. Ordaz!

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Efren Herrera begins MA in Higher Education

April 19, 2019

Ethnic Studies graduate Efren Herrera will begin a 2-year program focusing on higher education and leadership centered around a social justice perspective. In addition, Efren has accepted a Graduate Assistantship with the Cesar Chavez Cultural Center, for which he will provide academic support for Latinx-identified students through organizing campus events...

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Ethnic Studies student Ad谩n Garc铆a admitted to Ph.D. program in Cultural Studies at UC-Davis

April 11, 2019

Congrats to our graduating senior, Ad谩n Garc铆a, for acceptance into the Ph.D. program in Cultural Studies at UC-Davis! Ad谩n is also an Honors student. The title of his thesis is, "Transdisciplinarity from Marginal Spaces: Unsettling Epistemic Erasure of Critical and Decolonial Scholars."

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Denver Channel 7 story on the Black Lives Matter Movement class taught by Dr. Reiland Rabaka

April 8, 2019

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Dr. Rabaka's Black Lives Matter Course featured in Daily Camera as Effort to Decolonize Curriculum

March 14, 2019

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Shawn O'Neal to perform at the Digital International Creative Arts Therapies Symposium this Saturday!

Feb. 20, 2019

Please consider attending the distinct, online DICATS event on February 23, 2019. DES PhD Student Shawn Trenell O鈥橬eal will be performing his collaborative project Hands of Midnight with the assistance of SM调教所 Instructor of Media Professor Patrick Clark . Our time slot is Saturday, February 23 from 2-3pm. Feel free...

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Joanne Belknap interviewed for the Oral History of Criminology Project of the American Society of Criminology by the late Helen Eigenberg (November 2018)

Feb. 20, 2019

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Melgoza awarded the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award)

Jan. 31, 2019

The National Association of Chicano/a Studies has awarded our PhD Candidate, Raul Melgoza, the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award). His paper was titled 鈥淟ike the Monarch Butterfly鈥: Mariposas, Migrantes, and Chicanx Comparative Critique. Congrats, Raul!

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"Migrant detention-center issues not new, scholar says" Article on Dr. Ordaz

Jan. 29, 2019

Please note the following corrections to the linked article about Dr. Ordaz: CHANGE, 鈥渟ystemic and cultural forms of conversation and activism鈥 to 鈥渟ystemic and institutional forms of oppression and activism鈥 CHANGE 鈥淭hese spaces need to be mandatory鈥 to 鈥淭hese spaces are essential鈥 CHANGE 鈥淎t the heart of ethnic studies is...

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