Cal State Fullerton cinema and television arts student Keila Georgette Aparicio used her own analog collages and poetry to curate a short film. She transformed her multimedia class project from last spring into a solo exhibition. “In the Orchard of Girlhood” unfolds the nuanced layers of growing up in Orange County and is scheduled to […]
Cal State Fullerton’s Latinx Lab for Storytelling and Social Justice and the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies will host an author reading with Ana Castillo on Oct. 30 from 10-11:15 a.m. in the Titan Student Union Titan Theater. Castillo is a celebrated and distinguished poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and […]
Joe Cordero’s journey from a high school student activist and lowrider enthusiast to a successful civil servant showcases the transformative power of a Cal State Fullerton education and community. Growing up in the ’70s in a close-knit, under-resourced Chicano community located in the barrio of Chino, Cordero never considered himself a college prep student. As […]
The advisory committee for the California Pre-Doctoral Program, which consists of faculty and administrators from California State University and the University of California, reviewed 212 student applications this year. Of the 76 students selected, 13 Cal State Fullerton students were named Sally Casanova California Pre-Doctoral Scholars for 2024-25. Each scholar will receive $5,000, pending formal approval […]
Cal State Fullerton student Emily Rivas used her own photographs to curate an autoethnography photo essay. Her essay, “Beauty in the Lens RD,” was featured in LibroMobile’s Off The Page Series under the Arts and Culture monthly column. Rivas, an English major, completed the Creative Writing Through Public Art course last spring with Sarah Rafael […]
David Sandner, Cal State Fullerton professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics, is the co-author of a new fantasy and science fiction novel titled,”Egyptian Motherlode.” “Egyptian Motherlode” is a story about American music. In the novel, a mystical musician known as The Prophet uses music to bend reality and contact other realms. The novel takes […]
Christine Capetola, assistant professor of African American studies and accomplished scholar of queer, Black, sound, affect and performance studies, died July 30, 16 months after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Capetola joined Cal State Fullerton in fall 2021 in a postdoctoral fellow position awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies and transitioned to teaching […]
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center and the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse will honor Cal State Fullerton Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Alissa Ackerman with the 2024 Gail Burns-Smith Award at the 2024 National Sexual Assault Conference. Ackerman is the co-founder and owner of the organization Ampersands Restorative Justice, which […]
Cal State Fullerton’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences will host a “Perspectives on California Ethnic Studies” virtual film screening in collaboration with Contemporary Policy Institute on July 25 at 7 p.m. The event will be led by Natalie Graham, associate dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of African American […]
Growing up, Yajaira Vilchis Alvarez had little exposure to her Mexican heritage. Years later, she discovered her passion for museums and art while visiting family in Mexico City. Alvarez’s love of cultural exploration and art brought her to anthropology, first in community college, and later at Cal State Fullerton where she would eventually pursue a […]