Leadership Update
Elissa Braunstein, professor of economics and associate dean for research and graduate programs, will be the interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts starting Feb. 19, 2024. A nationwide search for a permanent replacement will launch in late February/early March.
Awards and Recognitions
Associate Professor of Geography Heidi Hausermann and colleagues have won a $1.537 million National Science Foundation grant to study the health, social and environmental effects of rapidly expanding, small-scale gold mining and mercury pollution in Ghana and beyond.
Alumni News
Alumni Spotlight Q&As
Featured on The Audit – a podcast from CSU
- Is democracy in danger? How the media found its way in and how it can get out
Interview with Dominik Stecula, assistant professor of political science - Rise of the machines: How is AI changing art?
Interview with Jason Bernagozzi, associate professor of electronic art - Were early humans cannibals? CSU paleoanthropologist talks about new findings regarding the oldest taboo
Interview with Michael Pante, associate professor of anthropology - Camille Dungy’s new book, ‘Soil,’ digs into prose, plants, parenthood and pandemic
Interview with Camille Dungy, University Distinguished Professor of English
Year of Democracy and Civic Engagement at CSU
How CSU is working to strengthen our democracy.
Insights Speaker Series
Watch faculty from across the college as they share their latest research and creative activity.
- Neanderthals and cannibalism
- Squid Game and Korean media
- Community Dance
- Poetry along the Front Range
- Rhetoric to elevate and demonize politicians
- Role of verbatim theater
- Trust in the Supreme Court of the U.S.
- Illiberal democracy in Central and South America
The Conversation
Our faculty publish general interest articles about a variety of topics.
Recently published:
- Holy voter suppression, Batgirl! What comics reveal about gender and democracy
- The movie ‘Barbie’ has put the phrase ‘toxic femininity’ back in the news – here’s what it means and why you should care
- How Houthi attacks affect both the Israel-Hamas conflict and Yemen’s own civil war – and could put pressure on US, Saudi Arabia
- Ethiopia’s Abiy takes a page from Russia, China in asserting the right to restore historical claim to strategic waters
- Russian attempt to control narrative in Ukraine employs age-old tactic of ‘othering’ the enemy
- Conservatives’ ‘anti-woke’ alternative to Disney has finally arrived
- What really started the American Civil War?
Clark Update
The Clark Revitalization Project is underway!
Clark A is fully empty and renovations begin January 24 and should be finished in Spring 2025. Read about all the updates to the A wing.
Residents of Clark B are being located in Spring 2024 to buildings on campus and in new modular spaces.
Mitigation and renovation of Clark B will start in Summer 2024 and be completed in Summer 2027.
Retirements
In Memoriam
Jodie Krieder, long-time instructor in the History department
David Bartecchi (Anthropology B.A. ‘99, M.A. ‘03)
Bob Lawrence, professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science