CAMPSSAH | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

CAMPSSAH Faculty Affiliate Jessica Bissett Perea Wins Prestigious Book Award

by Erin Kelley
March 24, 2023

Academic Diversity

Professor Jessica Bissett Perea (Dena'ina) was recently selected for the 2023 Irving Lowens Book Award for her 2021 book Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska. This award is bestowed by the Society for American Music and is awarded "to the book judged as the best in the field of American Music."

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CAMPSSAH Research Colloquium | Keith David Watenpaugh

Don’t Say "It’s Just Cultural Genocide;” It’s Genocide: Colonial Exceptionalism and Contemporary Opportunities for Intersectional Solidarity in the Study of Indigenous Genocide

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Promotive and Inhibitive Outcomes Among Black Girls in California Schools

Black girls are often disproportionately discIplined and underexposed to academic opportunities (e.g., gifted education) that support thelr hollstic well-belng. Using the CIvil RIghts Data Collection, we examine proportionality and disproportionality in promotive and inhlbitive outcomes among Black girls in schools and districts throughout Callfornla.

Mar 7, 2023 @ 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Zoom and King Hall, Room 1301
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CAMPSSAH Research Colloquium | Alicia Rusoja

"My Son Was Teaching Me How to Really Act in Solidarity: Latine/x Immigrants Organizing Intergenerationally through a Communal Pedagogy of Resistance." This presentation will put forth the argument that Latine/x immigrants organize intergenerationally through their co-facilitation of a “communal pedagogy of resistance.”

CAMPSSAH Research Colloquiums

The Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities is pleased to host the CAMPSSAH Research Colloquiums. These talks showcase the newest research done by CAMPSSAH Faculty Scholars and aims to build a community of diverse perspectives and identities at UC Davis.

There are currently 21 CAMPSSAH Faculty Scholars at UC Davis, with appointments spanning 14 departments in 5 colleges and schools.

Redefining Health and Wellness: Community-Centered Approaches to Resisting Racism, Sexism, and Transphobia in Medicine

Office of Academic Diversity hosts a research colloquium featuring CAMPOS and CAMPSSAH Faculty Scholars, Chris Hanssmann (Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies), Tiffani Johnson (Emergency Medicine), and Adeola Oni-Orisan (Family and Community Medicine)

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Return to Chibok, a film by Branwen Okpako

A free film screening • food and refreshments provided

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Announcing the 2023 CAMPSSAH Writing Community Participants

by Thomas O'Donnell
January 07, 2023

Meet the four participants for this year's CAMPSSAH Writing Community: Darnel Degand, Veronica Lerma, Ariana Valle and Kathleen Whiteley. The faculty chosen are engaged in work that centers a critical, intersectional lens – particularly focusing on issues of race, gender, sexuality and class inequalities.

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CAMPOS and CAMPSSAH Induct 2022 Faculty Scholars

by Thomas O'Donnell
November 10, 2022

Academic Diversity

On November 4, members and supporters of CAMPOS and CAMPSSAH gathered in person at the Manetti Shrem Museum to welcome the two new cohorts of faculty scholars. Organized by the Office of Academic Diversity, the Induction Ceremony is an important time to foster a community among faculty and with the campus. The Office of Academic Diversity works to strengthen and diversify the academic pipeline at UC Davis. It develops programming to advance the recruitment, retention, and promotion of faculty members whose research, teaching, and service advances multicultural perspectives in all fields of studies.

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Medical anthropologist seeks to improve care in Black birthing communities

October 28, 2022

2022-23 CAMPOS faculty scholar and medical anthropologist Adeola Oni-Orisan recently joined the department of Family and Community Medicine at UC Davis Health.

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