November 26th, 2012
The College of Liberal Arts Dean’s office and several CLA departments call the McIntosh Humanities Building their “home”; yet students and faculty often wonder who the building is named after.
Carl W. McIntosh served as the second president of California State University, Long Beach, which was then known as Long Beach State College (LBSC), from 1959-69. During his... [Read more]
November 26th, 2012
The 2012-2013 Visiting Writers Series featured authors Paula Priamos and James Brown on November 1st, 2012, at California State University, Long Beach’s Soroptomist House. Priamos read the first chapter of her recently published memoir The Shyster’s Daughter (Etruscan Press, 2012), and Brown read excerpts from his acclaimed memoir This River (Counterpoint, 2011). Following their readings,... [Read more]
November 17th, 2012
Archaeologists and professors of anthropology Carl Lipo (CSULB) and Terry Hunt (University of Hawaii at Manoa) have dedicated the past 10 years to studying Easter Island culture. Their research includes how the native Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island, or Rapanui, walked the multi-ton statues known as moai from inland rock quarries to coastal platforms. On October 30th, 2012,... [Read more]
November 4th, 2012
About the Exhibition
The exhibition displays the individuals and activities of the White Rose, a student resistance group against the dictatorship of Nazi Germany. Demanding an end to war, the White Rose actively fought against the oppression of civil liberties and the persecution of Jews. After being uncovered, the core members, six young students and one... [Read more]
October 30th, 2012
Andrea Lunsford, the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) at Stanford University, visited California State University, Long Beach on Friday, October 5, 2012 on behalf of CSULB’s Composition Program. A crowd of 85 faculty members and graduate students from CSULB and several other southern California... [Read more]
October 22nd, 2012
Michael Blazey, Assistant Dean for Facilities and Technology, received an American Academy of Parks and Recreation Administration President’s Award from Academy President Lori Daniel for “exceptional service in advancing the objectives of the Academy.”
Michael Blazey and Lori Daniel
October 19th, 2012
The 2012-2013 Visiting Writers Series featured author Kristen-Paige Madonia on October 4th, 2012, at California State University, Long Beach’s Soroptomist House. Madonia read an abridged version of the first chapter of her first novel Fingerprints of You (Simon and Schuster, 2012) to a packed room. Following her reading, audience members asked Madonia several questions about her... [Read more]
October 19th, 2012
The College of Liberal Arts congratulates Dr. Marie Kelleher (HIST) for winning the 2012 American Historical Association’s Premio del Rey book prize for The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). The American Historical Association awards the Premio Del Rey biennially for a distinguished book in English in the field of... [Read more]
October 16th, 2012
During his first few weeks as dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Dean David Wallace visited each of the college’s departments and programs. “I was heartened to learn about the excellent curricula and dedicated faculty working throughout the college,” explains Dean Wallace in his welcome message. “I also met dozens of hardworking staff members... [Read more]
October 11th, 2012
The American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) awarded Dr. Masako Douglas the 2012 Teacher Award in the post-secondary category “for quality and innovative teaching, service to the profession and to the community, participation in professional development activities, and advocacy for your program and Japanese language education as a whole.”
Dr. Douglas is a professor and the... [Read more]
