Tara Opsal, a professor and current chair of the Department of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts, has been named the William E. Morgan Endowed Chair in the College. A nationally respected public sociologist, Opsal advances community-engaged reform in the criminal legal system, examining how it produces harm and inequality and developing pathways for change. She is also the director of the Criminal Justice and Victimization Institute at Colorado State University. As Morgan Chair, Opsal will use dedicated time and resources to expand CJVI as a hub for community-engaged, interdisciplinary justice research across Colorado.
Published by Penn State University Press, “The Pink Scar: How Nazi Persecution Shaped the Struggle for LGBTQ+ Rights” reveals that U.S. activists used Hitler’s anti-homosexual campaign to fuel arguments for LGBTQ+ rights as early as the 1930s.
Can watching horror movies make us more empathetic? Film researchers Scott Diffrient and Riana Slyter recently spoke on CSU’s The Audit podcast about the benefits of horror, as well as the history of the genre, how it’s evolving and why so many of us love to be scared.
The Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities at Colorado State University has named four faculty members as Faculty Fellows for 2025-2026: Abraham Khan, Nina McConigley, Brittney Sly, and Jonna Yarrington.
Published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, the CSU study surveyed 940 American adults currently in romantic relationships to learn who calls their romantic partners their best friends and how that may affect their well-being.
The Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities at Colorado State University has named five College of Liberal Arts faculty members as Faculty Fellows for 2024-2025: Kari Anderson, Carrie Chenault, Jessica Jackson, Tobi Jacobi and Emily Moore. The Faculty Fellows Program is designed to support and promote humanities-oriented scholarship and to foster fellowship among humanities faculty who either already conduct engaged research or are interested in doing so.
In 2023-24, CSU emphasized democracy and civic engagement for our thematic year. From screen to stage and the Supreme Court to Latin America, our faculty explore issues of democracy.
Dr. Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager and M.A. graduate Emily Dosch published in Intercultural Communication Research Associate Professor Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager and 2023 M.A. graduate Emily Dosch have published the paper “Nosotros somos Malinche: Rethinking Identity, Embracing the Power of Mestizaje” in the latest issue of Intercultural Communication Research. Abstract: In this essay, we examine the role of visual and material […]
