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.
The fellowship supports the Graduate School’s goal of fostering excellence in scholarship, research, creative activity, community service and outreach, while advancing CSU’s land-grant mission of access and excellence across the graduate student population.
Beginning April 9, the 11th annual ACT Human Rights Film Festival returns to bring 28 new movies plus award-winning filmmakers from around the world to Fort Collins.
Internationally known artist and alumnus Pard Morrison will headline a series of Colorado State University arts events in April as he visits campus to install a sculpture at the entrance to the University Center for the Arts.
Starting Thursday, April 9, CSU students and community members are invited to experience four unforgettable days of films, conversation and community at Fort Collins’ ACT Human Rights Film Festival.
April 9 through 12 the ACT Human Rights Film Festival will showcase new films from around the world that educate and inspire, along with opportunities to connect with award-winning filmmakers and film participants.
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.
