Social Sciences

MLK 2020 Art for Social Change Competition

The annual Art for Social Change competition is approaching. Submissions for the contest in various forms including visual artwork, literary artwork, and mixed-media/multimedia will be accepted through January 20th. You may bring your submissions of art that provoke, challenge, and inspire social justice and honor the memory of Martin Luther King and others who have […]

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Latinx Heritage Month 2019

From September 13th through October 15th, various activities happened at WSU to celebrate Canciones de Harmonia (Songs of Harmony)- the theme of this month. It all kicked off with a soccer match- including a processional to the game against University of Michigan. On the 16th of September, there was a Latinx Heritage Month kick-off celebration […]

Achievements of WSU Spanish Professors

In August 2019, two of our Spanish professors traveled to the Universitat de València in Spain. Maria Serenella Previto (Sere) and Vilma Navarro-Daniels attended the 29th International Conference of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AGSS). Maria Serenella Previto chaired the session Woman Agency in Contemporary Latin American and Spanish Narrative,  and presented a […]

2019 Award Ceremony recognizes scholarship recipients

On April 22, the school recognized SLCR students for their academic excellence with outstanding student awards, outstanding senior awards, and scholarships. Learn more about the school’s scholarship recipients below! Thank you to our generous donors who create scholarship opportunities for the SLCR students. A brief article will be out soon on the outstanding student awards […]

Art for Social Change competition brings artists together to discuss healing through social justice art

Students in various disciplines displayed and presented their works in the Fine Art Gallery 3 on the WSU Pullman campus this spring to express how they interact with and view social justice in today’s world. Co-creator of the Art for Social Change competition (AFSC), Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, associate professor and associate dean of Student Affairs […]

Becca Wilson, advertising and marketing intern, graduates Spring 2019

Our advertising and marketing intern, Rebecca (Becca) Wilson, will graduate Spring 2019. She will graduate magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Communication with an emphasis in Public Relations and a minor in Political Science. After graduation, she plans to pursue a career in public relations in Seattle, Wa. She plans to […]

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Two faculty and two instructors from the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race present at Cine-Lit 9 conference

On Mar. 11, Maria Serenella Previto (Sere), clinical associate professor of Italian and Spanish, and Dr. Vilma Navarro-Daniels, assistant director of undergraduate studies and associate professor of Spanish and American studies, presented their works at Cine-Lit 9 conference. Amanda Hussein, adjunct instructor of Spanish, and Maria Eugenia Sileoni (Eugenia), instructor of Spanish, also presented their […]

SLCR undergraduate student receives research grant from Sigma Xi

AnnMarie McCracken, SLCR undergraduate student, received the research grant from Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society’s Grants-in-Aid of Research program. AnnMarie plans to achieve a bachelor’s degree in French and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology. She will receive a $847 grant from the programs ecology category called, “An Isotopic Examination of Dietary Niche Partitioning […]