{"id":1158,"date":"2021-08-16T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T23:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/?page_id=1158"},"modified":"2022-08-17T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T19:27:54","slug":"letter-from-the-director-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slcr.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/letter-from-the-director-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Director"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Message from the Director<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Autumn 2021<\/b><\/p>\n

Dear Alumni and Friends:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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It is my pleasure to welcome you to the second annual newsletter of the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race at WSU. We took a year off from publishing here to focus on a variety of changes and challenges affecting the School, the most impactful being the University-wide shift to remote teaching and working due to the global pandemic. In this issue, you\u2019ll find several short articles about many of the outstanding people, programs, and recent activities that make SLCR unique, dynamic, and forward moving.<\/p>\n

SLCR is dedicated to the study of language, literature, society, race, and cultures, both nationally and globally, and our now three-year-old school<\/a> continues to grow and develop. We currently have three cohorts of PhD students in American Studies, a new Lecture Series<\/a>, and several new professors, assistant professors, and lecturers. We also continue to make changes to our curriculum to best serve and meet the needs of our students across our 25 major- and minor-degree undergraduate programs and our PhD program. To give you a more concrete idea, our degrees span several diverse and complementary areas, including American Indian Studies, American Studies, Chinese, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Popular Culture, Film Studies, French, German, Hispanic Studies, Humanities, Japanese, Latin American Studies, Social Sciences, and Spanish.<\/p>\n

The School is now home to more than 30 faculty across three campuses of the WSU system whose areas of research include race, racial identity and racism, cultural productions of 9\/11, food sovereignty and justice, language acquisition and language pedagogy, popular culture, literature, translation, cultural politics of sport, gender and sexuality, technologies of time and space, and social justice<\/p>\n

SLCR faculty, along with our staff, and advisors, are dedicated to providing highest-quality education and support for every student to succeed in the classroom and beyond. Among outreach and events planned for the school year, we are looking forward to another installment of our Lecture Series in fall 2021 and to the Art for Social Change<\/a> competition the following spring.<\/p>\n

As we continue to work on new and ongoing projects, please know that your support and encouragement means the world to us.<\/p>\n

Thank you and enjoy a happy, healthy year!<\/p>\n

Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Director of SLCR
\nProfessor of Comparative Ethnic Studies
\nclugo@wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Are you an alum?<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n
In July 2018, several academic areas formerly in CCGRS (Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies), all of the Department of Foreign Languages & Cultures, and the General Studies programs in Humanities and in Social Sciences came together to form one cohesive, dynamic, new school.<\/div>\n
We treasure our expanded alumni family and would love to hear from you! Please tell us what you\u2019ve been up to since graduation or since we last heard from you. In this and future issues, we\u2019ll spotlight members of our alumni in a dedicated alumni section<\/a>!<\/div>\n
In addition to reading this newsletter and the broader SLCR website<\/a>, please follow @SlcrWsu on social media to stay up to date on the latest and greatest in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race at Washington State University!<\/div>\n

Facebook<\/strong> SlcrWsu<\/a> | Twitter<\/strong> SlcrWsu <\/a>| Instagram<\/strong> SlcrWsu<\/a><\/p>\n

For questions, concerns, or to comment, please contact us at slcr@wsu.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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