History graduate students at UC Davis are investigating past discrimination against the Black community in Sacramento during the 1950s and beyond. With direction from Professor Gregory Downs, and in partnership with the city of Sacramento and the Greater Sacramento Urban League, they seek to answer the question: What could reparations look like?
Marisa Davidson is the social media and strategic communications project lead at the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and an ambassador lead at the College of Letters and Science. She graduated from UC Davis in the winter of 2024 with dual majors in international relations and communication.
We had a chance to sit down with Davidson to learn more about her time at UC Davis and her “Why I DEI.”
Professor Maxine Craig, Ph.D. was recently appointed as new faculty director of the Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Social Science, Arts, and Humanities (CAMPSSAH). Craig is a professor in the sociology department and since 2020 has served that department as vice chair and director of the graduate program. Craig will take charge of a thriving and growing center on February 1, 2024 that now includes 24 Faculty Scholars from four colleges and schools and 12 departments across UC Davis.
Meet the four participants for this year's CAMPSSAH Writing Community: Darnel Degand, Veronica Lerma, Ariana Valle and Kathleen Whiteley.
The faculty chosen are engaged in work that centers a critical, intersectional lens – particularly focusing on issues of race, gender, sexuality and class inequalities.
The Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities (CAMPSSAH) announces the opportunity to participate in a two-quarter writing community with the guidance of a professional writing coach and developmental editor, Dr. Elena Abbott.
The Office of Academic Diversity, a unit of the Vice Chancellor’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, is happy to announce the appointment of a new faculty director of the Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Social Science, Arts, and Humanities (CAMPSSAH) and the selection of the 2022-2023 cohort of faculty scholars.
Faculty Of California United in Scholarship (FOCUS) is a University of California, Office of President Advancing Faculty Diversity Climate and Retention grant award to U.C. Davis, in partnership with U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Irvine, U.C. Riverside, and U.C. San Diego. Learn more at diversity.ucdavis.edu/focus.
P.L.A.C.E with CAMPSSAH is delighted to announce the recipient of our spring Scholar of the Quarter award–Corrie Decker, associate professor in the department of history!
Principal Investigator Kimberly Nettles-Barcelón (Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program) is excited to announce that associate professor Bettina Ng’weno (African American and African Studies) has been award a Manuscript Workshop award.
