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🌟 Alumni Friday 🌟 🐾 Meet Peter Cline, a 2023 grad with a BA in Political Science. Peter is currently the co-founder of Service to Success, a company that provides employers seeking to hire military talent with cost-effective solutions to meet their goals.

🐾@ChapmanU Professor John F. Boitano (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper titles "Teaching the Historical Context of the 'Ancien Régime' through Popular Movies" at the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies.

🐾@ChapmanU Professor Steve Pfaff's (Sociology) co-authored book "The Genesis of Rebellion" (Cambridge University Press) won the James Coleman Award for Outstanding Book in Social Networks and Decision Making by the American Sociological Association. 🐾l8r.it/gRjc🐾

🐾@ChapmanU Professor Kyle Longley (History) delves into the GOP's long history of attacking Democratic veterans' military service, from Max Cleland to Tim Walz, and the lasting impact on veterans' reputations and mental health in @time article: 🐾l8r.it/5p5W🐾

From all of us at Wilkinson and the Student Advisory and Leadership Council – Happy Finals Week! Good luck on exams, projects, and presentations, Panthers! 🐾📚✨☕️🤓

🐾@ChapmanU Professor @hmridge's (Political Science) latest book, Contours of Israeli Politics: Jewish Ethnicity, Religious Nationalism, and Democracy, looks at the socio-political effects of ethnic prejudices within the Jewish community in Israel. 🐾l8r.it/dvgl🐾

Congratulations, @ChapmanU Professor Pete Simi (Sociology) and @unlv Professor Robert Futrell (Sociology), on receiving a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Title award for American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate. 👏

🌟 Alumni Friday 🌟 🐾 Meet Veronica Bane, a 2011 grad with a BFA in Creative Writing. After graduating from Chapman, Veronica immediately began her career as an English teacher. Alongside her work in the classroom, Veronica pursues her own creative writing as an author.

🐾@ChapmanU Professor Kelli Fuery (Creative & Cultural Industries), published Choric Sounds: The Intervention of Women's Soundscapes in the City and Cinema, which explores how cinema intersects with politics to resist censorship. 🐾l8r.it/iiDc🐾

🐾@ChapmanU Professor Charissa Threat's (History) panel "Nursing for the Common Good: Panel Debrief from the 2024 OAH Meeting" was chosen to participate in the Journal of American History's Podcast debriefing presentations with conference presenters. 🐾l8r.it/8kea🐾

🐾@ChapmanU Prof John Compton (Political Science) was featured in @baptist_news article, Rising secularism isn’t good for democracy. Compton said rising secularism contributes to the growth of political extremism, xenophobia, and anti-democratic values. 🐾baptistnews.com/article/rising…

🐾@ChapmanU Professor @nkrivera10 (English) published a book review in Textual Cultures titled "Review of CREEGAN MILLER, Tiffany D. 2022. The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age." 🐾l8r.it/xvqq🐾

🐾@ChapmanU Prof Fred Smoller (Political Science) was quoted in @live_delaware article, Wilmington’s year-old worker residency rule continues to have fans, critics. Smoller voiced concern that such ordinances could hinder recruiting qualified workers. 🐾l8r.it/Tqpo🐾

🐾@ChapmanU Professor @jstpwalsh (Art) was featured on the Art Astra Podcast about what doing archaeology in space really entails, what cultural and engineering insights we can gain from it, and the future of this field with decommissioning the ISS. 🐾l8r.it/ntcj🐾

🌟 Alumni Friday 🌟 🐾 Meet Justin Hanks, a 2014 grad with a B.A. in History. After graduation, Justin attended California Western School of Law in San Diego. He then earned his JD and passed the bar in 2018. Justin currently works as a trial attorney at Gomez Trial Attorneys.

🐾@ChapmanU Professor Jennifer Carr’s (English) essay, “The Tides That Erase: Automation and the Los Angeles Waterfront” is featured in the anthology Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California, published by Angel City Press. 🐾l8r.it/gg9U🐾

🐾@ChapmanU Professor John Compton (Political Science) joined @CBSNews to discuss the results of the 2024 election, which saw former President Trump make his way back to the White House after a contentious campaign against Vice President Harris. 🐾l8r.it/pQIv🐾

The @ChapmanU #FearSurvey data was used in article, "How natural disasters and environmental fears shape American climate attitudes across political orientation": 🐾l8r.it/0yhc🐾

🌟 Alumni Friday 🌟 🐾 Meet Olga, a 2023 grad with a BA in Political Science and a minor in Business Administration. She currently works at an entertainment law firm in Los Angeles and plans on attending law school in 2026 to pursue a career in the entertainment law field.