Congratulations to our Spring 2023 Graduates!

Ethnic Studies Majors Bryn Bennett-Feinblatt (Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Minor, Cum Laude) Stephan Galloway Olivia Lynch Zoe Meireles (Additional Major in Women’s and Gender Studies, Minor in Indigenous Studies) Kenia Montes-Terrazas Ethnic Studies Minors Mireya Alcocer Molly Auw (Cum Laude) Dawson Besst Gerson Flores Rojas Rene Gonzales Maggie Guyor Abby Herold Isabella Jiner Cassius Kaehny Randy […]

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Jenne Schmidt

As an Assistant Professor in Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies, Dr. Jenne Schmidt’s (they/them) research is situated at the intersections of critical disability theory, queer politics, and environmental studies. Specifically, their research interrogates the ways that environmental futures are positioned as incommensurable with crip, trans, and queer existence and futurity. They refuse the […]

Dr. Ernesto Sagás and Dr. Nikoli Attai present their research in a Community Conversation

On April 19, the Department of Ethnic Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies held a Community Conversation with Professor Dr. Ernesto Sagás and Assistant Professor Dr. Nikoli Attai. Dr. Sagás presented “Contemporary Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean: Dictatorship, Democracy, and National Sovereignty.”  As the last remaining colonies of Spain in the New World, the fate […]

Eagle County: Adriana Gallegos Helguera – Business, Ethnic Studies

During the 2022-23 academic year, we are highlighting one Colorado State University student or alum from each of Colorado’s 64 counties. The Centennial State’s land grant university has a connection to the diverse lands and people from the counties of Moffat to Baca, Montezuma to Sedgwick and everywhere in between.

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Carolin Aronis

Dr. Carolin Aronis (she/her/היא) studies current antisemitism as associated with white supremacy in the U.S., specifically the practice of targeting college students or larger urban Jewish (and non-Jewish) communities. Dr. Aronis is interested in ways this has sustained a climate of fear, trauma, and intimidation. Through the intersection of critical media studies, rhetoric, and technologies, this specific […]