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History Matters: faculty create hyperlocal history curriculum for Northern Colorado

November 18, 2025

Colorado State University’s History Matters project is transforming how local history is taught in Colorado classrooms by using a hyperlocal, place-based focus, the project builds equity-driven curricula that center the under told histories of Fort Collins, Northern Colorado and the state of Colorado.

Ernesto Sagas

Ernesto Sagás publishes new book about Latino Colorado

August 4, 2025

Ernesto Sagás publishes ‘Latino Colorado: The Struggle for Equality in the Centennial State’ with the University Press of Colorado.

College of Liberal Arts award winners for 2025

Celebrate CLA! faculty and staff recognized for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and service in 2025

April 29, 2025

The College of Liberal Arts acknowledges the accomplishments and efforts of the outstanding faculty and staff for 2025.

Poster with text: Distinguished Lecture Series C. Riley Snorton "Swamp Tales, Trans Ghosts, and Nonbinary Magical Realism" Thursday, March 27 4-5:30 p.m., LSC 386 Talk open to the public This talk focuses on how abolition and decolonial praxes produce alternative frameworks for reading matters of gender and the environment among Black and Indigenous queer, trans and nonbinary artists and activists. C. Riley Snorton is the Mary R. Morton professor of English, Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know. Black Sexuality on the Down Low (University of Minnesota Press) and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota Press), and the co-editor of Saturation: Race, Art and the Circulation of Value (New Museum/MIT Press) and The Flesh of the Matter. A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt University Press). JENNIFER C. NASH Jennifer C. Nash "Picturing Loss" Monday, April 21 4-5:30 p.m., LSC 386 Talk open to the public This talk studies the prominent place of the photograph in contemporary Black feminist writing and how beautiful Black feminist writing has performed its work through the creation of a black feminist grammar that is always both discursive and visual. Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of four books (all published on Duke University Press): The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography; Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality; Birthing Black Mothers; and How We Write Now. Living With Black Feminist Theory.

RGES Distinguished Lecture Series Returns for Spring 2025

March 10, 2025

Josh Zaffos March 2025 The Distinguished Lecture Series on Race, Gender and Ethnic Studies at CSU returns this spring to welcome scholars from around the country to give public talks, meet with reading groups, and connect with students, faculty and CSU community members.C. Riley Snorton, of University of Chicago, will speak on campus on Thursday, […]

A student talks with a vendor tabling at the democracy summit resource fair

Democracy Summit 2025

March 3, 2025

The College of Liberal Arts is hosting the second Democracy Summit at CSU, March 5-7, 2025.

https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/research-creative/cla-democracy-summit/

Events are free and open to the public.

Session room of the Asamblea Legislativa building in Costa Rica.

What the U.S. can learn from Latin America about democracy

October 15, 2024

CSU Professor Ernesto Sagás talked about the political upsets Latin American democracies have seen in recent years, and what the U.S. can learn from them.