Winding Paths: Alumni return to teach at CSU after careers in public history
Two CSU alumni return to teach history after careers in public history and following winding paths to their current careers.
Two CSU alumni return to teach history after careers in public history and following winding paths to their current careers.
Erika Szymanski, assistant professor of rhetoric of science in the Department of English, uses language to make the invisible visible. That’s a challenge when you study microbes. Read more about microbiomes and about how our perceptions bring them into being.
Professor Emerita Sue Ellen Markey Charlton taught in the Department of Political Science from 1967 to 2010. She specialized in international relations, comparative politics, and gender studies and now reflects on some of her memories from her time at CSU.
The Center for Literary Publishing at CSU has been awarded a $10,000 Art Works grant from NEA to support national and regional publications in 2020.
Professor Tom Lundberg coordinates the Fibers program in the Department of Art and Art History. He is especially interested in cloth that marks time, carries identity, or migrates with people.
Assistant Professor Leisl Carr Childers studies public history and the American West. Her interest in public lands stems from a love of being outdoors and a passion for horses, which she has brought into the classroom through special courses.
Assistant Professor Orestes "Pat" Hastings' research explores the mechanisms and processes through which economic inequalities become social inequalities. When he's not running statistics, he can be found running the trails of Colorado as an ultramarathoner.
Assistant Professor Ziyu Long researches organizational, group, and career communications in the Department of Communication Studies.
Families with different structures parent differently – and that can perpetuate inequality across generations.
One center at Colorado State University teaches graduate students in English the literary publishing process, from manuscript to final printing, while another challenges history students to apply the tools of the historian to public lands management.