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ChapmanU Professor Patrick Fuery (Creative & Cultural Industries) wrote a book chapter in "A Braid of Partial Syntheses": Husserl's Redetermination and the Visual Excess of the (K)not " in K. Fuery (ed.) Film Phenomenologies: Temporality, Embodiment, Transformation (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)

ChapmanU Professor Charissa Threat (History) gave a presentation, "Race, Gender, and War" at the Society for Military History Conference.

ChapmanU Professor Mark Axelrod (English) was invited to give a reading from his novels, Mad Diary of Malcolm Malarkey & Malarkey, Lost Among the Argentines at the University of San Martin, Buenos Aires.

ChapmanU Professor Julie Shafer (Art) was invited to be in conversation with Jason Weems, a curator of the Out of Site exhibition at the Autry Museum. They discussed Shafer's series Conquest of the Vertical and its relationship to mining, the history of photography, and Nature as The Other.

ChapmanU Professor Ashley Kranjac (Sociology) co-wrote "Age-Period-Cohort Effects of Adult Cigarette Smoking in the United States, 1971-2020" published in Nature Journal: Scientific Reports.

ChapmanU Professor Ronald Steiner (Political Science) was the English Language Editor for the international academic web journal, Silkroadia (web journal of the Silk Road Universities Network).

ChapmanU Professor Kelli Fuery (Creative and Cultural Industries) presented "Saint Omer and Medea: The Demands of Authentic and Ambiguous Love" at the Film-Philosophy Conference in Espinho, Portugal.

ChapmanU Professor Kelli Fuery (Creative and Cultural Industries) gave a presentation, "Saint Omer and Medea: The Demands of Authentic and Ambiguous Love," at the Association for Psychosocial Studies & Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society conference.

Mateo Jarquin (History) published "Nicaragua's Puzzling Pandemic Response" as a chapter in the book How States Respond to Crisis: Pandemic Governance Across the Global South (Oxford University Press, 2025).

The Professor Will Now Unpack — Billie Eilish’s ‘Birds of a Feather’ Tom Zoellner is a tenured Professor of English at Chapman University, the author of numerous distinguished works of non-fiction, and an editor-at-large of the L

ChapmanU Professor Tom Zoellner (English) published The Professor Will Now Unpack - Billie Eilish's 'Birds of a Feather' in SPIN Magazine.

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ChapmanU Professor Wendy Salmond (Art) gave a presentation, "Art Exhibitions and their Audiences, 1860-1930," at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies conference.

Tasso, la poetica e la «ragion musica» | Giornale storico della letteratura italiana Though the word ‘music’ is never mentioned in Tasso’s Discorsi dell’arte poetica, it appears eighteen times in his Discorsi del poema eroico. The latter expanded upon and to some extent rewrote the po...

ChapmanU Professor Corrado Confalonieri (World Languages and Cultures) published article "Tasso, la poetica e la 'ragion musica'" in Giornale Storico della Letteratura italiana.

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Black British Gospel Music: From the Windrush Generation to Black Lives Matter Black British Gospel Music is a dynamic and multifaceted musical practice, a diasporic river rooted in the experiences of Black British Christian communities. This book examines gospel music in Britain in both historical and contemporary perspectives, demonstrating the importance of this this vital genre to scholars across disciplines. Drawing on a plurality of voices, the book examines the diverse streams that contribute to and flow out of this significant genre. Gospel can be heard resonating

ChapmanU Professor Monique Charles (Sociology) wrote a book chapter, "Don't shoot the Messi(nJ)ah: Charting the growth of the Gospel in Great British Grime music" in Black British Gospel Music (Routledge).

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Smoller: Chapman University is Not Antisemitic Chapman University is one of 60 universities under investigation by the Trump administration for antisemitism allegations. The author, who is Jewish and has taught at the university for more than 40 years, says the allegations are baseless, and says some students--like the general public— often confuse anti-semitism with criticism of the state of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people.

ChapmanU Professor Fred Smoller (Political Science) published an opinion piece titled "Chapman University is Not Antisemitic" in the Voice of OC.

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ChapmanU Professor Lewis Luartz (Political Science) presented research in the Parties and Partisanship in Asia panel at the 2025 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting.

Martin served as a respondent to the panel's five presentations on her book.

ChapmanU Professor Emerita Nancy Martin's (Religious Studies) book Mirabai: The Making of a Saint was selected by the Dharma Academy of North America for their Annual Book Review Panel at the National American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting.

ChapmanU Professor Jennifer Keene (History) was awarded the 2025 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, the highest scholarly award given by the Society of Military History. 👏👏👏

ChapmanU Professor Richard Ruppel (English) gave a presentation, "Conrad & the Russians," at the Modern Languages Association conference.

An agency photo of the Expedition 1 crew

The Expedition 1 crew in the Russian Zvezda module with fresh oranges. The table is at lower left

A graph showing the ISS population over the last 25 years

THREAD: 25 years ago today, the first crew of the International Space Station for a four-and-a-half month stay. Two cosmonauts - Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev - were joined by NASA astronaut William Shepherd. Since that moment, the ISS had had at least two people onboard.

25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

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ChapmanU Professor Micol Hebron (Art) gave a presentation, "Reading, Writing and Revolution: Radical Women, Radical Words," at the College Art Association conference.

YouTube video by FOX 5 New York What scares Americans the most in 2025? The answers might surprise you

The ChapmanU Fear Survey was featured in a Fox 5 New York segment. Watch "What scares Americans the most in 2025? The answers might surprise you" on YouTube:

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What Americans fear most in 2025 For over a decade, Americans’ top fear has remained the same: corrupt government officials.

The ChapmanU Fear Survey was featured in Popular Science article, "What Americans fear most in 2025: For over a decade, Americans’ top fear has remained the same: corrupt government officials."

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ChapmanU Professor Pilar Valenzuela (World Languages and Cultures) gave a presentation, "Counterfactual constructions in Shiwilu (Kawapanan, Peru): a synchronic and diachronic perspective," at Societas Linguistica Europaea.
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This is What Most Scares Americans Worried about things like government corruption? A new survey reveals you're far from alone.

The ChapmanU Fear Survey was featured in Gizmodo article, "This is What Most Scares Americans."

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ChapmanU Professor Karen Snedker (Sociology) co-wrote an article, "A Tent Census: How Counting Tents Informs an Understanding of Unsheltered Homelessness in Seattle," on tent-based homelessness in the journal Socius.

Americans’ top fears for 2025 according to a Chapman University survey Fear of public speaking ranked No. 46, right before murder by a stranger and after a devastating hurricane. Read on for the complete list of top fears.

The ChapmanU Fear Survey was featured in OC Register article, "Americans’ top fears for 2025 according to a Chapman University survey: You might be surprised by what's been the top fear for 10 years."

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ChapmanU Professor David Shafie (Political Science) gave a presentation, "Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy," at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting.

What do Americans fear most? The answers to this foreboding study might surprise you It’s not ghosts and ghouls that are keeping Americans up at night this Halloween.

The ChapmanU Fear Survey was featured in NY Post article, "What do Americans fear most? The answers to this foreboding study might surprise you."

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