2026
July
24,
2026
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13:43 PM
America/Los_Angeles
When he started out as a Cal State San Marcos student, Tony Acevedo’s relationship with history was simple: It was just a subject that he had to take to fulfill the university’s general education requirements.But something happened along the way. …
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March
16,
2026
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07:09 AM
America/Los_Angeles
It is with great sadness that we share the news of our colleague Dr. Patty Seleski’s passing on Friday, Feb. 27. She will be deeply missed across our campus community.Patty joined CSUSM back in 1990, becoming just the second faculty member of the …
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February
12,
2026
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07:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Clayton Manassero was reading through an email newsletter from Cal State San Marcos’ Career Center when he came across an opportunity that sounded almost too good to be true.It was for a semester-long program in Washington, D.C., where students …
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2025
November
03,
2025
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10:58 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Fernando Amador likes to call himself an accidental archivist.Long before he was an assistant professor of history at Cal State San Marcos, Amador was a doctoral student at New York’s Stony Brook University who was doing field work for his …
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August
06,
2025
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08:57 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Two Cal State San Marcos alumni have been selected for the CSU Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program, also known as CDIP, for the incoming 2025-26 cohort. The CSUSM fellows are: Hugo Peralta-Ramírez, studying history and sponsored …
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January
28,
2025
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14:10 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Suzanna Krivulskaya is a Cal State San Marcos history professor who specializes in the history of religion and sexuality.It’s only natural, then, that her first book is about one particular way that those two topics have intersected in American …
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2023
November
28,
2023
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
History is everywhere, and if you look closely enough, aspects of it can be found in the most unlikely places. This is a theme that surfaces throughout history professor Citlali Sosa-Riddell’s life — from diving into historical aspects of …
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August
24,
2023
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07:54 AM
America/Los_Angeles
For the second straight year, Cal State San Marcos history professor Suzanna Krivulskaya was named a public fellow by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization based in …
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May
15,
2023
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15:27 PM
America/Los_Angeles
As a social sciences major with an interest in mental health, David Magallanes Cortes’ curiosity was piqued when he discovered that Latino college students are more likely to report mental health benefits from using Cal State San Marcos’ Cougar …
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February
27,
2023
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10:28 AM
America/Los_Angeles
While Ricardo Scheller was studying at Palomar College during the late 1980s, he heard about a new university being built just around the corner.Once he read a newspaper article about it being a reality, he went to the closest public library to get …
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January
25,
2023
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08:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos history professor Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall has been honored with the most prestigious award that faculty can receive in the California State University system.Sepinwall was announced Tuesday as one of five winners of the Wang …
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2022
December
05,
2022
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12:42 PM
America/Los_Angeles
It’s difficult for Kasandra Balsis to count the ways that Cal State San Marcos history professor Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall has helped her in her academic journey.When Balsis entered CSUSM’s history master’s program in the fall of 2020, the virtual …
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September
12,
2022
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11:52 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos assistant history professor Suzanna Krivulskaya has been named a public fellow by the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization based in Washington, D.C.Krivulskaya was one of 16 …
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May
16,
2022
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11:27 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A history major without much interest in American history, Katelyn Peterson decided to tap into her love of old Western films when taking a risk on a topic for a recent research paper for her class on Native California history.The risk paid …
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March
24,
2022
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08:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A love of history is in the genes for MJ Teater. Both of her grandfathers studied the subject in college, and her mother devours dense texts about such arcane topics as medieval English royalty. “History has always made me the happiest,” said …
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2021
July
13,
2021
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12:15 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Like most Americans, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall awoke last Wednesday to the stunning news that Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, had been assassinated in a brazen act of political violence.Like very few Americans, however, Sepinwall …
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June
16,
2021
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14:09 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Hollywood is notorious for shying away from certain subjects while severely watering down others.One such seemingly untouchable subject has been the Haitian Revolution, which ended in 1804 with the successful uprising against French colonial rule …
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2020
November
02,
2020
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16:28 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Kimber Quinney has a deep and abiding interest in democracy.
For years, the Cal State San Marcos history professor served as the campus coordinator of the American Democracy Project, a national initiative focused on public …
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August
26,
2020
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11:59 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) announced that Julia Lewandoski, a Cal State San Marcos assistant professor of history, is the recipient of the SHEAR Dissertation Prize, which is awarded to an exceptional …
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August
18,
2020
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15:42 PM
America/Los_Angeles
As a professor of Middle East history at Cal State San Marcos, Ibrahim Al-Marashi might seem like an unlikely candidate to have a deep and abiding interest in the coronavirus.
But ever since the epidemic became a pandemic early this spring …
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July
16,
2020
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08:32 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Two Cal State San Marcos professors are invited speakers who will be participating in virtual events about racism and diversity within the next week.
On Thursday, July 16, history professor Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall will be part of …
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June
15,
2020
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13:00 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Mae West was born in the 19th century, and she was a white entertainer who achieved her greatest fame during the Great Depression era.
To hear Cal State San Marcos history professor Jill Watts tell it, however, West would …
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May
12,
2020
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14:32 PM
America/Los_Angeles
As a professor of history, of course, Jill Watts is also a student of history.
Watts knew that many U.S. history textbooks, in the all-important pages about the hugely consequential Franklin Delano Roosevelt presidency, …
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April
28,
2020
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13:55 PM
America/Los_Angeles
As Cal State San Marcos faculty and staff continue to go above and beyond on behalf of students and the campus community during the COVID-19 crisis, we’re pleased to highlight some of the campus heroes as nominated by students and …
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2018
November
29,
2018
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14:47 PM
America/Los_Angeles
With an ever-increasing population, amazing advances in technology and overall growth, it’s often challenging for a university to remain connected to its local community while still working to preserve key components of the past.
When Cal …
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September
25,
2018
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15:59 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Oscar Duran forwarded an email about a summer fellowship to his younger brother Juan with a succinct message:
You better apply for this.
Juan didn’t exactly jump at the opportunity. When Oscar asked how the application was going as the …
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April
27,
2018
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08:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos history professor S. Deborah Kang’s groundbreaking book unmasking the little-known history of our nation’s immigration agencies is quickly racking up the honors, with her new work, "The INS on the Line: Making …
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February
27,
2018
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Jill Watts still remembers her first trip to the city of San Marcos.
A native San Diegan, Watts was 10 years old when she made the long journey with her mother from their Southeast San Diego home to a chicken ranch in San Marcos.
Watts’ …
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2016
December
05,
2016
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09:37 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Fawad Alizada doesn’t mince words when talking about the benefits of the Cal State San Marcos Faculty Mentoring Program.
“The mentor program is a big reason why I am the first person in my family of 10 brothers and sisters to graduate …
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October
24,
2016
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08:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Halloween is just around the corner, and as Cal State San Marcos history professor Dr. Antonio Zaldívar will attest, so is the annual reminder of a particularly dark period in Western history.
Zaldívar, whose area of research is the High and …
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