The start of the 2017-18 academic year also means the return of the intermittent feature, Faculty in the News, a compilation of news coverage that included Cal State San Bernardino faculty.
The expertise David Yaghoubian (history), Brian Levin (criminal justice) and a study by Daniel MacDonald and Yasemin Dildar (economics) were highlighted by news media over the weekend.
Brian Levin (criminal justice) is interviewed about the alleged affiliation of an Orange County murder suspect with a neo-Nazi group, and the type of person the group tries to recruit.
Brian Levin (criminal justice) is interviewed about reports of white supremacists flyers inserted into newsletters in San Bernardino and by Wisconsin Public Radio about the school shooting in Florida on Feb. 14.
Vice News interviewed Brian Levin (criminal justice and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism) about a mapping tool that some activists are using to track down people affiliated with the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.
Brian Levin (criminal justice) comments on a Michigan attorney who formed an alt right legal defense fund “for an array of bigoted, extremist speakers who are sometimes unconstitutionally denied their First Amendment right on public campuses."
Brian Levin, CSUSB criminal justice professor and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, is quoted in an article about President Trump’s promotion of a white-nationalist conspiracy theory involving South Africa.
Brian Levin (criminal justice) is quoted in articles about the Rise Above Movement white supremacist group and hate crimes in the 20 years since the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, who became the face of LGBT hate crime.