The presentation, “Sexual Violence as a Pretext for Disposal: Rape, Race and Carcerality,” will take place at an earlier time, 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.
Cal State San Bernardino celebrated the achievements of its outstanding alumni at the 2025 Alumni Hall of Fame Awards, honoring university-wide and college-specific awardees for their professional success and community impact.
Marc Robinson and Tiffany Jones (history), Meredith Conroy (political science), Guy Hepp (anthropology), Thomas Corrigan (communication and media), and Brian Levin (criminal justice, emeritus) were mentioned in recent news coverage, and research was published by the following faculty: Yasemin Dildar (economics), Eric Vogelsang (sociology), Keting Chen, Kevin Rosales, Lisa Looney (all child development), and Zachary Powell and Sishi Wu (both criminal justice).
The conference, which is free and open to the public, is set to begin at 8:30 a.m. at the university’s Center for Global Innovation. Registration may be done online at the IE People's History Conference registration webpage.
Simon Balto, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of history, is the author of “Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power.” His talk, free and open to the public, will begin at noon Wednesday on Zoom.
“Reducing Community Violence to Close the Racial Gap in U.S. Imprisonment” will be presented by Thaddeus Johnson, assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, beginning at noon Wednesday, April 16, on Zoom.
Danny Murillo, who is featured in the film and is a co-founder of the Underground Scholars at Berkeley, will also be on hand to discuss the documentary, which follows a group of students at UC Berkeley who face significant challenges as formerly incarcerated and system-impacted individuals pursuing higher education.
Madeline Stenersen, St. Louis University assistant professor of psychology, and Cassandra Young, University of Denver assistant professor of gender and women’s studies will be featured on the next program, to be livestreamed on Zoom beginning at noon Wednesday, March 26.
Cal State San Bernardino’s Project Rebound will host the Supporting Successful Reentry Conference on Wednesday, April 16. In partnership with UC Riverside, Riverside City College, College of the Desert and other community organizations, the conference will bring together educators, practitioners, system-impacted scholars, policymakers and community leaders to examine the connection between higher education and reentry in the San Bernardino and Riverside counties.