Fernando Sanchez credits the foundation he received at CSUSB as playing a major role in getting into the prestigious Near Eastern Studies doctorate program at UC Berkeley -- one of the oldest and most distinguished in the country. CSUSB "helped me immensely, in more ways that I can say.”
As part of our celebration of Womxn’s History Month, take a look back when Marmar Zakher, history major and Arabic language literature and culture major, was awarded the prestigious Provost Fellowship for Ph.D. studies in Comparative Literature at UC Davis.
Associate professor Kasia Szpakowska has joined CSUSB’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of History as the esteemed W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence for spring 2021.
Erika Kelley, junior and public history major, has been interning at the Digital Giza Project through Harvard University during the 2020-21 academic year. Kelley has been an integral member of the Giza Project team.
The series, called Art Hour with Lana and Teresa, is hosted by two of RAFFMA’s student assistants where they welcome special guests weekly to discuss various art- and museum-related topics.
Kate Liszka, associate professor of history and the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology, was awarded a Charles Harris Excavation Grant for archaeological work at Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt.
Kate Liszka and David Yaghoubian (history), Brian Levin (criminal justice) and Anthony Silard (public administration) were included in recent news coverage.
In a lecture with CSUSB history associate professor Kate Liszka, learn how various tombs were broken into in antiquity, how the Egyptians designed their tombs in an attempt to ward off tomb robbers, and how the tomb robbers were tried and punished for their crimes.
A dual major in history and Arabic language literature and culture, Zakher was awarded the prestigious Provost Fellowship for Ph.D. studies in Comparative Literature at UC Davis.