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Faculty & Staff
Departmental Faculty
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."
Lecturer
"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Magaret Mead
Professor
"If we are to achieve a richer culture, in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place."
- Magaret Mead
Professor
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
- Antonio Gramsci
Professor
"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions."
- C. Wright Mills
Associate Professor
"The Philosophers have interpreted the world in different ways. What matters is changing it."
- Karl Marx
Assistant Professor
"The border became for me no longer a boundary line between two countries but rather a space of identity, a way of being."
- R. Aida Hernandez Castillo
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
"Vulnerability and inequality are a cumulative process, but there are always ways out."
- Glen H. Elder, Jr
Lecturer
"What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
- Blackfeet Tribe
Director of Internships
Advisor for Minor in Community Leadership
Professor
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lecturer
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Assistant Professor
"Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves."
- Zygmunt Bauman
Assistant Professor
"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear"
- Gramsci
Dr. Chance Smith
Pool Lecturer
"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." Angela Davis
Limesha Solomon
Pool Lecturer
"Nothing beats a failure but a try." Betty Little
Interim Department Chair
Associate Professor
"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we much watch what we teach and how we live." Jane Addams
Lecturer
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"When we give proper weight to local conditions, any generalization is a working hypothesis, not a conclusion."
- Lee Cronbach, 1975