Professor of Comparative American Studies Gina Perez, the author of Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream and a recipient of Oberlin’s Excellence in Teaching Award, discusses in an editorial why she believes there is such an urgent need for immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship.
“With comprehensive immigration reform, we wouldn’t need sanctuary cities or zero tolerance policies at the border. Nor would we be in the embarrassing position of violating international law by separating children from their families or attempting to deny people their right to petition for asylum. Instead we could have a workable framework dealing with the reality of immigration that would foster sensible policies and would allow people to live and work without the fear of being separated from the ones they love.”
Producing the play "Angels in America" has long been an ambition of Professor of Theater Matthew Wright. His national credits include productions at the La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Clarence Brown Company, Studio Arena Theatre of Buffalo, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Florida Stage and New Theatre.
Associate Professor of Integrated Media Christensen is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores systems of technology, consumerism, landscape, and obsolescence.
Professor Cruz’s current research interests are marsupial reproduction and development. The research projects currently under way in her lab concern cell lineage analysis in marsupial embryos, sperm pairing in New World marsupials, and embryo-maternal signaling in marsupial embryonic development.
Steven Volk, emeritus professor of history, wrote an op-ed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer challenging the recent immigration raids in Northeast Ohio as contrary to both U.S. values and the national interest.
The Office of Communications was awarded two Circle of Excellence Awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The Oberlin Conservatory Magazine (2017) received the silver design award in the periodicals category, and the Oberlin Alumni Magazine received the silver award for college and university general interest magazines with circulations of 30,000-74,999.
Associate Archivist Anne Salsich was invited to participate on the panel "Migration and Sanctuary Histories: Redrawing Lines in Troubled Times” at the April 2018 National Conference on Public History's annual meeting in Las Vegas. Her talk titled “Sanctuary Communities: Answering to a Higher Law" drew on the Archives' work on the Oberlin Sanctuary Project, a virtual exhibit on their website, and reported on Oberlin's participation in the Courage and Compassion traveling exhibit in the Baron Gallery in spring 2018. Salsich was joined by co-panelists from University of California Santa Barbara and University of California Riverside.
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