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College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
The College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (CAHSS) is an artistic, creative, and intellectual community. It is an equitable partnership of staff, faculty, and students who are devoted to teaching, learning, and collaboration. The many fields within CAHSS provide the greatest breadth for service-learning, creative engagement, and professional opportunity within a diverse and changing society.
Hands-on Experience
Our programs and majors offer many unique opportunities to extend learning beyond the classroom including student performances, studios, laboratories, newsrooms, internships, and more. Hands-on learning enriches the student, the university, and the community, tying academic study to real-world experiences.
Study Abroad
Studying abroad is an exciting way to enhance an undergraduate experience through exposure to different cultures, languages, and communities. Travel, explore, embrace new environments, all while making progress toward graduation.
Personal Attention
It’s the difference between sitting through a lesson and playing a role in creating it. Feel challenged by faculty who expand students’ worldview and supported by departments that pride themselves on personalized attention.
Paul Michael L. Atienza
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Dr. Paul Michael L. Atienza was elected to the executive board of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) as the Northern California/Nevada region representative. Founded in 1979, AAAS is the primary research and teaching hub for Asian American Studies, an interdisciplinary field born out of the 1960s movements for racial justice, third world liberation, and student activism. Dr. Atienza will serve a three-year term starting April 2026.
Gabi Kirk
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Gabi Kirk will be presenting a virtual talk at the international workshop "Evanescent and Emerging Spaces: Land/World Struggles of Palestinians and Guarani" at Cardiff University (Wales) on April 22. This event will confront important and disturbing parallels between the genocides of Palestinians and the Guarani in South America, and the challenges of resisting neocolonial land theft and world grabbing. Dr. Kirk's talk at 8:45 AM PDT on April 22, titled, "Cultivating Sustainable Sovereignty: Palestinian Agrarian Lives in Transnational Focus," will share insights about Palestinian food sovereignty from her current book project.
The workshop is free and open to the public virtually, all sessions are in BST (8 hours ahead). For a full schedule and to reserve a free ticket/watch sessions, see the conference site .
Paul Michael Atienza
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Dr. Paul Michael L. Atienza joined the closing summit of the NSF-funded Knowledge of AIDS (KOA) Research Community Network (RCN). KOA-RCN seeks to form a scholarly community for social scientific, humanistic, and socio-technical researchers, artists, and community advocates of HIV/AIDS broadly situated within the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The final meeting in late March focused on forms of civic engagement that emerged and continues to actively respond for HIV/AIDS advocacy and resources. KOA-RCN seeks to develop multiple outputs in the coming years that include a robust online community and support for ongoing research collaborations.
CAHSS Alumni Updates
Tracy Alvarado
Art, 2025
As an Associate Governmental Program Analyst (AGPA) State of California DMHC for the Provider Complaint Branch (PCB) for 25 plus years, your core responsibilities center on protecting the financial stability of California's healthcare system by ensuring health plans pay providers accurately and on time.
As an Associate Governmental Program Analyst (AGPA) on the DMHC Equity in Action team, l analyze internal and external data sets to identify inequities and recommend strategies for promoting a more diverse, inclusive workplace. You are responsible for coordinating equity activities, such as healing circles and training sessions, to normalize conversations around race and ensure that Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) are integrated into the Department's day-to-day operations.
Caleb Chen
Sociology, 2025
Caleb Chen was recently interviewed about Cannabis research on mycannabis.com.
Christopher Tuck
Geography, 2024
Since graduating from Humboldt with a double major in Geography and Geospatial Science & Technology, Chris has been working as a Location Intelligence Analyst (GIS Analyst) at GHD, a global Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) firm. He provides GIS support on a wide range of projects taking place across North America and sometimes other parts of the world. His day-to-day roles involve data management, spatial analysis, and figure/map production for contaminated site assessments, environmental permitting, transportation planning, utilities and infrastructure mapping, sea level rise impact assessments, and the list goes on. A recent and significant project that he had the opportunity to work on was a stormwater features data collection effort for Del Norte County, where they gathered the location of nearly 12,000 spatial features, including stormwater pipes, culverts, channels/ditches, junctions, outfalls, manholes, and drainage inlets with a high-accuracy GPS unit. Chris started at GHD's Eureka office as an intern but has since been promoted to a full-time role and relocated to their Concord, California, office in the East Bay Area.
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-tuck-b47684283/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BDXlkvIq1Qc6%2BgYZi%2BmBZ7g%3D%3D
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CAHSS News
- 4th Annual Giving Day Raises $349,167 to Support Students and Campus Programs
- 59th Annual Film Festival Celebrates Boundary-Pushing Local and International Film
- Cannabis & Environmental Stewardship Symposium Brings Leaders Together to Address Sustainability and Equity
- New Major Explores Land, Food, and Farming
- Show Your Support During the Fourth Annual Giving Day
- Cal Poly Humboldt to Launch Five New Degrees This Fall