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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.
Deidre Pike, Hanna Mounce ('03), Marcy Burstiner
Journalism & Mass Communication
Journalism chair Deidre Pike contributed an article “Bringing Back Birds From the Brink of Extinction” to Paris, France-based educational website News Decoder. The article, published Jan. 16, looks at the hopeful work of the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project in saving Hawai’ian birds from extinction. The Maui organization’s project manager is Humboldt State University alumna Hanna Mounce (‘03, Wildlife). News Decoder is an educational publication edited by Cal Poly Humboldt emeritus journalism professor Marcy Burstiner.
Josh Meisel
Sociology
Professor Josh Meisel (Sociology) was quoted in a MJ Biz Daily news story about the implications for cannabis research of the Trump administration's recent Executive Order calling for the rescheduling of cannabis to a less restrictive category.
Yaneyry Delfin Martinez
Sociology
Sociology M.A. student Yaneyry Delfin Martinez received an Alpha Kappa Delta Social Justice Award of $1,500, addressing food insecurity among undocumented students with support from Sociology Professor Stefanie Israel de Souza.
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.
Brian Law
Applied Anthropology, 2024
Hello, I enjoyed my time in the BA Leadership Studies program, so I decided to join the MA Applied Anthropology program in the Fall of 2024. I just had my first anniversary as a Teaching Assistant and Peer Advisor, and I will continue to do so as long as I am eligible for student employment.
Benjamin Scott Endsley
Politics, 2024
Currently, Benjamin is a legislative aide in the office of Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria, working on legislation related to housing, medical training and education, and agriculture.
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CAHSS News
- International Education Week Connects Humboldt to the World
- My Best Lecture Series Continues Jan. 28 with Adolfo Soberanis’ (Re)imagining (Real)ity
- Legal Cannabis is Opening New Doors for Women, Global Study Finds
- Fall Commencement Graduates Celebrate New Beginnings (PHOTOS)
- Big Wins, Bold Discoveries: Humboldt’s Best Stories of 2025 (VIDEO)
- Celebrating Our Fall 2025 Graduates!