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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
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.
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.
Stephanie Murillo and Mónica Elivier Sánchez González
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Stephanie Murillo was selected from a group of undergraduate students to participate in the Summer Research Immersion Program at the University of Guanajuato in summer of 2025. The program provided academic training, professional development, and mentorship in scientific and social research while simultaneously adapting cultural immersion. The objectives of this program were to advance research skills by conducting an eight-week project, produce scholarly work, engage in international collaboration, develop cultural and social insight, and integrate research into career goals. This published work is the result of Stephanie Murillo's time abroad and we are happy to share her published work with the University.
Captive Bodies: Overmedication as Structural Violence Against Women by Stephanie Murillo
Christina Hsu Accomando
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Macmillan Learning invited Professor Christina Hsu Accomando, editor of Macmillan's textbook Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Intersectional Study, to present a webinar for their international Holtzbrinck Global Speaker Series this year. "From Current Events to Critical Thinking: Analyzing Systemic Racism Beyond Memes," January 30, 2025.
Christina Hsu Accomando
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
CRGS and English Professor Christina Hsu Accomando co-authored two essays on authoritarianism and resistance with Dr. Kristin J. Anderson, professor of psychology at the University of Houston. These pieces build upon lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, focusing on Lesson 1: Do Not Obey in Advance and Lesson 10: Believe in Truth.
Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Dr. Paul Michael L. Atienza was chosen to join the Knowledge of AIDS (KOA) Research Community Network (RCN), which seeks to form a scholarly community for social scientific, humanistic, and socio-technical researchers of HIV/AIDS broadly situated within the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). He will participate in the second of three annual workshops in late March focused on forms of expertise that emerged in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. In addition to the workshops, KOA-RCN seeks to develop a robust online community, support research collaborations, and create a mentorship program.
Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
CRGS assistant professor Dr. Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza publishes “Feeling Failure: Appnography and Its Affective Ties to the Ethnographer’s Life" in a special issue of Ethnoscripts. The special issue considers the impact of dating apps beyond dating, moving past the narrow milieu of intimacy to interrogate their impact across other spheres. Atienza reflects on their research among queer Filipino men in Manila and Los Angeles to examine how feelings of failure permeate various aspects of the researcher’s life, influencing writing, thinking, and self-perception, and his study underscores the enduring nature of these emotions. Open Access at https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/issue/view/116
Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
CRGS assistant professor Dr. Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza publishes their first set of poetry just in time for Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. "With Love: What We Wish We Knew About Being Queer and Filipino in America" explores the intimate journey of queer Filipina/x/o individuals in America. Editor Dr. Dustin E. Domingo delves into 68 letters by 50 queer Filipino Americans, sharing triumphs, setbacks, and 10 life lessons. Currently available at https://bit.ly/BuyWithLoveBook
Dr. Nancy Pérez, Dr. Marisol Ruiz, Noemí Maldonado, Athens Marrón, Audriana Peñaloza, Georgina Cerda Salvarrey
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Students and faculty from the Promotorx Transformative Educators Program and the Department of Critical Race, Gender, & Sexuality Studies presented a panel titled "Ethnic Studies as Liberatory Joy in Rural California" at the Latinx Studies Association Conference hosted at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, from April 17-20, 2024.
Christina Hsu Accomando
Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Christina Hsu Accomando, professor of CRGS and English, is the editor of the newly released 12th edition of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Intersectional Study (Macmillan, 2024). When Paula Rothenberg published the original edition in 1988, it was one of the first textbooks to take an intersectional approach to ethnic and gender studies. This interdisciplinary anthology is used in CRGS 108 ("Power/Privilege: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality") at Cal Poly Humboldt and in classrooms across the nation.