CLA - Key Persons
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- Multicultural Academic Advisor
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- Faculty Recruitment and Contract Analyst
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- Communications Guidelines
Cal Poly's Communication Studies Department helps students to understand the process of human communication and grasp its historical context and contemporary relevance in a global society. Students learn the theory and practice of communication in a variety of contexts, developing their critical reasoning, speaking and writing skills, and appreciation of how culture influences their lives.
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- Lead Communications Specialist
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- Administrative Coordinator
- Administrative Coordinator for Advancement
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- Administrative Coordinator
Professor Grace Yeh and her students are capturing the diverse - yet under-documented - ethnic communities of the region. The multiple projects, titled "Re/Collecting," digitize family materials and interviews into searchable databases. In one project, Yeh draws from interviews and archives to explore the first Filipino migrants to the Central Coast.
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- Director of Research Engagement & Internationalization
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- Associate Dean for Operations
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- Finance and Budget Analyst
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- Associate Dean for Student Success
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- Interim Associate Dean for Diversity and Curriculum
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- Executive Assistant to the Dean
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- Evaluations Process Analyst
- Faculty Analyst and Staff Evaluations
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Communications Specialist
Philip Williams began his role as dean of Cal Poly's College of Liberal Arts in August 2019. Previously, he served as director of the Center for Latin American Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He was also Co-Partnership Director for the Colombia-U.S. Human Rights Law School Program and co-directed the Program for Immigration, Religion, and Social Change (PIRSC). Williams holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Latin American Studies and Doctor of Philosophy in politics from the University of Oxford in 1986.
He is co-author of "Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration (The New Press, 2011), "Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy" (University of Pittsburgh 1997),The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica (Macmillan 1989), and co-editor of "A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida's New Destinations" (Rutgers University Press, 2009) and of Christianity, Globalization, and Social Change in the Americas (Rutgers University 2001).
Williams earned a number of prestigious fellowships and grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, Fulbright, National Science Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, United States Agency for International Development, United States Department of Education, United States Institute of Peace, and United States Department of State.
Professor Richard Besel and undergraduate student, Brittani Hidahl, embarked on a class project exploring the significance of Katy Perry's song, "I Kissed A Girl," that resulted in an opportunity to publish a book chapter and present at the National Communication Association Convention.