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The Eastsider previewed the UCLA Medal event honoring former US congressman Esteban E. Torres. CSRC director Chon A. Noriega is quoted in the piece.
LA Downtown News reported on the hiring of six new staff members to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Noted among them is Pilar Tompkins Rivas, former director of the Vincent Price Art Museum and former CSRC arts project coordinator.
UCLA Newsroom previewed the virtual ceremony in which the UCLA Medal will be conferred upon Esteban Torres, former labor leader and US congressman representing California's 34th district.
Chon A. Noriega to continue as CSRC director one more year, CSRC to co-host a virtual UCLA Medal ceremony honoring former US congressman Esteban E. Torres, CSRC librarians earn "career status," and more in this summer issue of the CSRC Newsletter!
Image: US President Jimmy Carter and Esteban Torres, 1980. Esteban Torres Papers, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
As demonstrations in support of Black Lives Matter exploded across the country this past May, the editorial team at the CSRC concluded it is time to make a change.
InPark Magazine profiled recent hires at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, including Pilar Tompkins Rivas as chief curator and deputy director of curatorial and collections. The article mentions Rivas's former appointment as arts project coordinator at the CSRC.
In a story about the recent toppling of statues near California missions, the CSRC-led research project Critical Mission Studies was mentioned, as well as “Toppling Mission Monuments and Mythologies,” an online conference organized by the project’s leaders and held on July 15. The collaborative project involves researchers from area universities and Indian tribes.
The Los Angeles Times reported on the appointment of Pilar Tompkins Rivas as chief curator and deputy director of curatorial and collections at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
A story in UC Riverside News previewed the online conference “Toppling Mission Monuments and Mythologies,” organized by Critical Mission Studies, a research project based at the CSRC.
A book review of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Identity, from Nixon to Trump (Ecco Press, 2020) by Geraldo Cadava and The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History (Harvard University Press, 2020) by Benjamin Francis-Fallon cited the authors' use of the CSRC Library’s archive, which the reviewer called an otherwise “underutilized” resource.