News from CLASS

Announcing CLASS 2019 Distinguished Faculty Award Recipients

The CLASS Distinguished Faculty Award was established in 2019 by Antonio D. Tillis, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and M.D. Anderson Professor in Hispanic Studies.This award honors senior faculty with internationally recognized bodies of scholarship or creative output. CLASS Distinguished Faculty Award recipients also exhibit the promise of continued excellence. Candidates for this award must have achieved preeminence in their field through stellar research and scholarship.

@Africa: Digital Media Conference

Join the Valenti School of Communication for its third annual Global Communication Summit. This year’s theme is focusing on the digital transformation that is occurring on the African continent.

CLASS Media Mentions

• KRIV FOX 26

  Breaking down recent developments in the impeachment trial of President Trump

  Jim Granato, Ph.D., Political Science
• Salon

  I asked people why they don’t vote, and this is what they told me

  Andrew Joseph Pegoda, Ph.D., WGSS
• KHOU-11

  Houston Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia one of seven impeachment managers ahead of Senate trial

  Jeremy Bailey, Ph.D., Political Science
• The Washington Post

  The problem with a year of celebrating the 19th Amendment

  Andrew Joseph Pegoda, Ph.D., WGSS
• Houston Chronicle

  Assassinating Soleimani endangers lives in the Middle East and the U.S.

  Emran El-Badawi, MCL