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Celebrate CLA! Faculty and staff recognized for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and service in 2026
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The College of Liberal Arts acknowledges the accomplishments and efforts of our outstanding faculty and staff for 2026.
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The Devil’s Own Purgatory The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War
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Read More: The Devil’s Own Purgatory The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil WarThe Devil’s Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy’s Mississippi Squadron, a fleet that prowled the Mississippi River and its tributaries during the American Civil War. The squadron battered Confederate forts, participated in combined operations with the army, obliterated the Confederate fleet, protected Union supply lines, fought…
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Professor of History Robert Gudmestad publishes first full account of the Civil War-era Mississippi River Squadron
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Read More: Professor of History Robert Gudmestad publishes first full account of the Civil War-era Mississippi River SquadronRobert Gudmestad, a professor of history and current chair of the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts, recently published the first comprehensive story of the Mississippi River Squadron a Union naval fleet that patrolled the Mississippi river and its tributaries during the United States Civil War and…
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Three CLA employees receive City of Fort Collins Human Relations Award for 2025
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Read More: Three CLA employees receive City of Fort Collins Human Relations Award for 2025Beth Seymour, Jessica Jackson, and Alexander Pittman are receiving a Human Relations Award from the City of Fort Collins in Dec 2025.
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History Matters: faculty create hyperlocal history curriculum for Northern Colorado
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Read More: History Matters: faculty create hyperlocal history curriculum for Northern ColoradoColorado State University’s History Matters project is transforming how local history is taught in Colorado classrooms by using a hyperlocal, place-based focus, the project builds equity-driven curricula that center the under told histories of Fort Collins, Northern Colorado and the state of Colorado.
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History professor selected to Colorado Education Commission
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Read More: History professor selected to Colorado Education CommissionHistory Assistant Professor selected to Colorado Education Commission.
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In memory: Jean S. Griswold was a person who included all
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Read More: In memory: Jean S. Griswold was a person who included allGriswold, who was born on Oct. 6, 1929, built her life on a simple idea: People flourish when they are welcomed and invited into one another’s lives.
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Remembering Jim Hansen: ‘The keeper of Colorado State University’s story’
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Read More: Remembering Jim Hansen: ‘The keeper of Colorado State University’s story’James Emil “Jim” Hansen II, who chronicled the definitive history of Colorado State University in several books and founded the CSU archives, passed away on Aug. 27 at the age of 86 after a long struggle with Huntington’s disease.
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Butterfly Pavilion, CSU launch exhibit on Colorado’s native bees
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Read More: Butterfly Pavilion, CSU launch exhibit on Colorado’s native beesThe exhibit, which opened Sept. 12, shines a spotlight on the more than 1,000 native bee species that call Colorado home, in many dazzling, quirky and surprising in ways most people have never seen before.
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The Women of Antioch: Gender and Political Culture, 1095–1204
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Read More: The Women of Antioch: Gender and Political Culture, 1095–1204The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four women—Constance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth to the crusader principality of Antioch—and an analysis of the political cultures within which they maneuvered, including eleventh-century France, Norman Italy, Antioch and Byzantium. The book’s comparative perspective facilitates…
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Profitable Offices: Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Formation of Venezuela’s Neopatrimonial State, 1908-1948
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Read More: Profitable Offices: Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Formation of Venezuela’s Neopatrimonial State, 1908-1948During the crucial period of its formation, the opposing forces of corruption and anticorruption shaped Venezuela’s new national state and its relationship with society. National strongman Juan Vicente Gómez, who ruled from 1908 to 1935, fastened control over key areas of the economy, extracted wealth from the Venezuelan people, and…