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Dinorah Sánchez Loza is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning. Her work is guided by one central question: What relationship exists between schooling and how youth come to think and act politically?  Her research agenda has three broad areas of focus: (1) theories of settler colonialism and its resultant structuring of race, gender, and political/economic relations; (2) democracy and its limits within a racialized/colonial public sphere; and (3) the teaching and learning of politics and civic engagement. An ethnography, her most recent project examines US Government classrooms in two predominantly white, yet economically different high schools in central Ohio and interrogates the everyday lived experiences within them to analyze how schooling intersects with race and class to (re)produce political ideologies and practices.  It investigates how issues of citizenship, democracy, and politics are taught and learned and how schooling experiences foster differential levels of understanding, power, and engagement in the public sphere.  

Dr. Sanchez Loza has received the National Academy of Sciences/Ford Foundation Dissertation fellowship. While at Berkeley, she was selected into the Graduate Fellows Program through the Institute for the Study of Social Issues, received funding from Center for Right Wing Studies and the Graduate Division, and was awarded the multi-year Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship.  She has also been a recipient of the Arthur Zankel Fellowship through Teachers College, Columbia University and selected to participate in the International Fellows Program through the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Most recently, she has received grant funding through The Women’s Place at the Ohio State University to continue her analysis of political ideologies among White adolescent girls across two schools in central Ohio. 

A veteran educator, Dr. Sánchez

Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence invites colleagues from across Southern California to kick off the Centennial Year with special guests: Roy Choi, Juan Devis, Josh Kun, Victoria J. Orphan, Yuval Sharon, Dexter Story, Melodie Yashar, and more

Event Schedule
9:30 a.m. Check-in
10:30 a.m.–noon Centennial Launch Program
Noon–1 p.m. Reception with champagne and light bites

This is an invitation-only event; space is limited
Press must RSVP tocentennialpress@huntington.org

SAN MARINO, Calif.—The Huntington's Centennial Celebration kicks off on Sept. 5, 2019, with a special event for press and Southern California civic, higher education, and cultural leaders—a number of whose institutions are also celebrating significant anniversaries. Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence will host the celebration, sharing key news announcements and highlighting plans for the centennial year and beyond. The formal program will include a panel discussion with thought leaders on some of the big ideas shaping the future, brief presentations by Huntington leadership from each collection area, and a special musical performance interpreting sheet music from the Harold Bruce Forsythe collection. Public visitors will enjoy music in the gardens by Todd Simon and members of his Angel City All-Star Brass Band from noon to 2 p.m.

The Sept. 5 event will set the stage for a yearlong series of exhibitions, public programs, new initiatives, and more—inviting people with a range of interests to engage with the venerable institution's collections and the connections they offer while exploring the interdisciplinary ideas that will shape the next 100 years. The Centennial Launch's program reflects the interdisciplinary lens of The Huntington's incomparable collections.

Los Angeles Innovators Discuss the Future

Juan Devis, chief creative officer of PBS SoCal, will moderate a discussion around some