Give: College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UC Riverside

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The biggest college at UC Riverside, CHASS students and faculty create work that inspires the world and challenges the way we think about it.

Our students come with multi-faceted interests and aspirations. They leave with an integrated understanding of how to connect societal dots and reimagine our world.

Answering society’s biggest questions requires time and minds from all walks of life. Your support assists us to continue doing so with respect and excellence.

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CHASS in Numbers

30+

DEPARTMENTS

60+

MAJORS

500+

FACULTY

10,000+

STUDENTS

Initiatives You Can Support

CHASS is home to units that date back to the founding of UC Riverside, as well as an exciting mix of newer trans- and interdisciplinary academic programs that center on social justice and climate work.

With your support, we can continue to reinvigorate and expand structures of excellence for tomorrow’s liberal arts scholars.

High-Impact Learning

A key aim of CHASS curriculum is to equip students with an awareness of the impact their ideas can have on the world they’re graduating into.

Your support will assist us in making experiential learning more accessible through:

Funded research
Internships
Service learning
Education abroad
Career services

Faculty

Home to 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 2 poet laureates, 2 Guggenheim Fellows, and even an officially honored and recognized Knight, our faculty are among the world’s top minds.

With your support we can expand support for their groundbreaking research and teaching through 5 new:

Endowed chairs
Named chairs
Term chairs

Student Scholarships

For individuals to reimagine a better world, we must first give them the opportunity to do that in their own lives.

With your support we can grow our scholarship offerings for both undergraduate and graduate students.

Through our combined 33+ psychology, anthropology, and sociology research labs, and 3 public art galleries, the students and faculty at CHASS are exploring the big ideas of our time through an integrated and multi-disciplinary lens.

With your support we can continue to, with greater efficacy and bandwidth, accelerate our capacity to inform our societal and global conversations with the perspective and nuance that brings forward solutions and art of inclusive understanding.

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Read the latest research.

October 28, 2026

New graphic novel retells Emmett Till’s story

Growing up in Mississippi, graphic novelist John Jennings was deeply impacted by the horrific death of 14-year-old Emmett Till from an early age. Jennings, a UC Riverside professor of media and cultural studies, is helping to bring that story to a new medium with “Framing Emmett Till: Exposing Dark Fear,” a graphic novel released Oct. 27 by Abrams ComicsArts through Jennings’ Megascope imprint. He formed Megascope in 2020 as a place to promote speculative and historical nonfiction stories about and by people of color.

October 13, 2026

'Sundown towns' linked to lingering racial bias

More than 150 years after the end of slavery and a generation after Civil Rights reforms, a new study finds that places designated as “sundown towns” in the past are more racist today. The study was led by UC Riverside psychology professor Jimmy Calanchini, who researches intergroup bias. A sundown town is a community that prohibited Black people from staying within its borders after dark, or from owning property. This was done through laws, signs, threats, harassment, or violence.

Photograph shows Tomás Rivera at his desk at UC Riverside.

September 24, 2026

Giants of Chicano film, literature to headline UCR event

Two pioneering figures in Chicano cinema and literature will discuss their work and answer questions during the 38th annual Tomás Rivera Conference at the University of California, Riverside.

Photo shows a firefighter entering a burning building.

August 25, 2026

Culture change may help firefighters reduce cancer risk

A soot-caked helmet and grimy turnout gear have long been symbols of grit and experience among American firefighters. Yet exposure to contaminated equipment can increase the risk of cancer. Now, attitudes toward protective wear and other safety measures may be shifting in California firehouses.

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"Before CHASS, I wasn’t able to discuss, research, or write about queer topics that I loved, but here I’ve been given resources and opportunities to contribute my own voice in academia, and to join conversations that have been otherwise silencing."

Justin Daniel Domecillo

English

"One of the things I like about CHASS is that it really makes us question what makes us human. I feel that it delves deeper and is more critical of what makes us ‘us,’ and that’s why I chose history. I feel like it shows where we came from and how we started out."

Jon Paredes

History

"My favorite thing about CHASS is that it involves just as much unlearning as it does learning new material...Being a CHASS student means constantly rethinking the structures and systems that we have always considered normal because normal isn’t always right."

Sukhmeen Kaur Kahlon

Political Science/Law & Society

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