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Emily Berquist Soule, Ph.D.
Interim Director,
Faculty Center

Emily.Berquist@csulb.edu
(562) 985-5260

Emily Berquist Soule, Ph.D., is the Interim Director of the Faculty Center at CSU Long Beach, and Professor of History. She teaches and researches the history of colonial Latin America and the Spanish Atlantic world, with specializations in slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade; Spanish imperial governance; and the history of the Catholic Church. Her first book, The Bishop's Utopia: Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2014. Her research has appeared in Slavery and Abolition, The Americas, and in various edited volumes. Her work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Huntington Library (among others). Her second book manuscript, a 500-year history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the Spanish Atlantic world, is under advance contract with Yale University Press. She serves her disciplinary community as Area Editor of the history and cultural studies journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, published in London by Taylor & Francis.

Dr. Berquist Soule has been a member of CSULB's faculty since her appointment as Assistant Professor in 2007. She has served her colleagues across the university; through co-founding Parents and Caregivers United to advocate for the wellbeing of parenting and caregiving faculty during pandemic closures, and the COVID Equity in Faculty Evaluations Task Force, established to promote equitable practices in faculty evaluations in order to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on faculty career trajectories. In 2022-2023, she co-led a team that drafted equitable and inclusive policies for the College of Liberal Arts retention, tenure and promotion process. She was the co-recipient of the 2021 CSULB President's Commission on the Status of Women Award. In 2022, she received the Woman of Distinction in Education Award from the 34th Senate District of California. She brings to the Faculty Center her core values of centering the tenure and evaluation process in faculty well-being; promoting transparent and equitable policies for all faculty; and fostering collaborative relationships across our campus community.
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Malcolm Finney, Ph.D.
Interim Assistant Vice President for Faculty Inclusive Excellence

Malcolm.Finney@csulb.edu
(562) 985-8264

Malcolm Finney, Ph.D., is the Interim Assistant Vice President for Faculty Inclusive Excellence, Office of Faculty Affairs. Dr. Finney served as the Director of the CSULB Faculty Center for three years. In this capacity, he developed, facilitated or supervised professional development programs that addressed several faculty members needs including workshops on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classroom; faculty learning communities on inclusive, accessible, and equity-minded instructional and classroom management strategies; reading groups for new faculty on culturally responsive pedagogy and on micro-intervention strategies; and faculty discussion groups on best mentoring practices in working and interacting with students of diverse backgrounds, opportunities, and levels of preparedness.

Previously, Dr. Finney was a professor in the Linguistics Department of the College of Liberal Arts, CSULB. His primary teaching and research interests were in first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, and implications for second language instruction and bilingual education as well as in pidgin and creole languages. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in these fields. Dr. Finney served as department chair for eight years (2008-2016) and again as acting chair during 2018-2019. Under his leadership as chair, the department’s undergraduate program experienced rapid growth and the graduate program became one of the largest in the College of Liberal Arts. The department was recognized, by the Office of Academic Affairs, for ‘Improvement in student success’ (departments recording largest retention increases for native and transfer students); for ‘High achievement in student success’ (departments with highest graduation rates for native and transfer students within respective departments); and for institutionalizing a graduate student learning community on high impact practices.

During the 2020-2021 AY, Dr. Finney was co-recipient of a faculty retention grant dedicated to assisting new tenure-track faculty members in planning their first few years at CSULB and in assisting department chairs in mentoring early career faculty members. He remains committed to being proactive and intentional in making the recruitment, retention, and evaluation of tenure-track faculty at CSULB more inclusive and equitable.