- The Critical Refugee Studies Collective [including UC Merced Professors Ma Vang and Nigel Hatton] Receives $1.6 million grant from the University of California Office of the President
- April 21 - 23: Militarism and Migration Conference, "Panel 11. Policing Migrants Under Neoliberalism," Discussant: Nigel Hatton
- Spring 2017 Courses: Existentialism & Phenomenology; Readings in Close Readings; Captivated Thinking, and Race & Human Rights
- Office Hours, Spring 2017: Wednesdays, 9 am - 12 pm and by appointment, COB2 373, tel. (209) 228-4384
- Fall 2017 Courses: Human Rights & Literature; Nobel Prize Literature (Senior Thesis Topics Course); Captivated Thinking
- Kierkegaard House Foundation Fellow, St. Olaf College, 2016
- Discussing Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me in Público
Shelton Johnson, author of the novel Gloryland, discusses the art of fiction with students enrolled in the fall semester session of ENG 31: Introduction to African American Literature and Culture.
Literature and Philosophy Fall 2015