FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 05/21/97
CONTACT: Margie Yu,
Public Affairs Assistant
(323) 343-3047
CAL STATE L.A. HISTORY PROFESSOR RECEIVES FACULTY FELLOWSHIP OF $37,000
Los Angeles, California -- May 21, 1997 -- Cal State L.A. recently announced that Los Angeles resident Lillian Taiz, assistant professor of History at Cal State L.A., was awarded a one-year Faculty Fellowship of $37,000 by the Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale University for her project proposal, "Advertising Salvation: Class, Gender, Religious Culture and the Evolution of the Salvation Army in the Unites States, 1879-1917."
Lillian Taiz, who joined the Cal State L.A. faculty in 1992, earned her B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University and her Ph.D. from University of California, Davis. Taiz has expertise in the late 19th century American social and cultural history, and her current research mainly focuses on the performance and representations of working class millennial Christianity in the Salvation Army. She has received several research grants and professional awards, including the University Dissertation Year Fellowship in the UC Davis Graduate Division and Humanities Institute, 1989-1990.
Taiz is currently serving as a member in the Academic Senate and the Student Satisfaction Committee for Western Association of Schools and Colleges. She is also a faculty sponsor for Phi Alpha Theta, Eta Xi Chapter. In the past, she has been involved with the School Academic Resource Committee, the American Historical Association of Pacific Coast and the University Faculty Policy Committee.
The Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale University presents fellowship awards for faculty whose proposals reflect high quality and scholarship in the areas of religion and/or history.
For more information, call the History Department at Cal State L.A., (323) 343-2020.