Comics and Social Justice

COMICS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Generations of children and youth have spent many hours reading comics, traveling to far away lands, feeding their fascination for superheroes, and learning about people much like themselves facing real-life issues.

Research shows comics are a great medium to address timely social issues, from pandemic diseases and racial injustice to wealth inequality, immigration and more.

Comics and Social Justice - SDSU Big Ideas

A grassroots collaboration between humanists, educators, librarians, scientists, and artists from across SDSU and the wider San Diego community envisions becoming the nation's leading comic studies collaborative.

They believe the study of comics can bring transformational experiences that advocate for social justice, imagine audacious solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems, and promote the idea that individuals can make a difference. The SDSU Library curates a large collection of comics that will serve as an innovative resource for teaching and research.

Big Ideas Champions

Elizabeth Pollard, Ph.D., History

Pamela Jackson, Library

William Nericcio, Ph.D., English

Gregory Daddis, Ph.D., History

David Cline, Ph.D., History

John Putman, Ph.D. Arts & Letters Dean’s Office

Mary Ellen Stout, Student Health Services

Karen May-Newman, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

Team Members

Ajani Brown, Africana Studies

Neil Kendricks, Ph.D., Art

Raechel Dumas, Ph.D., History

Eric Boime, Ph.D., SDSU Imperial Valley Dean’s Office

Yetta Howard, Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature

Diana Leong, Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature

Walter Penrose, Ph.D., History

Van Tarpley, Ph.D., History

Wil Weston, Library

Karen May-Newman, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

Suzanne Bordelon, Ph.D., Rhetoric & Writing Studies

Amira Jarmakani, Ph.D., Women’s Studies

Comics and Social Justice