Dean Avilez's advice to students? Do everything!
How do you make the most of your undergraduate student experience? Dean GerShun Avilez has some advice for CLA students: embrace every opportunity, take risks, and immerse yourself fully in campus life (and the world!).
This is one special time you have in your life when you can really dig deep in a subject and learn something very well, but you can also take chances. Part of the value and the beauty of [your] experience is you can take those chances.
Dean GerShun Avilez
Learn more about CLA's new leader
CLA is thrilled to welcome GerShun Avilez as the college's 13th Dean. Dean Avilez is prominent cultural studies scholar who specializes in contemporary African American and Black Diasporic literature and visual culture. His research spans a wide range of fields, including political radicalism, spatial theory, gender studies, and medical humanities.
