Deadline: March 8th, 2026 The UCSC Earth Futures Institute is pleased to announce the fifth year of our program of undergraduate research opportunities called EFI Frontier Fellowships. Each Frontier Fellowship […]
Application Deadline: March 30th, 2026 Amount: $6,000 THI invites applications for our graduate Public Fellows program. THI Public Fellows contribute to research, programming, communications, and fundraising at companies, non-profit organizations, […]
Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring […]
Application Deadline Extended until Friday, February 27, 2026Please note that we do not accept any late application materials. Amount: $6,000 Fellowship for Summer 2026 The C.L. Barber Fellowship provides for […]
Jamie Penilla is a fourth-year History and Spanish Studies double major at UC Santa Cruz. She currently is a 2025-26 THI Undergraduate Research Fellow and previously was a 2024-25 Humanities […]
Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter book club meeting. We will be discussing Alexis Shotwell’s book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, which offers a framework for conceiving […]
Carla Freccero, distinguished professor and chair of the Literature Department and a beloved mentor to hundreds of graduate students, died this week at Stanford Hospital, surrounded by loved ones. She […]
The History of Consciousness department invites you to the next talk in their Winter 2026 Research Colloquium series. This talk examines Tomba’s Revolution and Restoration as an expression of his […]
The Humanities Institute is pleased to be offering a fellowship for a UCSC humanities graduate student to participate in the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) Publishing Workshop this summer! […]
Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter “share session.” Two of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal, interactive conversation. […]
Yağmur Kiper is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Linguistics department and was a 2025–26 THI Summer Research Fellow. She was also a THI Graduate Student Success Fellow in 2022-2023. […]
Join the Deep Read at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History (SCMNH) for Fungus February First Friday. We will celebrate the opening of Fungus February at the Museum with […]
Bookshop welcomes award-wining author Anne Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down) for a discussion about her latest book Frog: And Other Essays, a new collection of evocative […]
Four graduate students are part of the second cohort of THI Moving Image Lab Public Fellows, collectively working in arts curation, exhibition production, and archival research. The 2025-26 fellows […]
Arlo Fosburg is a seventh-year Ph.D. candidate in the Feminist Studies department, with a designated emphasis in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and was a 2025–26 THI Summer Dissertation Fellow. […]
In an increasingly careless world where cruelty is celebrated and disability mocked, these two highly-readable scholars remind us that beautiful relationships of compassion, connection, communication, and empathy still exist. Rutherford […]
Achieve your dreams for college and career! A free annual event for Santa Cruz County students, grades 6 to college, and their families, featuring Latino professionals, college students, and resource […]
Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) for a panel discussion that situates Islamophobia in a global context as a form of discrimination that shapes politics […]
The Humanities Institute (THI) at UC Santa Cruz is exploring the theme of nourishment this year, inviting the campus and community to reflect on what sustains life, fosters connection, and […]
Daniel Arias is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in Literature and was a 2025 THI Summer Public Fellow and 2021-2023 THI Graduate Student Success (GSS) Fellow. Arias’ dissertation, titled “Poetic Innovations: […]