Event Recaps
19 April 2023 / 3 August 2023 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Over the 2022-23 academic year, THI administered the Mellon Sawyer Seminar “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine.” This Seminar brought a host of scholars to campus to explore the […]
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18 October 2022 / 7 April 2023 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
On Oct. 18, 2022, Tahir Amin delivered a talk on “Intellectual Property Wars: The Battle for Access to Medicines” at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Downtown Santa Cruz. This was […]
Profiles
28 September 2022 / 28 September 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Em Padilla is a PhD student in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Padilla’s research explores Trans military policy and anti-trans and Queer legislation and how such policies influence Trans Latinx […]
News
11 August 2022 / 29 August 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
When Kate Schatz (Stevenson ’03, literature and creative writing) began her career as an author, she wrote short fiction stories for an adult audience. Yet, within only a few years, […]
1 August 2022 / 1 August 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Angie Sijun Lou is a sixth-year PhD Student in the Literature Department. Lou’s dissertation project, titled Pale Unhappy Dog, is a collection of twelve short stories that explore issues of transnational migration, political […]
Amani Liggett is a seventh-year PhD Student in the Literature Department. Liggett is busy writing her dissertation, tentatively titled “Dreams and Sleep in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy History Plays,” but has made public […]
29 July 2022 / 31 July 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
In her new book, Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Felicity Amaya Schaeffer draws stunning connections between indigenous ways of life and relationships to the land […]
24 July 2022 / 12 September 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
On July 24, 2022, local authors Donna F. Mekis and Kathryn Mekis Miller gave a talk at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History about their recent book Blossoms […]
7 July 2022 / 31 July 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
On June 3, UC Santa Cruz’s Humanities Division once again marked the end of the school year with their Spring Awards, a ceremony that celebrates the achievements of students, instructors, […]
Feature News
30 June 2022 / 3 November 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Campus community celebrates the impact of outgoing Director Nathaniel Deutsch and welcomes new faculty leaders. After 12 years, Nathaniel Deutsch will step down from his role as Faculty Director of […]
28 June 2022 / 29 August 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching (COT) in collaboration with Chancellor Larive and CP/EVC Kletzer, Cruz celebrated UCSC’s innovative and dedicated teachers with a gathering at the Cowell Provost House […]
21 June 2022 / 30 June 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Two UC Santa Cruz faculty were recently awarded $310,000 grants to lead research working groups through the Crossing Latinidades project, a nationwide consortium of R1 designated Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) funded […]
15 June 2022 / 15 June 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
On June 20, UC Santa Cruz associate professor of literature Zac Zimmer will join 14 of his colleagues from universities and colleges around the U.S. at the National Humanities Center […]
15 June 2022 / 29 June 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Nick Mitchell, an associate professor in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies Departments, has been awarded the 2021-22 Distinguished Teaching Award. He was honored for his positive […]
7 June 2022 / 15 June 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
A new cross-divisional initiative to prepare graduate students in the Arts and Humanities at UC Santa Cruz from historically underrepresented groups to go on to the professoriate has been selected […]
3 June 2022 / 3 June 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Theresa Hice-Fromille was a THI Public Humanities Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) for the Questions That Matter course on THI’s annual theme of Imagination. She will also be a 2022 THI Summer Public […]
Imagination Imagination Series
3 June 2022 / 31 July 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Vilashini Cooppan is Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her articles and essays on comparative and world literature, postcolonial […]
1 June 2022 / 3 June 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Theresa Bostic is a third-year History major and 2021-22 THI Undergraduate Research Fellow. Bostic’s research project “Santa Cruz’s Elusive Figure: London Nelson” explores the legacy of London Nelson, a Black […]
1 June 2022 / 1 June 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
What struck Sean Lawrence while at the ruins of the ancient city of Göbekli Tepe in the Anatolia region of Turkey was not the archeological work that was under way […]
Raed El Rafei (Film and Digital Media) and Christian Alvarado (History of Consciousness) have been THI Fellows and engaged with various THI programs. Both El Rafei and Alvarado were UCSC-Social Science […]
1 June 2022 / 21 June 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz doctoral candidate Lex McClellan-Ufugusuku appeared before the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, exploring whether the people of Okinawa could be recognized as Indigenous—meaning they might […]
31 May 2022 / 21 June 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Stevenson; critical race and ethnic studies, Black studies minor Chailen August’s time at UC Santa Cruz put him on a path of discovery that he never expected. The Inglewood, Calif., […]
27 May 2022 / 27 May 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Phil Groth is a third-year PhD student in the Philosophy Department. Groth is one of three Graduate Student Instructors (GSI) teaching a Questions That Matter course on THI’s annual theme of […]
24 May 2022 / 4 June 2024 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
On May 24, 2022, we hosted The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, featuring a lively conversation between Ethan Michaeli, award-winning author of the new book, Twelve Tribes: Promise […]