Imagination Imagination Series
20 May 2022 / 1 June 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Michael M. Chemers is the Chair of the Department of Performance, Play & Design. He is also the Director of the UCSC Center for Monster Studies. He has been teaching […]
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Profiles
20 May 2022 / 20 May 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Adrian Drummond-Cole is a seventh-year PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department. His dissertation project, titled “Making Water Liquid: Hydraulic Settlement in California’s Central Valley,” explores the long history of […]
13 May 2022 / 18 May 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Martin Rizzo-Martinez received his PhD in History at UC Santa Cruz in 2016. After completing his degree, Rizzo-Martinez worked as an adjunct professor and then went on to work at […]
12 May 2022 / 13 May 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
E. Hande Tuna is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz and is affiliated with the Feminist Studies Department. Prior to arriving in Santa Cruz, Tuna completed postdoctoral research at Brown […]
6 May 2022 / 6 May 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Zac Zimmer is an Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz and is affiliated with the Spanish Studies, Legal Studies, and Latin American & Latino Studies programs. He is […]
News
3 May 2022 / 3 May 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
The 2022 Deep Read is already underway. The annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz has brought together students, faculty, alumni, and other curious minds from across […]
29 April 2022 / 2 May 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Filippo Gianferrari is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is originally from Modena, Italy. Gianferrari received a BA and MA in Letteratura italiana from […]
28 April 2022 / 3 May 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Born with cerebral palsy, Zayid is a talented comedian and actress, and an advocate for those with disabilities. The comedian Maysoon Zayid was born with cerebral palsy. She also has […]
22 April 2022 / 24 April 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther is Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a philosopher of science, researcher, writer, educator, diver, and explorer. He works in the philosophy of […]
20 April 2022 / 20 April 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
David Duncan is a fourth-year PhD student in the History Department. Duncan studies twentieth century school desegregation movements in the Bay Area. Duncan has worked extensively in the field of oral […]
19 April 2022 / 20 April 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
A unique partnership between The Humanities Institute, a leading national media outlet, and a generous UC Santa Cruz donor amplifies opportunities for UC Santa Cruz students. A unique partnership between […]
14 April 2022 / 19 April 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Micah Perks is Professor of Literature and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and writing focuses on U.S. fiction, autobiographical writing, historical fiction, and […]
14 April 2022 / 14 April 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Kelly Anne Brown received her PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz in 2011. After completing her degree, Brown went on to work at the University of California Humanities Research Institute […]
Each year, UC Santa Cruz’s five academic divisions—Arts, Baskin School of Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Physical and Biological Sciences—selects one graduate student alumnus/a/i as their Distinguished Graduate Student honoree. […]
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) recently announced the recipients of their 2022 ACLS Fellowships, and among the 60 honorees are two faculty members of UC Santa Cruz. Philip […]
8 April 2022 / 8 April 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Dylan Reinders studies Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at UC Santa Cruz. Reinders’s research project “Compare and Contrast of Inclusivity in ESL Education in Various Metropolitan Areas Across the United States” explores […]
8 April 2022 / 11 April 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Shakespeare cited the Psalms more than any other book of the Bible. What did it mean to him? This series, co-hosted by Julia Lupton (UCI) and Sean Keilen (UCSC) […]
Jennifer Kelly is Assistant Professor in the Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Departments at UC Santa Cruz. Her research broadly engages questions of settler colonialism, U.S. empire, and […]
6 April 2022 / 6 April 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
The fifth annual Universe in Verse—a charitable celebration of science and nature through poetry and music, created and hosted by writer Maria Popova (Marginalian)—will be held in person at UC […]
UC Santa Cruz faculty and students have been collaborating with leaders of Watsonville’s Filipino community for the past year to build a new community archive that will be publicly unveiled […]
Event Recaps
4 April 2022 / 4 June 2024 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
On April 4, 2022, Professor Michael Rothberg delivered the The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture entitled, “Debating Holocaust Memory: The Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Germany”. Over the past […]
1 April 2022 / 25 May 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Jess Fournier is a PhD student in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Fournier’s research explores transformative justice against sexual violence and its ongoing influence on prison abolition and feminist […]
29 March 2022 / 31 March 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature, Creative Writing, and Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on transnational and postcolonial literatures, cultural poetics of America in the Pacific and […]
29 March 2022 / 29 March 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
The UCSC Office of Research has awarded funds this month to 19 projects through its inaugural Seed Funding for Early Stage Initiatives program. While a primary goal of the seed […]
