Event Recaps
14 March 2022 / 16 January 2024 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
On March 14, 2022, Agnes Callard delivered the annual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture entitled, “Inquisitive Politics.” This Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of […]
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Profiles
11 March 2022 / 11 March 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Bree Booth is a PhD Student in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department. Bree’s project, “Tracing Queerness Through the Atlantic,” approaches “historical archives as both source and object.” As Bree explains, archival […]
9 March 2022 / 9 March 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
THI coordinates the UCSC Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development (SSRC-DPD) Program, a project that supports graduate students’ dissertation proposal development through interdisciplinary peer discussion, methodological and research workshops, and […]
News
3 March 2022 / 4 March 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
THI is delighted to offer four undergraduate courses in Spring 2022. Three of these courses will explore questions related to our annual theme of Imagination as part of the Questions […]
2 March 2022 / 3 March 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz is excited to announce the return of The Deep Read, the annual program that invites students, faculty, and other curious minds throughout the […]
25 February 2022 / 25 February 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Linda Ulbrich is a PhD Candidate in the History Department. Ulbrich’s project “Yesterday Was a Difficult Day to Be Sister”: Nursing and Trauma in the First World War” centers the nurses who […]
23 February 2022 / 23 February 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
A new book, authored by UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita Angela Y. Davis and Associate Professor Gina Dent with colleagues Erica R. Meiners and Beth E. Richie, is garnering national […]
17 February 2022 / 17 February 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Philip Conklin is a PhD Student in the History of Consciousness Department. Conklin’s research explores a series of popular religious movements in the nineteenth-century Philippines that regularly conflicted with Spanish colonial […]
11 February 2022 / 11 February 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Anny Mogollón is a PhD Student in the Literature Department. Mogollón’s research explores the representation, or misrepresentation, of domestic workers in fiction and multiple other alternative texts, including social media. Mogollón […]
Undergraduate Public Fellows Gain Experience in Publishing, Editing, and Activism The work of the Prison Journalism Project (PJP) highlights the broad and concrete impact of public-facing and community driven academic […]
8 February 2022 / 8 February 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Last year marked the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet and author of The Divine Comedy, one of the most influential literary works in human […]
7 February 2022 / 25 January 2023 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
On February 7 and 22, we hosted preeminent Dante scholars Dennis Looney and Karla Mallette as part of this lecture series that revisited the history of the epic poet Dante […]
2 February 2022 / 4 February 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Sage Michaels is a History Major and 2021-22 THI Undergraduate Research Fellow. She received the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize for submitting the top undergraduate research proposal. Michael’s research focuses on the significance of […]
27 January 2022 / 27 January 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Rebecca Hernandez, the former director of UC Santa Cruz’s American Indian Resource Center (AIRC), is now the university’s first community archivist. In this new role, which re-envisions the university’s Regional […]
26 January 2022 / 26 January 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Nathaniel Deutsch, faculty director for UC Santa Cruz’s The Humanities Institute and professor of history, was recently announced as a winner of a 2021 National Jewish Book Award in the […]
Kirstin Wagner is a PhD Student in the Literature Department. Wagner’s dissertation project Daughter in Waves: Matrilineal Inheritance and the Poetics of Violence explores memories of family history, violence, trauma, and the […]
25 January 2022 / 25 January 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
In 2011, Amanda M. Smith, assistant professor of literature at UC Santa Cruz, was regularly haunting the stacks of the Biblioteca Amazónica, an archive located in Iquitos, the largest city […]
20 January 2022 / 20 January 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Thanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), UC Santa Cruz will create a new Certificate in the Humanities introducing students enrolled in the Baskin […]
Joshua Tan is a PhD Student in the History Department. Tan’s research project “Migrants and Missionaries: Chinese Diaspora, Religion, and the Cold War” explores how the Cold War prompted and influenced […]
Feature News
7 January 2022 / 20 January 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
When Aissata Ba decided to put her name in the running for a chance to meet former First Lady Michelle Obama at a special event last year, the second-year legal […]
6 January 2022 / 6 January 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
bell hooks, celebrated feminist theorist, cultural critic, artist, and writer, died on Wednesday, Dec. 15 at her home in Berea, KY. She was 69. hooks was the author of over […]
Tyler Stovall, a renowned historian, professor, and former Dean of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz, died Dec. 10, 2021 at his home in New York City. He was 67. Stovall […]
3 January 2022 / 3 January 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
Over the next two years, thanks to a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, faculty and students at UC Santa Cruz will have a chance to critically investigate […]
17 December 2021 / 23 August 2022 by Aaron Aruck | Leave a Comment
This event series featured a lecture from Yoshikuni Igarashi (Dec. 17, 2021) and a roundtable discussion (March 4, 2022) focused on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s return to Japan. After […]
