News
16 February 2018 / 16 February 2018 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
This week, President Trump released his presidential budget request for fiscal year 2019, which again calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities, along with the National […]
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Freedom and Race News
24 January 2018 / 5 April 2018 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
“I would like the audience to go away feeling energized to fight racism,” says Jennifer González about The Humanities Institute’s Questions That Matter event coming up Tuesday, January 30. A […]
17 January 2018 / 5 April 2018 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
Tyler Stovall is a distinguished professor of history and Dean of Humanities at UCSC, as well as the current president of the American Historical Association. His work centers on questions […]
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Freedom and Race
11 January 2018 / 22 October 2018 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz will present Freedom & Race—the fourth installment of its signature Questions That Matter series—on Tuesday, January 30, at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in downtown […]
8 January 2018 / 15 January 2018 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
Today we’re excited to announce a big change: The Institute for Humanities Research is now The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Since our start in 1999, we’ve been committed […]
Feature Profiles
7 January 2018 / 17 January 2018 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
“I don't think that I would be a successful academic if I hadn't had the opportunity to be mentored by so many important women,” she says.
Feature Fellows
27 December 2017 / 5 January 2018 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
“My own struggles growing up as a Chinese-Vietnamese American have helped drive home the concept that history and the humanities are incredibly relevant in the modern era, where STEM seems […]
21 December 2017 / 5 January 2018 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
“The Humanities Institute was very generously willing to come along with me on an entire project on pedagogy,” says Jody Greene, founding director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching […]
20 December 2017 / 8 January 2018 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
History Professor Alan Christy decided to do something unexpected—surrender all control to his students. “As a historian of East Asia my subject matter isn’t necessarily directly related to students’ daily […]
