Profiles
30 September 2021 / 30 September 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Crystal Smith is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. Smith studies how the British Empire was promoted and sold to middle-class Britons through sensationalist journalism, new media, and reports […]
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News
20 August 2021 / 27 August 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
In 2019, Villalobos was a THI fellow in the SSRC Dissertation Development Program. We are excited to learn about this amazing achievement and hope you will join us in offering […]
6 August 2021 / 27 August 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
This summer, the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz—the largest multi-campus consortium on Victorian studies in the world—will present the 40th year of the Dickens Universe, a week of intense […]
23 July 2021 / 27 August 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Camilla Hawthorne coedited a first-of-its-kind new book called The Black Mediterranean, which examines the African diaspora within the region. Hawthorne […]
19 July 2021 / 27 August 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Associate professor of history Catherine Jones has been honored with the George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in […]
16 July 2021 / 16 July 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
A new book by UC Santa Cruz history professor Nathaniel Deutsch details how a group of determined Holocaust survivors survived in one of the roughest parts of New York City—reshaping […]
13 July 2021 / 13 July 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
The University Library has announced the establishment of a new Community Archiving Program that will build on the foundation of its decades-old Regional History Project (RHP). With the retirement of […]
13 July 2021 / 10 August 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Mia Boykin is a Literature PhD student and current Summer Public Fellow at The Humanities Institute. She is also a fellow in The Humanities Institute’s Graduate Student Success Program. The […]
29 June 2021 / 13 July 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
When Percy Shelley called poets “the unacknowledged legislators of the world” he was perhaps anticipating the future argument in poetics that pitted those who are interested in the form as […]
15 June 2021 / 16 July 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Jeffrey Stewart (Cowell College ’71, philosophy) delivered the keynote address at the 2021 Humanities Spring Awards ceremony. The annual event celebrates the achievements of students, faculty, […]
5 June 2021 / 30 August 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Claire Urbanski, a Ph.D. candidate in feminist studies, has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson National […]
26 May 2021 / 27 May 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Maya Gonzalez is an Intensive History and Jewish Studies double major at UC Santa Cruz. Her current project explores some of the earliest cinematic representations of the Holocaust, focusing on Hollywood films […]
26 May 2021 / 26 May 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
The first online Punjabi language course for University of California students that launched earlier this year is a collaboration of several UC campuses, centered on UC Santa Cruz and UC […]
On June 1, Penguin Random House will publish We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto, a new book by renowned chef and food activist Alice Waters. That evening, […]
Memory Memory Series
20 May 2021 / 22 February 2024 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Anjali Arondekar is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the Founding Director of the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS), which focuses on economic and […]
20 May 2021 / 20 May 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande (Kresge ’99, B.A. creative writing, film & video) has received a 2021 Latino Spirit Award from the California Latino Legislative Caucus. Grande joins a […]
Jessica Calvanico is a PhD Candidate in the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz, with designated emphases in Visual Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. In her own words, Calvanico’s […]
Futures News
20 May 2021 / 28 November 2022 by Christian Alvarado
The Humanities Institute is happy to announce this year’s cohort of Coha / Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures winners and honorable mentions. Every year, this competition celebrates mixed media work […]
13 May 2021 / 14 May 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Christian Alvarado is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, with a designated emphasis in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES). His research focuses […]
13 May 2021 / 13 May 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Karen Bassi is Professor of Literature and Classics at UC Santa Cruz. She is the former Director of the Classical Studies Program, housed in the Humanities Division, which supports the […]
Someday, future historians will read the detailed stories of 22 UC Santa Cruz community members who lived through the COVID-19 pandemic. There will be stories of empty-nest households suddenly refilling […]
11 May 2021 / 11 May 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
“Music for Abolition” is the name of a music video program that three-time Grammy-award winning musician Terri Lyne Carrington has curated over the past year for UCSC’s Institute of the Arts […]
6 May 2021 / 6 May 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Eric Porter is Professor of History, History of Consciousness, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. His work spans Black cultural and intellectual history, urban history, and […]
5 May 2021 / 5 May 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Cesar Estrella, a Ph.D. candidate in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, won a prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship award from the American Council of Learned Societies. These fellowships—made […]