News
4 May 2021 / 4 May 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz faculty and student researchers from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions are partnering with leaders of Watsonville’s Filipino community to document and preserve the rich history […]
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Three UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been honored with emeriti professorships for the 2021–22 academic year. Karen Yamashita, professor emerita of literature; Dana Frank, research professor in history; and Thomas […]
Fellows News
29 April 2021 / 26 June 2025 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
This year, The Humanities Institute (THI) is supporting three students (one graduate and two undergraduates) to work with Senderos, a local nonprofit that focuses on promoting Latinx culture and […]
Memory Memory Series
29 April 2021 / 30 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Alan Christy is Associate Professor of History, Cowell Provost, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories at UC Santa Cruz. Among other things, his work […]
Profiles
29 April 2021 / 29 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Jacinto Salz is a Film and Digital Media major at UC Santa Cruz. Salz’s current project is a medium-length documentary titled Birthright, which aims to highlight an array of different perspectives on […]
26 April 2021 / 26 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Three faculty members at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are among the newly elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are Angela Davis, distinguished professor […]
21 April 2021 / 24 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Dana Frank is Research Professor and Professor Emerita at UC Santa Cruz. She is a leading scholar of US labor and working-class history and of contemporary Honduras. During her time […]
21 April 2021 / 22 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Two Humanities faculty have been selected as Hellman Fellows this year: Filippo Gianferrari (Literature) and Robbie Kubala (Philosophy). Established at UC Santa Cruz in 2011, the purpose of the […]
21 April 2021 / 23 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Matt Smith is a PhD Student in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. His research spans a wide array of disciplines and traditions of thought, including philosophy, aesthetic theory, and semiotics. […]
20 April 2021 / 22 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz’s graduate student alumni are helping to shape 21st century feminist thought, fostering inclusion and creativity in the theater arts, conducting pioneering cancer research, and much more. As […]
16 April 2021 / 16 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
You’ve given up restaurants and family dinners. You’ve eschewed vacations and parties and maskless conversations. What you don’t have to give up, however, is UC Santa Cruz’s 2021 Alumni Week […]
Jonah Gertz is an Intensive History major and Electronic Music minor at UC Santa Cruz. His senior thesis, “Japan and Methamphetamine: the Afterlife of Occupation and the Hiropon Age,” examines the historical […]
14 April 2021 / 16 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Jim Clifford is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Emeritus Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. In 1977, he joined the History of Consciousness Department […]
Feature News
14 April 2021 / 10 May 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Award-winning literary scholar and cultural historian Saidiya Hartman will be the featured guest at the inaugural Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture, a virtual event that takes place on April […]
9 April 2021 / 12 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Kyuhyun Han is a PhD Student in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. She describes her work as the study of “human-animal relations in modern Chinese history, specifically focusing on the […]
8 April 2021 / 8 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Maziar Toosarvandani is Associate Professor of Linguistics and a faculty member of the Zapotec Language Project at UC Santa Cruz. As a syntactician, he seeks to understand what speakers know about […]
7 April 2021 / 7 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
In September 2020, California became the first state in the country to adopt a law that established a task force to study and develop proposals for potential reparations to descendants […]
UC Santa Cruz has received three awards from the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement‘s Valuing Open and Inclusive Conversation and Engagement (VOICE) Grant Program. VOICE provides funding […]
As the COVID–19 pandemic has upended everything at UC Santa Cruz, the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning has stepped forward to help. The center, now celebrating its fifth […]
1 April 2021 / 1 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Gina Athena Ulysse is an artist-anthropologist and Professor of Feminist Studies. Prior to coming to UC Santa Cruz last year, she was a Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at […]
31 March 2021 / 1 April 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
David Duncan is a PhD Student in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. Deploying oral history methodologies and with an eye toward the public Humanities, he specializes in the history and […]
29 March 2021 / 29 March 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz has joined a newly formed consortium of institutions to ensure the preservation, stability, and future development of what has become the single most widely used online resource […]
Harry Berger Jr., professor emeritus of literature and art history at UC Santa Cruz, died on March 12, 2021, at age 96. An internationally recognized scholar and founding faculty member […]
What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social, spiritual, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends? And […]
