News
2 December 2020 / 2 December 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Matthew Wagers is Professor of Linguistics in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. Recently, Wagers and fellow Professors of Linguistics Maziar Toosarvandani and Ivy Sichel were awarded a $400,000 […]
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Profiles
29 November 2020 / 14 July 2022 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Kelsey Sasaki is a PhD Candidate in the Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz. Sasaki is currently working on her dissertation and serving as a THI Year-Long Public Fellow. In November, […]
Events News
29 November 2020 / 29 November 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group […]
Event Recaps News
25 November 2020 / 24 March 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Journalist and bestselling novelist Ta-Nehisi Coates has some cautionary words for those who believe that President Donald Trump and Trumpism are bound to fade away in a post-election haze. Last […]
20 November 2020 / 23 November 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Democracy is in a fragile state these days. How do we proceed in a country that is so politically and culturally divided during a time when the world’s oldest democracies […]
18 November 2020 / 9 June 2023 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
The Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas is housed in the Research Center for the Americas and funded by The Humanities Institute, the Institute for Social Transformation, and other partners. […]
13 November 2020 / 13 November 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Leslie Lodwick is a PhD Student in the History of Arts and Visual Culture (HAVC) Department at UC Santa Cruz. Lodwick is a scholar of architectural history, education, and the built […]
The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, is partnering with Bookshop Santa Cruz and Marcus Bookstores in Oakland to offer a special online event with award-winning author and journalist Ta-Nehisi […]
12 November 2020 / 12 November 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Shards of broken pottery. A pair of ice skates. A couple of scorched pedals from an old piano. A menorah used in Jewish ceremonies. A singed binder full of charred […]
5 November 2020 / 5 November 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Jinghong Zhang is a PhD Student in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz whose current project focuses on the history of dentistry in twentieth-century China. Zhang is a scholar of modern Chinese […]
4 November 2020 / 4 November 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Award-winning poet, essayist, and novelist Morgan Parker will be the featured guest at the 11th annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, which takes place this year as a virtual event on November […]
29 October 2020 / 29 October 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Donald Hickey is a PhD Student in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. His research interests engage the history of Greater Reconstruction in the United States and the politics […]
26 October 2020 / 26 October 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
The University Library at UC Santa Cruz has completed a project to digitize 670 audio recordings featuring a wide variety of works performed at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. […]
Memory
23 October 2020 / 27 October 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute’s new research cluster, Making Sense of Memory, asks: How is it that memories become tied to the world of the senses? And how does sensation shape memory? […]
22 October 2020 / 22 October 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Vivian Underhill, a Ph.D. student in feminist studies, has been awarded a 2020-21 fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The fellowships recognize recipients whose academic work and […]
We Are Not Free, a work of historical fiction by UC Santa Cruz alumna Traci Chee, has been named a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Young People’s […]
Elaine Sullivan has been awarded the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History. Her most recent work – Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at […]
Raed El Rafei is a filmmaker and PhD student in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. Born and raised in Lebanon at the height of his country’s civil […]
19 October 2020 / 20 October 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
The UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) has joined forces with associate feminist studies professor Gina Dent to offer a year-long online series—featuring artists, activists, scholars, […]
The Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas is dedicated to training a new generation of human rights researchers in online open source investigations to support environmental and human rights […]
16 October 2020 / 19 October 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Filippo Gianferrari is an Assistant Professor in the Literature Department and this year’s 2020-2021 THI Faculty Research Fellow. Professor Gianferrari arrived at UCSC in 2019, after completing his PhD at the […]
14 October 2020 / 21 October 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Meleia Simon-Reynolds is a PhD Student in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her academic interests lie in the history of U.S. imperialism in the Pacific, trans-colonial labor, and […]
12 October 2020 / 20 October 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
A $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will help UC Santa Cruz improve academic and career outcomes for undergraduate students and further advance the campus’s capacity to […]
5 October 2020 / 4 February 2021 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
As the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States emerged in full force during the spring of 2020, the intellectual landscape of the Humanities was characterized by uncertainty. What would it […]
