Profiles
1 October 2020 / 14 July 2022 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Noya Kansky is a PhD Student in the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz researching the history and enduring legacies of settler colonialism. In 2019, Kansky was a THI Public […]
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News
30 September 2020 / 30 September 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Margaret Atwood is often described as a prophet of doom, and for good reason. She is an unsparing observer and predictor of environmental catastrophes, anti-utopias, authoritarian regimes, and biotech run […]
29 September 2020 / 29 September 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz alumna Martha Mendoza, an investigative reporter with the Associated Press and a lecturer in the UCSC Science Communication Program, has added an Emmy Award to her two […]
Feature Memory
24 September 2020 / 20 October 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Dear Friends of The Humanities Institute, We welcome you to a new school year with smoke in the air and a pall of uncertainty and crisis all around us. From […]
Deep Read News
16 September 2020 / 17 September 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Award-winning poet, novelist and essayist Margaret Atwood will be featured in conversation with UCSC alumna Kate Schatz, the New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, as part of the Humanities Division’s annual Peggy Downes […]
News Profiles
5 September 2020 / 5 September 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Playing for Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath is an exploration of the various ways that musical improvisation can be used as a method for responding to crisis and dealing with trauma […]
Grants News
18 August 2020 / 18 August 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz associate history professor Gregory O’Malley has received a Public Scholars Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to write a biography of David George, who was born a slave in […]
12 August 2020 / 12 August 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz linguistics professors Maziar Toosarvandani, Ivy Sichel, and Matthew Wagers have been awarded a $411,058 grant from the National Science Foundation to support research on endangered languages. Titled “Animacy […]
30 July 2020 / 30 July 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Associate professor of literature Guriqbal Singh Sahota has been appointed the new Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies. Established through the Sikh Foundation by Hardit and […]
24 July 2020 / 24 July 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz has teamed up with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and Bookshop Santa Cruz to present Celebrating Woman Suffrage and the Struggle for Voting […]
23 July 2020 / 23 July 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
For nearly four decades, the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz—the largest multi-campus consortium on Victorian studies in the world—has presented the Dickens Universe, a week of intense study and […]
Dr. Jasmine Alinder is the incoming Dean of the Humanities at UC Santa Cruz, and a historian of photography, race, and civil rights. Prior to arriving on campus, she served […]
9 July 2020 / 9 July 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Sansei and Sensibility, the latest book by UC Santa Cruz emerita professor of literature Karen Tei Yamashita is a dazzling collection of short stories about growing up and living in […]
The Humanities Institute and Shakespeare Workshop at UC Santa Cruz are joining forces with Santa Cruz Shakespeare to present their first virtual Shakespeare Summer Series. Titled Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars […]
17 June 2020 / 23 July 2020 by Christian Alvarado | Leave a Comment
Student Alyssa Tamboura began a student-run, volunteer program called Walls to Bridges that mediates meetings between those jailed and their families as a way to work their way back to […]
