News
26 February 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Much of today’s headlines center on privilege and equality. There’s the coverage of Ferguson, Missouri, women in the workforce and sexual assault on campus to name a few. But the […]
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18 February 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The Mediterranean Seminar, in conjunction with the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Colorado Boulder, and in collaboration with the Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC, Barcelona), the […]
After her 1991 testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill became a symbol of the battle against sexual harassment. But in anticipation of her appearance in Santa Cruz, Hill […]
Fellows
13 January 2015 by Courtney Mahaney | 2 Comments on 2014-2015 HUGRA Recipients
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are very pleased to announce the 2014-2015 Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Recipients.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Jordan C. Brown, History “Rumored Fair Housing Act and California Proposition 14″ Mentor: David Brundage, Professor of […]
9 January 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Activist, author, and distinguished UC Santa Cruz professor emerita Angela Davis is this year’s keynote speaker at the 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation in downtown Santa Cruz. Davis […]
8 January 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) will present Making the Cosmos Local—the first event in a new series of public dialogues titled Questions That Matter—on Tuesday, January […]
11 December 2014 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The Middle East Studies Association has awarded the 2014 Albert Hourani Book Prize to Brian Catlos’s Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, ca. 1050-1614. At the awards ceremony held on November […]
8 December 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
“Savage Breast,” a new short story by UC Santa Cruz alumna Elizabeth McKenzie, will be featured in the December 15 issue of The New Yorker magazine. “The story is about a woman who […]
14 November 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The Center for Emerging Worlds at UC Santa Cruz, which launched in September, has formed to address the many conflicts, environmental challenges, resource competitions, and ethnic nationalist and religious tensions […]
Event Recaps
29 October 2014 / 16 January 2024 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
On October 25th, 2014, Toni Morrison gave the 2014 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture entitled, “Literature and the Silence of Goodness.” Morrison was also awarded the UC Santa Cruz Foundation […]
27 October 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Toni Morrison explores where goodness and evil vie for attention in literature and life. Acclaimed author Toni Morrison believes evil characters are hogging the limelight in literature “while goodness sits […]
26 September 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Award-winning authors Tobias Wolff, Karen Joy Fowler, and Andrew Lam are just a few of the notable guests coming to UC Santa Cruz for the Fall 2014 Living Writers Series. […]
22 September 2014 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
“Although we all have tongues, we are surprisingly bad at knowing precisely what they’re doing or conveying that to others,” says UC Santa Cruz professor of linguistics Jaye Padgett. Tongue […]
19 September 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
The University Library and Humanities Division have jointly awarded a two-year Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship supporting digital humanities scholarship to Rachel Deblinger. As a CLIR […]
11 September 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Computer scientists have successfully developed programs to recognize spoken language, as in automated phone systems that respond to voice prompts and voice-activated assistants like Apple’s Siri. But according to Marilyn […]
26 August 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Cary Joji Fukunaga picked up an Emmy Award last night in the category of “Outstanding Director for a Drama Series” for the HBO series True Detective. […]
20 August 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz Professor of History Dana Frank testified yesterday in Sacramento to support a California State Assembly resolution on the treatment of refugees from Central America. Frank spoke in […]
13 June 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
We are very pleased to announce the 2014-15 Faculty Fellow, Graduate Fellows, and Research Clusters. Faculty Fellow Jennifer Derr, History “A New Nile: the construction of the environment and the […]
12 June 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Distinguished Professor of Literature Wlad Godzich was presented with the John Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities at the Humanities Division’s 2014 Spring Awards Celebration. The Dizikes teaching award was designed to celebrate the […]
One of the highest honors a UC Santa Cruz faculty member can receive is an Excellence in Teaching Award given each spring by the Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching. The […]
23 May 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
History major took a circuitous path to a unique undergraduate research project exploring the complicated world of Okinawa in the 1950s. The last thing Helen Porter expected when she came […]
Fellows News
14 May 2014 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
We are very pleased to announce that the award winners from the 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium including Humanities recipients Noel E. Smyth, Joanna Meadvin, and Jessica Y. Neasbitt. Continue […]
12 May 2014 / 9 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UCSC graduate students from all divisions shared their research with faculty, staff, friends, colleagues, and the local community at the 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium held at McHenry Library on […]
8 May 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Nathaniel Mackey, professor emeritus of literature at UC Santa Cruz, has been named the winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Presented annually to a living U.S. […]
