Profiles
14 August 2025 / 14 August 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Eva Overton is a third-year History major and History of Art and Visual Culture minor. Through a 2024-2025 Humanities EXCEL Fellowship, Overton worked with the San Lorenzo Valley Museum to […]
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20 June 2025 / 20 June 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Brian Edwin Rivera Hernandez is a third-year Literature Ph.D. student, and has been a part of The Humanities Institute’s 2022 Graduate Student Success Program, the 2023 Summer Pathways Fellowship, and […]
29 May 2025 / 11 July 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Md Mizanur Rahman is a 6th-year Ph.D. candidate in the Politics Department. Rahman received the Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellowship for his research on anti-colonial Muslim thought. This particular award […]
23 May 2025 / 23 May 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Pilar Zapien is a third-year Literature and Spanish Studies Major who received a 2024-2025 THI Undergraduate Research Fellowship, and a 2024-2025 Humanities EXPLORE Fellowship. As part of her THI Fellowship, she created a zine […]
News
21 May 2025 / 21 May 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
On the night of June 5, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History will come alive with squid lights, video projections, interactive computer games, the sights and sounds of […]
15 May 2025 / 15 May 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
The research initiative Sikhs in the 21st Century: Remembering the Past, Engaging the Future aims to reshape how a religious tradition is studied, taught, and understood. By Dan White The […]
Sabrina Anh Nguyen is a 4th year Classical Studies, History, and Literature Major who was awarded a 2024-2025 THI Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Nguyen’s research examines Roman marriages between enslaved women […]
8 May 2025 / 8 May 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
María Pachón is a third year Literature PhD student, who received a 2023 THI Summer Research Fellowship and a 2024 THI Public Fellowship. Pachón’s research focuses on language and place […]
2 May 2025 / 4 May 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
This spring, three UC Santa Cruz graduate students had the unique opportunity to process archival materials from the renowned American labor leader and civil rights feminist activist, Dolores Huerta. The […]
29 April 2025 / 5 May 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Elliot-Elyjah McWhinnie is a fourth-year Linguistics Major and a 2024-2025 Undergraduate Research Fellow and winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian prize for the top proposal for “California Vowel Shift and African American Women’s […]
25 April 2025 / 25 April 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
This spring, Percival Everett spoke with Dan White, Humanities Writer at UC Santa Cruz, about the creation of his 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James, a book that reoccupies and […]
25 April 2025 / 17 June 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett will step onto the stage of the Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz next month for a highly anticipated conversation with Professor Vilashini Cooppan as part […]
23 April 2025 / 23 April 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Featuring 10 major video installations made between 1999 and 2022, alongside several early single-channel films including his iconic Looking for Langston (1989), this exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of […]
23 April 2025 / 25 April 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz Professor Nirvikar Singh is the director of “Sikhs in the 21st Century: Remembering the Past, Engaging the Future,” a research project housed at The Humanities Institute. As […]
Ania Mah Gricuk is a 3rd year History Ph.D. student who received the 2023 THI Summer Research and the 2024 Summer Pathways fellowships. Gricuk was able to conduct significant research […]
15 April 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Liliana Barajas is in her senior year at UC Santa Cruz and is majoring in Anthropology and Literature with a Latin American concentration. She is currently working with Open Campus […]
9 April 2025 / 9 April 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Madeline Bautista Maurer is a 4th year Environmental Studies Major and Literature Minor at UC Santa Cruz. This year, she is a 2024-2025 Humanities EXCEL Fellow, working with working with Peggy […]
Grants News
4 April 2025 / 4 April 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
The new cohort of THI Oaxacan Language Public Fellows will develop an exhibition in collaboration with and under the layered mentorship of library professionals, museum professionals, local transnational Indigenous activists […]
1 April 2025 / 1 April 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
The talk is being presented by The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute. This talk is one of the signature events of THI’s 25th anniversary year. By Dan White The […]
Grants
Paid Summer Fellowship with Digital Heritage Mapping Sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Jewish Studies at UCSCFor Undergraduates Digital Heritage Mapping (DHM) is a multi-disciplinary 501(c)(3) non-profit […]
19 March 2025 / 19 March 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
In an informal and far-ranging interview at The Humanities Institute, where Boylan is currently scholar-in-residence, she stressed the role of the humanities in fostering compassion and imagining other lives. By […]
6 March 2025 / 6 March 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Brock Hrehor is a 4th year Philosophy major at UC Santa Cruz. In 2023-2024 he was a THI Undergraduate Research Fellow. This year, Hrehor is a 2024-2025 Humanities EXCEL Fellow […]
28 February 2025 / 28 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Laura Martin is a Continuing Lecturer with Porter College and the Research Program Manager with The Humanities Institute. Martin helps lead the Deep Read, which reaches thousands of participants in […]
26 February 2025 / 27 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Boylan’s multimedia lecture, entitled Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning, will explore the social and political forces that limit human liberty, especially for women and queer people. In this collage of […]
