Profiles
20 February 2025 / 24 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Jeppe Ugelvig is a third-year PhD Candidate in the History of Art and Visual Studies and is a part of the inaugural cohort of the THI Moving Image Lab Yearlong […]
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7 February 2025 / 18 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Quyen Pham is a graduate student in the Literature Department and received the THI Summer Pathways Fellowship last year. Quyen worked with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive […]
30 January 2025 / 18 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Professor Christian Ruvalcaba of Languages and Applied Linguistics was awarded THI’s Faculty Research Fellowship for 2024-2025 to work on his Lost Vocabulary Project. This research involves the transcription, description, and analysis of a […]
23 January 2025 / 18 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
This year, History Professor Juned Shaikh, was awarded the 2024-2025 THI Faculty Research Fellowship. This past summer, he was able to travel to India to visit archives and examine historical […]
Grants News
23 January 2025 / 26 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute is excited to announce the Fall 2024 winners and honorable mention of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. This competition celebrates mixed media work in speculative fiction […]
15 January 2025 / 18 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Kylie Rachwalski is the Assistant Director of Experiential Learning in the Humanities Division. As part of the Humanities Student Achievement team, she leads the Humanities Experiential Learning Opportunities in Research (EXPLORE) […]
News
7 January 2025 / 7 January 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
By Dan White At the heart of the Employing Humanities initiative is a commitment to experiential learning. By connecting students to both academic research and off-campus internships, the program bridges […]
27 November 2024 / 27 November 2024 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
by Dan White Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson, renowned for her deeply reflective explorations of faith, humanity, and the divine, will deliver this year’s Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture on […]
21 November 2024 / 18 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Andrew Kato is 4th Year Linguistics student who participated in the inaugural Undergraduate Research Fellows in Linguistics and Language Science (URFLLS) program and has been working with Pranav Anand, The […]
15 November 2024 / 25 November 2024 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
by Dan White In the opening images of UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Dolly Kikon’s award-winning new documentary, Abundance: Living With A Forest, insects chime in the background as foragers make […]
15 November 2024 / 18 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Monica Multer is 7th year Ph.D. Candidate in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz. Through THI’s Summer Dissertation Fellowship, supported by Steve and Laura Wagner, Multer was able to […]
15 November 2024 / 9 October 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Match Opportunity: DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT! Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar up to $2,500 throughout the day. Matching funds were generously provided by UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board […]
1 November 2024 / 18 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Matthew Kogan is a 4th year PhD student in Linguistics. As a 2024 THI Summer Public Fellow, Kogan worked with Indexical, a nonprofit organization dedicated to experimentation in music. We […]
31 October 2024 / 31 October 2024 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Ellen Bass is the author of nine poetry collections of poetry and was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2017. Her work appears frequently in The […]
31 October 2024 / 1 November 2024 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Master Chef Tsukayama Keiko recently traveled to Santa Cruz to work with the Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI). Housed in The Humanities Institute, OMI is an international community history and dialogue […]
News Profiles
25 October 2024 / 25 October 2024 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Stefania Cotei is a third-year History of Consciousness PhD Student. Her dissertation titled, “Realizing the Archive: Conjunctural Theories of Eutopic Resistance,” engages with the role archives play in understanding systems […]
17 October 2024 / 18 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Maia Michelle Jardenil Mislang graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2024 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. As an undergraduate student, she conducted research with Watsonville is in the […]
17 October 2024 / 17 October 2024 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
By Maggie Paul Ellen Bass was born in Philadelphia in 1947 and grew up in New Jersey. She received a BA from Goucher College and an MA in creative writing […]
11 October 2024 / 11 October 2024 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
by Dan White Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz wants to reclaim the concept of freedom from right-wing Americans. On Tuesday, Stiglitz, University Professor of Economics at Columbia University, drew a […]
11 October 2024 / 18 April 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Somreeta Paul is a 3rd year Philosophy Graduate Student at UC Santa Cruz. She is a summer 2024 THI Graduate Public Fellow with the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO), […]
4 October 2024 / 18 February 2025 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
Dr. Tara Thomas graduated from the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz in 2021. During their PhD program, they were a 2019 THI Summer Research Fellow, and they were actively […]
2 October 2024 / 2 October 2024 by David Duncan | Leave a Comment
The students’ work added to the historical record, helping future scholars understand the workings of the slave trade. Merchants involved in the slave trade meticulously recorded details about the slaves […]
