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12 August 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
4 MORE HUMANITIES OFFICES GO GREEN. All 3 Academic Service centers (Humanities, Cowell, and Stevenson), as well as the Writing Program office, are now Green Office certified!
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5 January 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz’s emergence as a powerhouse for research and innovation can be traced to its counterculture roots — a journey that the university will commemorate with a year of events as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
14 November 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
“The system is failing victims,” said Elizabeth Hillman, Dean and Academic Provost of UC Hastings at a lecture she delivered at UC Santa Cruz on November 6, 2014 about the military response to sexual assault. Her address, titled “Sworn to Protect: Sexual Assault in the Military” addressed how the armed forces failed to respond to sexual assault.
27 October 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
Anniversaries are occasions to celebrate. . . and opportunities to take stock. This year the IHR is celebrating its fifteen-year anniversary. Since 1999, we have given out 69 fellowships to faculty, 148 to graduate students, 150 to undergraduate students, and have seeded 22 research clusters. We are launching several new projects...
22 October 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
At 83, Toni Morrison has no plans to retire. At this point in her career, that kind of drive has little to do with unmet goals; the Nobel Prize winner has written 10 novels, a play, and many nonfiction pieces. Her body of work, including the novel "Beloved, "which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, is already part of the literary canon.
1 October 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
A quarterly newsletter about the people, programs, and collaborations that demonstrate outstanding work in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. Fall 2014 Highlights: Technology Trailblazers, David Anthony and Ronaldo […]
15 August 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
"The humanities are central to intellectual life in the 21st century,” said Stovall. “I am thrilled to come to UC Santa Cruz, a university known locally and globally for its pioneering contributions to humanistic education and research."
31 July 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Division proudly launched its very first green team with the goal of obtaining Green Office Certification through the UCSC Office of Sustainability. Green team members pledge to serve as sustainability champions and work to build a community of sustainability for the Humanities Division.
24 July 2014 / 9 May 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
Congratulations to UCSC Professor of Literature, Sharon Kinoshita, and Brian Catlos for receiving an NEH grant for 2015 Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, "Negotiating Identities in the Christian-Jewish-Muslim Mediterranean."
News Profiles
16 July 2014 / 9 May 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why study mortality in ancient Greece? “We are investigating the link between the quality of one’s life and the contemplation of one’s death in ancient Greece, with an eye […]
11 July 2014 / 9 May 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Cary Fukunaga has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of “Outstanding Director for a Drama Series” for the HBO show True Detective. And […]
20 June 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
NBC News quoted history professor Dana Frank in a story about the wave of Central American children crossing the U.S. border that is now overwhelming the U.S government, described by […]
20 June 2014 / 9 May 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
Career-building two-year fellowship provides $65,000 annually for recent humanities Ph.D.s to gain work experience in their field UC Santa Cruz humanities alumnus Michael Ursell has been named a 2014 ACLS […]
9 June 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
Beginning this fall, students at UC Santa Cruz can now declare a major in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), leading to a new bachelor of arts degree. Administered by […]
13 May 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the Earth together after all the havoc that has been wrought? And how will they do it? These questions are at the […]
5 December 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
Another holiday season is upon us, and with it another holiday food drive. The need now is greater than ever. The newest statistics show that one out of every two […]
22 November 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
A lively discussion about the values of a humanities education. With guests: Debra Satz (professor of philosophy at Stanford University and senior associate dean for the humanities and arts), Richard […]
7 November 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
Media Systems is a project that seeks to understand the complexities of interactive media from the computer science, humanities and arts perspectives. This project is supported by an unprecedented group […]
22 October 2013 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
UCSC student Alma Morales and her writing instructor Steven Carter were awarded first place for Morales’s essay, “Nina de Mexico, Student of America–Daughter of Nowhere” in the 2012-13 Don Rothman […]
