News
13 January 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
This year's regional event takes place on campus January 14 at the Humanities Lecture Hall. The 16 cases that will be discussed include ethical questions about birth control and the Affordable Care Act, video games involving virtual and augmented reality, working while sick, online privacy, and more.
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9 January 2017 / 22 December 2017 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
James Freeman (Stevenson ’90, philosophy), a disaffected clarinetist-turned-coffee maven, started Blue Bottle in 2002 and is now recognized as a pioneer and leader of alt-coffee in America. Coffee allowed him to pursue artistry and excellence.
9 January 2017 / 9 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Dan White Marieke Rothschild was a transfer student, feeling a bit lost at UC Santa Cruz, hoping for a helping hand. Then she met a mentor who turned her […]
Grants
15 December 2016 / 2 January 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
Facing Death in Ancient Greek Tragedy Project Director Karen Bassi, has received a $42,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her research at the University of […]
Fellows News
13 December 2016 / 22 December 2017 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Scott Rappaport From a Holocaust study center in Norway and a small environmental center in northern Alaska, to the Japanese American Museum in San Jose and the Santa Cruz […]
11 December 2016 / 21 February 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
Rad Women Worldwide--the follow-up to UC Santa Cruz alumna Kate Schatz’s New York Times bestselling book Rad American Women A-Z—is a showcase of extraordinary women from 31 countries around the world.
News Profiles
8 December 2016 / 9 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
Using a blend of data, history, and archaeology, UC Santa Cruz undergraduates have explored what life as a slave was like on plantations in the American South. They shared their research findings in an interactive poster session this week.
6 December 2016 / 22 December 2017 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
UCHRI’s Residential Research Groups (RRGs) are in essence teams of researchers assembled to work on a commonly-defined research agenda. The organizing premise of the RRG program is that when the […]
Event Recaps News
1 December 2016 / 16 January 2024 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
Join us for an evening with restorative justice and civil rights champion Fania Davis.
28 November 2016 / 9 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall was featured in a Time Magazine post-election story that asked eight historians to weigh in on one question: “When historians of the future look back on this week, what […]
24 November 2016 / 8 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Scott Rappaport Fania Davis—co-founder and executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth–will deliver the 2016 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture on Thursday, December 1, at the Music Center […]
Event Recaps
3 November 2016 / 5 April 2020 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Joseph Stroud First Song That long ago morning at Ruth’s farm when I hid in the wisteria and watched hummingbirds. I thought the ruby or […]
26 October 2016 / 9 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Scott Rappaport Tyler Stovall became dean of the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division in April of 2015. An expert in French history, he is currently president-elect of the American […]
19 October 2016 / 22 December 2017 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Melissa De Witte “A free society is a passionate society,” UC Santa Cruz politics professor Daniel Wirls observed during “Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald,” the […]
11 October 2016 / 22 December 2017 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
BY KARA GUZMAN In front of a crowd of 150 people at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History on Thursday, University of Oxford professor Bridget Anderson recalled an […]
29 September 2016 / 8 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
Jody Greene, professor of literature, feminist studies, and history of consciousness, has been appointed the founding director of the new Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL). In addition […]
29 September 2016 / 22 December 2017 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
In What Becomes Us, a new novel by UC Santa Cruz literature professor Micah Perks, twin fetuses tell the story of a pregnant woman who abandons her controlling husband in […]
22 September 2016 / 8 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
What place does anger have in public life? Should we welcome the expression of anger in our elections and political deliberations, or does the common good depend on the existence […]
Grants News
26 August 2016 / 8 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz is one of 28 colleges and universities nationwide to receive a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to plan and implement changes to graduate education that will […]
18 August 2016 / 22 December 2017 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
A memoir of surfing by UC Santa Cruz graduate William Finnegan, (Cowell, ’74, English literature) is at the top of President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List. The White House released […]
2 June 2016 / 9 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Scott Rappaport Associate professor of linguistics Pranav Anand was presented with the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities at the Humanities Division’s 2016 Spring Awards celebration held at the […]
24 May 2016 / 22 December 2017 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By J. Bradford Hipps Mountain View, Calif. — THE humanities are kaput. Sorry, liberal arts cap-and-gowners. You blew it. In a software-run world, what’s wanted are more engineers. At least, […]
24 May 2016 / 21 February 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Scott Rappaport On a typical day, over 1,000 visitors consult the website Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, one of the most utilized resources in the digital humanities. Drawing […]
