News Profiles
6 June 2024 / 6 June 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Jonathan van Harmelen is our 2023-2024 THI Year-Long Dissertation Fellow and he is currently completing his dissertation on the role of Congress in the incarceration of Japanese Amerians during World […]
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Fellows News
6 June 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute is pleased to announce our new cohort of fellows for 2024-2025. This year, we are awarding 25 Graduate Research Fellows, 7 Graduate Student Public Fellows, and 2 […]
Technology Technology Series
30 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Kyle Parry is Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes (University […]
24 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Minghui Hu is Associate Professor in the History Department and Affiliated Faculty in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. Hu was a computer programmer at a child psychiatrist […]
Profiles
23 May 2024 / 24 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Tommy Balmat is a Literature major with a Creative Writing concentration and an Anthropology minor at UC Santa Cruz. He is a 2023-2024 Humanities Public Fellow at THI with The […]
Feature Grants News Projects
23 May 2024 / 24 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner
The Humanities Institute is thrilled to announce this year’s cohort of Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures winners. Now in its fifth year, this competition celebrates mixed media work in speculative […]
16 May 2024 / 16 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Jon Ellis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. Ellis’ research spans the topics of perception, interpretation, bias, and self-deception. He is currently writing a book about motivated reasoning, […]
16 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Molly Maher is a History and Psychology double major at UC Santa Cruz. They are a THI 2023-2024 Undergraduate Research Fellow for their project, “Tensions in Paradise: The Om Commune […]
News Projects
14 May 2024 / 24 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
The UCSC entity Moving Image Lab, a new partnership between the Isaac Julien Lab and The Humanities Institute, will receive the prestigious Mellon Foundation funding that will provide the hands-on […]
10 May 2024 / 11 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
micha cárdenas, PhD, MFA, is an artist, author and Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance, Play & Design, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She […]
9 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Caitlin Charos is the Research Development Specialist for Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences in the Office of Research Development at UC Santa Cruz. While pursuing a Ph.D. in English at […]
Feature News Profiles
3 May 2024 / 21 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
The excitement was tangible on April 13th as community leaders, innovative thinkers, scholars, and activists took the stage at a sold out TEDxSantaCruz, for which Community Foundation Santa Cruz County […]
2 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Dr. Kendra Dority is the Director for Graduate Student and Postdoc Professional Development at UC Santa Cruz’s Teaching and Learning Center. She leads professional development programs for graduate student educators and […]
Carla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness, and Affiliated Faculty in Feminist Studies at UCSC, where she has taught since 1991. Her books include Father Figures (Cornell,1991); Popular […]
26 April 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Massimiliano Tomba is Chair and Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent publications include Marx’s Temporalities (2013) and the David and Elaine Spitz Prize winner […]
25 April 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Cal Boye-Lynn is a Linguistics major at UC Santa Cruz. He is a THI 2023-2024 Undergraduate Research Fellow and the Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize for his project, […]
Grants News
23 April 2024 / 24 April 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Application Deadline: May 8th, 2024 Position Start Date: Anytime after June 1st and no later than September 20th, 2024 Please share in your cover letter when you are able to […]
Feature Fellows News
18 April 2024 / 21 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
A five-year collaboration between The Humanities Institute and the National Humanities Center has supported dozens of UCSC students, faculty, and scholars to receive further training in humanities pedagogy, digital technologies, […]
18 April 2024 / 26 April 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Eve Zyzik is Professor in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has published many articles on second language acquisition, heritage language […]
18 April 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Elliot Richardson is a PhD student in History at UC Santa Cruz. His research investigates the experiences of trans people crossing the US-Mexico border through an analysis of queer zines […]
Fellows Grants News
11 April 2024 / 11 April 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute (THI) is thrilled to support seven THI Undergraduate Research Fellows during the 2023-2024 academic year. Research Fellows come from a range of majors, including Linguistics, Critical Race […]
11 April 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Pranav Anand is a Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz, specializing in semantics and pragmatics, particularly in the study of context-dependence, perspectival expressions, and subjectivity. His work, which leverages […]
News
9 April 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Thompson has taught tens of thousands of students during his three-decade career at UCSC; now, he’s making an impact in a new way. “I’ve had the most wonderful career.” Nestled […]
4 April 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Christina (Mengying) Wang is a PhD candidate in History at UC Santa Cruz. Her research explores the way early-to-mid 20th century Japanese history is memorialized in museum spaces, with particular […]
