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Leonard Butingan is a PhD candidate in History at UC Santa Cruz. His dissertation, “Specters of Empire,” focuses on Black British activism in the late twentieth century, and particularly the […]
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Joe Alicea is a PhD candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. His dissertation focuses on the erasure of Chicago Puerto Rican poetry. Alicea received a THI Summer Dissertation Fellowship […]
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Katie O’Hare is a PhD candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation focuses on Shakespeare’s contributions to the vernacular history play genre through a focus on Richard II, […]
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Mia Tempestt Boykin is a PhD candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Their dissertation focuses on the work of poet Wanda Coleman. Boykin has served as a THI Public […]
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Dustin Gray is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. His dissertation focuses on humans’ relationships and reliance on modern technologies. His work argues that the human compulsion […]
27 September 2023 / 27 September 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Chitra Divakaruni is an award-winning writer, activist, professor and speaker, and the author of 21 books, including Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, Palace of Illusions, and most recently, […]
27 September 2023 / 23 October 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Manning Chan is a PhD candidate in History at UC Santa Cruz. Chan’s dissertation, “Music, Tradition, and Power: A History of Qin-zither in Early Modern China” traces the history of […]
21 September 2023 / 22 September 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Dear Friends of The Humanities Institute, We are excited to connect with you for a new academic year. We are in a moment of seemingly daily technological advancements, and in […]
19 September 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | 1 Comment on Arivu, the massively popular and groundbreaking Indian rapper, will play an intimate outdoor show at UCSC’s Quarry Amphitheater, presented by the Center For South Asian Studies
Arivu, born Arivarasu Kalainesan, rose to international fame with his hit Tamil song “Enjoy Enjaami,” a collaboration with the singer Dhee that has amassed half a billion views on YouTube. […]
31 August 2023 / 21 May 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute has a long and thriving partnership with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) that has included organizing exhibitions, putting on events, and connecting UCSC […]
31 August 2023 / 1 September 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz’s new Humanizing Technology Certificate Program is helping students confront the moral and social implications of technology, harnessing the power of the humanities to envision a more just […]
31 August 2023 / 27 September 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
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Amanda Huse is a PhD candidate in History at UC Santa Cruz. Huse’s dissertation, “‘She was afraid I would tell it’: Women and Ku-Klux Violence in Postwar, Post-Emancipation Georgia,” concerns […]
30 August 2023 / 31 August 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
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Dr. E. Hande Tuna is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department and Affiliate Faculty in the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. They are a 2022-2023 Faculty Research Fellow […]
Fellows Grants News
19 July 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Humanizing Technology Fellows Program welcomes four teaching fellows and two peer mentors for 2023-2024 The Humanities Institute is pleased to announce a new cohort of graduate student Humanizing Technology Teaching […]