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Gandhi, former president of the Indian National Congress, had an on-stage dialogue with UCSC professor of feminist studies Anjali Arondekar, founding co-director for the Center for South Asian Studies Rahul […]
Fellows News
31 May 2023 / 4 June 2024 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute is pleased to announce our new cohort of graduate student research fellows for 2023-2024. THI research awards support graduate students at all stages of research from initial […]
Profiles
25 May 2023 / 25 May 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Dr. Claire Urbanski is a graduate of the Feminist Studies Department, with Designated Emphases in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz (’22). Dr. Urbanski served […]
Travel Travel Series
25 May 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Maziar Toosarvandani is Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. His primary research interests are in syntax and semantics, with an empirical focus on two Indigenous languages of North America, Northern Paiute […]
25 May 2023 / 26 May 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Kolbert’s talk, the culminating event of this year’s fourth annual Deep Read initiative, served as a strong and sobering corrective to environmental hubris. Pulitzer Prize-winning climate journalist and bestselling author […]
18 May 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Noriko Aso is Associate Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Studies Program at UC Santa Cruz. She is also affiliate faculty in the departments of History of […]
15 May 2023 / 25 May 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Over the past few years, Santa Cruz has become a place where book lovers can go to exciting, high-profile author events almost every week. The influential political leader, lawyer, author […]
12 May 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Dr. Alice Yang is Chair and Associate Professor in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. She is a 2022-2023 THI Faculty Fellow in Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research, and […]
11 May 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies. She is also a Professor in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department as well […]
Feature Profiles
4 May 2023 / 30 May 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
This year, The Humanities Institute is supporting Maddison Hwang through our Public Fellows Program to work with Open Campus, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to elevating reporting on higher education across […]
3 May 2023 / 7 May 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Elaine Sullivan is Associate Professor of History and is affiliated with the Anthropology Department, Classical Studies program, and the Archaeological Research Center. An Egyptologist and a Digital Humanist, Dr. Sullivan’s […]
27 April 2023 / 28 April 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
This year, THI is sponsoring two research clusters dedicated to pursuing questions related to our 2022-2023 Theme: Travel. The Disability Geographies and Disability Time Travels cluster reflects the organizers’ broader […]
27 April 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Kirsten Silva Gruesz is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching reflect hemispheric and multilingual approaches to the Americas, covering all periods of Chicanx/Latinx literary history as […]
21 April 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
The California Indian Studies and Scholars Association (CISSA) is a decolonial organization consisting of California Indian people committed to the intellectual and cultural sovereignty of California Indian Studies and scholarship. […]
20 April 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Eric Porter is Professor of History, History of Consciousness, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. His work spans Black cultural and intellectual history; US cultural history […]
20 April 2023 / 20 April 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Elina Juvonen is an undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz double majoring in History and Anthropology. She is currently working as a THI Undergraduate Public Fellow with The Okinawa Memories […]
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a prestigious $75,000 Public Humanities Projects: Exhibitions Planning grant to Watsonville Is In The Heart (WIITH). Housed in The Humanities Institute at UCSC, […]
14 April 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Last year, The Humanities Institute teamed up with our campus partners the Institute for Social Transformation and the Arts Research Institute to join the Imagining America (IA) consortium, which brings […]
14 April 2023 / 14 April 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Christopher Connery is Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz and teaches in the graduate program in Cultural Studies at Shanghai University. He has published on early imperial […]
7 April 2023 / 7 April 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Dr. Isaac Blacksin is a graduate of the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. In 2019-2020, he was the recipient of THI’s Yearlong Dissertation Completion Fellowship. He is […]
7 April 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Sharon Kinoshita, the Interim Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute, is Professor of Literature and the co-director of The Mediterranean Seminar. Her research focuses on the literatures and cultures of […]
17 March 2023 / 17 March 2023 by Kirstin Wagner | Leave a Comment
Alexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku has been selected as one of twenty-five PhD students from humanities and humanistic social science programs across the nation to attend this summer’s Humanities Without Walls Career Diversity […]
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