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30 May 2019 / 31 May 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Eight Undergraduate Research Fellows from Feminist Studies, Literature/Creative Writing, Music, Linguistics, Legal Studies, History, and History/Jewish studies will be recognized on June 5, 2019, at the annual Humanities Spring Awards. […]
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Feature News Profiles
27 May 2019 / 14 July 2022 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Community Partnership as a Way to Build Bridges Melody Nixon is a second-year doctoral student in the History of Consciousness program at UC Santa Cruz, and a 2018 – 2019 […]
News
23 May 2019 / 17 June 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Asking Questions That Matter Irena Polić on the relationship between The Humanities Institute and Santa Cruz’s longest running independent bookstore, Bookshop Santa Cruz. Universities and independent bookstores share a passion […]
23 May 2019 / 31 May 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
What wrapping a rope around the Earth reveals about the limits of human intuition. Jon Ellis and the Center for Public Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz have released […]
16 May 2019 / 17 May 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Writing at UCSC News, Scott Rappaport previews The Faculty Ethics Bowl: Ethics and the Far Future, on May 20, 5pm at the Bhojwani Room, University Center. This event is free and open […]
Next Week’s Event, “My Own Words: The Law and Legacy of RBG,” in the News “My Own Words: The Law and Legacy of RBG” (Wednesday, May 22, 7pm, at the […]
Fellows Grants News
10 May 2019 / 10 May 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Aaron Aruck Authors White Paper for Badge List Public Fellow Aaron Aruck, PhD Candidate in History at UC Santa Cruz, spent part of his 2018 summer working with Bay-Area startup, Badge […]
Feature Grants Mellon News Profiles
9 May 2019 / 10 May 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez is a sixth-year Literature PhD at UC Santa Cruz. In 2018 she was a Summer Public Fellow with UC Press, and throughout 2018 – 2019 she continued this role […]
8 May 2019 / 10 May 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Graduate Students to work in the Community from Monterey Bay to the UK Ten Humanities graduate students will bring public scholarship to the wider community as this year’s cohort […]
Fellows Futures News
8 May 2019 / 15 October 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Graduate Student Instructors Tackle “Futures” Three Humanities graduate students will develop a new THI-sponsored course focused on “Futures.” The course is part of The Humanities Institute’s Questions That Matter project and […]
3 May 2019 / 3 May 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute is thrilled to award four new research clusters for the 2019 – 2020 year. This cohort combines diverse interests in: the human body and its presence and […]
Events
2 May 2019 / 28 August 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Recent shootings in the US and New Zealand have shown that internet technologies facilitate the rapid spread of bigotry and hatred that can spark violent terror attacks. This year’s UC Santa […]
1 May 2019 / 1 May 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
My Own Words: The Law and Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg The Humanities Institute is pleased to announce a special event to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, free and open […]
Events News
1 May 2019 / 3 May 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Against Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White On November 1 and 2, 2019, a conference will be held at UC Santa Cruz to honor Hayden White who died a year ago. […]
26 April 2019 / 26 April 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
A Brief Discussion of Norman O. Brown James Clifford and Isaac Blacksin Next month, on May 17 – 18, the History of Consciousness department at UC Santa Cruz hosts […]
Profiles SSRC
15 April 2019 / 14 July 2022 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Vivian Underhill is a fourth-year PhD Candidate in the Feminist Studies program at UC Santa Cruz. Her work is at the intersections of feminist and critical race science studies, queer ecology, and […]
Fellows News
11 April 2019 / 12 April 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute is thrilled to award 15 fellowships in support of graduate student research. Nathaniel Deutsch, Director of The Humanities Institute, announced, “THI is pleased to support a range […]
7 March 2019 / 7 March 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Building department culture by reviving and reimagining The Center for World History Reviving and Reimagining The Center for World History has a two pronged approach to research. The cluster, led […]
7 March 2019 / 8 March 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
The Humanities Institute is thrilled to announce the twelve recipients of a 2019 UCSC-Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development program award. Recipients come from a wide-range of Humanities, Social […]
27 February 2019 / 5 March 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Join The Humanities Institute for Borderbus, a community conversation about migration, art, and social justice, with Juan Felipe Herrera and Felicia Rice on March 6th, 6:30pm, at Santa Cruz Museum of […]
Profiles
26 February 2019 / 24 April 2020 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Ka-eul Yoo, a third-year PhD student in the Literature department at UC Santa Cruz, researches the biopolitics of US disease and disability controlling policies in post-1945 Asia. She is the recipient of […]
Event Recaps
25 February 2019 / 5 April 2020 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
On February 20th, 2019, James Loeffler presented the annual Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies titled “The Right to Be Heard: Jews, Human Rights, and Global Democracy” at UC Santa […]
20 February 2019 / 27 February 2019 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Giving Day 2019 is upon us! What is Giving Day? Only UC Santa Cruz’s biggest online fundraiser of the year! Over 150 student, faculty and campus projects need funding […]
Fellows News Profiles
19 February 2019 / 14 July 2022 by Melody Nixon | Leave a Comment
Wyatt Young is a second-year History PhD student at UC Santa Cruz. He is currently a year-long Public Fellow at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, where he […]
