About the Cluster This research cluster aims to revive and re-envision the Center for World History at UC Santa Cruz. We will focus on new research in, and theoretical discussions […]
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About the Cluster The contemporary moment is marked by global environmental change, the collapse of states and the reconfiguration of economies. This era, where human disturbances asymmetrically affect all ecosystems, […]
About the Cluster The growth of digital humanities is making clear how computational technologies can augment many traditional humanities activities, from archival research to publication. UC Santa Cruz is one […]
About the Cluster While Leisure Studies as such is institutionalized as a professional training program for working with public recreation, children, disabled people, and the elderly, the Critical Leisure Studies […]
About the Cluster Contemplative Pedagogy in higher education is an integrated approach to teaching and learning that focuses attention on learning as a transformative process rather than exclusively as a […]
About the Cluster The Digital Humanities Research Cluster is a community of Faculty, Students, and Staff engaged in using technology to define new modes of Humanities research, analysis, publication, teaching […]
About the Cluster The Affect Working Group, formed by Deborah Gould and Dana Takagi from Sociology and Carla Frecerro from Literature, draws together faculty and graduate students from across the […]
About the Cluster The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists and scholars around questions of feminism, maternity, and creative process. It seeks to center […]
About the Cluster Capitalism has emerged as a central theme for research in the humanities. Since the global economic crisis of 2008, it has become clear that scholars are returning […]
About the Cluster The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies research cluster aims to foster dialogue leading to the creation of an institutional home at UC Santa Cruz for the interdisciplinary […]
About the Cluster The Santa Cruz Ellipsis Consortium is a collaboration among faculty and students (undergraduate and graduate) in the language sciences at UCSC, whose purpose is to deepen understanding […]
About the Cluster The working group on the study of children brings together faculty and graduate students from multiple disciplines to explore how to pursue and theorize research on children. […]
About the Cluster The goal of the Asian Diasporas Research Cluster is to foster a much-needed space of collective critical inquiry for UC Santa Cruz Asianist and Asian Americanist faculty […]
About the Cluster This cluster examines the nexus of migration and violence. Drawing from questions, methods, and sources in the humanities and social sciences, members approach this subject via the […]
About the Cluster The Community/Technology Research Cluster investigates the discussions of the notion of ‘community’ precipitated by the publication of Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Inoperative Community, and the turn given to […]
About the Cluster Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP) is a collaborative research group with members from the Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz and the Linguistics Department at Stanford University. […]
About the Cluster The Digital Humanities Initiative at UC Santa Cruz was launched by the Institute for Humanities Research in January 2009. It is constituted by a group of UCSC […]
About the Cluster Living Memories of the Pacific War, will be instrumental in helping scholars around the world confront major issues facing the global humanities including not only problems of […]
About the Cluster World War II remains a profoundly relevant event to the peoples of the Asia-Pacific region over sixty years after its end. Memories of the war, whether expressed […]
About the Cluster We designate our contribution to this intellectual community as one that investigates the changing roles poetry has inhabited in particular public spaces and regions, and the resistances […]
About the Cluster Through attentiveness to the intersections of multiple historical, social, linguistic and somatic cultural moments, the Religious and Secular Entanglement Cluster intends to facilitate discussions on the topic […]
About the Cluster A collaborative endeavor bringing together graduate students and faculty members, the Queer Theory Research Cluster meets to discuss recent, innovative work in the field of lesbian, gay, […]
About the Cluster The Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy (SCLP) group is an interdisciplinary reading group at UC Santa Cruz consisting of faculty and graduate students from philosophy and linguistics. […]
About the Cluster For the past 5 years, the Science Studies Research Cluster has brought together faculty and graduate students who research, write, and teach about science, technology, and the […]
