PhD+ Workshop – Using Generative AI for Research in the Humanities
2024-01-11 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
This informal, practical workshop will survey how generative AI tools like GPT-4 and Claude can be used in humanistic research. Large Language Models (LLMs) such as these have a well-documented tendency to “hallucinate” information when prompted in certain ways. But if employed thoughtfully and with an awareness of their limitations, they represent a significant new tool for researchers in the humanities. For instance, GPT-4 is able to translate and summarize text far more accurately than the previous state of the art — and crucially, it can do so even when presented with imperfect, archaic, or flawed transcriptions, such as in the case of text pulled from photographs of archival documents or digitized premodern books. GPT-4 is also able to turn spreadsheets or other forms of quantitative data into visualizations and perform surprisingly sophisticated analysis of visual sources, not to mention basic transcription of handwritten texts. Finally, new AI speech recognition tools like Whisper now allow for rapid transcription of oral history interviews and other recordings. We will cover the specific use cases of translation, summarization, transcription, and image analysis with an eye toward the specific ways that AI can contribute to the research goals of participants.
Please come with an internet-connected device, preferably a laptop, and sign up for both ChatGPT and Claude before the workshop (both are free). Suggested reading: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/generative-ai-for-historical-research.

Benjamin Breen is an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization, science, drugs, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My book The Age of Intoxication (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) explores how drug users and sellers in the British and Portuguese empires helped to shape imperialism, global trade, and scientific practice in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It won the 2021 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine and is available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook formats. Trained as a historian of the early modern era, I am currently working on two book projects (one a cultural and intellectual history of experimental drug researchers during the Cold War, another on the entanglements between colonialism, climate change, and the concept of magic between 1600 and 1900).

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Please join us for the eighth year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by the Humanities Institute. We meet monthly, over lunch, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more..

This event will be held in-person in Humanities 1, Room 210.
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PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
2024-02-29 15:30 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities
Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support.
The workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) and Caitlin Charos (Research Development Specialist, Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences). Clara Bergamini (PhD candidate in History) will discuss her role as Research Development GSR and how to set up a meeting to discuss funding opportunities. As part of the workshop, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute) will also share an overview of THI resources to support graduate students with fellowship applications.

Pranav Anand, professor of the Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz, is THI’s new Faculty Director. Anand was awarded the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities, and earlier this year served as co-principal investigator on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to create a certificate program for engineering students to better understand the impact of technology on the world.

Caitlin Charos grew up in Stockton, California and earned degrees from University of Pennsylvania (B.A., English), University of York, U.K. (M.A., Cultures of Empire, Resistance, and Postcoloniality), and Princeton University (M.A., A.B.D., English). While pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Princeton University, Caitlin established herself as a researcher, teacher, and persuasive grant writer, and was awarded a fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for scholarship on global migration. Her research interests include postcolonial literatures, particularly literatures from southern Africa, gender and sexualities, race and ethnicity, and the novel. Caitlin began her career in research development as a fellow in Princeton’s Office of Corporate Engagement and Foundation Relations, where she helped connect faculty members to foundation funders with shared missions. She has supported faculty in securing significant grants from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, University of California Humanities Research Institute, and University of California Office of the President. She is a member of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals. Caitlin loves talking with faculty about their research and is dedicated to applying her experience in support of humanities and social sciences research at UCSC.

Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell is the Research Programs and Communications Manager at The Humanities Institute (THI). In her role, she manages research projects, graduate and undergraduate student programs, communications, and public humanities initiatives at the institute. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is a Research Advisor for the UCSC Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas. Before moving to UCSC, she was an inaugural research affiliate at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law and yearlong National Science Foundation fellow at the Center for Conflict, Displacement, and Peacebuilding at the University of Cartagena, Colombia. Alongside her scholarship, she has directed Global Youth Connect’s Colombia Human Rights Delegation, worked at the International Peace and Security Institute’s The Hague Symposium on Post-Conflict Transitions and International Justice, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Kingdom of Tonga.

Clara Bergamini is a PhD candidate in history and Research development GSR at UC Santa Cruz. She is working on a dissertation tentatively titled “Mapping Imperial Japan’s Greatest Calamities: Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster.” My research centers around how people’s experiences with and memories of crises and catastrophes shape society over time through moments of memory-making. Specifically, my research focuses on how the annual anniversaries of the 1923 Great Kantō Disaster and other disasters were used for various political and social programming during Japan’s imperial period.

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PhD+ Workshop - THI Public Fellowship Information Session
2024-03-21 15:00 - 16:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program.
Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research, programming, communications, and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study.
Please join us for an information session about the 2024 THI Public Fellows program to learn about Summer 2024 opportunities and hear from previous THI Public Fellows.
All THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or meet with THI Staff by March 21st, 2024. Final applications are due on April 15, 2024.
The workshop will be led by Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell, THI Research Programs and Communications Director, and include a panel with recent Public Fellows, Rafael Franco-Flores (who worked with the GLBT Historical Society) and Wesley Viebahn (who worked with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History)

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the eighth year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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PhD+ Workshop – Creative Academic Publishing With Robin James
2024-04-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual Event
This is an Arts Research Institute (ARI) workshop on creative academic publishing with Robin James. Robin James is an author and former academic, currently working as Editor of Philosophy, Literary Theory, and Music & Sound Studies at Palgrave Macmillan. She will conduct a workshop for junior scholars interested in turning their ideas into a successful book proposal. She will also discuss the details of the publication process, and how to pitch a project to an editor. This workshop is geared toward graduate students and early career faculty, and is appropriate for anyone wanting to learn more about academic publishing!
**Please rsvp to Holly Unruh, Executive Director, Arts Research Institute. Email hunruh@ucsc.edu for zoom link.
This workshop is presented by the Arts Research Institute and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2023-2024 PhD+ series.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the eighth year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted (or co-sponsored) by The Humanities Institute. Our meetings provide the opportunity to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grant/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out with Silvia Austerlic
2024-10-08 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual Event
Have you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning.
This event has two sessions: Oct 8, 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. via Zoom or Nov 5, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session.

Silvia Austerlic is an intercultural educator, facilitator and consultant, and founder of Senti-pensante Connections, whose mission is to bridge inner work and social justice in service of individual transformation, social change, and collective action. A lecturer at UCSC Oakes College, she developed and teaches “Building an Inner Sanctuary,” which fosters the cultivation of inner and outer resources needed to show up for community-oriented action and social justice; and facilitates campus-wide learning events surrounding critical interculturality, self-leadership, healing justice, and fostering resilience and care in the community.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

The Informational Interview with Lorato Anderson
2024-10-09 13:30 - 15:00 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
An informational interview is one you conduct with someone working in a field for an institution or company that you want to consider working in and for. How do you conduct an informational interview? What questions should you ask to get the best information about what it’s like to do that job for that organization? How do you network to locate people to ask for an informational interview?
This event has two sessions: Oct 8, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, or Oct 10, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session.

As director of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Lorato Anderson focuses on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects and providing direct support to students, staff, faculty, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University, where she researched and developed assessment models for English language learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active. She has extensive experience in grant writing, teaching, advising, assessment, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success.
Lorato has worked on campus since 2016 and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include graduate program adviser and coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics and undergraduate advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice and empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies into her work in advising, administration, and grant and program development.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Conflict Resolution with Anthony Keen-Louie
2024-10-09 15:00 - 16:30 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
Wherever there are groups of people, there will be conflict. However, conflict can be an opportunity to grow and improve if the right tools and resources are used. This workshop will explore conflict as a topic, share information about conflict resolution resources at UCSC, and provide some conflict resolution skills for participants to use in their careers that focus on building community.
This event is on Oct 9, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons. Register below to attend the session.

Anthony Keen-Louie (he/him/his) is a seasoned student affairs professional and mediator and has worked with the UCSC Ombuds Office since August 2023. Previously he served at UCSD for eight years in residential life leadership roles supporting inclusive student community development with initiatives for student residents, including graduate students and students with dependents. Anthony has a master’s degree in Dispute Resolution from the USC Gould School of Law, where he now serves as an adjunct lecturer in law, and is a mediator, trainer, and group format mediator with the National Conflict Resolution Center. He also has a master’s degree in Higher Education/Student Affairs from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from UC Riverside.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Writing Psychology with Andrea Seeger
2024-10-14 14:30 - 16:30 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing in this interactive workshop. Participants will also learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center.
This event has two sessions: Oct 14, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, or Oct 23, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session.

Andrea Seeger received a B.A. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz, an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder, and an A.B.D. in English from UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature, writing, and social justice for over 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at UCSC’s Oakes College and writing through UCSC’s Writing Program. She is also a lecturer at Cabrillo College, where she teaches English. Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to quality education. Andrea’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of racial and gender formation in 20th-century American literature, and her work is deeply invested in social justice.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Curating Your Digital Reputation with Lisa Nielsen
2024-10-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
Your digital reputation refers to your presence on the internet, on social media platforms and on personal and professional websites. Learn tips on how to distinguish yourself from the crowd and create a lasting impression in an evolving digital communications landscape.
This event has two sessions: Oct 16, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom or Oct 30, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session.

Lisa Nielsen has over 25 years of design and marketing experience in the private sector and with non-profits. From working at Apple Computer as an art director to running her own firm in San Francisco for 15 years, she knows what it means to be a good communicator and marketer. From startups to Fortune 500 clients, her adventures in marketing have built a depth of knowledge that she likes to share. Lisa is in her second decade at UC Santa Cruz as marketing director, overseeing a creative team of writers, videographers, and designers.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

WordPress Website Design with Jason Chafin
2024-10-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students.
Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate or postdoctoral work!
This event has two sessions: Oct 17, 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204, or Nov 6, 12:00-1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session.

Jason Chafin graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1993 with a bachelor’s in environmental studies. He earned his master of environmental studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, and spent over a decade as an environmental planner. He switched gears in 2010 and became a web developer, working primarily with WordPress. He’s been with University Relations as the senior web developer in the Communications and Marketing Department since 2017.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Mastering the Elevator Pitch with Nada Miljkovich
2024-10-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
In this interactive workshop, graduate students will learn how to craft a compelling and concise elevator pitch tailored to their specific goals—whether it’s securing funding, attracting partners, or landing clients.
Participants will explore techniques to clearly communicate their vision, project, or business in just a few sentences, leaving a lasting impression. Through guided exercises and real-world examples, participants will develop the skills they need to present their ideas confidently and spark interest in any professional setting.
This event has two sessions: Oct 21, 2:00-3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204, or Nov 4, 2:00-3:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session.

Nada Miljković is an experienced educator and digital arts expert with over a decade of teaching at UCSC. As a project manager and instructor at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED), she focuses on fostering creativity, storytelling, and entrepreneurial skills in students. Passionate about empowering students with real-world tools, Nada prepares future leaders in both their professional and personal lives while pursuing a Ph.D. in Digital Arts at the University of Arts, Belgrade.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Burnout: Recognizing, Preventing, Mitigating with Audrey Kim and Nicolette Severson
2024-10-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
Burnout is a state of exhaustion that can impact our work, personal lives, health, and overall sense of well-being and purpose. Join us to discuss common causes and symptoms, and learn strategies to recognize, prevent, and manage burnout.
This event is on Oct 22, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session.

Prior to joining UCSC CAPS in 2001, Audrey Kim, Ph.D., worked in the corporate and nonprofit sectors and understands how burnout can be different and yet similar across various settings. Kim likes helping students gain insight into their problems and learn practical strategies for overcoming them. She especially enjoys working with graduate students and facilitating the Graduate Women’s Group at UCSC.
Nicolette “Niki” Severson, LCSW, has been on the team at CAPS since January 2021. She came to her work as a therapist by way of a background in academia, education, and research in public health and social work. Previous to UCSC, Severson worked with underserved populations in community mental health. She has firsthand experience with burnout from a variety of demanding work environments and is excited to talk about this critical topic.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Academic Publishing with Martha Stuit and Erich van Rijn
2024-10-24 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual and In Person
How do you choose a reputable academic journal to publish in? What are your copyrights? What is open access? Where do you find academic publishing support at UCSC beyond your program and department?
This event has two sessions: Oct 24, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. via Zoom, or Oct 29, 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session.

As scholarly communication librarian at the UCSC University Library, Martha Stuit provides author services, which cover publishing theses, dissertations, and academic articles and books; open access; and copyright. She also serves as the library’s liaison to the Division of Graduate Studies. Prior to becoming a librarian, she was a journalist. Martha has an M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan.
Erich van Rijn is executive director at the University of California Press where he leads book and journal publishing operations. Erich has been with the University of California Press since 1997 and has held positions in marketing, sales, operations, and finance. Prior to joining the press, he held positions in marketing at Oxford University Press and HarperCollins Publishers.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Proactive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Lorato Anderson
2024-10-29 13:30 - 15:00 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
How do you proactively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in your role as a graduate student, a researcher, a teaching assistant, and a peer and undergraduate mentor? Learn active steps you can take in every role to promote a just and welcoming environment at UCSC in every space.
Recommended Reading: Ely, Robin J., and Thomas, David A. “Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case.” Harvard Business Review, November-December 2020 Magazine Issue.
This event has two sessions: Oct 29, 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204, or Oct 31, 12:00-1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session.

As director of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Lorato Anderson focuses on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects and providing direct support to students, staff, faculty, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University, where she researched and developed assessment models for English language learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active. She has extensive experience in grant writing, teaching, advising, assessment, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success.
Lorato has worked on campus since 2016 and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include graduate program adviser and coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics and undergraduate advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice and empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies into her work in advising, administration, and grant and program development.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Online Platforms for Presenting Research with Kayla Isenberg
2024-11-12 10:00 - 11:30 | Virtual Event
Ready to promote your research on social media? This seminar will help you learn how! Explore how to promote your research and expertise on the text-based social media platforms Threads, Mastodon, and others. We’ll cover how to use each platform, how each works, how to communicate effectively on each platform, and how to pick the right platform for you and your goals.
This event is on Nov 12, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session.

Kayla Isenberg is the senior director of digital engagement for UC Santa Cruz, where she runs digital strategy for the main campus social media properties and advises on divisional and other social media accounts across campus. She has over 15 years of experience in digital marketing and social media, working for a variety of companies, from startups to Fortune 500. She was listed on the Forbes 40 under 40 list for her work at Warner Bros Records. In her work in higher education, she has won multiple CASE awards for her work in digital marketing and social media at UC Santa Cruz and has been a featured speaker at CASE social media conferences.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Public Speaking with Catherine Carlstroem
2024-11-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
These interactive in-person workshops provide an overview of strategies and best practices for public speaking, including managing anxiety, key delivery techniques, and composition tips for crafting clearer and more focused speeches, with an emphasis on the parameters of the Grad Slam’s short presentations.
This event has two sessions: Nov 13, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204, or Nov 19, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session.

UCSC faculty and alum Catherine Carlstroem (PhD American Literature) is a longtime lecturer in Humanities at UCSC (over 30 years) and has enjoyed teaching public speaking for over 10 of these. Along with teaching, she coordinates the Cowell Core Course.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Crafting the CV with Veronica Heiskell
2024-11-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual Event
Applications for academic positions require a CV, and some industry, government, and nonprofit employers also require them. Learn how a CV differs from a resume, about hybrid CV-resumes, what goes on a CV, and what order to put information depending on the type of academic institution you’re applying to and for what type of position.
This event is on Thu, Nov 14, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session.

Veronica Heiskell has worked for over fourteen years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and her doctorate in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Archives in Action
2024-11-14 14:00 - 17:00 | Humanities 1, Room 202
2 PM | “Getting Into the Archive: Tales from Inside”
Paul Erickson, Director of the Clements Library, University of Michigan
This presentation will seek to demystify the process of applying for support for humanities research from libraries and archives by explaining it from the inside. It will offer suggestions for how to increase your chances of receiving fellowship support for your work.
Paul Erickson is the Randolph G. Adams Director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan, a leading collection of early Americana. In 1993 Paul got his first experience administering fellowship programs for scholars from the humanities and social sciences, and that is work that he has done for most of the past 20 years.
3 PM | “Gloria Anzaldua and her Spectral Archives”
Brenda Lara, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Cruz
4 PM | “Archives in Dos Hemisferios: Reading Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Newspapers in Havana, New York, and Paris”
Davis Luis-Brown, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English, Claremont Graduate University

This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Director of Hispanic-Serving Research Initiatives. It is organized in conjunction with the Literature Department’s graduate course, “Print Culture and Archives.”
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

LinkedIn with Eric Curiel
2024-11-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Virtual Event
LinkedIn is a powerful tool to network and search for jobs. We will go over tips to update your LinkedIn profile to help recruiters find you, explore ways to identify alumni with similar career paths and interests on LinkedIn, and show you how to connect effectively with them to expand your network. We will also go over best practices for searching for jobs.
This event is on Mon, Nov 18, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session.

Eric Curiel has worked for over ten years in supporting college students in pursuing successful careers and currently serves as associate director of career engagement in Career Success. He is passionate about supporting students, especially those from underrepresented populations, to be successful. He completed his bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolution from UC Santa Cruz in 2014. Eric enjoys being outdoors, photography, and watching soccer.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Contributions to Diversity Statement with Judith Estrada
2024-11-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual and In Person
Judith Estrada, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice Chancellor
Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI)
This event has two sessions: Nov 19, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom, or Nov 20, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend either session.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

CANCELLED - California Community Colleges Panel Discussion
2024-11-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
Learn how to apply to (first step: register with and upload your CV to the CCC Registry) and what it’s like to work for a California community college by talking to director of the CCC Registry, Beth Au, moderator of the panel, and a panel of UCSC graduate student alumni and a former UCSC postdoc, all of whom currently work for a CCC.
This event is on Thu, Nov 21, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session.

Moderator
Beth Au
Director, California Community Colleges Registry
Beth Au has a master’s degree in Asian American Studies from UCLA. She has been director of the California Community Colleges (CCC) Registry since 2002. As director, she oversees and manages cccregistry.org and hosts annual job fairs for the college system every January.
The CCC Registry is the state chancellor’s job board for faculty, management and staff opportunities at all 73 districts and 116 colleges across California. The CCCs are the largest higher education employer in the world with over 60,000 faculty, administrators and staff across the state.
In her role as a recruiter, she frequently works with UC graduate students and postdocs through UC Career Centers and Graduate Divisions to host CCC interest panels. During Covid, she pivoted the informational panels and 1:1 sessions with job seekers to a virtual format and has continued recruitment in the online environment. She has counseled over 400 job seekers in Zoom sessions since May 2020 and continues to use Zoom to maintain outreach and recruitment. Several of the job seekers she has coached have been offered full-time, tenure track positions at a CCC since 2022.
Beth is available for 1:1 Zoom sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. to offer CCC application and career advice. Reach out to her directly at aub@yosemite.edu to schedule a session.

Panelists
Francesca “Chesa” Caparas
Instructor, English, Women’s Studies, and Asian American Studies
De Anza College, Cupertino
Chesa Caparas (she/they) has a B.A. and M.A. in modern literature from UC Santa Cruz. She is faculty in English, Women’s Studies, and Asian American Studies at De Anza College. In her classes she explores literature and pop culture, the intersections of technology with race and gender, and the ethical applications of artificial intelligence. In 2022, she was a Fulbright Scholar to the Philippines where she researched media and information literacy. She is currently pursuing a master’s in Information and Knowledge Strategy at Columbia University.

Jasmeet Dhaliwal, Ph.D.
Instructor, Geology, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chabot College, Hayward
Jasmeet Dhaliwal received her Ph.D. in earth science from UC San Diego and held a postdoctoral researcher position at UC Santa Cruz until accepting a position as a geology and earth and environmental sciences instructor at Chabot College. She worked with Beth Au to prepare the application to Chabot.

Sarah Gerhardt, Ph.D.
Chemistry Department Chair and Instructor
Cabrillo College
Sarah started teaching immediately after receiving her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from UCSC. She started as a lecturer at Santa Clara University teaching general and physical chemistry and moved to Cabrillo College to teach general, introductory, and biological chemistry, the last for allied health sciences. She also participated in the ACCESS program at UCSC as a community college liaison for several summers. After having two children (teaching while pregnant and at night while her children were young) and several years as a lecturer, Sarah did a postdoctorate in molecular, cell, and developmental biology under Professor Harry Noller at UCSC. She returned to teaching general and introductory chemistry full-time at Monterey Peninsula College 2011 to 2017. Since August 2017, she has taught general chemistry full-time at Cabrillo College and is currently chair of Cabrillo’s Chemistry Department.

Brian Malone, Ph.D.
Professor of English
De Anza, Cupertino
Brian Malone (he/him) is a tenured professor of English at De Anza College in Cupertino. He teaches classes in composition and English literature, in addition to serving on the leadership team for Guided Pathways and as project director for a Title III: Strengthening Institutions Program grant. He previously served as tenure review coordinator for the college. He holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.A. from the University of Virginia. He received a Ph.D. in literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2014, with a dissertation focusing on the nineteenth-century novel in England and France.

Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano, Ph.D.
Ethnic Studies Professor
Evergreen Valley College, San José
Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano is a full-time ethnic studies professor at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose. She obtained her A.A. in sociology from Southwestern College, B.A. in sociology from UC San Diego, M.A. in Asian American studies from San Francisco State University, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in education from UC Santa Cruz. She is co-editor of the Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader (2018), and a contributing author to the anthologies Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (2019), the SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies (2022), as well as Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice (2023). Her work draws from women-of-color radical thought to address how intersectional struggles of racism, classism, cisheteropatriarchy, and body terrorism impact us every day.

Andrea Seeger, A.B.D.
Lecturer, Social Justice, Literature, Writing
Oakes College, UCSC
Faculty, English Department
Cabrillo College, Aptos
Andrea Seeger, a Santa Cruz native, returned a few years ago to her hometown after academic wandering. She received her undergraduate education at UCSC, first studying mathematics, then completing her B.A. in literature. She has an M.A. in English literature from the University of Colorado Boulder and is A.B.D. in English at UC Berkeley. Andrea has been teaching literature, writing, and social justice for nearly 20 years. She has taught writing and rhetoric in The Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder and literature at UC Berkeley. She currently teaches social justice at Oakes College and writing through the UCSC Writing Program. She also lectures in English at Cabrillo College. Andrea recently served as the director of the UCSC Writing Center and its VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center, an HSI Initiative. Andrea is deeply committed to student-centered learning and equitable access to a deep, quality education.

Randy Villegas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Political Science
College of the Sequoias, Visalia
A product of public education institutions, Randy Villegas is an associate professor of political science at College of the Sequoias and a trustee for the Visalia Unified School District Board of Education. Before beginning graduate school, Villegas worked as a journalist and an organizer in Bakersfield, CA. He has been a recipient of numerous awards, including the 2020 CARE-UC Innovation Fellowship and the American Political Science Association (APSA) Fund for Latino Scholarship. He is currently featured in the Unity Exhibit of the California State Capitol Museum for his work around social justice issues in the Central Valley. After being appointed to the Visalia Board of Trustees in December 2021, he was elected by the voters of area 6 to continue serving in November 2022. Randy is honored to serve our students, families, and community.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Slide Design with Sonya Newlyn
2024-11-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Graduate Student Commons, Room 204, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, 95064
Have you ever inflicted a boring slide presentation on an audience? Learn tips and techniques for using slides the way they should be used, as visual aids to your spoken-word presentation.
Prior to attending this workshop, review this slide design page.
This event is on Mon, Nov 25, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204. Register below to attend the session.

Sonya Newlyn provides professional development programming for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars for the Graduate Division. In addition to the Professional Communication Certificate Program, she organizes the winter quarter Graduate Student Leadership Certificate Program and schedules individual professional development events available to all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. She also organizes the annual Grad Slam and the Graduate Symposium. She received her master’s degree in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Emory University, where she also minored in anthropology.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer with Veronica Heiskell
2024-12-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual Event
Learn interviewing strategies to land a job offer. Then, learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer.
This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises, job reclassifications, and title and responsibility changes.
This event is on Tue, Dec 3, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend the session.

Veronica Heiskell has worked for over thirteen years in diversity and career centers in a variety of higher education institutions and currently serves as director of experiential learning at Career Success. Her goal is to remove as many barriers as possible for all students to pursue meaningful experiential learning opportunities. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in LGBT studies at UCLA, her master’s degree in counseling and guidance in higher education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and her doctorate in higher education administration at UT Austin. Her dissertation research focused on sense of belonging for exploratory students.

This event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
2025-02-25 11:30 - 12:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities
Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support.
The workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) Alma Heckman (Steering Committee Member at The Humanities Institute and Associate Professor of History & Jewish Studies), and Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Director at The Humanities Institute).

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PhD+ Workshop - THI Public Fellowship Information Session
2025-03-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program.
Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research, programming, communications, and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study.

Please join us for an information session about the 2025 THI Graduate Public Fellows program to learn about Summer 2025 opportunities.
All THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session. Please contact Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell, Research Programs and Communications Director, at saskia@ucsc.edu before the workshop if you are unable to attend due to a work or class scheduling conflict. Final applications are due on April 4th, 2025.

About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs, internship possibilities, grants/fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.
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PhD+ Workshop - Alt-Ac in the Archives: Archives and Rare Books Career Pathways
2025-03-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
Ever thought about pursuing a career in archives and libraries? Wondered about what other paths you can pursue with your degree – PhD or otherwise? Come to this panel discussion with four professional librarians and archivists, all from the UC Santa Cruz Special Collections & Archives in McHenry Library. We’ll have a conversation on the diverse and diverging paths we took to get to our current positions in the library, share some advice, and answer questions you have about pursuing these kinds of careers.
It’s also a great chance to meet your local librarians who can assist you in your research and connect you to all kinds of resources at UC Santa Cruz and beyond!
This event is presented by Special Collections and Archives at the University Library and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. See the event page here.
Everyone is welcome to attend this session. The Zoom webinar will not be recorded.
Details:
March 13th, 3-4pm PST
Registration for this webinar is required. Register here via Zoom.

Panelist bios:
Alix Norton is the Archivist for the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) in Special Collections & Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In her primary role, she trains and mentors graduate students in archival processing and exhibition curation. Alix has worked in Special Collections & Archives at four universities, including at the University of California, Irvine, and previously worked in a neuroscience lab at the University of Washington. She earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Washington before obtaining her MSI from the University of Michigan School of information.
Sam Regal is the Instruction and Exhibitions Librarian in Special Collections and Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she oversees experiential learning programs, exhibitions, programming, public services, and bibliographic collection development. She holds an MLIS with a specialization in rare books and visual culture from UCLA, an MFA in poetry from Hunter College, and a BA in English and American literature from NYU; she also completed coursework toward a PhD in English with a creative writing concentration at the University of Georgia. She is editor of the American Printing History Association (APHA)’s Printing History journal, and her writing has most recently appeared in Parenthesis, RBM, and East of Borneo. She previously served as a librarian at the California Institute of the Arts and as project manager of California Rare Book School.
Rebecca Hernandez earned a PhD in American Studies, specializing in American Indian art and material culture. Her academic work examines inherent complexities in the public representation of culture(s) – particularly how describing and defining Native American objects affects the understanding of Amerindian identity. She is currently the Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library, where her role involves assisting with preserving and documenting the history and cultural heritage of Santa Cruz County. Through partnerships with community members, these materials can (if desired) be made accessible to the public, helping to educate and inspire future generations about the rich history of Santa Cruz County.
Kate Dundon is the Supervisory Archivist for Special Collections & Archives at University of California Santa Cruz where she oversees archival processing, accessioning, collection management, and born-digital stewardship programs. Prior to this, she held positions at Occidental College Library, New York University Law Library, and the New York Public Library. She earned an MA in Archives and Public History from New York University and an MLIS from Long Island University.

PhD+ Workshop - Academic Book Publishing with the University of Minnesota Press
2025-05-09 11:00 - 13:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join Jason Weidemann, an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press, for a “publishing bootcamp” workshop, geared toward graduate students, post docs, and early career scholars working on their first books. Together we’ll discuss information on the editorial process – how to talk to editors, revising the dissertation, and proposals.
Time will be left for sharing current works and what presses attendees might look into. Jason’s itinerary allows for additional one-on-one consultations to practice pitching works, etc. To schedule a time, contact: colleen@ucsc.edu.

Jason Weidemann is an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press. Jason Weidemann seeks manuscripts that make field-defining interventions in their core disciplines, contribute to interdisciplinary conversations, and communicate to readers beyond the academy, including activists, policymakers, community members, and general readers. His broad interests in Native and indigenous studies includes literary studies, the social sciences, legal studies, and education. He also acquires works in cultural and human geography, science and technology studies, anthropology, and sociology. Special interests include environmental politics, multispecies ethnography, urban studies, global flows of labor and capital, and Asian studies. Of specific interest are manuscripts that examine the social and racial dimensions of medicine and science. Proposals for translations from Japanese are welcomed, specifically science fiction and critical theory. He is also interested in manuscripts on the social aspects of video games and digital communication. Subject areas: anthropology, Asian studies, media studies, geography, Native and Indigenous studies, sociology, science and technology
For more information: https://scijust.ucsc.edu/2025/04/15/may09-uminnpress/
Co-hosted by the UCSC Science & Justice Research Center, The Humanities Institute, and the Division of Graduate Studies.

PhD+ Workshop - Archives 101 for Graduate Students
2025-10-16 13:00 - 14:00 | McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections
Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experiences with McHenry Library’s Special Collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond.

Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited.

This event is presented by the Center for Archival Research & Training (CART) in Special Collections & Archives and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
About the PhD+ Workshop Series
Join us for the 10th year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs, securing grants and fellowships, work/life balance, elements of style, online identity issues, and much, much more.

PhD+ Workshop - Crafting the Research-Based Essay with Ariel Gore
2025-11-07 10:00 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Join award-winning author and editor Ariel Gore for a conversation and mini-workshop on translating your research for non-academic genres including personal essays, fiction, memoir/autofiction, and journalism. What does your reader need to know? How do you find a balance between your own voice and the words of others? What do you do about things like citation? A master of deeply-researched personal narrative, Gore will share decades of experience, take questions, and offer some tools to get started.
This event is open to graduate students as well as faculty.

Space is limited and first-come, first-serve, so register now!
Participants will receive a short excerpt of Ariel Gore’s new book, Rehearsals for Dying (The Feminist Press) via email upon registration but may want to consider reading the whole book or attending Gore’s Living Writers reading on 11/6.
Ariel Gore is a LAMBDA Award-winning editor and author of 13 books of hybrid feminist fiction and nonfiction, including the shameless novel/memoir We Were Witches, the how-to guide Hexing the Patriarchy, and the memoirs Atlas of the Human Heart, The End of Eve, and Rehearsals for Dying. She founded the American Press Award-winning zine Hip Mama. She also makes coloring books and tarot cards, and teaches writing online at Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers at the Literary Kitchen. She often lives in Oakland, Santa Fe, and Brooklyn.

Sponsored by the UCOP-sponsored MRPI in Disability Justice and Abolition Medicine and The Humanities Institute PhD+ series.

PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
2026-01-14 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 1, Room 210, 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Grants and Fellowships for Humanities Scholars
Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. It will also be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support.
The workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) and Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Director at The Humanities Institute).

Please RSVP using your UCSC email address:
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