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ProfilesGrad Profile: Leonard Butingan
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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GrantsCFA: National Humanities Center Winter Podcasting Institute for Graduate Students
Deadline: November 27th, 2023 We are accepting applications for the National Humanities Center Winter program, “Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience.” The five-day virtual institute (January […]
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ProfilesGrad Profile: Joe Alicea
Joe Alicea is a PhD candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. His dissertation focuses on the erasure of Chicago Puerto Rican poetry. Alicea served as a THI Summer Dissertation […]
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ProfilesGrad Profile: Katie O’Hare
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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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Nine – Language (Paradiso 26)
Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of […]
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ProfilesGrad Profile: Mia Tempestt Boykin
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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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Two – The Structure of Dante’s Paradiso: or How to Tell a Story beyond Time, Space, and Individuality
Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of […]
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ProfilesGrad Profile: Dustin Gray
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 […]
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National Endowment for the Humanities Q&A
Please join us on Tuesday, October 17th from 12:00-1:30 p.m. for a virtual open forum Q&A with Program Officers from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This event will […]
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ProfilesGrad Profile: Manning Chan
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 […]
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Jennifer Mogannam – Gendering Revolution: Palestinian Praxis, Labor, and Decolonization
As a population of exile – transnational, stateless refugees struggling to return to their lands and rebuild their communities lost since 1948 – the Palestinian people built a grassroots trajectory […]
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Living Writers – J. Vanessa Lyon
J. Vanessa Lyon is the author of Lush Lives (an inaugural title of Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic), the Audible Original The Groves, and Meet Me in Madrid, written under the […]
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Living Writers – Thais Miller
Thaïs Miller is the author of the novel Our Machinery (2008) and the short story collection The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). She is a PhD Candidate in Literature, […]
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ProfilesGrad Profile: Amanda Huse
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 […]
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FeatureAnnouncing 25 New THI Graduate Research Fellows for 2023-2024
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 […]
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ProfilesAlumna Profile: Claire Urbanski
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 […]
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FellowsCFA: Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellowships
HUMANIZING TECHNOLOGY TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS Deadline: Applications due June 1, 2023 Call: We are seeking applications from qualified PhD students to serve as part of a second cohort of teaching fellows for […]
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Deep ReadWeek 4: Look Up
Hello, and welcome to the final installment of our 4-week exploration of Under a White Sky. Catch up on weeks 1, 2, and 3 if you haven’t yet. On May 21, […]
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Deep Read San Diego Salon
Join fellow Deep Readers for a special event at Stone Brewing in Liberty Station on May 15, 2023, to discuss this year’s Deep Read book: Under a White Sky: The […]