UC Santa Cruz emerita professor of literature Karen Tei Yamashita will be awarded the 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation, presenter of […]
Three UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been honored with emeriti professorships for the 2021–22 academic year. Karen Yamashita, professor emerita of literature; Dana Frank, research professor in history; and Thomas […]
Judy Yung, emerita professor of American studies, author, and scholar of Chinese American history at UC Santa Cruz, died on December 14, 2020, at age 74. She was co-author of […]
We hope you will join us for our annual celebration recognizing student and faculty academic achievement in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. Friends and family are welcome. Even […]
The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz has teamed up with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and Bookshop Santa Cruz to present Celebrating Woman Suffrage and the Struggle for Voting […]
Sansei and Sensibility, the latest book by UC Santa Cruz emerita professor of literature Karen Tei Yamashita is a dazzling collection of short stories about growing up and living in […]
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment and stand at the threshold of a presidential election, “Celebrating Woman Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting […]
Celebrate the publication of a uniquely compelling book and the shared history it brings to life. Illustrated with rarely-seen archival images, Seeds of Something Different—debuting this weekend after years in […]
UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of Literature Earns High Praise for I, Hotel in The Nation Karen Tei Yamashita, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz, published I, Hotel in 2010. […]
We hope you will join us for our annual celebration recognizing student and faculty academic achievement in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. Friends and family are welcome. Even […]
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 […]
In anticipation of Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s upcoming premiere of a major new work inspired by the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg- When There Are Nine […]
THI Co-Sponsored Women in the Arts Event Featured in Sentinel: On June 5, 2018, the Women in the Arts panel event at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center on Tuesday focused largely […]
Our panel will discuss the struggle of women artists, writers, and poets to find voice in a world that has been, until very recently, so completely dominated and controlled by […]
Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, […]
Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts […]
“The Ethical Role of the Public University” Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture / Alumni Weekend Faculty Keynote with Bettina Aptheker and Marlene Tromp Bettina Aptheker, distinguished professor and Peggy and […]
UC Santa Cruz Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Marlene Tromp will join Aptheker in conversation. The newly restored and reopened Quarry Amphitheater is the biggest event space on the […]
Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015), which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts […]
Workshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe. “Opera Works: Journey in Creation” Tuesday, May 29, 2018 2 pm – 5 pm […]