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UCSC SSRC-DPD Program
UC Santa Cruz is one of five universities to take part in the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) University Initiative program. With a three-year grant from SSRC, we launched a […]
UC Santa Cruz is one of five universities to take part in the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) University Initiative program. With a three-year grant from SSRC, we launched a […]
The Humanities Institute is pleased to join Bookshop Santa Cruz and KAZU 90.3 to welcome Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jennifer Egan to Santa Cruz to read, discuss, and sign her new […]
Back in Fall 2017, The Humanities Institute recharged its public-facing programs and resources for underrepresented graduate students thanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The vision: to […]
“Based on a (Mostly) True Story: Conflicting Cinematic Portrayals of Jewish Champions Boxing at Auschwitz ” In 2011, I traveled to Tel Aviv to interview eighty-seven year old Noah Klieger, […]
Courtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Brevity, The Normal School, River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior […]
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, […]
We’re now accepting applications for Graduate Fellowships—don’t miss the deadline! Click HERE for more information. Application Deadlines: March 30, 2018 Dissertation Completion Fellowships: Application Deadline March 30, 2018 Summer Dissertation Fellowships: […]
Once Helpful, Always Helpful? Infants’ Expectations About Helping and Hindering Behavior Across Scenarios The present work examined 16 to 18 month-olds’abilities to generalize a person’s tendency to help or hinder […]
What You Love: The Library at Alexandria, Quotation, and Survival The figure of Sappho is paradigmatic of the queer-feminist archive: she is the founding figure of female artistic genius and […]
Stephen David Engel is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department. Friday Forum is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us […]
Christopher Breu: “In Defense of Sex” Lecture at 10am Are sex and gender the same thing? Are trans* and intersex the same thing? Do we even need the category of […]
The Literature Department Graduate Program Alumni Speaker Series Presents: “Community College Teaching: A View From Inside” Victoria Bañales Victoria Bañales earned a Ph.D. in Literature with a Parenthetical Notation in […]
In order for a work of art to be great, according to Heidegger, at least one of the conditions it must meet is the community condition. While this condition is […]
“I don’t think that I would be a successful academic if I hadn’t had the opportunity to be mentored by so many important women,” she says.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Cecilia Vicuña will be unable to join us on February 22. However, the event will be held as scheduled but in a different iteration. In Lieu of Cecilia […]
Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a […]
The panelists included UCSC Literature PhD alum Kendra Dority, who is now Assistant Director at the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning on campus, and Literature graduate students Sarah Papazoglakis and Kara Hisatake.
The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, June 2nd, from 12:45 – 3:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumna speaker will be […]
“Delinquency As Labor” Chrissy Anderson-Zavala Chrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, How […]
Urayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging to the US nation-state. His poetic performances, texts, […]