Saritaan: Filipino and Filipino American Stories of Ilocandia and the Pajaro Valley is a community-engaged research initiative that documents transnational stories of migration, agrarian life, and kinship. Titled after the […]
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The Monterey Bay has been a cultural and linguistic crossroad for over 300 years. While Latine/o/x multilingualism is often framed in terms of English and Spanish, a key dimension of […]
A collaborative initiative between UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz and UC San Francisco, the Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice: Mapping Inequity and Renewing the Social project addresses […]
In 2018, world-renowned British installation artist and filmmaker, Sir Isaac Julien KBE RA, and his long-time creative collaborator, producer and international curator Mark Nash, started the Moving Image Lab as […]
Although Sikhs have become a global community, they remain a minority almost everywhere. They are visible, but they are not well understood. If anything, attempts to establish a greater presence […]
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 […]
A cross-divisional initiative to prepare graduate students in the Arts and Humanities from historically underrepresented groups to go on to the professoriate. Pathways to the Professoriate in the Arts and […]
About the Project Humanizing Technology is a Humanities Division certificate program that provides humanities training targeted to early-career engineering undergraduate students at UC Santa Cruz. Funded by the National Endowment […]
About the Project Powerful narratives of China’s “rise” and “rejuvenation” in China and the U.S. have led to a heightened awareness of Chinese impacts outside its borders and around the […]
About the Project This project focuses primarily on “fictions” of the future, that is, on creative “worldings” that take, as their premise, the outcome of particular technological/scientific findings in the […]
The engagements that comprise the Mellon Sawyer Seminar “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine” interrogate the intersections among race, empire, and the environment, and their significance in the theory, practice, […]
About the Project The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund, an endowment that supports […]
Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) is a community-driven public history initiative to preserve and uplift stories of Filipino migration and labor in the city of Watsonville and greater Pajaro […]
The Deep Read is a program by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature, art, and the most pressing issues of […]
Hayden V. White had a lasting influence on theoretical work across the human sciences. He maintained that history did not belong to the historians, but that it structured the everyday […]
Launched in Fall 2019, the Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas is dedicated to training a new generation of human rights researchers in online open source investigations to support […]
A $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has enabled a five-year project, Expanding Humanities Impact and Publics, at The Humanities Institute. The project is designed to spark new […]
The Dissertation Proposal Development program trains doctoral students to apply an interdisciplinary approach in the early stages of their graduate careers. Participants in the program receive financial and mentoring support […]
The Humanities Institute partners with centers and clusters and other projects to bring scholars to Santa Cruz for extended engagements on campus. These visiting scholars bring new ideas and questions […]
About the Project Catastrophic environmental breakdown, mass species extinction, financial collapse, racist separatism, global nuclear war…there is much speculation these days that we are living at the end of democracy, […]
About the Project In recent decades, tens of thousands of people from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have immigrated to California, bringing their rich cultural traditions with them. While Oaxacan […]
About the Project Sanctuaries are not only about cities and spaces that shield the undocumented; they are also about practices and temporalities of resistance, experimentation, and insurgency. In the harshening […]
About the Project The Ethics Bowl is an alternative form of school debate which is rapidly growing in popularity across the country, due to the improvements it is thought to […]
About the Project Led by Associate Professor of Literature and Mediterranean Studies Juan Camilo Gómez-Rivas, this project explores the history of sovereignty in North Africa, its relationship to people’s notions […]
