2007  Humanities News

Literature professor Sharon Kinoshita receives MLA prize

John Mock elected to council of Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

UCSC receives gift of rare audio interviews and photos of late '60s jazz and rock icons

Alumnus Victor Davis Hanson receives National Humanities Medal

Emeritus academics reflect on 41 years of McHenry Library

UCSC media expert contributes feature to 35th anniversary issue of Ms. magazine

UCSC professor explores Northern California's 'kitsch monuments'

Film professor provides expert commentary in new box set of rare films

Global affairs expert to deliver UCSC's 2007 Maitra Lecture at Montalvo on Nov. 2

Saving Endangered Languages

On a planet that seems to be growing smaller by the day, it's surprising to discover that people still use approximately 6,500 languages for their day-to-day communication. But linguists estimate that nearly half of these will be gone within the next hund

UCSC alumna receives award from Academy of American Poets

NPR features poetry by Professor Emeritus David Swanger

UCSC receives $367,000 gift to establish endowed chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies

UCSC students present research at World History Association conference

Under the direction of professor Edmund Burke III, director of the UC Santa Cruz Center for World History, seven UCSC current and past graduate students in history presented papers at the 16th annual

UCSC to host weeklong philosophy conference on Wittgenstein

UCSC graduate awarded $10,000 for best American thesis on modern India

Two history of consciousness professors to give readings at bookstore

Members of the campus community are invited to a book reading and signing by professors of history of consciousness Teresa de Lauretis and David Marriott at the Bay Tree Bookstore at noon on Tuesday, June 5.

History Department presents talk by author and manga translator Frederik L. Schodt

Winners of Chancellor's Achievement Awards for Diversity announced

Two professors, two staff members, and the Center for the Mathematics Education of Latino/as have been selected as winners of the 2007 Chancellor's Achievement Awards for Diversity.

Assistant philosophy professor awarded President's Research Fellowship

Alumnus shares his worldwide expertise on building memorials

When memorials celebrate a nation's triumphs, they take a grand approach: classic columns, towering arches, soaring stairways. But how might people memorialize "a crime perpetrated in their name"? When the Berlin Senate commissioned a panel to select the

May 10 bell hooks event postponed

Nathaniel Mackey wins 2007 Northern California Book Award

UCSC literature professor Nathaniel Mackey has been named a winner in the 26th Annual Northern California Book Awards in the poetry category for his latest book <i>Splay Anthem.</i>

Two UC Santa Cruz humanities professors awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Award-winning filmmaker, Time correspondent, to headline UCSC series of screenings/talks on war

Who serves in our nation's wars? Why did they serve? What is their experience? Those questions are the inspiration for "Personal Perspectives of the Iraq War and Past Wars," a series of film screenings and talks by award-winning filmmakers and authors tha

The Changing Face of the Humanities: A new dean, a new building, a new direction

The humanities at UC Santa Cruz are poised to meet the challenges of a global future.

Banana Slug Spring Fair drawing alumni back to UC Santa Cruz

Alumni Profile: Across a Hundred Mountains

Overcoming the language barrier and her status as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, Reyna Grande made the most of her new home, eventually earning a bachelor's degree in creative writing/film & video from UC Santa Cruz. For her senior projec

$1 million gift from Jack Baskin establishes endowed chairs in engineering and humanities at UCSC

Philanthropist Jack Baskin has continued his remarkable record of support for the University of California, Santa Cruz, with two $500,000 gifts establishing endowed chairs, one in the Humanities Division that honors his wife, Peggy Downes Baskin, and anot

Geoffrey Pullum to deliver 40th annual Faculty Research Lecture at UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz receives $350,000 to create global café and reading garden at University Library

UC Santa Cruz to present readings by renowned authors Jonathan Franzen and Nathaniel Mackey