2015
Humanities News
- December 07, 2015
History professor wins multiple awards for groundbreaking book on slave trade
Associate professor of history Gregory O’Malley has been honored with four awards this year for his latest book, "Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807."
- November 19, 2015
Campus fills eight UC Presidential chairs in support of research mission
The eight new chairs - in everything from screenwriting to open-source software - bring the campus total to 30.
- November 02, 2015
California’s poet laureate emeritus Al Young to read at annual Morton Marcus event
Award-winning American poet, novelist, and former UC Santa Cruz lecturer Al Young will be the featured guest at the sixth annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading.
- October 27, 2015
Ruth Wilson Gilmore to speak at UC Santa Cruz on police and prisons
On Nov. 9, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies will present a free public lecture, “Organized Abandonment & Organized Violence: Devolution & the Police.”
- October 06, 2015
Fall 2015 Living Writers Series kicks off October 8
Each quarter, the Humanities Division’s Living Writers Series brings visiting authors and poets into UC Santa Cruz classes to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.
- October 05, 2015
Life, realized
Alumni authors give voice to transformative experiences at UC Santa Cruz that changed their lives and shaped their careers.
- September 24, 2015
New senate faculty members build campus strengths
From environmental sociology to game design, UC Santa Cruz professors are studying problems aimed at improving the world in which we live.
- August 31, 2015
Dickens Project receives NEH grant for public outreach to schoolteachers
The Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz has received a $119,417 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a four-week NEH Summer Seminar that will be held on campus in 2016.
- August 20, 2015
UC Santa Cruz launches new legacy course on the Holocaust with Coursera
UC Santa Cruz has launched a new version of its free online course, "The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry," through the Coursera platform.
- August 13, 2015
Alumnus Cary Fukunaga and film undergrad win Princess Grace Awards
Emmy Award-winning UC Santa Cruz alumnus Cary Fukunaga and current Film and Digital Media undergraduate student Jeny Amaya have been honored with 2015 Princess Grace Awards.
- August 04, 2015
In Memoriam: Priscilla (Tilly) Washburn Shaw (1930-2015)
Priscilla (Tilly) Washburn Shaw
- July 30, 2015
New Presidential Chair to support Dickens Project and Literature Studies at UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz has received a $500,000 gift, plus matching funds from the UC Regents, to establish a $1 million Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies.
- July 28, 2015
Year-long UC Santa Cruz seminar to examine global migration and non-citizenship
The phenomena of global migration, disenfranchisement, and hardships of living in territories while not holding traditional citizenship will be examined in a year-long seminar conceived by five UC Santa Cruz professors and funded with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- July 23, 2015
Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall named president-elect of American Historical Association
Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall has been chosen as president-elect of the American Historical Association, the largest professional organization in the U.S. devoted to the study and promotion of history.
- June 10, 2015
History professor Kate Jones receives Dizikes Award for teaching in Humanities
History professor Kate Jones was presented with the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities at the Humanities Division’s 2015 Spring Awards celebration.
- May 05, 2015
International Playhouse returns for its 15th season
UC Santa Cruz’s International Playhouse, an annual program of short theater pieces staged in different languages by students in the university’s Language Program, is back for another round of staged pieces.
- May 01, 2015
Bettina Aptheker featured in NBC’s 'Rebels & Revolutions' documentary
An interview with UC Santa Cruz professor Bettina Aptheker will be featured in Rebels & Revolutions, the second installment of NBC Bay Area’s year-long documentary series Bay Area Revelations, premiering May 9.
- April 29, 2015
UC Santa Cruz history professor elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
UC Santa Cruz history professor Gail Hershatter has joined Nobel Prize-winning chemist Brian Kobilka, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, singer-songwriter Judy Collins, novelist Tom Wolfe, and UC President Janet A. Napolitano as a newly elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- April 27, 2015
An Alumni Weekend to remember
A record-breaking crowd of 2,500 revelers, more than half of them alumni, took part in UC Santa Cruz's Alumni Weekend this year—a special edition of the event that was bigger and more elaborate than ever before in honor of the campus's 50th anniversary.
- April 27, 2015
Graduate students present research projects at annual symposium
The 11th Annual Graduate Research Symposium on April 24 featured graduate student researchers from across the divisions.
- April 20, 2015
Public Radio host and alum Jesse Thorn to podcast live from Kuumbwa
UC Santa Cruz alums Jesse Thorn and Jordan Morris return to Santa Cruz April 24, for a live taping of their popular podcast at Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Proceeds benefit KZSC.
- April 17, 2015
Classes without quizzes: Alumni Weekend Teach-Ins
Returning UC Santa Cruz alumni should get ready to exercise their brains, but with no fear of final exams, at the ever-popular "Teach-Ins" featuring professors Bettina Aptheker and Craig Haney.
- April 08, 2015
Egyptologist awarded NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant
Assistant professor of history Elaine Sullivan has received a Digital Start-Up Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a three-dimensional model and virtual tour that will demonstrate how an ancient Egyptian site evolved over more than 3,000 years.
- April 02, 2015
UC Santa Cruz conference to honor visionary feminist philosopher Gloria Anzaldúa
The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies will present a conference on the work of feminist philosopher and writer Gloria Anzaldua, April 10-11, at the Humanities Complex on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
- March 20, 2015
UC Santa Cruz alum writes first children’s book in City Lights’ 60-year history
“American history is filled with stories of brave and powerful men, but have you ever wondered where the women are?” So begins Rad American Women A-Z, a new book by humanities alumna Kate Schatz...
- February 27, 2015
Anita Hill: 'I hope my life is a living example of the power of coming forward'
Anita Hill, the focus of the highest-profile sexual harassment case in U.S. history, addressed a capacity crowd about "speaking truth to power."
- February 13, 2015
Conference at UC Santa Cruz to explore modern Jewish spaces and identity
The Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz will present a two-day conference, “Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination” on campus February 18-19.
- February 12, 2015
Anita Hill to speak at UC Santa Cruz on gender and racial equality Feb. 26
Anita Hill’s life changed forever in 1991 when a television audience of 22 million saw her testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Clarence Thomas.
- February 05, 2015
Institute of Arts and Sciences to host first LASER talk of the year
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present its first “LASER” talk of 2015 on Tuesday, February 10, at the Digital Arts Research Center.
- January 29, 2015
Angela Davis addresses 'police militarization' at capacity MLK Convocation
Angela Davis addressed a capacity crowd about social justice, police militarization and brutality during the 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation in downtown Santa Cruz
- January 08, 2015
‘Questions that Matter’: New public humanities series brings campus to community
The UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) will present "Making the Cosmos Local"—the first event in a new series of public dialogues titled Questions That Matter—on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
