History
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History professor Terry Burke to give 2014 Emeriti Faculty Lecture
Emeritus history professor Edmund “Terry” Burke III, director of the UCSC Center for World History, will deliver the 2014 Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture on Thursday, April 17, at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall.
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Great classes, no quizzes: alumni go ‘back to school’ for Teach-Ins
Choose between forensic anthropology, evolution, and espionage at annual academic afternoon featuring Alison Galloway, Ed Green and Bruce Thompson.
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UCSC humanities research institute to participate in Mellon Foundation grant
The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at UC Santa Cruz has been selected to participate in a $1.35 million grant awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.
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UCSC alumni glow in TV spotlight
It’s been a hot week in Hollywood for two former students at UC Santa Cruz.
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Grace Delgado wins two Western History Association awards
Assistant professor of history Grace Peña Delgado is the recipient of two awards from the Western History Association
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Celebration of two new Jewish Studies books Nov. 13
UCSC’s Center for Jewish Studies and University Library will present a celebration of two new books on Jewish Studies–featuring professors Peter Kenez and Murray Baumgarten, and librarian Lee Jaffe, Nov. 13 at Stevenson College.
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UCSC’s first ‘Ed Talks’ draws crowd in downtown Santa Cruz
An enthusiastic audience of 250 community members gathered at the “Top of the Ritt” in downtown Santa Cruz last night to celebrate UCSC’s very first evening of “Ed Talks”—three TED-style talks by acclaimed UC Santa Cruz faculty.
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UCSC to receive $500,000 in support of endowed chair in Jewish Studies
UC Santa Cruz has announced a major new gift to support the campus’s Jewish Studies Program.
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History professor receives ACLS Fellowship to research ‘history of future’ in Mexico
UCSC associate professor of history Matt O’Hara has received a 2013-14 fellowship of $45,000 from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to write and additionally research his upcoming book titled “The History of the Future in Mexico.”
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UCSC’s Dana Frank speaks in Congress about Human Rights in Honduras
UC Santa Cruz history professor Dana Frank testified last week before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the U.S. House of Representatives about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras.
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UC Santa Cruz launches first online course with Coursera
UC Santa Cruz announced today the launch of its first free online course open to the public through the Coursera platform. Titled The Holocaust, the course traces the destruction of the Jews and Jewish life in Europe by Nazi Germany, drawing on major works of history, literature, and film.
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Steck Award winner shares stories of survival
Kristoffer Hellén traveled to Europe and Russia, to find out why two small and vulnerable ethnic groups resist assimilation, hold onto their cultures, and survive. Now he is being recognized with one of UCSC’s highest undergraduate honors.