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‘Today I wear the pants’: The powerful message behind Lady Gaga’s billowy oversize suit
The Washington Post's coverage of Lady Gaga's "big suit" included a quote from the book, The Woman in the Zoot Suit, by Catherine Ramirez, associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies.
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Non-citizenship series begins with talk on ‘Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion’
Bridget Anderson, a leading labor and migration scholar, will deliver the keynote address in the first of a series of events exploring non-citizenship.
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Social sciences faculty garner $7.6 million in research grants for 2015-16
Faculty in the Social Sciences Division at UC Santa Cruz secured more than $7.6 million in research grants during the 2015-2016 academic year, Dean Sheldon Kamieniecki announced.
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Events explore traumatic journeys migrants endure on the way to the border
The series of UC Santa Cruz events on human migration continues Friday and Saturday, May 6–7 with “Rethinking Migration,” the first in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship and part of the Chicano Latino Research Center’s Borders and Belonging series.
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Research Frontiers Evening features six talks on social science research
Six UC Santa Cruz professors will deliver lively “Ed Talks” describing how their research confronts and connects contemporary issues when the UCSC Social Sciences division holds its third annual Research Frontiers event.
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2015’s States Where Hispanics Are Most Assimilated
Catherine S. Ramírez, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies, was quoted in an “ask the experts” portion of an article about Hispanic assimilation in Wallet Hub, an online site based in Washington, D.C.
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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.
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Event Santa Cruz features talks by UCSC professors and alumni
Three UC Santa Cruz social science professors and three alumni who have started businesses in Santa Cruz are featured speakers at the next Event Santa Cruz set for 7-9 p.m., Wednesday, March 19, at the Nickelodeon Theatres.
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Four UCSC faculty selected to represent National Women’s Studies Association at international conference
Professors Rosa-Linda Fregoso (Latin American and Latino Studies), Aída Hurtado (Psychology), Catherine Ramírez (American Studies), and Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel (Feminist Studies) have been selected by the National Women’s Studies Association’s International Task Force to represent the organization at the Women’s World Congress to be held in Madrid, Spain, July 3-8. The Women’s World Congress is convened…