Humanities
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UCSC alumnus wins annual student-journalism award from Chronicle of Higher Education
Sam Laird–a 2007 UCSC graduate with a degree in American Studies–has been awarded the fifth annual “David W. Miller Award for Student Journalists” by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Laird received the $2,500 prize for three articles he had pu
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Two UCSC humanities professors win President’s Research Fellowships
Two UC Santa Cruz professors have won UC President’s Research Fellowships in the Humanities. Noriko Aso, assistant professor of history, and John Bowin, assistant professor of philosophy, are among 15 fellows selected for 2008-2009.
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UCSC celebrates feminist scholarship with DVD release of lectures by Bettina Aptheker
Feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker has been teaching her acclaimed Introduction to Feminisms class at UCSC for the past 28 years. One of the most influential introductory courses in the field, it has now been captured on DVD through a taping project led by her former students. The new DVD release will be highlighted-along with…
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Maximum Fun: Alum Jesse Thorn woos young listeners with a new brand of radio show
Jesse Thorn (B.A. American studies, Porter ’03) has gone national with “The Sound of Young America,” which first aired at UCSC in 1999.
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Award-winning journalist Alexander Stille to be keynote speaker at statewide Italian Studies conference hosted by UCSC
Award-winning author and journalist Alexander Stille will be the keynote speaker at a statewide conference presented by the California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies at UC Santa Cruz, February 29-March 1.
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Judith Aissen named Fellow of Linguistic Society of America
Linguistics professor Judith Aissen has been named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. She received the honor at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the organization, held January 3-6 in Chicago. Similarly honored at the meeting was professor emeritus of linguistics Geoffrey Pullum. “Election as a Fellow recognizes a record of distinguished contributions to…
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UC Santa Cruz professor investigates the extraordinary power of insults
What kind of injury is an insult? Is its infliction determined by the insulter or the insulted? What does it reveal about the character of both parties, as well as the character of society and its conventions? What is its role in social and legal life? How ready should we be to forgive? Those questions…
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Literature professor Sharon Kinoshita receives MLA prize
Literature professor Sharon Kinoshita has received an honorable mention award from The Modern Language Association of America (MLA) as part of its 15th annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary Studies. Kinoshita received the honor for her book, Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature, published by the University of…
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John Mock elected to council of Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Hindi and Urdu lecturer John Mock has been elected to the Executive Council of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) for a four-year term. The organization joins people with wide-ranging interests in the Himalayan region with the goal of increasing awareness of the unparalleled diversity of the human and natural worlds within the…
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UCSC receives gift of rare audio interviews and photos of late ’60s jazz and rock icons
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of more than 1,000 photographs of renowned jazz and rock musicians from the late 1960s, taken by the late jazz scholar and historian, Frank Kofsky. The collection includes 35mm slides, prints, and negatives of such recording artists as John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Ornette…
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Alumnus Victor Davis Hanson receives National Humanities Medal
President George W. Bush awarded a 2007 National Humanities Medal to UCSC alumnus Victor Davis Hanson on November 15 during a ceremony held in the White House East Room. Hanson was one of nine Americans honored for their “exemplary contributions to the humanities” and for their scholarship, preservation efforts, philanthropy, and literary works. The National…
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Emeritus academics reflect on 41 years of McHenry Library
The past and the present merged at McHenry Library last Tuesday when three emeritus professors and a founding librarian joined together to reflect on the 41-year history of the UCSC library. Sitting together behind a long table on the spacious third floor bridge between the book stacks and Special Collections–with the sounds of construction emanating…