Media Coverage

Indica News quoted associate feminist studies professor Anjali Arondekar, director of UCSC’s Center for South Asian Studies, about how both sides in the U.S. presidential election were using a targeted campaign toward Indian Americans based on religion and language.

Biologist James Estes was quoted in an article in The Scientist about the importance of large predators in ecosystems.

Biologists Barry Sinervo and Gage Dayton are featured in a story from Voices of Monterey Bay about the disappearance of the Pacific giant salamander from Big Sur.

Fisheries scientist John Carlos Garza was quoted in coverage of his research on the genetics of spring-run and fall-run Chinoook salmon, including stories in Science, Washington Newsday, UPI, Terra Daily, PhysOrg, Science Daily, Scienmag, and other media outlets.

The New York Times Style Magazine featured an extensive profile of UCSC distinguished professor emerita Angela Davis in its 2020 Greats issue, celebrating "five talents who, in mastering their crafts, have changed their fields—and the culture at large.”

KQED ran a story about the West Coast debut of Lessons of the Hour, a film and photography exhibition by British filmmaker, installation artist, and UC Santa Cruz distinguished professor of the arts, Isaac Julien, at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. A story also was published in the Daily Republic.

A story in Next City, about a Philadelphia neighborhood organizing to mobilize residents about a garbage problem, noted that they used the “implosion method,” a concept from humanities emeritus professor Donna Haraway, as an educational tool.

Arts professor Robin Hunicke was quoted in an NPR story about Shadow of the Colossus, the second of three melancholic video games directed by acclaimed Japanese game maker Fumito Ueda.

The Los Angeles Times reviewed the latest book by novelist and UCSC literature alumna Rachel Howzell Hall, “And Now She’s Gone.”