Division Highlights

Message from the Dean: Humanities Division Budget Update

As you know, the Humanities Division along with all other divisions was asked by the EVC to prepare budget reduction scenarios for next year. The first scenario supposes a cut of 5.5%...[More]

2009-10 Deans' & Chancellor's Undergraduate Awards - Application Forms are Available!

Dean's Awards are granted to 50 undergraduates who have completed an outstanding senior thesis or project during the current academic year (2009-10). Each recipient will receive a $100...[More]

Two Humanities Research Programs Receive UC MRPI Awards

Two research programs based in the Humanities Division recently received awards in the 2009 UC Multi-Campus Research Program and Initiatives Competition (UC MRPI). The Pacifi...[More]

Headlines

UCSC Scholarship Benefit Dinner raises more than $160,000 to support students

More than 300 people turned out for the seventh annual UC Santa Cruz Scholarship Benefit Dinner that took place Saturday night at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose....[More]

New UCSC training program fosters ethics and justice discourse in science and engineering

This spring, UC Santa Cruz, will launch a unique graduate-level training program funded by a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to cross-train scientists and engineers in humanities...[More]

Gail Hershatter elected vice-president of Association for Asian Studies

History professor Gail Hershatter has been elected vice-president of the Association for Asian Studies....[More]

UC Santa Cruz lecturer named first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County

UC Santa Cruz humanities lecturer Gary Young has been named the first-ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County....[More]

Humanities professor wins 2009 prize for scholarly outreach

Professor of classics and comparative literature Mary-Kay Gamel has been awarded the 2009 Prize for Scholarly Outreach from the American Philological Association (APA)--the national classics...[More]