Department News

Politics Alumna Cristina Beltran elected to APSA coucil

Cristina Beltrán (B.A. Politics 1992), associate professor of political science at Haverford College, has been elected to the Council of the American...[More]

Announcing New Politics Faculty

We announce the arrival of Mark Fathi Massoud (JD/PhD, UC Berkeley), who joins the Department as assistant professor. Massoud comes to UCSC from Stanf...[More]

Recent Award Recipients

Professors Kent Eaton and Mark Massoud...[More]

Newly Published

Announcing a new book by Assistant Professor Eleonora Pasotti. The book is "Political Branding in Cities: The Decline of Machine Politics in Bogota...[More]

UCSC 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]

Economics professor's book selected as an outstanding academic title for 2009

A prestigious publisher of academic book reviews has selected Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the United States (MIT Press) by economics professor Rob...[More]