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Congratulations, Class of 2023
May 31, 2025
April 14: Eleonora Pasotti "Death and the State: Lessons from Comparative Legal Analysis"
May 31, 2025
Tools and training combat health impacts on farmworkers that are worsened by climate change
February 25, 2025
A UC Santa Cruz-led project has launched a new bilingual app allowing the public to assess and anonymously report climate-related health risks in agricultural communities statewide. Over 50 newly trained community health advisers will use the app and other tools to teach farmworkers about health risks worsened by climate change and the remedies available through state-mandated health protections.
Rooted in community
February 21, 2025
Alumna Dora Maria Beyer (Merrill ’09, Latin American & Latino studies, politics) was recently named one of Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 for her work assisting low-income communities as director of community development with Excite Credit Union.
New book explores historical lessons on racial equity issues in the U.S.
February 14, 2025
The latest book from UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus of Politics Michael K. Brown takes a look back over a century of American history to explore how shortcomings in political philosophy have kept racial inequality problems stuck in place in the United States.
UC Santa Cruz recognized as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting
December 9, 2024
The University of California, Santa Cruz has been named a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting, an honor awarded to 471 colleges and universities across the country for their efforts to increase nonpartisan democratic engagement.
Redefining philanthropy: Alumna Carmen Rojas drives change
November 14, 2024
Alumna Carmen Rojas is the president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation and is a leader in the fight for racial, economic, and social justice.
Recognizing outstanding faculty and staff in the Division of Social Sciences
October 8, 2024
Social Sciences Dean Katharyne Mitchell and award committee members recently announced the recipients of the 2024 Social Sciences Division faculty and staff awards, which are dedicated to honoring significant contributions to teaching, research excellence, and student support.
Will AI tools revolutionize public health? Not if they continue following old patterns, researchers argue.
October 8, 2024
A new paper published in the journal Social Science & Medicine shares findings from an extensive literature analysis of AI’s current trajectory in health care.
Election forum series to foster dialogue and empower students for active democratic participation
September 16, 2024
This fall, the University of California, Santa Cruz will host the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series: Power, Politics, and Our Democracy, a six-part event series designed to foster open dialogue and engage students and the public in critical conversations about democracy, media, and voter participation.
Creating community and change: Sharhonda Bossier’s path from UCSC to education leadership
September 10, 2024
Sharhonda Bossier, a UCSC undergraduate and graduate alumna and current CEO of Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC), credits the support and community she found at UCSC for shaping her career in education leadership.
A car-free future? A Banana Slug alum is targeting one obscure regulation to get there
September 9, 2024
Alumnus Tony Jordan is a 2024 Grist 50 honoree, a list of climate leaders and innovators.
Breaking barriers and breaking news
August 21, 2024
One year after graduating from UCSC, Ryan Loyola (Stevenson ’23, politics) is a news assistant and fill-in assignment editor at ABC7 Los Angeles where he reports on breaking news.
Stepping onto the global stage
August 21, 2024
One year after graduating from UCSC, Samantha Moore (Merrill ’23, politics) recently completed an M.A. in International Relations at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations.
Balancing goals: Student athlete Camille Anneet excels in politics, legal studies, and soccer
June 6, 2024
Camille Anneet (Stevenson ’26, politics and legal studies), a second-year soccer player double majoring in politics and legal studies, has played soccer since she was six years old. As a student athlete, she balances it all.
Fashion, community, and academics: First-gen student Izzy Zazueta’s path to graduation
May 29, 2024
Izzy Zazueta (John R. Lewis ’24, politics), a third year, dean’s honors, and first-generation student, will graduate from UCSC with extensive research experience, involvement with nearly a dozen organizations, and will be attending the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Sociology Ph.D. program.
Year End Celebration
April 10, 2024
May 8: Gerardo Munck "Evaluating the Social Sciences: The Question of Progress"
March 26, 2024
Mar 11: Tanya Golash-Boza: "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap"
March 4, 2024
Feb 29: Lisa Hajjar "Gaza Is a Crime Scene"
February 13, 2024
May 17: Ruth Langridge " Governing Groundwater"
May 3, 2023
Legal Studies Annual Distinguished Lecture
March 28, 2023
We welcome Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández to present the Legal Studies Annual Distinguished Lecture, titled Coming to Understand Latino Anti-Black Bias.
Feb 8: Joshua Ryan "Legislative Gridlock and Policymaking Through the Appropriations Process"
January 18, 2023
Register for Politics Declaration Workshops (Spring Quarter)
January 15, 2023
May 4: Juan Bogliaccini "Empowering Labor? Left Distributive Strategies in Unequal Democracies"
February 9, 2022
April 11: Nadia Marzouki "The Rule of Law vs The Rule of One: Contending Legitimacies in Tunisia since the July 25th Coup"
February 9, 2022
May 25: Marcos Scauso "Intersectional Decoloniality: Research and Praxis within a Tension
February 1, 2022
Professor Beaumont and students lead campus to win awards for voting and democracy engagement
November 4, 2021
May 5: Mark Massoud "Shari'a, Inshallah - Finding God in Somali Legal Politics"
April 8, 2021
Politics Professor and Undergraduate Researcher featured in UCSC Magazine
April 8, 2021
UCSC awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grants to support faculty research
January 28, 2021
UC Santa Cruz has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support faculty research and writing leading to book projects.
Nov 9: Paul M. B. Gutierrez "Colonizing through Contract: The Settler Colonial and Revolutionary Entanglements of Dartmouth"
October 22, 2020
Nov 4: Ahmad Atif Ahmad "From Punishment to Restitution"
October 20, 2020
Legal Studies Professor Jackie Gehring Recognized with Distinguished Teaching Award
June 16, 2020
Associate teaching professor of Legal Studies Jacqueline Gehring is recognized with UCSC's 2020-2021 Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor Anjuli Verma
September 24, 2019
In memoriam: J. Peter Euben
June 13, 2018
Professor Emeritus J. Peter Euben passed away in May 2018.
Politics Department public talk on May 21: Dayna Barnes
May 15, 2018
Politics professor studies opportunities for climate governance
January 23, 2018
Sikina Jinnah shares her thoughts about what climate governance looks like and ways to implement environmentally-sound policies.
Recent alum shows that after graduation, anything is possible
November 29, 2017
When Anna Jean Kaiser (Cowell, politics ’12) graduated from UC Santa Cruz, she decided to move to a country where she knew no one. Now, she is a successful reporter writing for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other publications.
Mark Fathi Massoud: “Three important points to help in understanding South Sudan’s worsening crisis”
July 12, 2016
In an op-ed in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog on politics, politics professor and award-winning researcher Mark Fathi Massoud analyzes the ongoing political and humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.
