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Researcher Ruth Langridge awarded National Science Foundation grant
July 27, 2021
Social Sciences Division celebrates outstanding students
June 2, 2021
The Social Sciences Division is recognizing 21 students for excellence in scholarship and research.
Somalia’s fight for God-given rights
May 26, 2021
The latest book from Politics and Legal Studies Professor Mark Fathi Massoud challenges Western notions of Islam and secular law-making by revealing how Somali Muslims have embraced Sharia as a force for progress and liberation.
Strauss Foundation award recognizes student’s work with families affected by incarceration
May 4, 2021
Legal studies undergraduate Matt Sioson recently won $15,000 in funding from the Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship Foundation.
Enabling women and girls to achieve their potential
April 20, 2021
Alumna Ann Starrs, director of family planning at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, came to reproductive health work from a steadfast commitment—strengthened by her time at UC Santa Cruz—to feminism, gender equality, and women’s empowerment.
Alumna Terri McCullough, chief of staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will make a virtual campus visit for Alumni Week
April 16, 2021
This year’s Alumni Week will feature a virtual fireside chat with Terri McCullough, an Oakes '91 politics alumna who is now chief of staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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
Proud Slugs making a difference through public service
April 6, 2021
A Superior Court judge. The director of the public art program for Los Angeles. A defense attorney. They all believe in public service, and they all say their time at UC Santa Cruz changed their lives in permanent ways.
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.
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.
MacArthur 'genius' grant winner reflects on early influences at UC Santa Cruz
October 26, 2020
Forrest Stuart has built his career pursuing burning questions about the societal underpinnings of poverty and criminalization across disciplines. Stuart said his research focus has been influenced both by his childhood and the formative experiences of his undergraduate education at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he earned his bachelor’s in politics in 2004.
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.
Trump’s right about one thing: The US Senate should end its 60-vote majority
December 13, 2017
Politics Professor Dan Wirls penned an opinion piece for The Conversation about the Senate's 60-vote majority rule, and it was picked up by papers around the country, including the Albany Times-Union and Idaho Press-Tribune.
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.
UCSC students co-author post in The Washington Post's political blog
October 2, 2017
Undergraduate Jennifer Bejar and Ph.D. candidate Michael Wilson Becerril coauthored an opinion column about record violence in Mexico that was published on the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog.
Forget an escape to Canada—look to the south
June 29, 2017
The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed by Associate Politics Professor Mark Fathi Massoud.
Now Hiring: Political Theory Assistant Professor
June 28, 2017
The Politics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Political Theory in areas of non-Western political and legal thought.
Research Roundup: Spring 2017 Issue
June 16, 2017
Faculty in the Social Sciences Division published research on a diverse range of topics, including youth activism in the immigration rights movement, water and poverty, climate change governance, and more.
Ronnie Lipschutz appointed to chair in integral ecology and environmental justice
May 30, 2017
Ronnie Lipschutz, professor of politics and provost of Rachel Carson College, was honored as the inaugural holder of the Robert Headley Presidential Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental Justice.
Research Roundup: Winter 2017 Issue
April 04, 2017
Some of the diverse topics covered by faculty in the Social Sciences Division in Winter 2017 include predicting college success, models for sustainable development, the psychological impact of President Donald Trump, his proposed military budget, and more.
Politics professor Dan Wirls writes op-ed about Trump's military plans
March 16, 2017
Wirls analyzes the administration's proposed military budget in an op-ed in the Conversation.
UC Santa Cruz politics student gets VIP access to vice presidential debate
October 10, 2016
When Austin Downs (College Ten ’17, politics) arrived in Washington D.C. in August little did he know he would attend the vice-presidential debate two months later.
Julie Snyder: Serially great journalism
September 09, 2016
UC Santa Cruz alumna, who will receive this year’s Alumni Achievement Award, talks about making the hit podcast Serial and how her college years laid the foundation for a career in broadcast journalism
Politics graduate student recognized by the American Political Science Association
July 21, 2016
Graduate student Berny Lazareno is named as a 2016-2017 Fellow in the American Political Science Association's Minority Fellowship Program.
In Their Words: Nic Zinter
July 18, 2016
Politics major Nicholas Zinter received a Dean's Award for his project titled “The Naypyidaw Rationale: Cultures of Power and Constructions of Legitimacy in the Republic of Myanmar.”
Dean Mathiowetz on KPFA: Meditation’s Political Potential
July 14, 2016
Politics professor Dean Mathiowetz discusses how meditation and mindfulness practices can strengthen citizenship and democracy on KPFA radio.
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.
Mark Fathi Massoud: How can universities deal with racism? Learn from war zones
December 7, 2015
The Washington Post, via its Monkey Cage blog on politics, published an op-ed by Mark Fathi Massoud, associate professor of politics and legal studies, on how universities can learn from post-war reconciliation when responding to allegations of racism.
PhD student Eric Crosbie wins two dissertation research awards
June 9, 2015
Politics PhD student Eric Crosbie has won two awards for his research on tobacco control policies.
