News
Congratulations, Class of 2023
September 9, 2024
April 14: Eleonora Pasotti "Death and the State: Lessons from Comparative Legal Analysis"
September 9, 2024
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.
The Institute of Arts and Science & the San Jose Museum of Art present "Seeing Through Stone"
April 10, 2024
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz (IAS) and San José Museum of Art (SJMA) are pleased to present Seeing through Stone, a multi-sited exhibition bringing together works by international artists whose works engage a history of struggle against prisons and their harms.
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
Lessons from COVID reveal how monopoly power in the biopharmaceutical industry is evolving
February 17, 2024
In his latest paper, Politics Professor Matt Sparke and his coauthor use the case of COVID to demonstrate both the enduring problem of bio-pharmaceutical monopolies and the ways they have been extended and entrenched through complex market-state interconnections.
Feb 29: Lisa Hajjar "Gaza Is a Crime Scene"
February 13, 2024
Pioneering perspectives
January 4, 2024
UCSC alumnus Bob Dodge belonged to the inaugural graduating class of UC Santa Cruz. He attests that the time he spent at UCSC was among the most transformative periods of his life.
Recognizing outstanding faculty and staff in the Division of Social Sciences
October 18, 2023
The Social Sciences Division’s annual fall breakfast gathered faculty and staff to celebrate the winners of four major divisional awards.
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.
