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April 14: Eleonora Pasotti "Death and the State: Lessons from Comparative Legal Analysis"
June 3, 2023
Mark Fathi Massoud awarded Berlin Prize
May 16, 2023
Massoud's Berlin Prize fellowship will allow him to focus on research about perceptions and experiences of shari‘a in the United States.
May 17: Ruth Langridge " Governing Groundwater"
May 3, 2023
Peter Bratt announced as 2023 Social Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award recipient
April 24, 2023
Rockefeller Fellow, Peabody Award winner, Emmy-nominated film producer, writer, director, community organizer, and social justice activist Peter Bratt is UC Santa Cruz’s 2023 Social Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.
Representing her community
April 12, 2023
A daughter of a Vietnamese refugee and a Mexican immigrant, Kim Bernice Nguyen advocates for her community as the youngest person to hold a seat on the Garden Grove City Council. In Jan. 2023, Nguyen announced her run for Congress.
Challenging the costs
April 5, 2023
While at UCSC, Marisol Ornelas (Stevenson ‘24, politics and legal studies) is working to remedy the many obstacles on the road to higher education.
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.
UCSC wins prestigious Highly Established Action Plan Seal for voter engagement
March 7, 2023
UC Santa Cruz has become one of only three University of California campuses awarded a Highly Established Action Plan Seal as part of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) for its voter engagement efforts.
Continuing an Academic Legacy
March 6, 2023
The Dr. Aaronette White Scholarship was awarded to Guneet Hora in 2022.
Leading and learning to save the world
February 21, 2023
CalEPA Secretary Yana Garcia heads California’s fight against the ongoing climate crisis with her UCSC education as her foundation.
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
Scholars, students, and community working together for transformation at UCSC's All-In Conference
November 10, 2022
More than 400 university scholars, students, community organizers, foundation representatives, artists, and activists came together in late October for a one-of-a-kind event to build collaborative partnerships for community-engaged research and meaningful social change at the UC Santa Cruz conference: All-In: Co-creating Knowledge for Justice.
Politics Professor Mark Fathi Massoud recognized nationally for teaching and mentoring, research excellence
October 10, 2022
Politics and Legal Studies Professor Mark Fathi Massoud won two awards during the recent American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting.
Transforming Futures: Amanda Safi
October 4, 2022
Transforming Futures— a pilot program launched by UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Social Transformation—awarded seven first generation, underrepresented, and/or low-income UCSC students scholarships to pursue unpaid internships over the summer. Amanda Safi interned with the Office of Congressman Jimmy Panetta.
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.
