Year: 2019
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Christine Rosales (Psychology)
Everyday Resistance Understandings of resistance are often narrow and limited to what can be observed in plain sight, such as marches, protests, boycotts, etc. When I hear the word “resistance,” I think about iconic images of people protesting and marching collectively. Yet, I also think about people that perhaps nobody will ever see on TV…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Claire Urbanski (Feminist Studies)
For the Glory of Gold and Bones: Spiritual Accumulation and Grave Theft in the Construction of the San Francisco Bay Area As U.S. settler colonial empire expanded into California during the nineteenth century, the Gold Rush brought hundreds of thousands of settlers who unleashed a brutal genocidal project of terror against Indigenous peoples [1]. From the…
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Congratulations: 2018-19 Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award Recipients!
Please join us in congratulating CRES students Regina Celine Grayson, Fatima Mohammadi, Nyereath Nhial and Anney Traymany who were selected to receive this yearsDean’s Undergraduate Research Award in recognition of their outstanding research projects! “Hello, My Name is “Foster Kid.”Regina Celine Grayson (Oakes) My Body Can’t Salute A War Machine: Bodily Resistance in Leslie M. Silko’s CeremonyFatima Sadaf Mohammadi (Cowell) South…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Dana Ahern (Feminist Studies)
Imperial Knowledges: Bounding the (Trans)itory Body Time becomes something very confusing when transitioning/transitioned. Many transgender people disconnect themselves from their past, seeing their lives as having begun at the moment of starting the transition. Others leave behind a past reluctantly, encountering an increasing number of people who will only have known them post-transition. Still others try to hold on to…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Saugher Nojan (Sociology)
Muslim Students Capture Campus Climate: A Photovoice Project For over 20 years, Muslim students at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) have fought for a prayer space/meditation room on campus. In 2017, UCSC campus administrators met with the Muslim Student Association (MSA) to understand the needs of the Muslim student community, particularly after the inauguration of the…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Sheeva Sabati (Education)
Settler Colonial Imaginaries and the naming of the first UC Campus “Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama of the day; Time’s noblest offspring is the last” [1] In spring of 1866, the Trustees of what would become the first public…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Jess Whatcott (Politics)
California Eugenics and The Making of a Liberal State California’s history of eugenics came under public scrutiny when an investigative journalist uncovered evidence that non-consensual reproductive sterilizations took place in women’s prisons as recently as 2010. My interest in the investigation was grounded in hearing similar stories of unethical medical practice within prisons while volunteering…
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CRES Faculty Condemn Recent Police Violence against Student Protesters
Dear President Napolitano, Chancellor Blumenthal, and EVC Tromp: We, the undersigned principal faculty of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program, are compelled to write out of a sense of profound dismay and anger. On Friday, November 16, 2018, UC Santa Cruz students marched to the University Center at Colleges 9/10 with the intention of…