Designated Emphasis for Ph.D. Students
UC Santa Cruz graduate students enrolled in doctoral programs may obtain a designated emphasis in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies to complement their graduate degree. The designated emphasis is the equivalent of a “minor” for graduate study. It will provide you with a framework for in-depth study in specialized fields in your area, and an opportunity for recognition of particular scholarly expertise.
Students pursuing the designated emphasis are encouraged to serve as a teaching assistant for at least one CRES core or elective course. CRES faculty are encouraged to appoint CRES designated emphasis students as teaching assistants when possible and appropriate.
Declaring the CRES DE
Step 1
Identify a CRES faculty advisor from the principal faculty.
Students are encouraged to take graduate seminars with CRES faculty as a way to get to know them and their research.
Step 2
Complete the CRES DE application and submit it to the CRES Department Manager (tainslie@ucsc.edu).
Step 3
Once your DE application has been accepted, you will receive a letter from the chair outlining your completed and remaining requirements.
*Coursework and written work do not need to be complete before declaration.
CRES DE Graduate Representative
Stephanie Valadez
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DE Opportunities
The CRES Department offers several funding opportunities for our Designated Emphasis students.
Teaching Assistantships
CRES employs Teaching Assistantships for our large lecture courses. The call for applications is sent via email in spring quarter. All graduate students are welcome to apply. CRES Designated Emphasis students will be given priority consideration for appointments. Students must be in good academic standing to receive a TAship.
Research/Travel Grants
CRES offers a small amount of funding to CRES DEs conducting CRES-related research or traveling to conferences and presenting CRES-related work. We provide funding up to $500. Priority will be given to students who have not previously been given an award.
Judy Yung Memorial Fund
CRES invites students from all levels (undergraduate and graduate) to apply for funding to support Asian-, Asian diasporic-, Pacific Islander-, and Pacific Islander diasporic-related research geared towards the preservation of oral histories and engagement of local community archives. Preference will be given to CRES majors and Black Studies minors and graduate students with a Designated Emphasis in CRES.
CES Publishing Workshop for Graduate Students
Publishing in academic journals if often cited as a baffling endeavor. In this webinar we hear from the current co-editors and managing editor of Critical Ethnic Studies Journal on its unique approach to intellectual work, submissions, the genre of the journal article, the revision process, and more.
K-12 Teaching Credential Workshop for Humanities PhDs
Professor Kip Téllez (Education, UC Santa Cruz), a lifetime educator with early career experience teaching in K-12 public schools in east Los Angeles County, leads a teaching-credential workshop for Humanities PhDs organized around the prospect of teaching secondary school in the California public school system.
Grad Research Spotlights
Graduate students who are pursuing Designated Emphases in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies are conducting important and exciting research in a variety of fields.
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Marina Segatti (Feminist Studies)
Hi Marina! To start, please give us a general overview of your dissertation project and current research. My doctoral research focuses on exploring the strategies employed by Brazilian feminists, queer and trans politicians, and activists through social media platforms. I aim to understand how they have responded to the challenges posed by social and political…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Kiley McLaughlin (Literature)
by Talib Jabbar Migration Circuit Talib Jabbar: You’re doing a Creative/Critical dissertation project as part of the Literature program as well as a DE in CRES. How has CRES informed your project? (Note, if you’d like here you can explain what a creative/critical project is best you can). Kiley McLaughlin: My dissertation comprises two major components: an…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Theresa Hice-Fromille (Sociology)
Each quarter, I tell my CRES and Sociology students and my P2R mentees that I am in graduate school so I can travel the world. Even before I had the means and opportunity to do so, I considered travel to be one of my main interests. Still, it didn’t occur to me that I could translate this…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Uriel Serrano (Sociology)
Coming of Age in South Central: Gender Ideologies, Youth Activism, and The Carceral State On September 15th, I joined Black and Brown youth activists at the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters as they rallied to continue their calls to defund the second largest school police department in the country. Earlier that summer, LAUSD voted…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Talib Jabbar (Literature)
Queer Convoys: American Imperial Militarism and Global Asian Cultural Production “’Terror’ talk is the new race talk—the ‘terrorist’ (or the ‘militant’ or the ‘radical’) is the twenty-first century way of saying ‘savage.’” –Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana, “Left” A maddening amount of technological and socio-cultural shifts have cast the twenty-first century in the markings of…
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CRES Graduate Spotlight: Christian Alvarado (History of Consciousness)
An interview with Jane Komori, also a CRES DE in the Department of History of Consciousness JK: You’re a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness Department with a Designated Emphasis in CRES. What does this interdisciplinary formation offer you that you might not have in a more traditional academic setting? CA: The interdisciplinary formations…