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Department Updates
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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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CRES Welcomes Three New Faculty: Jennifer Mogannam, Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, and Kriti Sharma
In 2021, CRES conducted a targeted recruitment of two President’s Postdoctoral Fellows, Jennifer Mogannam and Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu. We are thrilled to announce that both fellows will be joining us in Fall 2023! Jennifer Mogannam is an Assistant Professor in the department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and anaffiliate of the Center for the Middle East…
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Congratulations to Eric Porter on His New Book, “A People’s History of SFO”!
A People’s History of SFO uses the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to tell a multifaceted story of development, encounter, and power in the surrounding region from the eighteenth century to the present. In lively, engaging stories, Eric Porter reveals SFO’s unique role in the San Francisco Bay Area’s growth as a globally connected…
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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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micha cardenas’ book, “Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media” Out Now!
In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cárdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets of instructions designed…
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FMST/CRES Professor Neel Ahuja publishes new book: Planetary Specters
Congratulations to Neel Ahuja, whose new book – Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century – was recently published by UNC Press. Planetary Specters, tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate…
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Department Statements
We welcome all thoughtful, informed and reasoned comments to our departmental statements. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of all members of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department, the Regents of the University of California, or the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Public Statement to Protect Campus Speech and Academic Freedom
We publicly condemn the UC leadership’s adoption of policies that criminalize our right to teach, write, and research the truth about Palestine. We publicly condemn directives that limit…
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Calls for Academic Institutions to End Genocide against Palestinians
Open Letter from the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’s Research Community Open Letter from Birzeit University in Palestine to International Academic Institutions Statement on Bias in UC Statements from the…
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CRES Statement of Support for the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) is a department at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) that studies race intersectionally in the context of power. In this moment—when we are…
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Call for a Global General Strike
As a department, we are observing the Palestinian-led Global General Strike and will not conduct university business as usual on 10/20/23. We are in full support of the strike…
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CRES Faculty Letter in Support of UAW Strikes
The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department urges the UCSC administration to persuade UCOP to bargain with the UAW in good faith and to take the bargaining position…
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Statement in Support of the UC A-G Ethnic Studies Requirement
Starting in 1968, students at two public universities in California–first San Francisco State and then UC Berkeley–courageously led the way for the grassroots formation of ethnic studies by…
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