Category: Department Updates
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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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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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Congratulations to Camilla Hawthorne on Her Book, “The Black Mediterranean”!
To see more of Camilla’s work, please check out Black Geographies as well as Black Europe Summer School. The Black Europe Summer School is a two-week intensive course held each summer in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The course explores the contemporary circumstances of the African Diaspora and other people of color in Europe. Participants learn about the origins of…
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Congratulations to Eric Porter on His New Book!
This co-edited volume, Sound Changes: Improvisation and Transcultural Difference, was published last week by the University of Michigan Press and is the third and final publication from a collaboration with Daniel Fischlin of the University of Guelph. It follows a 2016 special issue of Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation and their 2020 volume Playing for Keeps: Improvisation…
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CRES and FMST welcome Marisol LeBrón!
As the year comes to the close, the Program in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department write to share long-awaited, heartening news with you: Marisol LeBrón will be joining our faculty ranks as an associate professor starting this fall! Currently housed in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin, Professor…
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Announcing the Judy Yung Memorial Fund
By Alice Yang, Associate Professor of History The UCSC community was devastated to learn of the passing of Judy Yung on December 14, 2020 at the age of 74. In her honor, the campus has established the Judy Yung Memorial Fund, which shall be used to support interdisciplinary research and/or programming related to Asian American / Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies at UC Santa…
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CRES DE, Ka-Eul Yoo’s research paper recognized by the Association for Asian American Studies
Literature Ph.D. student and CRES DE, Ka-Eul Yoo recently received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Association for Asian American Studies for her paper, “The Crime of Leprosy: The Red Threat and U.S. Hansen’s Disease Policy in Cold War Korea”. Ka-Eul received a cash award from the AURA-AAAS Endowment Fund, a gift which honors the legacy of Asians United…
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CRES Director Christine Hong Publishes A New Book
A Violent Peace offers a radical account of the United States’ transformation into a total-war state. As the Cold War turned hot in the Pacific, antifascist critique disclosed a continuity between U.S. police actions in Asia and a rising police state at home. Writers including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. Du Bois discerned in domestic…
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Announcing the Black Studies Minor
In the past few weeks, catalyzed by the police murder of George Floyd, a powerful mass movement has emerged against the lethality of antiblack racism. People, including many in our community, have taken to the streets to hold racist structures accountable, calling for the defunding, demilitarization, and disbanding of the police as a necessary means…
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Artist-Made Tools Resist Algorithmic Racism and Empower Communities
by Theadora Walsh Last week Eric Yuan, CEO of the now exhaustingly ever-present video conference company Zoom, told investors that Zoom would not offer encryption services to free users. Why? Because of Zoom’s commitment to supporting and aiding the FBI and local police officers. As social distancing requires unprecedented reliance on the internet, and the ongoing Black Lives Matter…