UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ [ Institute for Humanities Research ]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ [ Institute for Humanities Research ] The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at UC Santa Cruz is a laboratory for theorizing and implementing new visions of the Humanities via faculty DIRECTOR research projects, graduate and Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History undergraduate education, and Co-Director, Center for Jewish Studies public programs. Established Neufeld-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies in 1999, the IHR has grown dramatically since its inception ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR and now serves as an umbrella for Irena Polić a multitude of research centers, research clusters, and multi- PROGRAM COORDINATOR campus research projects. Courtney Mahaney With these and other initiatives, the EVENT COORDINATOR IHR serves as an incubator for new Shann Ritchie ideas and provides crucial support to faculty, graduate students, and GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHERS undergraduate students at every Jessica Beard, Literature stage of the research process. One Jen Gray-O’Connor, Sociology of our key functions is to identify promising students and help them UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANTS become productive researchers Cole Carothers , Feminist Studies & Theater Arts through mentorship programs, Jenna Mohdamin Tamimi, Feminist Studies & Theater Arts fellowships, and internship opportunities. STEERING COMMITTEE Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History As the designated humanities Jorge Hankamer, Professor of Linguistics center of UC Santa Cruz, the IHR is Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History part of the University of California Catherine Ramírez, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies systemwide Humanities Network Deanna Shemek, Professor of Literature and is able to leverage the human Nathaniel Deutsch, Ex-Officio Member and intellectual resources of the finest public university system in FIND US the world. http://ihr.ucsc.edu/ [ Director’s Letter ] What are we doing when we do the The University of California is the Humanities and why? These basic finest public university system in questions drive our work at the the world. A crucial part of what Institute for Humanities Research (IHR). makes us great—and what makes us The core subjects of the Humanities different from so many universities – ethics, history, language, identity, around the globe—is the central role religion, and so on – are also the core of the Humanities in our educational elements of human experience, in experience, not only in the curriculum general, even if we sometimes talk but also in the vibrant intellectual life about these things differently in the of our campuses. Here at UC Santa university then we do in our home or Cruz, we possess an especially rich in the public square. tradition of innovation, creativity, and collaboration in the Humanities. Over the past year, we have sought in a variety of ways to link what we do Please join us in celebrating this in the university to a wider network heritage and building on this of people, ideas, and activities. We foundation. are especially proud of the second annual University of California Society of Fellows gathering that we hosted at the Museum of Art & History in downtown Santa Cruz, which drew close to two hundred and fifty visitors from the broader community. Nathaniel Deutsch 01 [ Faculty Fellows ] Faculty Fellows Neda Atanasoski Catherine Jones Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies Assistant Professor of History IHR Fellowships provide faculty in the FACULTY FELLOW, IHR FACULTY FELLOW, IHR Humanities much needed time and resources to pursue their research. Afterimages of Empire: Adapting Race Intimate Reconstructions: Children in In 2011-12, faculty fellows presented and Freedom in U.S. Cold War Culture, Postemancipation Virginia their research on campus, participated 1950-2000 in conferences, produced publications, Support from the IHR has enabled me and collaborated with scholars at My book project, Imperial Afterlife: to dedicate valuable time to revising other universities. Postsocialist Temporalities of Race, my book manuscript, Intimate Recon- Religion, and Humanitarianism, ad- structions: Children in Postemancipa- In 2011-12, the IHR also hosted two dresses instances of U.S. humanitarian tion Virginia. The dramatic legislative UCSC faculty fellows from the UC intervention in Afghanistan, Bosnia action that usually defines Reconstruc- Society of Fellows. The UC Society and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. I am tion set new boundaries for interac- of Fellows enables the University interested in how the entangled no- tions among southerners but could of California to support excellence tions of humanitarianism and atrocity not do the work of incarnating new among its humanities researchers in U.S. culture and politics produce a freedoms or recalibrating the privileg- while encouraging them to exercise racial map of freedom in the postso- es attached to whiteness. By following leadership in the humanities both cialist era. Although in post-Cold War children through Virginia’s tumultuous within the University and in the public geopolitics “unfreedom” is no longer post-Civil War period, my work uncov- sphere. thought of through the Soviet-com- ers the tangled relationship between munist world, but rather the Islamic the postemancipation reconfiguration world, the U.S. continues to justify of domestic relationships and evolving humanitarian imperialism as a struggle understandings of public responsibil- for global racial and sexual redemp- ity for children. Children shaped the tion by racializing ideological and reconstruction of Virginia not only religious formations conceived of as through purposeful action, but also distant from U.S. modernity. through their capacity to help define community interests in the absence of slavery. 02 Matt O’Hara Dorian Bell Dana Frank Associate Professor of History Assistant Professor of Literature Professor of History FACULTY FELLOW, IHR FACULTY FELLOW, UC SOCIETY OF FELLOWS FACULTY FELLOW, UC SOCIETY OF FELLOWS The History of the Future in Mexico Frontiers of Hate: Anti-Semitism and Labor’s Own Empire: The AFL-CIO’s Cold Empire in Nineteenth-Century France War in Honduras, 1954-1980 How has our relationship to the future changed over time? This is a The book project that I am completing During my fellowship year I made fundamental question about human this year, entitled Frontiers of a great deal of progress writing my experience that, surprisingly, historians Hate: Anti-Semitism and Empire in book about the AFL-CIO’s Cold War have not considered in great detail. Nineteenth-Century France, traces the in Honduras, while conducting final My current book project takes up this intertwined histories of French anti- research and reframing the book to problem, examining the way that Semitism and imperialism. Drawing place it more directly in contemporary historical subjects in eighteenth- and on a body of anti-Semitic newspapers, context. In my role as one of the nineteenth-century New Spain/Mexico treatises, and novels, as well as on few academic experts on modern engaged the future. Using archival representations of empire, the book Honduras I also published an op-ed documents from Spain, Mexico and argues that French colonial expansion in the New York Times and a cover the United States, I am researching a helped French anti-Semitism adopt story for The Nation magazine, and diverse range of practices, from topics the political, racializing guise that met with the offices of over thirty U.S. that we usually associate with reli- would haunt the twentieth century. Senators and Members of Congress gious studies (divination, witchcraft, I propose that, conversely, anti- and with the U.S. Ambassador to preaching) to others that are typically Semitism contributed to the imperial Honduras. I was interviewed by the domain of economic historians project’s ideological elaboration and NPR, the Associated Press, BBC, CNN, (budgeting, insurance, demand and public acceptance. By placing into Democracy Now! and many other supply forecasting). The support of conversation scholarship on anti- media outlets. the IHR Fellowship was critical to the Semitism and imperialism, Frontiers successful completion of this project, of Hate offers fresh perspective on since it provided time to analyze these how circulations between metropole research materials and begin writing and colony shaped the emergence of chapter drafts. I look forward to com- modern European racial thought. pleting a draft of the book manuscript in the coming academic year. 03 [ Graduate Fellows ] Graduate Fellows Kelly Feinstein-Johnson Trevor Joy Sangrey History Feminist Studies The IHR supports graduate student DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, IHR DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, IHR research by providing a variety of GRADUATE FELLOW, UC SOCIETY OF FELLOWS fellowships. Over the years, IHR Put One More ‘S’ in the USA: The Dissertation Fellowships have enabled An Account of Notorious Robbers, Productive Fiction of the Black Nation dozens of humanities students to Murtherers, and Sporting Ladies: The Thesis complete their dissertations. The Visual Culture of English Broadside top awardee is designated as a Ballads, 1660-1800 With the generous support of the Graduate Fellow of the UC Society IHR, I completed my dissertation, of Fellows, a program of the UC As an Institute for the Humanities “Put One More ‘S’ in the USA: Humanities Network, and represents Research Dissertation Fellow, I have Communist Pamphlet Literature and UCSC at the annual gathering spent the past year finishing my

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