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11/05/2025

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09/02/2025

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08/27/2025

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08/27/2025

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03/14/2025

The UCSC Legal Studies department is currently looking for a full-time visiting assistant professor for the 2025-2026 academic year!

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Applications are due by April 25, 2025 11:59pm PST.

01/18/2023

https://politics.ucsc.edu/news-events/events/chung.talk.html

How do national states and societies come to define specific populations as foreign? And how does this racialization process affect political claims-making? Focusing on the Korean diasporic populations in Japan and the United States from the early 1900s to the mid-1960s, this talk will examine how c...

06/08/2022

Our warmest congrats to PhD Candidate of Politics Lucia Vitale for being awarded the Fulbright to support her dissertation project: "The Borders of Health Citizenship: Multiscalar Inclusion and Exclusion along the Dominican-Haitian Border." Good luck Lucia! We are so proud of you!
The Fulbright Program UC Santa Cruz

Lucia's dissertation builds off of the pre-dissertation work funded by the Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant. Thanks to the Tinker Foundation for supporting such critical work in the region as well as additional funding support from UCSC Office of Research, UCSC Division of Graduate Studies & the UCSC Foundation.

03/07/2022

Video of last Friday's event on the war in the Ukraine including presentations from Politics professors Read and Schoenman, and PhD Candidate Daria Saprykina.

A Conversation with UC Santa Cruz ExpertsOn February 24, 2022, Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine, a former republic of the USSR and today an independent, d...

02/03/2022

12/03/2020

Politics PhD Michael Wilson Becerril’s first book was recently published. It explores the violence surrounding gold extraction in Peru. Congratulations Michael!

From the publishers website: Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of violence. Through an ethnographic and systematic comparison of four gold mining conflicts in Peru, Resisting Extractivism presents a vivid account of subtle and routine forms of violence, analyzing how meaning making practices render certain types of damage and suffering noticeable while occluding others.

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/university-press/book/9780826501578?fbclid=IwAR2FHXDdX2gdm_nhJUHvZGagKZJk4FYQDLewCUiPpglEmnCTVVBK7yxcu_Q

An archival and ethnographic study into the meanings of "violence" within environmental conflicts in Peru

10/21/2020

https://politics.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/ahmad.html

The purpose of law and government is, once again, due for a major reconsideration. Whether the purpose of law is keeping the peace in society or instilling moral virtue in the population governed by it (hence, disciplining it based on some sense of moral commitments they are presumed to have made bu...

03/03/2020

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