UC San Diego Division of Arts & Humanities

One of the [Black Studies Project's] three areas of research is social justice movements, and the Black Lives Matter movement is arguably the most pressing, active and visible social movement of our time, said History associate professor Jessica Graham, director of the Black Studies Project. UC San Diego commits $2.5 million over five years to the project, housed in UC San Diego Social Sciences.

What a perfect article about UC San Diego Alumni Sarah Hennies for Homecoming Week at UC San Diego!

Just announced! Congratulations to Rae Armantrout, professor emeritus in the Dept. of Literature. Rae is being honored by UC San Diego with a Revelle Medal, awarded to current and former faculty members for sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to the campus. The university will present the medal at this year's Founders Live event, held mid November.

It's homecoming week - The Grammy award-winning band Switchfoot, which began at UC San Diego, will be taking over the UC San Diego Alumni Instagram account (instagram.com/ucsdalumni) tomorrow, Thursday, Oct. 22.

Read what award-winning costume designer and UC San Diego Theatre and Dance professor Judy Dolan has to say about designing for "Candide," directed by Harold Prince for the New York City Opera. The Theatre Times opens the interview: In 1997, a Broadway revival of 'Candide' based on Prince’s NYCO production opened at the Gershwin Theater and earned Judith Dolan a Tony Award for Best Costume Design.

#NewFaculty in the Department of Literature Amy Sara Carroll is trained as both a poet and a scholar, receiving her MFA in creative writing from Cornell and Ph.D. in literature from Duke University. Her books include "Secession" (2012), winner of the Louis I. Bredvold Prize and the Golden Crown Literary Society Poetry Award. No stranger to the Cali-Baja region, she said her role in the community in collaborative. "My hope," she said, "[is] to contribute in some small way to multi-generational efforts that prioritize and activate education broadly defined as a public good without borders." Read more: https://artsandhumanities.ucsd.edu//new-f/amy-carroll.html

Homecoming week is here! If you haven't registered, there's still time to get in on all the fun, including a virtual tailgate party and joining the Arts and Humanities team for the Triton 5K! https://homecoming.ucsd.edu/

Congratulations to UC San Diego Alumni Danny Burstein on his Tony Award nomination. Danny, an MFA alum in UCSD Theatre and Dance, is nominated for his portrayal of Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge!

We'll be live streaming this discussion today on our YouTube channel. "What does an Abolitionist Asian American Politics Look Like?" is hosted by the UC San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities, with support from California Humanities and the UCI Humanities Center. The talk will be moderated by K. Wayne Yang of UC San Diego Social Sciences. Watch today at 12:30 (PT). https://youtu.be/Aj5jrOozpQo

The UC San Diego Changemaker Institute was officially announced in today's ThisWeek @ UC San Diego - and we are happy to see the Institute for Practical Ethics partner for their first event, held on Global Ethics Day. "Global Ethics of Affirmative Action" will include a panel discussion with UCSD Philosophy professor Reuven Brandt and Ph.D. student Jada Wiggleton-Little, Political Science professor Marisa Abrajano and UC San Diego Alumni Laura Zwicker. Register for this Oct. 21, 12 p.m. event here: https://ucsd-global-ethics-2020.eventbrite.com

Published in the UC San Diego Alumni magazine, Triton: "It seems quaint that the college could have been named for the Greek muse, Clio, and focus on history and its theory. This was the initial direction at least, back when no one could have known what UC San Diego’s third college would become, and that its origins would be as contentious as they were ambitious. Just as no one could have known, on April 4, 1968, that Martin Luther King, Jr. would be assassinated outside his Memphis, Tenn., hotel room."