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Members of the WIITH team looking at photographs and documents housed in UCSC Special Collections. Center, Christina Ayson Plank (WIITH head curator and digital archive co-director). Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta

National Endowment for the Humanities honors Watsonville Is In The Heart with a prestigious $75,000 project grant

Photo: Courtesy of Ignacio Gatica

Jeppe Ugelvig receives UCHRI grant for establishing UC Fashion Working Group

Maureen’s in-home podcasting “studio".

Maureen McGuire, Ph.D. Candidate Participates in Podcasting the Humanities

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Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal Publishes a Supplementary Issue, "Imagining the Future of Digital Publishing"

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Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal publishes its fifth volume, "Sensing Place"

Maureen McGuire participating in the Immersive Global Middle Ages program

Using digital tools to understand Late Antique architecture

Tenga Tenga

Tenga Tenga; Can I Help You Carry Your Load?

Zoe Weldon-Yochim

Zoe Weldon-Yochim awarded Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce/ ACLS Predoctoral Fellowships

Digital rendering of the new Oceania galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, copyright: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maggie Wander hired at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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REFRACT: AN OPEN-ACCESS VISUAL STUDIES JOURNAL PUBLISHES ITS FOURTH VOLUME

Matthew Harrison Tedford

Matthew Harrison Tedford's essay published in Feminist Media Histories

Pacific Arts vol. 22 Cover

Prof. Stacy Kamehiro edits a special issue of Pacific Arts (the journal of the Pacific Arts Association)

The Getty Research Institute

Zoe Weldon-Yochim presents at the Fourth Annual Getty Graduate Symposium

(from left to right) Larry Achiampong, Nuotama Frances Bodomo, and Aaron Samuel Mulenga

Surge Afrofuturism: Searching for Freedom with the Afronauts w/ Larry Achiampong, Nuotama Frances Bodomo, Aaron Samuel Mulenga

Page from Codex Espangliensis: from Columbus to Border Control by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya, and Felicia Rice. 1998. Photograph by author. Book in UCSC Special Collections, call number: Z239.M68 1998.

Katie Ligmond CART project: Viva los Libros

“Picnic in the Fields,” Watsonville is in the Heart Digital Archive, accessed September 14, 2021, https://wiith.ucsc.edu/items/show/35

Christina Ayson Plank CART project: More than their Labor: Sites of Manong Labor and Leisure in the Pajaro Valley

Catherine Ries Awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Research Grant

Catherine Ries Presents at AIFIS (American Institute for Indonesian Studies) Conference

Photo by Alexandra Macheski

Alexandra Macheski sponsored by the Research Center for the Americas (RCA) and the Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) Department through dissertation writing support from Heartfelt Editor

THI Imagination

Alexandra Macheski awarded as a Graduate Student Instructor for The Humanities Institute (THI) “Questions That Matter” course series on the theme of "Imagination"

Cornell SEAP (Southeast Asia Program) Graduate Student Conference

Catherine Ries Presents at Cornell SEAP (Southeast Asia Program) Graduate Student Conference

Zoe Weldon-Yochim

Zoe Weldon-Yochim awarded Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad

Katie Ligmond awarded a fellowship to participate in the National Humanities Center Graduate Student Summer Residency Program

From the Ground Up!Ulubuto, Dimension: 180 x 130cm Medium: Acrylic and Coffee on Canvas Photo courtesy of the artist.

Aaron Samuel Mulenga awarded the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures

Maggie Wander awarded Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art

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