UC Santa Cruz - History of Consciousness

Applications Open for HistCon PhD Program for Fall 2024

UC Santa Cruz campus grounds: student on a footpath through redwood trees, April 1988. Nikolay Zurek. © Courtesy Special Collections, University Library, University of California Santa Cruz. Visual Resource Collection: Campus History Slides.

HistCon welcomes our 2023 cohort!

The Histcon Office will remain partially remote throughout the year.

Department News

History of Consciousness

Faculty Publications

The Dispossessed by Robert Nichols

Lessons of the Hour -- Frederick Douglass by Isaac Julien

A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport by Eric Porter

Theft is Property by Robert Nichols

Insurgent Universality by Massimiliano Tomba

Justice Is an Option: A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century by Robert Meister

Curating the Moving Image by Mark Nash

Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique edited by Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

Starve and Immolate by Banu Bargu

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