UC Santa Cruz - History of Consciousness

The Histcon Minor is back!

Histcon welcomes our 2022 cohort!

History of Consciousness Summer Session: click to sign up!

Congrats to Prof. Tomba for co-winning the 2021 David and Elaine Spitz Prize!

The Histcon Office will remain partially remote throughout the year.

Department News

History of Consciousness

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Faculty Publications

New Orleans Suite by Lewis Watts and Eric Porter

After Evil by Robert Meister

Starve and Immolate by Banu Bargu

Haunted Life by David Marriott

Queer/Early/Modern by Carla Freccero

Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being by David Marriott

What Is This Thing Called Jazz? by Eric Porter

Marx's Temporalities by Massimiliano Tomba

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

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