Category: Awards
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Emeritus Donna Haraway Receives Laureate Erasmus Prize 2025
HistCon Emeriti Donna Haraway was awarded the prestigious Laureate Erasmus Prize for her work in keeping with this year’s theme “the pursuit of what binds us.” Read all about the prize here.
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Emeritus Donna Haraway receives The 2025 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
HistCon Emeritus Donna Haraway was awarded the 2025 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Read more about the award here.
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HISC Graduate Student & Professor receive grant from the American Political Science Association
HistCon graduate student Pablo Escudero & HistCon professor Robert Nichols were jointly awarded an Advancing Research Grant for Indigenous Politics from the American Political Science Association to support their work on “Indigenous Autonomy amongst the Kichwa of Sarayaku”. Read more about the award here.
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Moving Image Lab receives presitigious Mellon Grant
The new Moving Image Lab (a collaboration between Professor Julien’s “Isaac Julien Lab” and The Humanities Institute) will receive Mellon Foundation funding to support student career training in the arts. Read more about the grant here.
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Prof. Isaac Julien Awarded Prize for Publication
About the AwardHistory of Consciousness Professor Isaac Julien’s recent publication has been awarded the 2023 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award.The annual Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards recognise individuals or groups of individuals who, in the opinion of the Judges, have made an outstanding original or lasting contribution to the literature of or concerning the art and practice…
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Prof. Massimiliano Tomba Awarded Prize for Publication
History of Consciousness Professor Massimiliano Tomba’s recent publication has been co-awarded the 2021 David and Elaine Spitz Prize. The Prize is awarded every year by CSPT, The International Conference for the Study of Political Thought, for the best books in liberal and/or democratic theory published two years earlier. Selected from a wide range of applications,…
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Prof. Banu Bargu & Prof. Massimiliano Tomba Awarded Fellowships
History of Consciousness Associate Professor Banu Bargu has been named a fellow of both the American Council of Learned Societies and the Institute for Advanced Study School of Social Sciences for the 2020-2021 academic year. The fellowships will enable Bargu to focus on completing her book, Corporeal Politics: Violent Uses of the Body in the…
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UCSC emerita professor Angela Davis to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, The National Women’s Hall of Fame will host a weekend in New York honoring the achievements of women in the birthplace of the Women’s Rights movement. The highlight will be the induction of 10 prominent women into the Hall…
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Histcon Emeritus Faculty to Receive Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award
“This week, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute announced that the honoree for the prestigious 2018 Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award will be Birmingham native, global human rights activist, scholar and author Angela Y. Davis. The highest award given by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award recognizes outstanding individuals for their significant contributions to civil and…