News
UCSC has a new minor for undergraduates in Middle Eastern and North African Studies, which will begin enrolling students in Fall 2023!
Jenny Kelly (CRES; Feminist Studies) was awarded the 2022-23 Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award!
Jennifer Derr (History), Ingy Higazy (Politics), and Elaine Sullivan (History) travelled with 11 undergraduates to Egypt in December. Read about the trip in UC Santa Cruz Magazine!
Lior Shamriz (Film and Digital Media) showed his film “Estuaries” at the Toronto Queer Film Festival. His film “Port Saïd, Santa Cruz, Sarmad Kashani” will screen at “Watch and Chill 3.0,” which is an initiative of South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), in collaboration with the National Gallery Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne, Australia, the Tono Festival in Mexico City, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA.
Abdelkader Berrahmoun (Languages and Applied Linguistics) published a review of the book (Re)constructing Memory: Education, Identity, and Conflict, by Michelle J. Bellino & H. Williams James (Eds.), in the Journal of Peace Education.
Raed Rafei (Film and Digital Media) accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh starting in the fall of 2023!
Yasmine Benabdallah’s (Film and Digital Media) film “How to reverse a spell, the promise of an archive” won the award for Best Experimental Short Film at Sharjah Film Platform, the Sharjah Art Foundation’s film festival.
Mohamadreza Babaee (Digital Arts New Media) published a review of Theaters of Citizenship: Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt, by Sonali Pahwa in the journal Theatre Topics.
Peter Limbrick (Film and Digital Media) published “Spaces of Dispossession: Experiments with the Real in Contemporary Algerian Cinema” in Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Viola Shafik.
Thomas Serres‘ (Politics) latest monograph, The Suspended Disaster: Governing by Crisis in Bouteflika’s Algeria, was published by Columbia University Press (September 2023).
The Arabic translation of The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam (UC Press, 2014) by Edmund Burke III (History) has been published in Rabat, Morocco.
Mark Fathi Massoud will be a Berlin Prize Fellow in the spring of 2024. The prize is awarded annually to US-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition.
Christian Alvarado (History of Consciousness) was awarded a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. He’ll be joining the African American and African Studies Department at UC Davis, where he’ll be working with Dr. Bettina Ng’weno.
Jennifer Mogannam (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies) was awarded the UC Davis Postdoctoral Research Excellence Award.
Bryan Donaldson (Languages and Applied Linguistics) became an editor for the Journal of French Language Studies.
Muriam Haleh Davis (History) published a piece in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History entitled “Race and Decolonization in North Africa.” She also gave book talks at George Washington University, the Middle East Institute, Columbia University, and University College Cork.
Dorian Bell (Literature) published an article, “White Atlantic: Counterfeiting Race in France,” in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies.
Elaine Sullivan was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology, 2022.