Call for 2022-2023 SJRC Graduate Student Researcher
Interested in the Intersections of Science and Justice? Want to Develop Responsible Collaborative Research and Public Events? Science & Justice seeks a graduate student researcher who: has successfully completed the Science & Justice Training Program; is able to attend SJWG meetings typically on Wednesday’s from 4-6PM and create rapporteur reports; actively participates in building science… Continue Reading Call for 2022-2023 SJRC Graduate Student Researcher
SJRC Annual Report 2020-2021
Volume 14 Director’s Letter: Welcome to Science & Justice As we look forward to the year to come, we appreciate the chance to share with you our accomplishments of the last year. Science & Justice continues to be in the headlines, making a critical difference in California, the nation and globally. Our faculty and students… Continue Reading SJRC Annual Report 2020-2021
JOB Announcement | UC Santa Cruz is hiring for a Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Scholar
The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral scholar appointment to support an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine” scheduled for the 2022-23 academic year, under the direction of Associate Professor Jennifer Derr. Continue Reading JOB Announcement | UC Santa Cruz is hiring for a Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Scholar
Summer 2022 | Undergraduate Student Researcher Opportunity (PAID)
The Science & Justice Research Center and the Sociology Department are now accepting applications for a: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow This position and the research conducted is supported by a Faculty Research Grant provided by the Committee on Research from the University of California, Santa Cruz awarded to Principal Investigator James Doucet-Battle (Assistant Professor of… Continue Reading Summer 2022 | Undergraduate Student Researcher Opportunity (PAID)
Theorizing Race After Race: Race, Contagion, and the Nation: A Dialogue with Pedro Valdez, Abril Saldaña-Tejeda, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, and Jenny Reardon
The third installment of a series of dialogues on COVID-19 and Racism of the SJRC’s Theorizing Race After Race (TRAR) Collective is now live on the UCHRI Foundry website! Check out: Race, Contagion, and the Nation: A Dialogue with Pedro Valdez, Abril Saldaña-Tejeda, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, and Jenny Reardon Continue Reading Theorizing Race After Race: Race, Contagion, and the Nation: A Dialogue with Pedro Valdez, Abril Saldaña-Tejeda, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, and Jenny Reardon
Book Release! Can precision medicine be personal; can personalized medicine be precise? (Oxford University Press, 2022)
About the Book People have always sought medical care that is tailored to every individual patient. Alongside with the historical development of institutions of care, the vision of personal and ‘holistic’ care persisted. Patient-centred medicine, interpersonal communication and shared decision making have become central to medical practice and services. This evolving vision of ‘personalized medicine’… Continue Reading Book Release! Can precision medicine be personal; can personalized medicine be precise? (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Book launch! Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media by micha cárdenas
About the Book In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cárdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets… Continue Reading Book launch! Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media by micha cárdenas
Mellon Foundation Humanities Grant To Investigate Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine
SJRC affiliated faculty receive Mellon Foundation grant to investigate “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine.” Continue Reading Mellon Foundation Humanities Grant To Investigate Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine
Prospective Student Opportunity | history of science, medicine, environment in the Global South
The Department of History at UC Santa Cruz is recruiting two PhD students to begin in the fall of 2022 to pursue research on the histories of science, medicine, and/or the environment in the Global South. Applicants may specialize in the study of the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia,… Continue Reading Prospective Student Opportunity | history of science, medicine, environment in the Global South
Book release! Life as We Made It How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature (Basic Books 2021)
Life as We Made It How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature (Basic Books 2021) by Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Beth Shapiro. Continue Reading Book release! Life as We Made It How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature (Basic Books 2021)