The Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz was was founded in 1988 as part of the University of California President’s Humanities Initiative. Since then, it has built a reputation as a bastion of cutting-edge interdisciplinary thinking on pressing social, political, and environmental issues. Through colloquia, invited lectures, workshops, conferences, and other forums, the Center continues to facilitate a broad range of research in the international field of cultural studies, and to contribute to an atmosphere of rigorous scholarly engagement across the boundaries of conventional fields and disciplines. It remains a major incubator for multidisciplinary and cross-divisional activity on campus and beyond.