Affiliated Research Centers & Initiatives
Center for Economic Justice and Action (CEJA)
The Center for Economic Justice and Action (CEJA), formerly the Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance, is committed to alleviating poverty, reducing economic inequality, ensuring that the essential needs of all people are met, and engaging, training, and funding new generations of anti-poverty leaders.
Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS)
The mission of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) is to research, develop, and advance sustainable food and agricultural systems that are environmentally sound, economically viable, socially responsible, nonexploitative, and that serve as a foundation for future generations.
Center for Statistical Analysis in Social Sciences
The Center for Statistical Analysis in Social Sciences provides statistical and methodological support to the research missions of all departments within the Division of Social Sciences by providing free statistical consulting and quantitative training workshops.
The Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
In 2022, UC Santa Cruz renamed its Research Center for the Americas in honor of social justice icon Dolores Huerta, whose legacy has influenced the center’s work and values. The Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas has a long history of working to drive positive social change and continues to innovate and build relationships in service of this goal. Formerly the the Research Center for the Americas, and the Chicano Latino Research Center from 1992-2018, the Huerta Center has helped make UC Santa Cruz a vibrant hub for Latin American, Chicanx/Latinx, and migration studies. Primarily drawing from and bringing together the social sciences, humanities, and arts, the Huerta Center's work explores the incredible diversity of the Americas, with a focus on research questions related to citizenship, class, economics, education, environment, everyday cultures, genders, human rights, identities, immigration, indigeneity, labor, language, nation, place, policy, politics, race, representation, sexualities, social movements, the state, and statelessness.
The Institute for Social Transformation
The Institute for Social Transformation builds on the campus's progressive values and areas of existing strength, while simultaneously serving as an incubator for new ideas and an accelerator for pathbreaking scholarship in the public interest. The institute sharpens our focus, and facilitates faculty interaction, with a persistent determination to break through the crowded media landscape to reach policy makers, elected officials, advocates, community partners, donors, prospective students, and the general public.
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