Affiliated Research Centers & Initiatives

Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance

The UC Santa Cruz Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance investigates, analyzes, educates and trains students, scholars and practitioners in mechanisms, policies and practices that will facilitate properly-scaled, innovative and effective institutional management and operation involving issues of poverty.

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 New Racial Studies

A group of University of California faculty located at all ten campuses has received a significant grant from the UC Office of the President to launch the University of California Center for New Racial Studies (UCCNRS), a Multi-Campus Research Program. The UCCNRS made its debut in July 2010 and has been assured of UC system-wide support for five subsequent academic years (until June 2015). The mission of the Center is to support innovation in UC-based race/ethnicity research and teaching and to encourage interdisciplinary and collaborative work focused on advancing social/racial justice in an era of changing racial dynamics and persistent racial/ethnic conflict and inequality.

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.

Research Center for the Americas

Since 1992, the Research Center for the Americas (formerly the Chicano Latino Research Center from 1992-2018) 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, our 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.

Santa Cruz Center for International Economics

The objective of SCCIE is to broaden our understanding of international economic issues by sponsoring research, conferences, graduate studies, and the exchange of scholars.

The Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation