Appointments
College provosts announced
New provosts have been named for Kresge College and Merrill
College, and the provost at Oakes College has been reappointed
for another three-year term.
Micah Perks
Photo: Scott Rappaport
Juan Poblete
Photo: Dana Rohlf
Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal
Photo: Susan Jessen
Pedro Castillo
Photo: Susan Jessen
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Micah Perks and Juan Poblete, both associate professors of
literature, were appointed to a three-year term as joint provosts
at Kresge College. Perks is codirector, with Karen Yamashita,
of the Creative Writing Program, which each quarter brings eight
to 10 visiting authors and poets into UCSC classrooms. Perks's
books include a memoir, Pagan Time: An American Childhood
(2001); and a novel of historic fiction, We Are Gathered
Here (1996); as well as short stories that have appeared
in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. She came to
UC Santa Cruz in 1997.
Poblete's focus is on Latin American and U.S. Latino cultures.
He is the author of Nineteenth Century Chilean Literature:
Between Reading Publics and Authorial Figures, published
in Spanish in 2003, and the editor of Critical Latin American
and Latino Studies (2003). In 2004 he was a co-organizer
of an international conference held at UCSC, "Reflections
on the Future: Hemispheric Dialogues on the Intersections of
Latina/o-Chicana/o-Latin American(s) Studies." Participants
from Chile, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Argentina were among those
attending. Poblete joined the faculty at UC Santa Cruz in 1997.
Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal, associate professor
of literature, was appointed to a three-year term as Merrill
College provost. Martínez-Echazábal's work examines
race and ethnicity in Latin America. She was the author of Para
una Semiotica de la Mulatez (Towards a Semiotics of Mulatto
Identity) in 1990 and the editor of a special issue of the Afro
Hispanic Review in 2005 dedicated to Afro-Cuban writer Manuel
Granados. She has published widely on topics pertaining to Latin
American and Caribbean literatures; comparative Afro-Latin American
literatures; Brazilian literature and cultures; and Latin American
women writers. She is the founder and coordinator of the Cuba
in Americas and Transatlantic Contexts research cluster at UCSC.
She has been on the faculty since 1990.
Pedro Castillo, associate professor of history, has been reappointed
to an additional three-year term at Oakes College. Castillo
was named by President Clinton in 1999 to serve on the 26-member
National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board of the
National Endowment for the Humanities. His research interests
include Mexican American social history and race, class, and
gender in California history. His most recent book is The
American Nation, a textbook on American history for use
in middle schools. He is very active in the Santa Cruz community
and is on the Board of Trustees of the Community Foundation
of Santa Cruz County. Castillo has been on the UCSC faculty
for nearly 30 years.
“The other college provosts and I look forward to working
with our new colleagues,” said William Ladusaw, interim
vice provost and dean of undergraduate education, in announcing
the appointments. “Their enthusiasm and fresh perspectives
will continue the work of their predecessors in renewing the
colleges' mission to support undergraduates and enrich the campus
educational environment.”
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