Appointments
Pedro Castillo appointed to California Council for the Humanities
Associate professor of history and Oakes College provost Pedro
Castillo was recently appointed to the California Council for
the Humanities.
The California Council for the Humanities is an independent,
nonprofit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the
Humanities. Originally a granting organization, the council
began to create and manage humanities programs and projects
of its own in the early 1990s and is now a leader in statewide
humanities programming, with a grants program connected to its
programming efforts.
The mission of the council is to foster understanding between
people and encourage their engagement in community life through
the public use of the humanities.
Castillo, who is also the cofounder and former director of
the Chicano/Latino Research Center at UCSC, was appointed by
President Clinton to the National Council for the National Endowment
for the Humanities in 1999.
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