Current News
Inside Yolo County's Decision to Jail Migrant Kids
Yolo County has been jailing unaccompanied migrant children. Supporters claim they’re rescuing these minors from an uncertain fate. Critics say that’s one “hell of a savior complex.”
Naxos to release work by Professor Pablo Ortiz
‘Metamorphoses’, written by Argentinian composer Pablo Ortiz, is a remarkable superimposition of Medieval motets, expressing his belief in music as the ultimate time machine.
Guatemala's Democracy is under assault. Again.
Article in the LATimes by UC Davis Professor Liza Grandia.
Witness to a Painful Past
The history graduate student grew up in the rebels’ mountainous home-base region during their 20-year war against the government. With the help of a Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Aroni is documenting a portion of that history — the Shining Path’s massacre of 18 peasants in 1992.
From Inside the Caravan
Our own Interim-Director, Robert McKee Irwin, is doing important work documenting stories and conditions "From Inside the Caravan."
