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<div class="l-second"> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blocksf-basic panel"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><div><figure role="group" class="caption caption-drupal-media align-left"> <div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-sf-medium"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk15706/files/styles/sf_medium_width/public/media/images/Protests%201970.jpg?itok=s5z-S4qQ" width="500" height="226" alt="Vietnam Protest 1970" class="image-style-sf-medium-width"> </div> <figcaption>Antiwar Protests on the Quad 1970</figcaption> </figure> <h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1969</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">Across the country, student protests are fundamental to the creation of Ethnic Studies programs. </span><a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/magazine/50-years-of-ethnic-studies"><span lang="EN-US">These protests at UC Davis</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> would be </span><span>the beginning of what would become African American and African, Asian American, Chicana and Chicano, and Native American studies programs.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">This year, the newly formed Black Student Union submits a proposal for a </span><a href="https://aas.ucdavis.edu/protest-narratives"><span lang="EN-US">Black Studies Program</span></a><span lang="EN-US">. As a result of the relentless pressure placed on the administration, the Black Studies Program began as an interdepartmental program. </span><span>The Afro American (Black) Studies Program would appear in the UC Davis Course Catalog for the first time for the 1970-1971 academic year.</span></p></div><div><p>The <a href="https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/american-studies-uc-davis-breaking-down-walls-50-years">American Studies program</a> is created.</p></div><div><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1971</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">The Chicano/a Studies program is first founded, and the Chicano/a Studies major would be established in 1974. In 1989, Yvette Flores-Ortiz and Malaquías Montoya will be the first faculty to be hired exclusively in the Department of Chicana/o Studies.*</span></p></div><div><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1979</strong></span></em></h2></div><div><p><span lang="EN-US">The Department of Statistics is formed as separate from the Department of Mathematics.</span></p></div><div><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1981</strong></span></em></h2><p><a href="https://gsws.ucdavis.edu/program-information"><span lang="EN-US">The Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> is founded.</span></p></div><div><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1987</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">Japanese classes are first offered.</span></p></div><div><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1989</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">The </span><a href="https://nas.ucdavis.edu/history"><span lang="EN-US">Native American Studies</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> program, created in 1969 as a program housed within the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, becomes part of Letters and Science as an interdepartmental program.</span></p></div><div><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1990</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">Four students begin a hunger strike to make demands of the UC Davis administration that include a multicultural center and regular FTE (full-time equivalent) faculty in the Ethnic Studies departments. This protest led to full-time faculty in the Department of African American and African Studies rather than faculty pulled from other departments for part-time appointments.</span></p></div><div><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1992</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">The Department of History creates </span><a href="https://history.ucdavis.edu/womens-and-gender-history"><span lang="EN-US">Cross-Cultural Women's History</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> as a minor field for the Ph.D. In 2004, the minor would be renamed Cross-Cultural Women's and gender History (CCWgH) to acknowledge the increasing importance of gender studies in understanding women's history.</span></p></div><div><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1993</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">Native American Studies receives departmental status. The Designated Emphasis (DE) in Native American Studies is also established, and is affiliated with the graduate programs in Anthropology, Comparative Literature, History, Performance Studies, Psychology, Sociology and Spanish.</span></p></div><div><figure role="group" class="caption caption-drupal-media align-left"> <div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-sf-medium"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk15706/files/styles/sf_medium_width/public/media/images/deathstar.jpg?itok=fxXuFGho" width="432" height="287" alt="DeathStar" class="image-style-sf-medium-width"> </div> <figcaption>Social Sciences and Humanities Building (Death Star)</figcaption> </figure> <h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1994</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">Construction is completed on the Social Sciences and Humanities Building that would be the home of the Letters and Science dean’s offices. Known popularly as the “Death Star,” the building was designed by architect </span><a href="http://www.predock.com/SocialSciences/UC%20Davis.html"><span lang="EN-US">Antoine Predock</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> to suggest the geological forces that created the California Central Valley. Construction </span><a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/construction-begin-social-sciences-and-humanities-building"><span lang="EN-US">began in 1992</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> at a cost of $25.8 million, which was the lowest cost per square foot of the five social science buildings at that time being planned in the UC system.</span></p></div><div><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1995</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">Inaugural deans are selected to lead </span><a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/acting-divisional-deans-chosen-college-letters-and-science"><span lang="EN-US">the three newly formed divisions</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> within Letters and Science.</span><span> Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef recommends the appointment of D. Kern Holoman to head the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies; Barbara D. Metcalf to direct the Division of Social Sciences; and Peter A. Rock to lead the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.</span></p></div><div><h2><br><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1996</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">With the addition of dance program, department changes name to Department of Dramatic Art and Dance, and in 1998 would change its name again to the Department of Theater and Dance.</span></p></div><div><p><span lang="EN-US">The Native American Language Center is established by Professor Martha Macri, and serves as a research site and information network for the study of indigenous languages.</span></p></div><div><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1997</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">Mathematician William P. Thurston </span><span>— </span><span lang="EN-US">winner of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics </span><span>— </span><span lang="EN-US">is was recruited to Letters and Science, and would become key to attracting many other top-notch faculty and promising graduate students.</span></p></div><div><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1998</strong></span></em></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">Steven M. Sheffrin is </span><a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/economics-professor-named-social-sciences-dean"><span lang="EN-US">named dean</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> of the Division of Social Sciences.</span></p></div><div><p><span lang="EN-US">The Graduate Program in Native American Studies is approved, making UC Davis only the second university in the nation to offer a Ph.D. in Native American Studies.</span></p><h2><em><span lang="EN-US"><strong>1999</strong></span></em></h2><p><a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/english-scholar-named-new-dean-humanities-arts-cultural-studies"><span lang="EN-US">Elizabeth Langland</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> is named dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies.</span><span> </span></p><p> </p><p><em><span>*Lorena V. Márquez, “Fundadoras Chicanas de Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis,” Paper Presented at Mujeres Activas y Cambio Social (MALCS) National Conference, Oaxaca, Mexico, June 26, 2024.</span></em></p></div></div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blocksf-basic panel"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a class="btn--primary" href="/about/our-history/1908-1950">1908-1950</a> <a class="btn--primary" href="/about/our-history/1951-1968">1951-1968</a> <a class="btn--primary" href="/about/our-history/2000-Present">2000-Present</a></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <div class="l-container"> </div> </main> <footer class="l-footer footer dark-background"> <div class="l-container"> <div class="region region-footer flex-footer"> <div class="flex-footer__item"> <nav aria-labelledby="block-students-menu" id="block-students" 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