Center for the Humanities

Shakespeare's writing responded to ecological problems in his own time. Today, we can adapt his works to speak to the urgent environmental crises facing our communities, as the group Shakespeare in Yosemite does every spring.

Based on the final chapter of Katherine Steele Brokaw's Shakespeare and Community Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and “Shakespeare and Environmental Justice: Collaborative Eco-Theatre in YosemiteNational Park and the San Joaquin Valley.” In Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in  US Higher Education: Social Justice and Institutional Contexts. Edited by Marissa Greenberg and Elizabeth Williamson (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Also based on the work of Shakespeare in Yosemite, https://yosemiteshakes.ucmerced.edu.

This comic is based on the research in the book Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap, published by the University of California Press (2024).

 This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. In Before Gentrification, Tanya Golash-Boza tracks the cycles of state abandonment and punishment that have shaped the city, revealing how policies and policing work to displace and decimate the Black middle class.

This comic shows how sexual orientation and gender identity shape the uptake of influenza, shingles, and pneumococcal vaccines among U.S. older adults.

It is based on resesarch from: Polonijo, Andrea N., and Eric M. Vogelsang. "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Differences in Influenza, Shingles, and Pneumococcal Vaccination Among U.S. Older Adults." LGBT Health, vol. 10, no. 2, 2023, pp. 138-147.

This comic is based on Nicosia Shakes's book, Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa: Gender, Race, and Performance Space (University of Illinois Press, 2023) 

 A comic based on Susan Amussen's article, "The Contradictions of Patriarchy in Early Modern England," published in Gender and History, vol. 30, no. 2, 2018, pp. 343-353.