In winter 2025, Professor & Chair Catherine Ramírez was announced to be one of 15 thought leaders selected to be a 2025-26 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, which is part of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, one of the nation’s oldest academic honor societies.
As a Visiting Scholar, she’ll share her work with scholars and students across the country over the upcoming academic year. The last UCSC faculty member to be selected as a Visiting Scholar was James Zachos in 2017-18.
Ramírez also recently conducted an interview at Bookshop Santa Cruz with anthropologist Jason De León about his award-winning book, Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, which was published by Public Books in March.