Hayden White held the very highest title at the University of California, 'University Professor', an exceedingly rare professorial category that confers the highest intellectual recognition on a faculty member as well as affiliation with all ten campuses.

In 2000, although retired, White co-chaired the UC Humanities Commission convened by President Jack Peltason to enhance system-wide infrastructure for Humanities research. UCHRI serves all ten campuses and was established under President David Gardner in 1986. His strong advocacy on behalf of the humanities, his bold institutional creativity and commitment to interdisciplinary work helped foster the development of the School of Criticism and Theory (originally housed at UC Irvine and now at Cornell University), the Western Humanities Alliance, the UC Humanities Initiative (now The Humanities Network), and the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Hayden White proved as well to be a faculty member with enormous influence in humanities departments and centers throughout the University of California system. program into one of the most distinguished interdisciplinary humanities graduate programs of the last six decades. His leadership and vision helped to make the UCSC History of Consciousness Ph.D. White bequeathed an immense intellectual legacy to the Humanities at the University of California. To learn more about how to contribute to either fund , go HERE. White Endowment in Historical and Cultural Theory supports conferences, seminars, mentoring, and student support related to historical and cultural theory, and will carry Hayden’s legacy into the future by creating an open and inclusive forum for nurturing intellectual exchange across the disciplines. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Fund supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory, and ensures that Hayden’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.

White Distinguished Annual Lecture Fund.īy these means we hope to continue Hayden White’s legacy of adventurous, incisive, innovative work in history and theory.

White Endowment in Historical and Cultural Theory and/or the Hayden V. White’s ground- breaking intellectual contributions, the Humanities Division of the University of California, Santa Cruz invites colleagues, students, and friends of Hayden White to contribute to the Hayden V. To honor and perpetuate the spirit of Hayden V.

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