Dear colleagues, students, and friends of the Center,
We begin this academic year with profound sadness.
As you may have heard, our brilliant, beloved colleague Christina Lux passed away suddenly on July 28. We are all deeply grieved by this loss.
As the founding Managing Director of the UCM Center for the Humanities, Christina shaped and championed every aspect of our Center’s work. Through her creativity and vision, as well as through her commitment to collaboration, Christina built this Center into a hub of vital scholarship and extraordinary creativity, connecting researchers and practitioners in the humanities and arts to one another and to a wider network of like-minded supporters both within and beyond the academy. Christina made sure the Center was not just an institutional space where these connections might happen, but rather a living, inclusive community of humanistic inqury and innovation. She was the center of the Center, the very heart of our work.
We intend to honor Christina’s work by carrying forward the work of this Center. One of Christina’s colleagues in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, Dr. Lora Burnett, will be stepping in as Managing Director of the Center. Please feel free to reach out to Lora at LBurnett2@ucmerced.edu with any questions.
Fiat Lux,
