Mark Arax made a class visit last week and will give a closing lecture, Wednesday, April 22 at 3:30pm in the Lakireddy Auditorium (Room 102 in COB 1) titled The Last Extraction: The Contradiction that is California. The event will feature a student panel and end with a reception.
Read more about Arax’s writer in residence experience and his impact on students in UC Merced’s Newsroom article released today.
The 2025-2026 Writer in Residence program has been a collaboration between the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts (SSHA) and the UC Merced Library.
Mark Arax speaks in Professor Rouff's class, The Golden Road: California History as US History (13 April 2026)
Author Mark Arax (left), UC Merced faculty David Rouff (right), Associate Professor in the Department of History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
