Dr. Elizabeth Sine

Specialized Volunteer Support | Ph.D

Sine is the Humanities Advisor for the Braiding Water event series and initially joined R.A.C.E. Matters as a member of the Steering Committee in 2018.

She now supports the organization as a specialized volunteer who is instrumental in grant writing as well as “big picture” analysis and contextualization.

A Lecturer in History at Cal Poly SLO with a Ph.D. from UCSD, Sine’s scholarship combines the histories of comparative and relational race/ethnicity, labor, culture, and social movements in modern global California.

Her current research examines the making of the global surf industry between the late-1960s and 1980s.