 Clifford and Hayden White were the first faculty directly appointed to the graduate-only department at UC-Santa Cruz.The History of Consciousness department continues to be an intellectual center for innovative critical scholarship in the U.S. and abroad, largely due to a group of prominent faculty including Donna Haraway, Teresa de Lauretis, Victor Burgin, Angela Davis and Barbara Epstein, who were hired in the 1980s.Clifford served as department Chair from 2004–2007, and was the founding director of UCSC's Center for Cultural Studies.