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Before You are Here: Rematriating the Map for Indigenous History, Culture, and Storytelling
Before You Are Here is creating an innovative Indigenous web map of the San Francisco Bay Area, designed for educational and museum contexts. It seeks to convey Ohlone history and contemporary realities through a spatial lens rather than a purely historical one and represents the latest and most ambitious phase of an ongoing, multi-year collaboration »
Clancy Wilmott
Geography and Berkeley Center for New Media
UC Berkeley

Oversharing in the Academic Borderlands
Sammy Solis (Work & Refuge 1/7) reflects on scholarly writing as a personal and political act.

Sounding Graduate Student Work
Rosie Dwyer (Work & Refuge 2/7) explores the sonic dimensions of graduate student labor.

The University’s Two Bodies: Crip Labors of, and Beyond, Survival
Andrew David King (Work & Refuge 3/7) on the “crip labors” of disabled students and faculty.
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UCHRI Director Position Now Open for Recruitment
Open date: March 7, 2025 Next review date: Monday, Apr 7, 2025 Final date: Monday, Jun 30, 2025 The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), established in 1987, facilitates innovative interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities through competitive grants and fellowships, collaborative research partnerships, conferences and workshops, and multi-campus initiatives across the UC system, nationally, »

LARB Publishing Workshop Expands Career Opportunities for UC Graduate Students
By Victoria Le, UCHRI Undergraduate Intern Writer and aspiring publisher Arielle Burgdorf said they feared their chances of working in publishing would be slim, and found the conversations surrounding the job market to be “depressing.” So Burgdorf, a PhD candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, turned to the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing »

UCHRI Welcomes Brittany Turner, Graduate Student Researcher
I am a second-year PhD student in Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine with interests in global anti-colonial cinemas, Black visual cultures and counter-publics, and community-based creative labor. My research traces a genealogy of militant, participatory filmmaking practice to consider the aims and anti-colonial and postcolonial preoccupations of contemporary filmmakers in the Global South. »