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Genealogies of Chamorro-Filipino Resistance: (Re)mapping Chamorro-Filipino Stories of Place in Guåhan
My dissertation, “Genealogies of Chamoru-Filipino Resistance: (Re)mapping Chamorro-Filipino Stories of Place in Guåhan” investigates the Spanish and US colonial governments’ nineteenth and twentieth century archival observations and descriptions of Native Chamorros, Filipino revolutionaries and temporary workers, and the former Spanish prison colony and contemporary US unincorporated territory of Guåhan or Guam. From the position of »
Josephine Ong
Gender Studies
UC Los Angeles
Critical Machine Learning Studies: An Interview with Fabian Offert and Rita Raley
Fabian Offert and Rita Raley on why the humanities are central to critical machine learning and AI studies.
Experiments in Freedom: An Interview with Yehuda Sharim
Yehuda Sharim reflects on his his UCHRI-supported feature film, Experiments in Freedom.
Crash, Wave
Christina Lux explores the science on waves in poetic form.
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Position Opening – UC Humanities Research Institute
Graduate Student Researcher, from Step 1 up to Step 3 (Step determination contingent on prior GSR experience) Summer 2024 – Spring 2025: 50% appointment will pay full quarterly fees for academic year (excluding non-resident tuition), and monthly salary from summer 2024 through spring 2025 (for Summer 2024: Step 1, 50% of $5,415.83; Step 2, 50% »
UCHRI Welcomes Matthew Hartman, Postdoctoral Scholar in Climate Communications and Environmental Justice
I received my PhD in Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where my work focused on the intersection of religious studies, climate ethics, and environmental humanities. My research explores how identity formation and the construction of narrative shape views of and responses to the climate crisis. My dissertation, “White-Hot Environments: Religious Entanglements of »
UCHRI Partners with LARB to Fund UC Graduate Students
UCHRI has partnered with the LA Review of Books to offer two spots to UC graduate students in the LARB Publishing Workshop, an intensive summer training program for aspiring publishing professionals with an emphasis on diverse and innovative publishing outcomes. The workshop will take place online between June 24 and July 26, 2024. In line »