Annie McClanahan and Robert Nichols on the success of the Marxist Institute for Research.

Lorena Alvarado and Yehuda Sharim offer an intimate peek into Huntington Park in Los Angeles.

Anjali Arondekar resists datafication in this series on Care and Repair.

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 »

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. »

By Munyao Kilolo, UCHRI Graduate Student Researcher, and Marianna Davison, WUICAN Postdoctoral Scholar “What does it taste like? What is the viscosity? How does it smell?”  Alejandra Cano, an agroecologist and Native American Studies PhD candidate at UC Davis, asked participants in UCHRI’s Climate Action Summer Institute to sample honey from different species of bee. »