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Featured Grants
New: Supplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Graduate Student Funding, 2026-27
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Jan 19, 2026
New: Multicampus Faculty Working Groups, 2026-27
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Jan 19, 2026
New: UCHRI Manuscript Workshop and Research Development Program, 2026-27
Eligibility: UC early- and mid-career ladder rank faculty (Assistant and Associate professors) in the humanities or humanistic social sciences who are currently completing their first or second book projectDeadline: Jan 19, 2026
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Histories of Food, Ecology, and Culture in Southern California
I am writing a history of food in Southern California from the late 1700s to the present. My manuscript looks at the interwoven histories of growing, preparing, and eating food in the region. I deploy various analytical lenses—race, gender, labor, the relationship between urban and rural, and evolving empires—to try to understand how food has »
Nancy Kwak
History
UC San Diego
Introduction: Foundry AI Paradigm Series
Jaimey Fisher (AI Paradigm 1/5) introduces the AI Paradigm: From Personhood to Power series.
Toward a Critical Theory of Active Language in the Age of “Generative AI”
Lauren Goodlad (AI Paradigm 2/5) advances a theory of language use and writing in the age of AI.
AI Mania
Lisa Parks (AI Paradigm 3/5) discusses the wonder and dread associated with AI.
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UCHRI Welcomes Lucy Fang, Graduate Student Researcher
I am a PhD Candidate in English at UC Irvine with interests in early 20th-century Asian/American literature, historical materialism, and the novel. My dissertation is supported in part by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and examines Chinese North American novels between 1931 and 1955 as they mediate racial form and Asian/American literary history. »
UCHRI Welcomes a New Director: Jaimey Fisher
As I begin my five-year term as director of UCHRI, I think back to the many achievements of UCHRI and the UC Humanities Network—it has been incredibly inspiring to collaborate with colleagues around the system and to contribute to the dynamic work being done far and wide in our state. This kind of active and »
Interim Director Julia Lupton on Relationships, Sustenance, and the Art of Listening
Julia Reinhard Lupton served as Interim Director of UCHRI from 2022 until 2025. As a Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine, she also served as Associate Dean for Research, directed the Humanities Commons, and created the Illuminations program. She continues to co-direct the New Swan Shakespeare Center, which she co-founded with Eli Simon. The »
