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New: Engaging Humanities Grant, 2025–26
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Feb 3, 2025
New: UCHRI Manuscript Workshop and Research Development Program, 2025-26
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: Feb 3, 2025
New: Faculty Summer Research Funding, 2025
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank Faculty in the Humanities and Humanistic Social SciencesDeadline: Feb 3, 2025
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Reparative Memories: Communities in Crisis and Archival Care
Reparative Memories: Communities in Crisis and Archival Care is an interdisciplinary working group of humanities scholars, community archivists, librarians, and cultural memory workers across six UC campuses. Our work engages communities in crisis whose histories, memories, and cultural heritage are threatened by systemic violence (e.g. war and militarized colonial displacement; police violence and carceral surveillance; »
Crystal Baik
Gender & Sexuality Studies
UC Riverside
Thuy Vo Dang
Department of Information Studies
UC Los Angeles
Marxist Institute for Research: An Interview with Annie McClanahan and Robert Nichols
Annie McClanahan and Robert Nichols on the success of the Marxist Institute for Research.
Reparaciones
Lorena Alvarado and Yehuda Sharim offer an intimate peek into Huntington Park in Los Angeles.
Memory Histories: I Am Not Your Data
Anjali Arondekar resists datafication in this series on Care and Repair.
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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. »
Cross-Pollinating the Humanities and Environmental Science
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. »
UCHRI Receives $200,000 Advancing Faculty Diversity Grant from the UC Office of the President
The grant will support an intercampus manuscript workshop and research development program for faculty across the UC. UCHRI has received a three-year grant to support its Manuscript Workshop and Research Development program, which expands and enhances UCHRI’s Manuscript Workshop grant. The intercampus program will serve the publication goals of early- and mid-career faculty members in »