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Graduate Student Dissertation Support, 2020–21
Eligibility: UC humanities and humanistic social science PhD students in good standing who have advanced to candidacy and completed at least one chapter of their dissertationDeadline: Dec 16, 2019
Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop, 2020-21
Eligibility: UC junior faculty (tenure track but not yet tenured) in the humanities or humanistic social sciences who are currently completing their first book projectDeadline: Dec 16, 2019
Mid-Career Faculty Manuscript Workshop, 2020-21
Eligibility: UC faculty (tenure track) in the humanities or humanistic social sciences who are currently completing their second book projectDeadline: Dec 16, 2019
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A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War
“A Thousand Paper Cuts: U.S. Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War” offers a cultural and visual history of transparency in America. Using the 1966 passage of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as a fulcrum, it historicizes the emergence of the Right-to-Know movement within the Cold War, and visually analyze censored documentary materials procured »
Anjali Nath
American Studies
UC Davis
Foundry
Talkbits on Civil War: The Body’s Disharmony
Mei Zhan constellates body, politics, and medicine.
Talkbits on Civil War: There May Be a Rebarbarization of the World
Dipesh Chakrabarty thinks with us about the fragility of collective futures.
How to Loot Democratically
Nasser Mufti mines the plastic chair for messages of rebellion.
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UCHRI Announces Calls for Proposals for 2020-21 Grants and Fellowships
UCHRI Announces Deadlines for 2020-21 Grants and Fellowships UCHRI is pleased to announce calls for applications for 2020-21 humanities grants and fellowships. Continuing its long tradition of supporting collaboration, innovation, and excellence in the humanities, the Institute offers awards for conferences, multicampus working groups, public humanities projects, individual research for faculty and graduate students, and »
Awards for Public, Digital, and Collaborative Projects in the Humanities (2019-20)
UCHRI’s Advisory Committee has completed award selections for the 2019-20 academic year. Over $150,000 in grants were awarded to faculty and graduate students on eight campuses across the UC system. Faculty will convene year-long multicampus working groups on women’s suffrage in the Americas, mental health in East Asia, law and society in the Middle East, »
UCHRI Announces 2019-20 Graduate Student Dissertation Support Grants
UCHRI recently awarded 15 Graduate Student Dissertation Support grants to PhD candidates across the UC system to support dissertation-related research activities during the 2019-20 academic year. The grantees represent eight UC campuses and nine humanities disciplines, and their projects span centuries and continents. Breaking the Retrospective Curse: Contemporary Korean Film and the Deconstruction of Communal »
