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Decolonizing Regionalism
Theorizations of place have long pointed to the disjunctions between political and physical boundaries, complicating the task of understanding multi-scalar phenomena, from suburban sprawl to climate change. Somewhere between the scale of the site and the scale of the territory lies the “region”: a productively ambiguous term that subsumes notions of geography, ecology, economy, planning, »
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
Urban Studies and Planning
UC San Diego
Ayala Levin
Architecture and Urban Design
UC Los Angeles
Posthumous Racisms
Ackbar Abbas explores the conundrum of anti-racism and racism as mirror images.
Central Valley Portraits
Yehuda Sharim observes the grain and pulse of California’s Central Valley.
Chances, Changes, and Strange Shapes
Kate Bolton Bonnici toggles between present-day headlines and early modern literature.
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Research Grants Manager The UC Humanities Research Institute is a systemwide organization for all 10 campuses in the University of California system. UCHRI facilitates experimental, interdisciplinary humanities scholarship through partnerships, research initiatives, and competitive grants. The research grants manager at UCHRI oversees competitive grants programs across the UC system. This position designs and develops, administers, »
UCHRI is Hiring: UCI Undergraduate Media Assistant
The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) seeks a UCI undergraduate student assistant to assist with editing photos, videos, and audio files; website content; audiovisual event needs at on-site or off-site locations (contingent on Covid-19 guidelines in place at time of employment); and generating communications materials. Applicants must be currently-enrolled undergraduate students at UCI »
The Hewlett Foundation Makes $300,000 Gift to UCHRI Endowment Campaign
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has generously granted $300,000 to be dedicated to the University of California Humanities Research Institute endowment campaign. The funding will be applied to count towards the funding requirement to match the Mellon Foundation endowment of $10 million to support UCHRI and the UC Humanities Network. We are enormously grateful »
