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Featured Initiatives

Liberal Arts Literacies

Asia Theories Network

Humanists@Work

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Featured Grants

Program Name	Eligibility	Deadline
University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowships in the Humanities, 2019–20	UC Ladder Rank Faculty (see eligibility details below)	Feb 4, 2019
Multicampus Faculty Working Groups, 2019–20	UC Ladder Rank Faculty	Mar 4, 2019
Multicampus Graduate Student Working Groups, 2019–20	UC humanities PhD students in good standing, in conjunction with a faculty member who has agreed in advance to serve in the role of Principal Investigator (PI)	Mar 4, 2019

University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowships in the Humanities, 2019–20

Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank Faculty (see eligibility details below)
Deadline: Feb 4, 2019

Multicampus Faculty Working Groups, 2019–20

Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank Faculty
Deadline: Mar 4, 2019

Multicampus Graduate Student Working Groups, 2019–20

Eligibility: UC humanities PhD students in good standing, in conjunction with a faculty member who has agreed in advance to serve in the role of Principal Investigator (PI)
Deadline: Mar 4, 2019

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From the
Awards Archive:

A Lethal Education: Institutionalized Negligence, Epidemiology, and Death in United States American Indian Boarding Schools, 1879-1934

Beginning in 1879 and continuing well into the twentieth century, the federal government transported at least 830,000 American Indian children hundreds or even thousands of miles away from their families and homelands and incarcerated them in boarding schools in the name of assimilation. Based upon newly opened archives, this epidemiological project will be the first to quantify the lethal impact of these institutions. It brings together American Indian History with the History of Medicine by focusing on disease etiology, the consequences of contagious environments, and students’ experiences relating to health at these institutions.

Preston McBride
History
UC Los Angeles

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Foundry

Mothers of Color in Academia

Academia is a demanding space that does not always accommodate mothers at various stages in their careers. Numerous studies report that mothers and mothers of color in academia are less likely to receive tenure and are passed over for career advancement opportunities. Women of color face a particular set of challenges when becoming mothers, yet »