Announcing UCHRI Grant Recipients for
2022-2023
UCHRI is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2022-23 grants, which support a wide range of collaborative and individual faculty and graduate student research projects, many of which engage with broader publics and explore new modes of collaborating with community partners. This year, we are especially excited for the Guest Editorship grants in our “Recasting the Humanities” Foundry grant as well as the continuation of the multi-cohort Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship, which was first launched last year.
Living Through Upheaval
Tria Blu Wakpa, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UC Los Angeles
After Epistemicide: Building Relations, Imagining Futures
Michelle Raheja, English, UC Riverside
Engaging Humanities
Crossing Pride: Queer and Trans Refugee Transnational Storytelling & Digital Archiving
Debanuj DasGupta, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Jeanne Scheper, Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Irvine
‘oṭṭoy: A healing collaboration of Café Ohlone and the Hearst Museum
Lauren Kroiz, History of Art, UC Berkeley
Just Research: Trans Futures in Health and Scientific Knowledge
Grace Hong, Center for the Study of Women, UC Los Angeles
Mel Chen, Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley
Open Letters from Prison: Mobilizing Communities of Collective Care
Benjamin Weber, African American & African Studies, UC Davis
Ofelia Cuevas, Chicanx Studies, UC Davis
Faculty Working Groups
Diversified Community Archiving Practices as Resilience
Justin Dunnavant, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles
Jun Sunseri, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Transition and Upheaval: Marxist Institute for Research
Joshua Clover, English, UC Davis
Charmaine Chua, Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Graduate Working Groups
Alt-Right Media Literacy Series
Chelsea Kai Roesch, Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Rebekah Kaump, Geography Graduate Group, UC Davis
Mapping Carcerality and Resistance in Southern California: Orange County and In(LA)nd Regions
Jazmin Garcia, Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside
Joana Chavez, Chicana/Chicano and Central American Studies, UC Los Angeles
Critical Data Studies: Designing Humanistic Interventions in Undergraduate STEM Education
Katheryne Metcalf, Communication, UC San Diego
Magdalena Donea, Communication, UC San Diego
Alison Maas, English, UC Davis
George Hegarty, English, UC Davis
Conference Grants
Anticolonialism as Theory Symposium
Poulomi Saha, African American Studies & English, UC Berkeley
Yogita Goyal, English, UC Los Angeles
What is Life? Ancient Answers to Modern Questions
Martin Devecka, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Knowing Life: The Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies
Brianne Donaldson, Religious Studies Program, Department of Philosophy, UC Irvine
Caitlin Keliiaa, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Mark Minch-de Leon, UC Riverside, English
Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship
Leisy Abrego, Chicana/o & Central American Studies, UC Los Angeles
Rosie Bermudez, History, UC San Diego
Stephanie Canizales, Sociology, UC Merced
Laura Enriquez, Chicano/Latino Studies, UC Irvine
San Juanita García, Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, History, UC Los Angeles
Daina Sanchez, Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Hangping Xu, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Hu Ying, East Asian Studies, UC Irvine
Recasting the Humanities: Foundry Guest Editorship
Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Chicano-Latino Studies and History, UC Irvine
The Littoral of Law and Poetics
Sora Han, African American Studies, UC Irvine
Holding Sway: Seaweeds and the Politics of Form
Melody Jue, English, UC Santa Barbara
Ethics and Astrobiology: A Collaborative Approach to Thinking Life in the Cosmos
Zac Zimmer, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Faculty Summer Research Funding
African American Literature and Photography’s Material Legacies
Cole Morgan, English, UC Irvine
Y Escalar: Documenting “Prison Communities” in Rural California
Yehuda Sharim, Global Art Studies Program, UC Merced
Religion, Aesthetics, and Black Diasporic Tradition: Katherine Dunham’s Video Eye/Video ‘I’
Nadia Ellis, English, UC Berkeley
The Emergence of the Latinx Self, 1780-1880: Reason, Rights, Publics, Interiority
Raul Coronado, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Custodians of Tea: A History of Tea Producers in Late Colonial and Independent Kenya
Muey Saeteurn, History/Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, UC Merced
Medicine & Humanities: The Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White GraduateStudent Scholarship
Anne Napatalung, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz
The World of Care: Managing Disability in the Qing China (1644-1911)
Weiyue Kan, History, UC San Diego
Graduate Dissertation Awards
A Study of Female Javānmardī in the Premodern Persianate World
Amanda Caterina Leong, Interdisciplinary Humanities, UC Merced
Land, Art, Liberation: Groundings of Revolutionary Ecology
Aaron Katzeman, Visual Studies, UC Irvine
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Davis
Film on the Class Conflict over Housing Policy
Kenton Card, Urban Planning, UC Los Angeles
Black Life Unbounded: Policing, Property, and the Spatial Practice of Abolition in Sacramento
Mia Dawson, Geography Graduate Group, UC Davis
Borderline Unsustainable: Urban Planning and Diplomacy at the Tijuana-San Diego Boundary, 1919-1999
Kevan Malone, History, UC San Diego
Psychosomatic Mental Illness: A Hypothesis
Urte Laukaityte, Philosophy, UC Berkeley
The Gospel of Wealth: Charity and the Making of Modern Egypt, 1879-1939
Amy Fallas, History, UC Santa Barbara
Elemental City: Ecology, Media, and Narratives of Crisis in Postcolonial Calcutta
Somak Mukherjee, English, UC Santa Barbara
Szu-Chin Chih, Literature, UC San Diego
Institutional Failure as Global Leadership: A Case-Based Study of the Present
Rose Dwyer, Music, UC San Diego
Mark Howard, Politics, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Joy Miller, History, UC San Diego
Joe Riley, Visual Arts, UC San Diego
