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Featured Grants
New: Supplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Graduate Student Funding, 2026-27
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Jan 19, 2026
New: Multicampus Faculty Working Groups, 2026-27
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Jan 19, 2026
New: UCHRI Manuscript Workshop and Research Development Program, 2026-27
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: Jan 19, 2026
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Awards Archive:
Ghosts of the Machine Age: A Scientific Family, a Haunted Empire, and the Prehistory of AI
In the late Victorian era, science escaped the laboratory and took over the world. Through a vast network of telegraphs, universities, and statistical bureaus, it became a globalized force for both understanding nature and asserting control over human societies. The technoscientific revolution of the 1880s crystallized around two distinct but entangled approaches. William James and »
Benjamin Breen
History
UC Santa Cruz
Recuperating History through Community-Engaged Research in the Pajaro Valley
The Watsonville is in the Heart team amplifies overlooked Filipino-American histories.
After the War: An Ultrasonic Meditation
Yehuda Sharim, aka Y(E)S, presents sonic meditations on life, love, and recovery after war.
Oversharing in the Academic Borderlands
Sammy Solis (Work & Refuge 1/7) reflects on scholarly writing as a personal and political act.
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Interim Director Julia Lupton on Relationships, Sustenance, and the Art of Listening
Julia Reinhard Lupton served as Interim Director of UCHRI from 2022 until 2025. As a Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine, she also served as Associate Dean for Research, directed the Humanities Commons, and created the Illuminations program. She continues to co-direct the New Swan Shakespeare Center, which she co-founded with Eli Simon. The »
Announcing UCHRI Grant Recipients for
2025-26
UCHRI is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2025-26 grants, which support a wide range of collaborative and individual faculty and graduate student research projects. This year, we are especially excited for the budding public humanities projects on food as well as various public history projects, work on community interpreting in healthcare, and an »
Building Faith in Science: An Interfaith Climate Action Project
In August 2023, UCHRI joined the Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network (WUICAN), a UC-funded three-campus initiative that focuses on community-led climate initiatives. To invite new forms of meaning-making and knowledge-sharing into the network, UCHRI reached out to local faith leaders with an unexpected proposal: Are you interested in learning from each other, connecting with scientists, »
