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Open Letters from Prison: Mobilizing Communities of Collective Care
Growing out of a year-long collaboration between UC Davis faculty, students, and staff and the members of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), this project seeks to amplify the voices and expand the reach of Open Letters Writing Group members inside four California prisons by creating and distributing a special issue of The Fire »
Ofelia Cuevas
Chicanx Studies
UC Davis
Benjamin Weber
African American & African Studies
UC Davis
Tracing Everyday Upheavals in the Middle East: An Interview with Ingy Higazy and Raed Rafei
Ingy Higazy and Raed Rafei spoke to UCHRI Research Grants Manager, Sara Černe, about pandemic collaboration and podcast experimentation for a Foundry series highlighting the work of the Institute’s recent grantees and the methods, unorthodox approaches, and challenges they have employed and encountered.
Collecting Stories from Black Vallejo: An Interview with Julie Sze
Julie Sze spoke to UCHRI Research Grants Manager, Sara Černe, for a new Foundry series highlighting the work of the Institute’s recent grantees and the methods, unorthodox approaches, and challenges they have employed and encountered. The interview took place over Zoom and was edited for length and clarity.
On the (In)audible in Art: An Interview with Elena Cardona
Elena Cardona spoke to UCHRI Research Grants Manager, Sara Černe, for a new Foundry series highlighting the work of the Institute’s recent grantees and the methods, unorthodox approaches, and challenges they have employed and encountered.
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Marxist Institute for Research Summer Seminar
Sagehen Field Research Station (a UC Natural Reserve location)
Refuge at Risk: Concepts, Infrastructures, Futures
University of California Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine
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UCHRI Welcomes Stephanie Narrow, Graduate Student Researcher
I’m a 6th year history PhD Candidate at UC Irvine (graduating Summer 2023!) I’m honored to be ending graduate school working with the incredible team at UCHRI to share some of the amazing UCHRI-funded projects on Foundry. Working to present these works to broader audiences builds upon my public history experiences. I’ve previously served as »
Work & Refuge: Creating Graduate Futures at UCHRI
By Sarah Goeppner, UCHRI Graduate Student Researcher Disabled graduate students mark the limits of the university’s idealism about itself, which can remain a perpetuum mobile only so long as it can ignore the very real bodies it crushes under its wheels. — andy king (UC Berkeley) The ideas I once held of the academy—as somehow »
UCHRI Welcomes Sarah Goeppner, Graduate Student Researcher
A Southern California native, I received my BA in English from UCLA in 2018 and am currently pursuing my PhD in English at UC Irvine, where I have taught courses ranging from justice in the medical humanities to race and gender in gothic literature. While here, I have been invited to guest lecture in courses »
