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Beyond the Kitchen: B. Smith and the Legacy of Black Women’s Cultural Work
This book project critically examines the long legacy of Black women’s work in the culinary and hospitality arts, as illustrated by the 40-year career of Barbara Elaine Smith (1950–2020), a model, restaurateur, lifestyle television host, cookbook author, and all-around style maven. Although popular media culture labeled her the “Black Martha Stewart,” Barbara Elaine Smith built »
Kimberly Nettles-Barcelon
African American and African Studies
UC Davis
Critical Machine Learning Studies: An Interview with Fabian Offert and Rita Raley
Fabian Offert and Rita Raley on why the humanities are central to critical machine learning and AI studies.
Experiments in Freedom: An Interview with Yehuda Sharim
Yehuda Sharim reflects on his his UCHRI-supported feature film, Experiments in Freedom.
Crash, Wave
Christina Lux explores the science on waves in poetic form.
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UCHRI Partners with LARB to Fund UC Graduate Students
UCHRI has partnered with the LA Review of Books to offer two spots to UC graduate students in the LARB Publishing Workshop, an intensive summer training program for aspiring publishing professionals with an emphasis on diverse and innovative publishing outcomes. The workshop will take place online between June 24 and July 26, 2024. In line »
UCHRI Welcomes Aaron Katzeman, Graduate Student Researcher
I am a PhD Candidate in Visual Studies at UC Irvine researching contemporary art and film produced alongside resistance to military occupation, social movements for agrarian reform, and anti-colonial national liberation struggles. In my dissertation, “Aloha ‘Āina as Medium: Land, Art, and Sovereignty in Post-Statehood Hawai‘i,” I trace a counter-institutional lineage of visual culture advancing »
UC Humanities Network Collaborates on Care & Repair Programming
Join the UC Humanities Network for a collaborative line of intercampus events on Care & Repair and explore other projects and resources connected to the theme. Events will be hosted online, so faculty and students from all ten campuses as well as community members are welcome to attend. Events UCHRI | Friday, January 12, 12-1 »