Awards for Public, Digital, and Collaborative Projects in the Humanities (2019-20)
UCHRI’s Advisory Committee has completed award selections for the 2019-20 academic year. Over $150,000 in grants were awarded to faculty and graduate students on eight campuses across the UC system. Faculty will convene year-long multicampus working groups on women’s suffrage in the Americas, mental health in East Asia, law and society in the Middle East, and building a multi-campus degree-granting program in East Asian Studies. Graduate student working groups will gather to build intellectual community around critical infrastructure studies, the unique experiences of undocumented scholars, interrogating the construct of “South Asia,” feminist approaches to Indian Ocean worlds, and memory and posthumanity in Taiwanese literature.
Engaging Humanities grants were awarded to public-facing projects in literary education for incarcerated people, strengthening a community archive in south Los Angeles, an exhibit featuring the role of Chinese immigrants in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, justice for incarcerated survivors of domestic violence, and the development of a new digital humanities hub at UC Merced.
Two brand new grant categories will support their first grantees in 2019-20. Mentorship for Digital Humanities will support two faculty and two graduate students in ongoing mentorship in digital humanities, connecting them with experts across the UC system who will serve as mentors for the grantees’ burgeoning digital projects. The Graduate Professionalization Workshop award will support a professionalization program for public humanities careers in museums, national and state park services, and preservation.
Multicampus Faculty Working Groups
Empire and Women’s Suffrage in the Americas
Judy Wu, Asian American Studies, UC Irvine
Big Asia: The University of California Faculty Initiative for Multi-campus Graduate Training in East Asian Studies
Minghui Hu, History, UC Santa Cruz
Law, Society, and Culture from Basra to the Balkans
Nir Shafir, History, UC San Diego
Medicine, Culture, and Mental Health in East Asia
Emily Baum, History, UC Irvine
Multicampus Graduate Student Working Groups
Critical Infrastructural Studies: (Im)mobile Landscapes of Militarism, Race, and Settler Colonialism
Gabi Kirk, Geography, UC Davis
Undocumented Migration Working Group: Centering the Voices of Undocumented Scholars
Daniel Millán, Sociology, UC Irvine
Methods, Materials, and Matrices: Feminist Currents in Indian Ocean Worlds
Kelsey McFaul, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Memory, Agency, and Posthumanity in Taiwanese Literature, Visual Culture Performative Body
Wan-ting Wang, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Interrogating South Asia
Anandi Rao, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
Engaging Humanities
Foundations in the Humanities
Susan Derwin, Germanic and Slavic Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Feminist Decarceral Research Initiative
Alissa Bierria, Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside
Fugitive Archives
Michelle Dizon, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
The Chinese and the Transcontinental Railroad: Reflections on the 150th Anniversary
Julia Lee, Asian American Studies, UC Irvine
Gateway to Merced: Digital Humanities Hub
Jayson Beaster-Jones, Global Arts, Media, and Writing Studies, UC Merced
Graduate Student Professionalization Workshop
Humanities Careers in Science History, Policy, and Communication (H-SCHIP)
Dana Simmons, History, UC Riverside
Mentorship for Digital Humanities
UCI-Morgan State University (Black) Digital Humanities Pathways Program Inside the Activist Studio West: Digital Repository of Movement Material
Jessica Millward & Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, History & African American Studies, UC Irvine
Stilling Nature: Birds, the Enlightenment and the French Empire, 1740-1820
Yotam Tsal, History, UC Berkeley
Water is King — and Here is Its Kingdom: Geospatial Humanities and Changes in the Imperial Valley
Ivan Soto, Interdisciplinary Humanities, UC Merced
