New Awards for Conferences and Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshops (2020-21)
UCHRI’s 10-campus Advisory Committee met in late January to make the first round of awards for the 2020-21 academic year. Conferences drawing together faculty from across the UC system will address diverse literatures, media, and sensory experiences of the world such as food and sound. Manuscript workshops will support junior faculty as they refine their first books on aesthetics, geopolitics, alchemical transformations, and social upheavals past and present.
Conference Grants
Co-Productions: Literature, Media, and Diaspora in the Japanese Transpacific
John Kim, Comparative Languages and Literatures, UC Riverside
Sensoria in the Islamic and Christian Western Mediterranean
Camilo Gomez-Rivas, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Socialist World Cultures
Hunter Bivens, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop Grants
Citizen-Suspect: Militarism, Race, and Geopolitics in the East African Warscape
Samar Al-Bulushi, Anthropology, UC Irvine
Alchemy at Its Limits: Waste, Race, and Transformation
Elana Resnick, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
Strange Encounters: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas
Zac Zimmer, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Revitalizations and Postapocalyptic Research
Mark Minch-de Leon, English, UC Riverside
Out of the Past: Jidaigeki, Modern Historicity, and the Aesthetics of the Present in Postwar Japan
Junko Yamazaki, Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Los Angeles