UCHRI Announces 2019-20 Graduate Student Dissertation Support Grants
UCHRI recently awarded 15 Graduate Student Dissertation Support grants to PhD candidates across the UC system to support dissertation-related research activities during the 2019-20 academic year. The grantees represent eight UC campuses and nine humanities disciplines, and their projects span centuries and continents.
Breaking the Retrospective Curse: Contemporary Korean Film and the Deconstruction of Communal Ethics
Sue Heun Asokan, East Asian Languages and Literatures, UC Irvine
Staging Vision, Screening Others: Performance Paradigms for Police Practices
Christina Aushana, Communication, UC San Diego
“The Architecture of Belonging: ‘Livable Places’ in the United States since 1945”
Kristina Borrman, Art History, UC Los Angeles
The Ziqpu-stars and Cuneiform Knowledge: Meaning, Applications, Contexts
Gil Breger, Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
Otherworlds: Imagining Planets with Butler, Herbert, and the Pulps
Katherine Buse, English, UC Davis
Melancholic Satires: Embodying Critique in the Eighteenth Century
Phillip Cortes, English, UC Santa Barbara
Sex and the English Revolution
Samuel Fullerton, History, UC Riverside
Pure Imagination: America’s Food Identity Standards, 1938-Present
Clare Gordon, History, UC Irvine
Deepwater Feeds: Mediation and Extraction at the Seafloor
Lisa Han, Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Window Seats: Studying Transport and Inequality in Bengaluru, India
Jananie Kalyanaraman, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles
New Era, New Media: The Postsocialist Chinese Media Ecology
Julia Keblinska, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Conscripting the Past: The Politics of African History in an Age of Abolition, 1760-1807
Devin Leigh, History, UC Davis
Learning the Values of a Dollar: Childhood and Cultures of Economy in the US, 1825-1900
Jaclyn Schultz, History, UC Santa Cruz
Bedwritten: Middle English Medicine and the Ailing Author
Chelsea Silva, English, UC Riverside
Enlightenment Natures: Birds and the French Empire, 1740-1820
Yotam Tsal, History, UC Berkeley