UCHRI Spring 2018 Awards Announcement
UCHRI has just completed our spring grants cycle, awarding nearly 50 grants to faculty and staff across the UC system. Grantees will receive support for interdisciplinary collaborative and individual research during the 2018–19 academic year. Awards support public and engaged humanities projects, multicampus working groups that bring together faculty and graduate students around shared intellectual concerns, workshops for junior faculty to develop book manuscripts, and graduate student dissertation research and writing.
The awards, which were determined in collaboration with UCHRI’s Advisory Committee, feature projects that represent groundbreaking ideas and methods and that draw upon the diverse perspectives and expertise of UC scholars. “The spring competition was extremely competitive, with over 130 applications across five categories of funding,” states UCHRI director David Theo Goldberg. “We’re inspired by the way that these projects engage different publics, incorporate experimental methodologies, and involve graduate students in substantive research.”
Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshops
Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics, 1960–1980
Jacob Gaboury, Film & Media, UC Berkeley
Peopling for Profit: Colonization and the Brazilian Empire, 1808–1878
José Juan Pérez Meléndez, History, UC Davis
Conflicts and Repetition: The Politics of Poetic Reiteration in Hebrew and Arabic Literatures
Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
Unbound Books: Voice, Image, and Cultures of Reading Drama in Seventeenth-Century China
Yinghui Wu, Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Los Angeles
The Texture of Change: Cloth, Commerce and History in Western Africa, 1700–1850
Jody Benjamin, History, UC Riverside
Radical Roads Not Taken: Moroccan Jewish Trajectories, 1925–1975
Alma Heckman, History, UC Santa Cruz
Recruiting Sweetness: Translating Race and Risk in Type 2 Diabetes Research
James Doucet-Battle, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
Multicampus Faculty Working Groups
Arts of Critique
Natalia Brizuela, Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese, UC Berkeley
*includes Supplemental Graduate Student Funding
Sounding Space and Place
Sheryl-Ann Simpson, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design and Human Ecology, UC Davis
Anna Brand, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley
New Directions in the Study of Black Atlantic Religions
Robin Derby, History, UC Los Angeles
Cybernetic Algorithms and Biometric Processes – An Inquiry into the Contemporary Modes of Government of the Living Systems
Babak Rahimi, Literature, UC San Diego
Davide Panagia, Political Science, UC Los Angeles
The Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging
Juan Camilo Gomez-Rivas, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
*includes Supplemental Graduate Student Funding
Sanctuary Practices
Massimiliano Tomba, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Banu Bargu, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Engaging Humanities Grants
Humanizing Deportation: A Digital Storytelling Archive
Robert Irwin, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Davis
*includes Supplemental Graduate Student Funding
Social Media Literacy Workshop
Lynette Hunter, Theatre and Dance, UC Davis
*includes Supplemental Graduate Student Funding
Music and the Archive at Sinai Temple
Mark Kligman, Musicology, UC Los Angeles
Skid Row History Museum and Archives
Catherine Gudis, History, UC Riverside
Extending Mi Familia, Mi Historia: Humanities, the Arts, and Communities in Dialogue
Luis Alvarez, History and Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UC San Diego
Ethics Bowl as a Platform for Educational Advancement
Jonathan Ellis, Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz
Thomas Holden, Philosophy, UC Santa Barbara
*includes Supplemental Graduate Student Funding
Multicampus Graduate Student Working Groups
Science/Fiction, Science/Media: Re-theorizing STS’s Cultural Landscape
Katherine Buse, English, UC Davis
Ranjodh Dhaliwal, English, UC Davis
Archaeology of the Future: Chinese Oral History in the Digital Age
Qiyu Lu, Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Los Angeles
Elizabeth Carter, Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Los Angeles
Yiyang Hou, Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Los Angeles
Lin Du, Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Los Angeles
Seeds at the Table: Centering the Black Legacy in Academic Creativity
Zachary Mondesire, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles
Julien Joelle, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles
Thinking From Oakland: Urban Study in the Town
Erin McElroy, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Trisha Barua, Cultural Studies, UC Davis
Alex Werth, Geography, UC Berkeley
Transgender Studies Working Group
Eli Erlick, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Graduate Student Dissertation Support Grants
Among the Divinities: Law and Literature in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Trinh Luu, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
From Gold Rush to Green Rush: Illegal Marijuana Cultivation on Yurok Tribal Lands
Kaitlin Reed, Native American Studies, UC Davis
Book and Boudoir: Women’s Literacy and “Social Space” in Late Imperial China
Xu Ma, East Asian Languages and Literatures, UC Irvine
A Lethal Education: Institutionalized Negligence, Epidemiology, and Death in United States American Indian Boarding Schools, 1879-1934
Preston McBride, History, UC Los Angeles
Long Live the Arab Worker: A Transnational History of Labor Activism in the Yemeni Diaspora
Neama Alamri, Interdisciplinary Humanities, UC Merced
Plagues that Fascinate: Literary Leprosy and Queer Affect in the Victorian Fin de Siècle
Mackenzie Gregg, English, UC Riverside
The Freedom of a Broken Law
Hannah Manshel, English, UC Riverside
Biennial Places: Solidarity, Authenticity, and the Expansion of the Contemporary Art Industry: Cuba, the U.S./Mexico Border, and the European Union
Paloma Checa-Gismero, Visual Arts, UC San Diego
At Home in Pieces: Adaptive Encounters in Caribbean and Jewish Diasporic Literatures
Dalia Bolotnikov, English, UC Santa Barbara
Intimate Labor, Gendered Fandom, and Media Industry in the Transnational Circulation of Korean Popular Music
Stephanie Choi, Music, UC Santa Barbara
Reproducing the Crisis: Blackness, Violence, and Visual Culture in the Postwar American City
Wayne Coffey, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Short Term Collaborative Research Residency
Elements: matters, analytics, worlds
Mei Zhan, Anthropology, UC Irvine
Daniel Fisher, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
