University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowships 2018–19

In April, a committee composed of humanities faculty representing six UC campuses met to select the eight recipients of the prestigious University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship for 2018–19. The fellows will receive paid leave from their regular teaching requirements to pursue their own research projects.

Outer Spaces: Imagining the Ends of the Earth

Elizabeth DeLoughrey, English, UC Los Angeles

The Smell of Risk: Atmospheric Disparities and the Olfactory Arts

Hsuan Hsu, English, UC Davis

Unsettling Citizenship: African-Asian Lives and the Politics of Racialized Insecurity in Postcolonial Uganda

Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Anthropology, UC Merced

Structure:  A Counterhistory of Twentieth-Century French Philosophy

Eleanor Kaufman, Comparative Literature, UC Los Angeles

Broken Black Bodies: African American Women and Intimate Partner violence in the post Civil War South

Jessica Millward, History, UC Irvine

Reconstructing the Law: Slavery in Post-Emancipation Southern Courtrooms, 1865-1877

Giuliana Perrone, History, UC Santa Barbara

From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine

Sherene Seikaly, History, UC Santa Barbara

Queer Remains: Race, Trans Resistance, and the Aesthetics of Violence

Eric Stanley, Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Riverside