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Featured Grants
New: Supplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Graduate Student Funding, 2026-27
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Jan 19, 2026
New: Multicampus Faculty Working Groups, 2026-27
Eligibility: UC Ladder Rank FacultyDeadline: Jan 19, 2026
New: UCHRI Manuscript Workshop and Research Development Program, 2026-27
Eligibility: UC early- and mid-career ladder rank faculty (Assistant and Associate professors) in the humanities or humanistic social sciences who are currently completing their first or second book projectDeadline: Jan 19, 2026
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Awards Archive:
Feminist Relationality in the Americas: Women’s Practices in Filmmaking & Quilting
My dissertation includes my experimental documentary entitled Grandmother’s Garden, as well as community-based screenings of this film and 1970s feminist films through the Gravitational Lensing series. Grandmother’s Garden touches on the interrelated subject matter of my 1970s case studies—gender, national identity, and labor employing similar experimental documentary methods. Additionally, the Gravitational Lensing screenings are informed »
Amy Reid
Film and Digital Media
UC Santa Cruz
Recuperating History through Community-Engaged Research in the Pajaro Valley
The Watsonville is in the Heart team amplifies overlooked Filipino-American histories.
After the War: An Ultrasonic Meditation
Yehuda Sharim, aka Y(E)S, presents sonic meditations on life, love, and recovery after war.
Oversharing in the Academic Borderlands
Sammy Solis (Work & Refuge 1/7) reflects on scholarly writing as a personal and political act.
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UCHRI Welcomes a New Director: Jaimey Fisher
As I begin my five-year term as director of UCHRI, I think back to the many achievements of UCHRI and the UC Humanities Network—it has been incredibly inspiring to collaborate with colleagues around the system and to contribute to the dynamic work being done far and wide in our state. This kind of active and »
Interim Director Julia Lupton on Relationships, Sustenance, and the Art of Listening
Julia Reinhard Lupton served as Interim Director of UCHRI from 2022 until 2025. As a Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine, she also served as Associate Dean for Research, directed the Humanities Commons, and created the Illuminations program. She continues to co-direct the New Swan Shakespeare Center, which she co-founded with Eli Simon. The »
Announcing UCHRI Grant Recipients for
2025-26
UCHRI is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2025-26 grants, which support a wide range of collaborative and individual faculty and graduate student research projects. This year, we are especially excited for the budding public humanities projects on food as well as various public history projects, work on community interpreting in healthcare, and an »
