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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:
Reading Sideways: Queer and Asian Diasporic Approaches to Regency Novels & Adaptation
This monograph reads long eighteenth-century texts alongside their contemporary adaptations by Asian diasporic creators to theorize what the author calls sideways reading, which describes a queer and Asian diasporic affect, reading practice, and positionality in relation to works of the British canon. The monograph posits sideways reading as a tool for analyzing adaptation work and »
Lillian Lu
Literature
UC San Diego
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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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 »
Building Faith in Science: An Interfaith Climate Action Project
In August 2023, UCHRI joined the Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network (WUICAN), a UC-funded three-campus initiative that focuses on community-led climate initiatives. To invite new forms of meaning-making and knowledge-sharing into the network, UCHRI reached out to local faith leaders with an unexpected proposal: Are you interested in learning from each other, connecting with scientists, »
Mapping New California Histories: Teachers and Scholars Convene to Share Skills and Knowledge
How do you design a map of the Bay Area that addresses the lived experiences, cosmic perspectives, and ongoing vitality of the Indigenous peoples of the region? You may have to relinquish the tools of Western cartography and come up with a new kind of map altogether—round in shape, with multiple perspectives, Indigenous points of »
