2010-11 UCHRI GRANTEES ACROSS THE UC
- Andrew V. White Dissertation Scholarship
- Conferences and Seminars
- Extramural Explorations
- Residential Research Groups
- Working Groups
- Collaborative Compositions
- University of California (UC) California Studies Consortium (CSC) - Graduate Student Research Travel Grants
- Systemwide Workshops
- Community Outreach and Teaching Grants
ANDREW V. WHITE DISSERTATION SCHOLARSHIP
Romanticism, Radicalism, and Inoculation
Fuson Wang, English, UC Los Angeles
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CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Andrew Mathews, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz and
Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
"Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Science Fiction"
Adriana Craciun, English, UC Riverside
"Inscriptions: The Material Contours of Knowledge"
Mary-Kay Gamel, Literature, UC Santa Cruz, and
Mark Griffith, Classics, Theater Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
"Music in Greek Tragedy: History, Theory and Practice"
Kirsten Gruesz, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
"Latino Literature at the Edge"
Andrea Smith, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside, and
Dylan Rodriguez, Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside
"Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/White Supremacy/Heteropatriarchy"
Ronald Mellor, History, UCLA, and
Nicole Gilbertson, History, UC Irvine
"Visualizing Cultures: Modern China and Japan"
EXTRAMURAL EXPLORATIONS
Alan Christy, History, UC Santa Cruz, and
Alice Yang, History, UC Santa Cruz
"Cultivating Trust: Old Timers, New Immigrants and the Building
of a Transnational Community in Postwar Watsonville"
Ken Rogers, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
"Off Peak: Reclaiming Baldwin Hills"
RESIDENTIAL RESEARCH GROUPS
Critical Disability StudiesIn residence Fall 2010
Convener: Catherine Kudlick, History, UC Davis
Co-Organizer: Susan Schweik, English, UC Berkeley
Faculty:
Patrick Anderson, Communication, UC San Diego
Georgina Kleege, English, UC Berkeley
Victoria Marks, World Arts and Cultures, UCLA
Darrin Martin, Art, Art History, and Technocultural Studies, UC Davis
Mara Mills, Media Culture and Communication, New York University
Heather Love, English, University of Pennsylvania
Michelle Stuckey, Literature, UC San Diego
Holy Wars Redux
In residence Spring 2011
Convener: John Ganim, English, UC Riverside
Co-organizer: Geraldine Heng, English, University of Texas at Austin
Faculty:
Benjamin Liu, Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside
Tomaz Mastnak, Institute of Philosophy, Centre for Scientific Research, Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts
UCHRI WORKING GROUPS
The University of California Humanities Research Institute is pleased to announce its first cohort of Working Groups for 2010-2011. Working Groups are designed to catalyze collaboration between individuals from different disciplines, locations, and campuses around a specific problem, theme, object or topic. They consist of between 5 and 15 people who will collaborate over one academic year to address a clearly defined timely issue or early stage of research on an emergent topic in the humanities. Members of the group will be connected virtually for ongoing communication and will meet face-to-face at least one time throughout the year.
Critique in a Time of Vulnerability
Convener: Dina Al-kassim, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
Imperial Legacies, Post-socialist Contexts: Transnationalizing Analytics of Race, Gender and Sexuality
Conveners: Neda Atanasoski, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz and Kalina Vora, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
The Material World in Social Life
Convener: Marian Feldman, History of Art, UC Berkeley
Project Title: The Post-Public University and Its Discontents
Convener: Sora Han, Criminology, Law and Society and Roshanak Kheshti, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
Transnational Queer & Transgender Studies Research and Curriculum Development Working Group
Conveners: Todd Henry, History, UCSD and Nayan Shah, History, UCSD
Democracy, Spatiality, and Subjectivity in the Americas
Conveners: Horacio Legras, Spanish and Portuguese, UCI and Catherine Benamou, Film and Media Studies
Visualizing Governing Through Crime in California, Phase II
Conveners: Mona Lynch, Criminology, Law and Society, UCI and Jonathan Simon, School of Law, UC Berkeley
Network in Sephardic Studies at UC (UCSSN)
Convener: Susan Miller, History, UC Davis
Testimonios as Critical Tools in Theorizing Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Indigenous Studies
Conveners: Lorena Oropeza, History, UC Davis and Inés Hernández-Avila, Professor, Native American Studies, UC Davis
Sounding Race
Convener: Deborah Vargas, Chicano/Latino Studies, UC Irvine
2010-11 Collaborative Compositions
Linguistic Diversity in American Classrooms
Olga Yokoyama, Applied Linguistics, UCLA
UC CALIFORNIA STUDIES CONSORTIUM (UCCSC)
UCCSC Systemwide Workshops
Lisa Parks, Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara and Nicole Starosielski, Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara "Signal Traffic: Art, Infrastructure and Geography in California"
UCCSC Community Outreach and Teaching Grants
Judy Baca, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
"The RFK Learning Center Project"
Liane Brouillette, Education, UC Irvine
"Surfing Safari: California Surf Music and the Rise of Suburban Youth Culture"
Kristen Day, Planning, Policy & Design, UC Irvine
"Advancing Service-Learning in California Studies"
Elisabeth Le Guin, Musicology, UCLA "
Son jarocho and border crossings"
Flora Lu, Latino and Latin American Studies, UC Santa Cruz,Tracy Perkins, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz, and
Julie Sze, America Studies, UC Davis
"Promoting Environmental Justice through Campus-Community Collaboration"
Setsu Shigematsu, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
"Critical Prison Studies and Abolitionist Theory and Practice"
UCCSC Graduate Student Research Travel Grants
Cole Akers, Visual Studies, UC Irvine
"Total Design: The Architecture & Regional Planning of William L. Pereira"
Bridgette Auger, Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz
"Documentary of Resettled Iraqi Refugees living in El Cajon, California"
Joshua Brahinsky, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
"Pentecostal Pedagogies: Making A Modern Missionary"
Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara
"Deviant Criminals or Devout Religious Practitioners: The "I AM" Activity and the Limits of
Religious Tolerance in California"
Gloria Kim, History, UC San Diego
" A Community in Conflict: Multiracial Debates over the Racial Integration of San Diego Public Schools, 1954-1985"
Sarah Mccullough, Cultural Studies, UC Davis
"Negotiating Appropriate Technologies in Northern California through the Bicycle"
Stevie Ruiz, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
"History, Sexual Politics and Modernity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands"
Krystal Tribbett, History, UC San Diego
"RECLAIMing Air, Redefining Democracy: A History of California's Regional Clean Air Incentive Market,
Emission Trading and Environmental Justice 1970-Present"
Kate Trumbull, Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz
"San Diego Somali Refugee Documentary Project"