UC OFFICE OF RESEARCH ANNOUNCES FOUR NEW PROGRAMS

Four new multicampus research programs in the humanities and social sciences have been enabled by Office of Research funding matched by campus support. These programs bring together outstanding faculty throughout the UC system for a period of three to five years and are uniquely interdisciplinary.

Studies of Food and the Body arose from a UCHRI residential research group convened by Melanie DuPuis, UC Santa Cruz. Carolyn de la Peña was a fellow in the UCHRI group and is directing the multicampus research program. UCHRI fellows Peter Bloom and Gina Dent are also serving as multicampus research program directors.

• African Studies (five years funding)
  Co-Directors: Stephan Miescher and Peter Bloom, UC Santa Barbara

• Studies of Food and the Body (three years funding)
  Director: Carolyn de la Peña, UC Davis

• Transnationalizing Justice (five years funding)
  Director: Gina Dent, UC Santa Cruz

• UC Initiative in Human Rights (three years funding)
  Director: Camille Crittenden, UC Berkeley Human Rights Center

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