RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Grantees 2009-10
Residential Research Fellows & Groups
Residential research groups (RRGs) are at the heart of UCHRI's activities, convening key scholars to work in collaboration on interdisciplinary topics of special significance. UCHRI promotes new scholarship in the humanities by fostering collaborative inquiry outside institutional and disciplinary structures. RRGs are in essence teams of researchers, often unknown to each other before residency, and assembled to work on a commonly defined research agenda. They are composed of a range of UC faculty, visiting scholars (including UC postdoctoral scholars), UC doctoral students, and non-UC faculty as resources allow.

Research topics for RRGs are determined by open competition or by UCHRI in consultation with its Advisory Board and UC leaders in the humanities. Through a competitive review process, RRG fellows are then selected based on their ability to contribute to the research agenda of the group. Collaboration may take many forms. In communicating across disciplines, there are challenges of language, terminology, and methodology for all RRGs. The organizing premise of the residential research program is that when those challenges are surmounted, breakthroughs in knowledge are possible. Apply

Collaborative Compositions
The Collaborative Compositions program supports short-term groups in residence at UCHRI. These 1-4 week intensive residencies allow researchers pursuing collaborative projects to use the Institute's on-site resources as a retreat to bring the work to completion. Apply

Andrew V. White Scholarship
UCHRI awards the The Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Scholarship to one or more qualified UC graduate students working on a dissertation project in the humanities and medicine, or in the theoretical social sciences and medicine. The student will be based at his or her home campus; the scholarship is not a residency at UCHRI. Apply

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