The Davis Humanities Institute is an interdisciplinary research center that fosters intellectual collaborations and facilitates access to research resources for faculty and graduate students who are actively engaged in research and teaching in the humanities, the arts, cultural studies, and the humanistically-oriented social sciences. It advocates for the humanities within the UC Davis community and works with funding agencies to secure individual and programmatic resources for HArCS faculty. The DHI is also the home of the California Cultures Initiative, formerly the Pacific Regional Humanities Institute, and is involved in planning for this new program throughout the 2007-2008 academic year.
DHI Spring Reception
Please join us in the Voorhies Courtyard on Thursday, May 15, from 4-5:30 pm as we celebrate an exciting year at the DHI and the accomplishments of humanities faculty and graduate students at UC Davis. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome!
DHI is Pleased to Announce Our First Annual Graduate Research Symposium
The aim of this symposium is to showcase the rich variety of graduate research in the humanities at UC Davis, with a particular interest in highlighting new or nontraditional methods, practices, areas of interest, or interdisciplinary intersections. [more]
Sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute and the Studies in Performance and Practice Research Cluster.
Multi Campus Research Group: Studies of Food and the Body
The Studies of Food and the Body Multi Campus Research Group brings together faculty and graduate-student scholars in the humanities and social sciences from UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz who are exploring the relationship between food, the body and culture. Visit the new site »
Faculty Participants Selected for Art of Regional Change
Scholar-community engagement is at the core of the Art of Regional Change (ARC) project. This year four humanities and social science scholars - Ryan Galt (Community Development), Julie Sze (American Studies), Julie Wyman (Technocultural Studies) and Michael Ziser (English) - were chosen as faculty partners/collaborators for the ARC’s pilot project, Up From the UnderStory. This multimedia project documents community engagement and revitalization in the Sierra foothill region of Calaveras County, providing resources for diverse constituents of this once-thriving timber mining region to tell their own stories about economic, social and environmental change in their communities. [more]