The California Cultures Initiative works to enhance the connection of humanities research and scholars at UC Davis to their surrounding region, defined broadly to include geographies ranging from the Central Valley to Northern California to the state of California to Greater Mexico and the Pacific Rim. Formerly called the Pacific Regional Humanities Center , the CCI provides funding for faculty research seminars, individual speakers and events, and faculty collaborations on The Art of Regional Change , a yearly community-based multi-media documentary project directed by jesikah maria ross.
The DHI also provides office space for Boom: a Journal of California, published by UC Press with special funding from the Mellon Foundation and edited by Louis Warren and Carolyn de la Pena.
Questions about the California Cultures Initiative should be directed to Carolyn de la Peña, the DHI’s director.