The Davis Humanities Institute is delighted to welcome the 2020 Margrit Mondavi and DHI Summer Graduate Fellowship winners. This year's application pool was extremely competitive and unusually large. The 39 proposals came from 16 departments across the arts and humanities.
We offer congratulations to our winners and the diversity of graduate work their projects represent:
The UC Davis Humanities Institute is pleased to support two graduate scholars in their work as fellows on Imagining America’s Leading and Learning Initiative (LLI), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The LLI is a national action research, networking, and advocacy initiative that aims to produce guidelines, interactive tools, and media for change agents who advocate for institutional change on behalf of public and activist scholarship.
At the DHI we recognize that we are living through a historically difficult moment for our university community and for the world. All UC Davis classes have moved online for spring quarter, but many in our community are instructors who may have never taught online before.
On April 20, 2020, Melody Jue will speak about her book, Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press 2020) in the English Department Speaker Series.
In honor of Black History Month, also celebrated on campus as Black Futures Month, we’re posting a two-part series on community events centering Black womxn and femmes.
The UC Davis Humanities Institute is pleased to announce the 2020-21 Faculty Research Fellows. This diverse group of seven faculty represents the breadth of the arts and humanities at UC Davis. From Syrian textile workers and Indian poets to the migration of Black Californians, their projects demonstrate the value of rigorous humanities scholarship to tell compelling global stories about the human experience.
A joint book launch by Julie Sze and Grace Wang, associate professors in American Studies at UC Davis, highlighted the program’s strength in transnationalism and the relationship between Asia and Asian America.