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The UC Davis Humanities Institute is pleased to announce its 2021 Margrit Mondavi and UC Humanities Consortium Summer Fellows. With 81 applicants from 11 disciplines, this year's application pool was by far our largest and most competitive to date.

Mondavi awardees will each receive $5,000 for project-related work relating to their MFA and PhD degrees. Consortium awardees will each receive $6,000 for PhD work, and the opportunity to be a part of a community of Consortium fellows in Fall 2021.

We congratulate our awardees! They are:

Mondavi:

We are delighted for the College of Letters and Science faculty who won awards this summer. 

We at the DHI are extremely disturbed by the events surrounding the death of George Floyd and acknowledge the pain and suffering surrounding the continued, extralegal killing and persecution of people of color, be it in Minneapolis (Mr. Floyd), Georgia (Ahmaud Arbery), Kentucky (Breonna Taylor), New York (Christian Cooper) -- or wherever and whoever. We want to express our solidarity with the protesters who are demonstrating against systemic racism and the violence it breeds.

We were gratified to see this powerful statement by UC Davis Chancellor Gary May:

REORIENTING THE LEFT: NIKHIL PAL SINGH AND JOSHUA CLOVER IN CONVERSATION

How can the Left structure its politics in the context of resurgent nationalism across the globe?