Articles and Stories

Congratulations to our Mondavi and Consortium Summer Fellows

Dr. Lorena Oropeza Reveals New Facets of Chicano Leader, Reies López Tijerina

Cafe Ohlone Offers a Taste of Ohlone Past, Present, and Future

Growing New Bones as the Crossroads of Abolition and Communism

Medieval Studies and Racial Capitalism

Honoring Black Sacramento History

This Spring, HATCH Unhatches with Reading Group and Speaker Series

Exploring the History of American Disenfranchisement

Gold Rush Panel Challenges California’s Founding Myths

DHI Spring Events Preview

‘Reframing Sacramento’ Series Puts New Lens on Past, Present and Futures

Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Contemporary Political Struggle Highlights Complicated Relationship Between Technology and Social Movements

Announcing the 2021 Cohort of Mellon Public Scholars

Environmental Justice with Julie Sze: Sparking Imagination and Hope

New “Media Matters” Column Spotlights Public Contributions of Humanities Faculty, Students, and Staff

Radical and Relational Approaches to Fermentation and Food Sovereignty Forges Connections Across Fields

Announcing the DHI’s 2021-22 Faculty Research Fellows

DHI awarded a California Humanities "Humanities for All Quick Grant" for Sacramento series

Mellon Public Scholars Virtual Project Showcase

In the Wake of January 6, History Faculty Lead Teach-In on Democracy and White Supremacy

Abolitionist Resources

Humanities Scholars Win Bilinski Fellowships at the Bodega Marine Laboratory

Humanizing Deportation: The Faces of Contemporary Migration

Prospects for Change in Chile: From Social Uprising to Constitutional Reform

Despite Challenges, 2020 Mellon Public Scholars Show Resilience and Compassion in their Work

Indigenous Agriculture in the Spotlight at the UC Davis Human Rights Film Festival

Introducing the 2020-21 DHI HumArts and Transcollege Research Clusters

Color in Center Ring: Cultivating Inclusivity in Circus

An Ideal, an Experiment, a Site of Struggle

2020 DHI Graduate Fellows

Visit the Cinemas of Wartime Paris with UC Davis Film Scholar’s New Book

Rethinking the History of Women's Suffrage

Imagining America Director Erica Kohl-Arenas named Freedom Scholar

Minneapolis Uprising Syllabus

Announcing this Summer's Faculty Awards

The Democrats Now Face a Historic Opportunity for Structural Change by Greg Downs

Practicing Community-engaged Scholarship during COVID-19

DHI Statement and Link to Chancellor May’s Letter to Davis Community on George Floyd

Do the Next Right Thing: Career Development Resources for Humanities Grads

Humanities Faculty Awarded for Public Engagement and Network Collaborations

The Civil War as International and Revolutionary Conflict

Human Rights Scholars on the Pandemic’s Global Impact and the Critical Role of the Humanities

Congratulations to Scholars Selected for NHC's Podcasting the Humanities

DHI’s Online Conversation Series Analyzes the Global Impact of COVID-19

The Solace and Joy of Manetti Shrem Museum At Home

Bringing Black Activist History into the Present with Daphne Muse

Welcoming the 2020 Cohort of Mellon Public Scholars

Can Policy Combat Climate Change? Campus Experts and Organizers Discuss the Green New Deal

Building Musical Alliances with Mellon Public Scholar Hannah Adamy

As U.S. Senators Debate Articles of Impeachment, Campus Scholars Consider Authoritarianism’s Many Forms

Making Feminist Futures at the Feminist Research Institute Symposium

Book Chat Spotlights Faculty Member’s Work on Understanding and Resisting Homophobic Speech

Mellon Public Scholar Tory Brykalski on Radical Potentials of Love via Children's Literature

Bob Ostertag Film Tells the Story of "A Kind of Gay Saint"

Welcome Katharine Wallerstein as DHI Associate Director

PhD Unlimited Provides Much-Needed Career Training for Humanities and Social Science Grads

Dina Gilio-Whitaker and Indigenizing Environmental Justice

The Conversation Continues in 2020

Marisol LeBrón on Women's Rage as Decolonial Strategy in Puerto Rico

DHI Book Chats Features Sudipta Sen's Celebrated Work on the Ganges

Thinking and Learning Together: Timothy Choy and a Multi-campus Seminar

Working Toward Mobility Justice at the Feminist Research Institute

Mellon Public Scholar Rebecca Hogue: Protecting Mauna Kea as Pacific Environmental Justice Action

Prop 13 Film Generates Debate at Human Rights Film Festival Premiere

Mellon Public Scholar Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana: Making Immigration Discourse More Inclusive through Art

Meeting Climate Change with Radical Hope

Mellon Public Scholar Katherine Nasol: Research as Movement Building in AAPI Communities

Creating New Understandings of Health in Caro Novella's Health Activism Performance Lab

Kathryn Olmsted Probes Pro-Gun Conspiracy Theories in Campus Community Book Project Talk

Caste Still Matters: Dr. Suraj Yengde Addresses Casteism in the Here and Now

UC Davis Human Rights Film Festival Will Bring Global Issues to Local Audiences

Grappling Against Oppression with Poetic Erasure