Resident Fellows Program
The Resident Fellows Program promotes multidisciplinary and collaborative humanistic scholarship by assembling groups of scholars from different disciplines to examine areas of common interest. Resident groups consist of four UCR faculty each quarter. Fellows are relieved of departmental and teaching obligations during their residence, provided with an office at the Center for Ideas and Society and meet in seminar at least once weekly. The format of the meeting as well as the duration is at the discretion of the Fellows. Home departments receive $4,000 funding for release time for the Faculty Fellows.
UCR Faculty who have received Resident Fellowships become eligible again in four years.
2009-10 Resident Fellowship Groups
Fall Quarter Resident Fellowship Group:
"The Cultural Production of Nostalgia in Post/Socialist Contexts"
Christina Schwenkel, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Paul Ryer, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Lynda Bell, Associate Professor, History
Jonathan Ritter, Assistant Professor, Music
Winter Quarter Resident Fellowship Group:
"Afro-Asian Encounters"
Traise Yamamoto, Associate Professor, English
Erica Edwards, Assistant Professor, English
Tracy Fisher, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies
John Kim, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
Spring Quarter Resident Fellowship Group:
"Islamic Law and Local Legal Cultures in Multi Confessional Societies: From Medieval Spain and the Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey and Indonesia"
Fariba Zarinebaf, Assistant Professor, History
Muhamad Ali, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Ebru Erdem, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Benjamin M. Liu, Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies