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UCR professor’s American Book Award could boost other Inland authors

Author and UC Riverside Professor Rachelle Cruz gives a speech as she accepts an American Book Award on Sunday, Oct. 28. (Photo courtesy of Cati Porter, Inlandia Institute) UC Riverside Professor Rachelle Cruz accepted an American Book Award on Sunday, Oct. 28, an honor that the Inland literary community says is [...]

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The Party of the University: The institutional memory of Hanna Gray

There is a moment in former University of Chicago President Hanna Gray’s memoir, An Academic Life (published this spring with Princeton University Press), when Gray is appointed to chair Ronald Reagan’s Task Force on the Arts and Humanities, a committee whose object was reputed to be [...]

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Vanita Seth: The Politics of the Face

Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies lecture

Mellon Humanities Grant

Investing in the Future of Humanities at UC Riverside

Thanks for another great year!

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Emory Elliott Award Winner

Charmaine Craig: “Miss Burma”

Hot off the Presses

Talks by CHASS faculty on the books they have just published.

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