We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026-27 UCHRI grants!
Congratulations to the following UCR faculty and students:
UC Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship (Mellon)
Erin Lam, Comparative Literature, Assistant Professor
Bernardette Pinetta, Psychology, Assistant Professor
Engaging Humanities Grant (Mellon)
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Professor
The Illegally Well Graphic Novel and Un-Planner: Building Movement Sustenance through Undocumented Asian American Storytelling
Faculty Summer Research Funding (Mellon)
Yong Cho, History of Art, Assistant Professor
Worldmaking as Sustenance: Korean Art in Mongol Eurasia
Angela Li, Media and Cultural Studies, Assistant Professor
The Fiction of “Socialist AI”: Nationalism, Westness, and Techno-politics in China
Graduate Student Dissertation Support (Mellon)
Jenna Wilson, English, Graduate student
Abolition’s speculative gestures: becoming ungovernable to the time-space of the state
Paula Cucurella, Hispanic Studies, Graduate student
Documenting Women’s Literary Networks under the Chilean Dictatorship (1973–1990)
Hailee Menchaca, History, Graduate student
Landscaping Violence: Ephemeral Representations of Anti-Immigrant Violence in the San Diego-Tijuana Borderlands