A banner year for UCR in awards from the UC Humanities Research Institute! UCR students and faculty won 10 awards including two of the most competitive awards in the system: the President’s Faculty Research Fellowship, won by Gloria Kim (Media and Cultural Studies), and the White Graduate Student Scholarship in Medicine & Humanities won by Jared Smith (Philosophy). Kudos to all applicants and this year’s awardees!
✪ Multicampus Graduate Student Working Group
XIX to XXI: Bringing Spanish language in California to the forefront
Álvaro Gonzelz Alba, Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside
Evelyn Gamez, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Davis
✪ Short-Term Collaborative Research Residency
Reading for Infrastructure, Infrastructure for Reading
Susan Zeiger, English, and Kameron Sanzo, English, UC Riverside
With Adriana Johnson, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
✪ Editors’ Residency
Moving in the Midst: Critical Indigenous Dance Studies
Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Dance, UC Riverside
Maria Regina Firmino-Castillo, Dance, UC Riverside
✪ The Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Graduate Student Scholarship (Medicine & Humanities)
The Moral Psychology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Jared Smith, Philosophy, UC Riverside
✪ University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship
The Microbial Resolve: Visualization, Speculation, and Security
Gloria Kim, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
✪ Graduate Student Dissertation Support
Exposed Flesh: A Literary History of Black Being
Sarah Buckner, English, UC Riverside
✪ Conference Grant
Co-Productions: Literature, Media, and Diaspora in the Japanese Transpacific
John Kim, Comparative Languages and Literatures, UC Riverside
✪ Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop
Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Revitalizations and Postapocalyptic Research
Mark Minch-de Leon, English, UC Riverside
✪ Engaging Humanities Grant
Re-Visioning Abolitionist Futures: Beyond the Walls
Setsu Shigematsu, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
✪ Fall 2020 Residential Research Group
Disciplining Diversity
Mariam Lam, Comparative and Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside (Convener)