We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025-26 UCHRI grants!

Congratulations to the following UCR faculty and students:

✪ MC Faculty Working Groups

Amy Skjerseth (Music Assistant Professor)
Un(preset)dented: Default Gestalts in Art, Technology, and Culture

✪  MC Graduate Student Working Groups

Mariam Nadirashvili (Spanish PhD Student)
Entangled Futures of Languages and Technologies: Speculative and Inclusive Approaches to AI and Linguistic Diversity

✪ Engaging Humanities Grant

Covadonga Lamar Prieto (Hispanic Studies Professor)
Community interpreting and translation for healthcare: community co-creation

✪ Faculty Summer Research Funding

John Marquez (History Assistant Professor)
Naming Freedom: Enslaved Women, Newborns, and the Social Practice of Freedom in Eighteenth-Century Brazil

✪ Graduate Student Dissertation

Nicolas Valdivia Hennig (Hispanic Studies)
Indigenous Games in Latin America: Production, Access, and Resistance

✪  Manuscript Workshop & Research Development

Marta Hernández Salván (Hispanic Studies Associate Professor)
Material Affect and Space: Censored Visual Culture in Revolutionary Cuba
Michael Moses (Education Assistant Professor)
Writing Yourself into the Academic Job Market