UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
ANNUAL REPORT
2010 2011
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
UCHRI 2010 2011 ANNUAL REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 GOVERNANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 UC HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
. FELLOWS & GRANTEES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 UCHRI EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 SEMINAR IN CRITICAL THEORY VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 DIGITAL MEDIA & LEARNING RESEARCH HUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 DIGITAL MEDIA & LEARNING COMPETITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
UC CALIFORNIA STUDIES CONSORTIUM . . . . . . 17 UC HUMANITIES NETWORK
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MULTICAMPUS RESEARCH GROUPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 SOCIETY OF FELLOWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
DEVELOPMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 FUNDING STATISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
DIGITAL INNOVATION FOR LEARNING AND RESEARCH
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES AND PARTNERSHIPS
THE PAST, PRESENT AND CALIFORNIA STUDIES FUTURE OF CRITICAL THEORY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
CUTTING EDGE
SCHOLARSHIP
INTERDISCIPLINARY
COLLABORATION
THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
AND THE HUMANITIES
UCHRI
WHERE THE HUMANITIES WORK.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The University of California, as with public education more generally, continues to face daunting funding challenges. Humanities have generally been hit hard by the consequent shifts in higher education, most notably from liberal arts to professionalizing as the defining focus of university training. In our robust funding support for programming across the UC as well as in our own intellectual programming, UCHRI continues in the face of these challenges to support a full range of humanistic work while also playing a leading role in critically addressing these changes to higher learning and their implications for the work of the Humanities today. In addition, we have put in place the structures for administering the research programs for the UC Humanities Initiative, funded by the Office of the President. UCHRI has funded a broad array of interdisciplinary and disciplinary research programs across UC campuses, as represented in the report that follows. We remain committed to supporting groundbreaking creative work that draws on and enables UC faculty and graduate students to open up new areas and ways of thinking the human in all our social, cultural, and historical complexities through collaborative intellectual interactions and engagements. Program highlights at UCHRI included a very large public event in collaboration with the Fowler Museum to mark the first-year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake, and our summer Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory in collaboration with the University of Hawai‘i, Manoa which attracted participation from across South and South East Asia, North America, and Europe. On behalf of the UC Humanities Initiative we administered the UC Presidential Faculty Fellowships as well as the Multicampus Research Group awards. We launched three new websites on behalf of the Network and completely overhauled the design and functionality of the UCHRI site (for links to all, visit www.uchri.org). We enjoyed a banner year in securing external grants, receiving almost $17 million in external funding in 2010-11, owed in large part to the continuing generous support by the MacArthur Foundation for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub and Competition. Moreover, we also secured a generous award from the Mellon Foundation on behalf of the UC Humanities Network for a three-year initiative on “The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work.” I take this opportunity to applaud UCHRI’s dynamic and thoughtful staff for helping to create a collegial and supportive environment for researchers across the UC. Finally, we were saddened to see the ending of Marla Berns’s term as Chair of UCHRI’s Board of Directors after so ably steering us through the challenging years faced by the UC. At the same time, we are thrilled that Wendy Brown has assumed the Chair and so effortlessly and thoughtfully picked up where Marla left off. We are enormously fortunate to be guided by such effective leadership.
David Theo Goldberg Director, UC Humanities Research Institute
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GOVERNANCE David Theo Goldberg Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine Director, UCHRI
Jennifer Langdon Associate Director, Research Development and External Relations
Mizuko Ito Research Director Digital Media & Learning Research Hub
ADVISORY COMMITTEE Composed of faculty from each of the UC campuses, the Advisory Committee members are nominated by the humanities dean of their home campus, and selected by the UC Board of Governors to reflect the diversity and disciplinary breadth of UC faculty. The committee makes selections for UCHRI’s core funding programs (residential research groups, working groups, conferences and seminars, collaborative compositions, and extramural explorations). The committee also works to communicate the mission, thematic priorities, and procedures of UCHRI to their campuses, and to help assess the effectiveness of UCHRI programs across the UC system.
UC Santa Barbara Elisabeth Weber, 2010 Chair Professor, Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies UC Berkeley Ramona Naddaff Associate Professor, Rhetoric UC Davis Joseph Dumit Associate Professor, Anthropology
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UC Irvine Kavita Philip Associate Professor, Women’s Studies UC Los Angeles Todd Presner Professor, Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies UC Merced Ignacio López-Calvo Professor, Latin American Literature
UC Riverside Mariam Beevi Lam Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Southeast Asian Studies UC San Diego Sara Johnson Associate Professor, Literature of the Americas
UC San Francisco Dorothy Porter Professor, School of Medicine, History of Health Sciences UC Santa Cruz Eric Porter Professor, American Studies
BOARD OF GOVERNORS The Board of Governors consists of up to eight UC faculty and up to ten persons of distinction from other universities or prominent citizens outside academia. The Board is responsible for establishing and reviewing policies and procedures of the Institute. The Board also appoints Advisory Committee members and approves the procedures by which fellowships are awarded. Marla Berns, 2009-11 Chair Professor, Art History UC Los Angeles Wendy Brown, 2011-13 Chair Professor, Political Science UC Berkeley Angela Davis Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz Page DuBois Professor, Classics & Comparative Literature, UC San Diego Michael Fischer Professor, Anthropology, Science & Technology Studies, Massachussets Institute of Technology
Shelley Fisher Fishkin Professor, English and American Studies, Stanford University
Chon Noriega Professor, Film, Theater & Television, UC Los Angeles
Jocelyne Guilbault Professor, Music, UC Berkeley
Laurie Racine Senior Fellow, University of Southern California
Ralph Lewin Executive Director, California Council for the Humanities George Lewis Professor, Music, Columbia University Ngug| wa Thiong’o Distinguised Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
AbdouMaliq Simone Professor, Goldsmiths University of London Bill Viola International Video Artist Ex Officio: David Theo Goldberg, Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, and UCHRI Director
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FELLOWS & GRANTEES | UCHRI COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
UCHRI WORKING GROUPS
RESIDENTIAL RESEARCH GROUPS
Critique in a Time of Vulnerability Convener: Dina Al-kassim, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
Critical Disability Studies - Fall 2010
Imperial Legacies, Post-socialist Contexts: Transnationalizing Analytics of Race, Gender and Sexuality Conveners: Neda Atanasoski, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz and Kalina Vora, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego The Material World in Social Life Convener: Marian Feldman, History of Art, UC Berkeley Convener: Catherine Kudlick, History, UC Davis Organizer: Susan Schweik, English, UC Berkeley Participants: Patrick Anderson, Communication, UC San Diego; Georgina Kleege, English, UC Berkeley; Victoria Marks, World Arts and Cultures, UCLA; Darrin Martin, Art, Art History, and Technocultural Studies, UC Davis; Mara Mills, Media, Culture & Communication, NYU; Heather Love, English, University of Pennsylvania; Michelle Stuckey, Literature, UCSD Holy Wars Redux - Spring 2011
The Post-Public University and Its Discontents Convener: Sora Han, Criminology, Law and Society and Roshanak Kheshti, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego Transnational Queer & Transgender Studies Research and Curriculum Development Working Group Conveners: Todd Henry, History, UCSD and Nayan Shah, History, UCSD Democracy, Spatiality, and Subjectivity in the Americas Conveners: Horacio Legras, Spanish and Portuguese, UCI and Catherine Benamou, Film and Media Studies Visualizing Governing Through Crime in California, Phase II Conveners: Mona Lynch, Criminology, Law and Society, UCI and Jonathan Simon, School of Law, UC Berkeley Network in Sephardic Studies at UC (UCSSN) Convener: Susan Miller, History, UC Davis
Conveners: John Ganim, English, UC Riverside Geraldine Heng, English, University of Texas, Austin Participants: Benjamin Liu, Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside; Tomaz Mastnak, Institute of Philosophy, Centre for Scientific Research, Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts; In memory: Thomas Sizgorich, History, UC Irvine 5 | UCHRI FELLOWS + GRANTEES
Testimonios as Critical Tools in Theorizing Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Indigenous Studies Conveners: Lorena Oropeza, History, UC Davis and Inés Hernández-Avila, Professor, Native American Studies, UC Davis Sounding Race Convener: Deborah Vargas, Chicano/Latino Studies, UC Irvine
2010/2011 UCHRI EVENTS INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH ANDREW V. WHITE AND FLORENCE WALES WHITE GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT Romanticism, Radicalism, and Inoculation Fuson Wang, English, UC Los Angeles
EVENTS & OUTREACH UCHRI CONFERENCES + SEMINARS Inscriptions: The Material Contours of Knowledge Adriana Craciun, English, UC Riverside Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Science Fiction Andrew Mathews, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz, and Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz Music in Greek Tragedy: History, Theory and Practice Mary-Kay Gamel, Literature, UC Santa Cruz, and Mark Griffith, Classics, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley Latino Literature at the Edge Kirsten Gruesz, Literature, UC Santa Cruz Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/White Supremacy/Heteropatriarchy Andrea Smith, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside, and Dylan Rodriguez, Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside Visualizing Cultures: Modern China and Japan Ronald Mellor, History, UCLA, and Nicole Gilbertson, History, UC Irvine Race and Sovereignty: 5th Annual Race Studies Symposium UCLA School of Law
UCHRI EXTRAMURAL EXPLORATIONS Cultivating Trust: Old Timers, New Immigrants and the Building of a Transnational Community in Postwar Watsonville Alan Christy, History, UC Santa Cruz, and Alice Yang, History, UC Santa Cruz Off Peak: Reclaiming Baldwin Hills Ken Rogers, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside UCHRI FELLOWS & GRANTEES | 6
2010/2011 UCHRI EVENTS
UCHRI hosts conferences, events and seminars that address the humanities and the public sphere.
The Humanities and the Crisis of the Public University Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley | October 15, 2010 | A conference on the value of the humanities and the crisis and remaking of the public university.
California Crack Up: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It UC Irvine | October 13, 2010 | Presentation and discussion with authors Joe Mathews and Mark Paul. California Crackup exposes the constitutional origins of our current political and economic problems and furnishes a uniquely California fix: innovative solutions that allow Californians to debate their choices, settle on the best ones, hold elected officials accountable for results, and choose anew if something doesn’t work.
Counterinsurgency and Humanism: Studio Series on Militarizing Society UC Irvine | October 27, 2010 | A panel and workshop presented by UCHRI, the Center for Research on International and Global Studies and the Center for the Study of Ethnography. Speakers: Isaiah Wilson, United States Military Academy at West Point; Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of Southern California; Christoph Zuercher, University of Ottawa; and David Price, Saint Martin’s University.
International Symposium on Aesthetics and Emancipation: Phantom, Fetish and Phantasmagoria Centro Cultural Universitario, Universidad Autónoma de México | October 27-30, 2010 | A symposium of thinkers, academics and artists involved in the exploration of the political and cultural configurations that have emerged during the course of two centuries of postcoloniality. Conveners: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UCHRI, and the Museu d`Art Contemporari de Barcelona.
The University We Are For Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley | November 5, 2010 | The academy has been under considerable pressure lately, both fiscally and fuleled by new pressures on knowledge formation and pedogogical and organizational form. This panel discussed the university we might work together to promote. Wth James Clifford, UC Santa Cruz; Frank Donoghue, Ohio State University; William Ferris, UNC Chapel Hill; Stanley Katz, Princeton University; Catharine Stimpson, NYU; and M. Belinda Tucker, UCLA. 7 | UCHRI 2010-11 EVENTS
Economics & the Humanities: 29th meeting of the Western Humanities Alliance UC Irvine | November 8, 2010 | In a time of economic crisis with budget constraints dictating university policy, and the humanities subjected to the logic of finance, what can the humanities tell us about economics? What light can humanistic disciplines bring to debates concerning money, value, debt or credit? How are leaders in the humanities responding to the crisis?� Video: www.vimeo.com/17452167 | L to R (above): Ackbar Abbas, UC Irvine; Stephen Cullenberg, UC Riverside; Kenneth Pomeranz, UC Irvine; Marcel HÊnaff, UC San Diego.
Age of Unreason: Race and the Drama of American Anti-Intellectualism UC Irvine | January 7, 2011 | A seminar with Susan Giroux on her new book, Between Race and Reason: Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come.
Circulating Forms: The Jingo Poem at the Height of Empire UC Irvine | Friday, January 14, 2011 | Professor Elleke Boehmer addressed the circulation of the jingo poem as cultural artifact and imperial message through the networked domain of the British empire c. 1890-1905.
P2PU: The Future of Learning? The Future of the University? UC Irvine | March 7, 2011 | Philipp Schmidt discussed the Peer 2 Peer University, committed to creating high-quality, low-cost, lifelong learning leveraging the internet. He is Director and co-founder of P2PU.org, the original free and open online university. Respondents: Bill Maurer, Chair and Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine, and Gary Matkin, Dean of Continuing Education, UC Irvine. UCHRI 2010-11 EVENTS | 8
Presented by the University of California Humanities Research Institute in partnership with the UCLA Fowler Museum and the UC Irvine Program in Literary Journalism
HAITI
STORIES Istwa Ayiti
January 29, 2011 // 1-6 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
A conversation moderated by Amy Wilentz, writer, journalist, & professor of journalism in conjunction with Fowler in Focus: Art and the Unbreakable Spirit of Haiti
David Belle Donald Cosentino Mark Danner Michael Deibert Paul Farmer Axelle Liautaud Bob Maguire Michele Voltaire Marcelin Catherine Maternowska Jocelyn McCalla Claudine Michel Joe Mozingo Madison Smartt Bell Deborah Sontag Maggie Steber Damon Winter
founder of CinÊ Institute scholar of Haitian art, professor of world arts and cultures writer, journalist, & professor of journalism writer & journalist co-founder of Partners in Health designer & art collector professor of international affairs & director of the Trinity Haiti Program poet & artist anthropologist & co-founder of Lambi Fund of Haiti senior advisor to Haiti’s Special Envoy to the United Nations professor of black studies writer, Los Angeles Times novelist & writer investigative reporter, New York Times photojournalist photojournalist, New York Times
Directions: www.fowler.ucla.edu Event, exhibit, and reception free & open to the public. For questions: uchri@uci.edu Photo credits (L to R) Maggie Steber, Damon Winter, Patrice Douge
HAITI STORIES
Top: Mark Danner, Paul Farmer, Donald Cosentino, Axelle Litaud, and Amy Wilentz
Istwa Ayiti
Bottom: Claudine Michel Video: www.uctv.tv/haiti
A conversation on how Haiti’s story is narrated and presented in the world. Moderated by Amy Wilentz, acclaimed writer, journalist, and professor of journalism at UC Irvine, and David Theo Goldberg, professor of comparative literature at UC Irvine and director of the UC Humanities Research Institute. Organized by Dante Noto and Sharareh Frouzesh with support from the UCLA Fowler Museum and the UC Irvine Program in Literary Journalism. Presented in conjunction with ‘Fowler In Focus: Art and the Unbreakable Spirit of Haiti,’ which showcases selected works collected by the Fowler Museum over the course of five decades and examines the capacity of art to express the tragedies and triumphs of a nation. UCHRI 2010-11 EVENTS | 10
www.uchri.org/initiatives/SECT
“I am still astounded by the opportunities SECT opened up. I had the opportunity to survey the state of the field and understand how my own work fits into the important innovations happening at the interface and intersection of the humanities and digital development.� 11 | SECT VII
I still cannot get over how intense, rewarding and interesting the dialogues were. I have learned so much, been inspired to do new things and have found synergies with some of the most brilliant people in the world. I owe it also to the other people present there to build that warm, nurturing, space of exchange where I can already see so many collaborations emerging. -Nishant Shah, Center for Internet and Society, on SECT VII.
UCHRI’s Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT) is an intensive two-week summer program that convenes distinguished instructors with a group of 4060 faculty, graduate students, independent scholars, and public intellectuals from both the US and the international community. Neither an introductory survey nor an advanced research seminar, SECT functions as a “laboratory” where participants at all levels of experience can study with scholars at the leading edge of creative theoretical thought. The hallmark of SECT is its attention to both “pure” and “applied” modes of contemporary critical theory.
DIGITAL MEDIA & LEARNING HUB DMLcentral.net is the primary digital presence of the Research Hub of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. It was designed to spread thought leadership, ignite conversation and dialogue, enable collaborative efforts and knowledge sharing, and support practitioners, researchers, policymakers and the public with a variety of resources in the digital media and learning arena. DMLcentral.net is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as part of its Digital Media and Learning portfolio.
MacArthur Reports on Digital Media & Learning
The Research Hub has assumed management of the MacArthur Report Series in Digital Media and Learning. Published by MIT Press, these commissioned white papers focus on concepts and topic areas key to the understanding of digital media and learning. Edited by Ellen Seiter (USC), the Hub provides editorial and administrative support, and helps to manage the relationship between editor, authors, and press. For more: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6&serid=178
DML HUB IN THE MEDIA
Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century is a new PBS documentary series that includes interviews with DML HUB affiliates: www.pbs.org/teachers/digitallearners/interviews/
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2011 DIGITAL MEDIA & LEARNING CONFERENCE
DESIGNING LEARNING FUTURES Long Beach, CA | March 3-5, 2011 www.dmlcentral.net/conference2011 The second annual Digital Media and Learning Conference was held in Long Beach, CA from March 3-5, 2011, and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub at UCHRI. Conference chair Katie Salen, associate professor of design and technology at Parsons The New School for Design, convened scholars and practitioners around the theme “Designing Learning Futures.” 550 attendees participated in events ranging from workshops and panels, to uniquely short and inspiring Ignite Talks, to hands-on demonstrations, exhibits and games. Top: Panel on “Using Mass Participation to Outcompete the Incumbants.” Moderated by Katie Salen, with Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation; Sue Gardner, Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation; and Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons. Bottom: Plenary panel on “Transforming Play” with Mimi Ito, UC Irvine; Francois Bar, USC; Tara Lemmey, Chairman, ENS Ventures; David Washington, Marshall School of Business, USC, and Katie Salen, conference chair.
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www.dmlcompetition.net
Walker Grant (R) suggests improvements to Mitch Resnick (L), PI for 2010 Competition winner Scratch and Share.
A girl experiments with SMALLab, 2010 competition winner, at the Pearson Foundation Demo & Exhibition Space during the 2011 Digital Media & Learning Conference.
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2010 Competition winner Fab@School brings STEM to school with 3D fabricators.
The third annual competition, which began with an announcement by President Obama for a renewed focus on science, technology, engineering and math education in the United States, concluded in March. Awards were made in two categories: 21st Century Learning Lab Designers and Game Changers. The Learning Lab category is aligned with National Lab Day. Winners received awards for learning environments and digital media-based experiences that allow young people to grapple with social challenges through activities based on the social nature, contexts, and ideas of science, technology, engineering and math. From a field of approximately 800 applications, ten projects won Learning Lab Designer awards ranging from $30,000 to $200,000; in the Game Changers category, nine projects received awards ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. The winners were showcased at the 2011 Digital Media & Learning Conference. The Digital Media and Learning Competition is a HASTAC initiative supported by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to the University of California, in collaboration with Duke University.
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UC CALIFORNIA STUDIES CONSORTIUM
The UC California Studies Consortium (UCCSC) supports collaborative research by UC faculty, graduate students, and their colleagues at other institutions as part of a systemwide California Studies research initiative for the humanities, arts and social sciences. UCCSC is governed by a steering committee of faculty representatives from various UC campuses and is administered by UCHRI under the purview of the Office of the President. It offers competitive grants totaling nearly $80,000 an-
nually to support collaborative research projects, campus-community programming, and graduate travel for research. The goal of this initiative is to bring together the many interesting projects and discussions afoot on most of the UC campuses, and to facilitate their development and elaboration in robust and creative ways by providing support for new projects to emerge. This systemwide multicampus approach to California Studies aims to sustain innovative scholarship, teaching and outreach.
UCCSC | 2010-11 GRANTEES UCCSC Community Outreach and Teaching Grants The RFK Learning Center Project Judy Baca, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA Surfing Safari: California Surf Music and the Rise of Suburban Youth Culture www.surfingsafari.wordpress.com Liane Brouillette, Education, UC Irvine Advancing Service-Learning in California Studies Kristen Day, Planning, Policy & Design, UC Irvine Son jarocho and border crossings Elisabeth Le Guin, Musicology, UCLA Promoting Environmental Justice through Campus-Community Collaboration Flora Lu, Latino and Latin American Studies, UC Santa Cruz; Tracy Perkins, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz; and Julie Sze, America Studies, UC Davis Critical Prison Studies and Abolitionist Theory and Practice Setsu Shigematsu, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
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UCCSC Systemwide Workshops Signal Traffic: Art, Infrastructure and Geography in California Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski, Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
UCCSC Graduate Student Research Travel Grants Total Design: The Architecture & Regional Planning of William L. Pereira Cole Akers, Visual Studies, UC Irvine Documentary of Resettled Iraqi Refugees living in El Cajon, California Bridgette Auger, Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz Pentecostal Pedagogies: Making A Modern Missionary Joshua Brahinsky, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz Deviant Criminals or Devout Religious Practitioners: The I AM Activity and the Limits of Religious Tolerance in California Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara A Community in Conflict: Multiracial Debates over the Racial Integration of San Diego Public Schools, 1954-1985 Gloria Kim, History, UC San Diego Negotiating Appropriate Technologies in Northern California through the Bicycle Sarah McCullough, Cultural Studies, UC Davis History, Sexual Politics and Modernity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Stevie Ruiz, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego RECLAIMing Air, Redefining Democracy: A History of California’s Regional Clean Air Incentive Market, Emission Trading and Environmental Justice 1970-Present Krystal Tribbett, History, UC San Diego San Diego Somali Refugee Documentary Project Kate Trumbull, Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz
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UC HUMANITIES NETWORK www.uchumanitiesnetwork.org | Newly funded in 2009, the UC Humanities Network links together the UC President’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities, a multi-tiered program of individual research fellowships for faculty and graduate students; the Humanities Advisory Committee, composed of the humanities deans from each campus, which oversees and directs the Network; the UC Consortium of Humanities Centers, represented by the faculty directors of UCHRI and the ten campus-based centers, which serves as liaison to the UC community of humanities scholars, including the Society of Fellows, and advocate for humanities research across and beyond the UC system; and UCHRI, which is responsible for the central administration of the Network and its programs as well as the creation and oversight of a broad communications strategy to connect and showcase for scholarly and public audiences the vibrant and wide-ranging humanities work produced under the aegis of the Network. Looking ahead, the Mellon Foundation grant on the Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work (see: Development, pg. 23) will provide a crucial focus for Network-supported collaborative research and intellectual engagement over the next three years. UCHRI will manage the logistics for these programs as well as develop the UC Humanities Forum (www.uchumanitiesforum.org), a blog authored by scholars across the University of California, to document projects, showcase the research produced, and encourage ongoing dialogue and intellectual engagement across the UC campuses and beyond.
MULTICAMPUS RESEARCH GROUPS, 2010-11 Multicampus research groups (MRGs) are extended research collaborations by faculty and graduate students from two or more UC campuses around a broadly interdisciplinary topic of compelling or emergent interest within the humanities. MRGs are selected by the faculty directors of the Consortium of Humanities Centers. The selection process is administered by UCHRI.
Early Modern Globalization: Iberian Empires/ Colonies/Nations www.earlymodernglobalization. humanities.ucla.edu
Co-investigators: Ivonne Del Valle, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley Anna More, Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA
Critical Historicities: Between Africa and the Diaspora www.ihc.ucsb.edu/africanstudies
Co-investigators: Peter J. Bloom, Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara Percy C. Hintzen, Director, Center for African Studies and Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley Stephan F. Miescher, History, UC Santa Barbara
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California Italian Studies
www.ihc.ucsb.edu/italianstudies
Co-investigators: Albert Ascoli, Italian Studies, UC Berkeley Joann Cannon, French and Italian, UC Davis Claudio Fogu, French and Italian, UC Santa Barbara John Marino, History, UC San Diego Deanna Shemek, Literature, UC Santa Cruz Lucia Re, Italian, UCLA
UC Humanities NetworK UC President’s SOCIETY OF FELLOWS in the humanities, 2010-11
Inaugural Meeting of the Humanities Network UC President’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities UC Irvine | April 29, 2011 The inaugural meeting of the UC Humanities Network Society of Fellows brought together fifteen graduate fellows and nine faculty fellows for a full day of conversation with each other and the UC humanities community about their research as well as broader issues and trends in the humanities today. Ken Wissoker, editorial director at Duke University Press, gave a keynote talk on “Writing and Publishing in a Time of Media Transformation.” The event concluded with a lively discussion with the Consortium of Humanities Center Directors (L to R: Shane Butler, Anthony Cascardi, Ann Bermingham, Susan Amussen, Dorothy Porter, Catherine Liu) and Ken Wissoker (right) on the future of publishing and humanities research. Hosted by UCHRI on behalf of the UC Humanities Network.
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UC Humanities NetworK UC President’s SOCIETY OF FELLOWS in the humanities, 2010-11 FACULTY FELLOWS Adriana Craciun, English, UC Riverside: “Northwest Passages: Authorship, Exploration, Disaster” Mayanthi Fernando, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz: “Reconfiguring France: Muslim Citizens in the Shadows of Secularism” Mark Franko, Theater Arts, UC Santa Cruz: “From Anti-fascism to Myth in the Work of Martha Graham (19381958)” Kevis Goodman, English, UC Berkeley: “‘Uncertain Disease’: Nostalgia, Eighteenth-Century Medicine, and Romantic Poetics” Jennifer Hughes, Religious Studies, UC Riverside: “Epidemics and New World Religions” Caren Kaplan, Women and Gender Studies, UC Davis: “The View From Above” Stephan Miescher, History, UC Santa Barbara: “Akosombo Stories: The Volta River Project, Modernization, and Nationhood in Ghana” Michael Osman, Architecture & Urban Design, UCLA: “Regulation, Architecture, Modernism” Alka Patel, Art History, UC Irvine: “The Ghurid Architecture of South Asia & Historiography at the Ends of the Islamic World” Theodore Porter, History, UCLA: “Institutionalized Heredity: Statistics, Defectives, and the Rise of Human Genetics” Roberta Wue, Art History, UC Irvine: “Art Worlds: Making Artists and Audiences in Nineteenth-century Shanghai” Christian Wuthrich, Philosophy, UC San Diego: “Emergent Spacetime in Quantum Theories of Gravity”
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GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS Scott Anderbois, Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz: “Issues in Discourse: A View from Yukatek Maya” Nicholas Bartlett, Medical Anthropology, UCSF: “Heroin, Community Treatment and Chinese Understanding of Addiction” Andrea Berez, Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara: “Discourse, Landscape, and Spatial Reference in Ahtna” Claire Chambers, Performance Studies, UC Davis: “Impossible Acts and Unsayable Speech: Apophasis in Contemporary Performance” Szu-ching Chang, Dance, UC Riverside: “Dancing with Nostalgia: Nationality, Bodily Memory and Local Global Configuration in Taiwanese ‘Traditional’ Dance” Kensy Cooperrider, Cognitive Science, UC San Diego: “Reference in Action: Morphology, Conceptualization, and Discourse Structure in Co-Speech Pointing Gestures” Ingrid de Haas, Classics, UC Riverside: “Female Slave Resistance in the Roman Empire, First-Fourth Centuries CE” Christopher Even Franklin, Philosophy, UC Riverside: “Free Will and Moral Responsibility in the Natural World” Tanner Higgin, English, UC Riverside: “Race and Videogames” Toby Braden Johnson, Religious Studies, UC Riverside: “Reconfiguring Early Sikh Narratives: Teaching and Living the Message of Guru Nanak” Sarah Lauro, English, UC Davis: “The Modern Zombie: Resurrection in the Empirical Age” Peter Leman, English, UC Irvine: “Literature, Law and Oral Culture in East Africa” Jeremy Mikush, Musicology, UCLA: “Allegories of Masculinities in 17th Century Musical Spectacle” Mary Murrell, Anthropology, UC Berkeley: “The Open Book: Digital Form in the Making” David Orzechowicz, Sociology, UC Davis: “Working in Wonderland: Work, Culture, and Spectacle in Theme Park Entertainment” Keelan Overton, Art History, UCLA: “A Collector and His Portrait: Book Arts and Painting for Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur” Justin Reed, History, UC Riverside: “Public Discourse and Revolution in England, 1685-1689” Jason Sampson, History, UC Riverside: “Mining Manhood: Gender, Labor, and Community in the Stark County Coal Mines” Orma Shaughnessy, East Asian Languages & Cultures, UC Berkeley: “The Omniscient Translator: The Culture of Language Play in Mid-NineteenthCentury Japanese Travel Narratives” Matthew Shindell, History-Science Studies, UC San Diego: “The New Prophet: Harold C. Urey, Scientist, Atheist, and Defender of Religion” Marco Valesi, World Cultures, UC Merced: “Exploring Cultural Production, Transmission, and Socio-Identitarian Processes Through Urban Art” Yulian Wu, History, UC Davis: “Huizhou Salt Merchants and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century China” Yeesheen Yang, Literature, UC San Diego: “Haunting Bodies: The Culture of Death and Reanimation in Organ Transplantation” Catherine Zusky, English, UC Santa Barbara: “Staging Pain in Late Medieval and Early Modern Drama”
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DEVELOPMENT | EXTERNAL FUNDING NEW GRANTS The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work $800,000 over three years | PI: David Theo Goldberg, Carolyn de la Peña, David Marshall UC Irvine, on behalf of the University of California Humanities Network, has received an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a three-year research program to explore and assess the critical historical and contemporary transformations in the meaning and experience of work. The project will also address how humanities practitioners can prepare students for the work that awaits them in 21st-century global society. The grant, which will be administered by UCHRI, is the first externally-funded undertaking of the UC Humanities Network, a five-year initiative funded by the Office of the President to connect UCHRI and the ten campus-based humanities centers and to promote excellence in humanities research across the UC system. The funds will underwrite a UC-wide program of competitively selected research activities, including multi-campus working groups, graduate seminars, conferences, a summer institute and a residential research group at UCHRI, to examine specific problems concerning the humanities and changing conceptions of work, particularly in the contexts of globalization and new media. The grant will also support a series of nine three-day workshops that partner UC faculty with international researchers to explore comparative and global implications of the changing world of work.
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Research Network $4,500,000 (1/1/11-12/31/13) | PI: Mimi Ito This two-year grant extends the research begun under a previous MacArthur grant to support the creation of a Distributed Learning Research Network. UCHRI Professor in Residence Mimi Ito’s research findings on the skills and knowledge content necessary to learning today will be incorporated into the ongoing work of the DML Research Hub.
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John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Learning Ecologies, Networks and Pathways $900,000 | PI: Heather Horst This project will document and analyze the development of two recently founded learning networks - one in the New York metropolitan area, the other in the city of Chicago - to excavate the role that learning networks play in broader learning ecologies of youth. The research will focus on the impact of local cultural institutions on the development and participation of learning networks and everyday learning ecologies as well as the impact of such structural factors as neighborhood, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, gender, education, communication and transportation infrastructures. Exploratory in nature, the project will utilize a mixed method approach, ranging from observations, diary studies, background questionnaires and interviews to meta-data gathered from social network sites.
ACTIVE GRANTS
University of California Office of the President: Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives, Office of Research and Graduate Studies University of California Humanities Network http://uchumanitiesnetwork.org $2,244,000 per year over five years In the 2009 recompetition for multi-campus research group support from The Office of Research at UCOP, the proposal from the UC Humanities Network came out first in the competition with the highest level of funding provided to any applicants in any field: $11,220,000 over five years. Leveraging the collective and collaborative strengths of our ten campuses, while respecting each campus’s individual profile, the Network will situate the humanities scholarship at the UC at the crossroads of important disciplinary and interdisciplinary debates, while promoting knowledge, discovery, and modes of understanding crucial to California and its local and global communities. The yearly support to UCHRI through this grant breaks down as follows: • $900,000 for UCHRI core budget (includes
UC Humanities Network came out first in the competition with the highest level of funding provided to any applicants in any field: $11,220,000 over five years. Leveraging the collective and collaborative strengths of our ten campuses, while respecting each campus’s individual profile, the Network will situate the humanities scholarship at the UC at the crossroads of important disciplinary and interdisciplinary debates, while promoting knowledge, discovery, and modes of understanding crucial to California and its local and global communities. The yearly support to UCHRI through this grant breaks down as follows: • $900,000 for UCHRI core budget (includes competitive award/program funding, salaries and benefits, administrative and technology costs) • $65,000 for UC California Studies Consortium (includes competitive award/program funding) • $25,000 for UC Humanities Network (includes travel, conference, networking expenses for the Humanities Network, including costs of Humanities Advisory Committee meetings, Humanities Center Directors meetings, and website maintenance costs).
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Digital Media & Learning Competition www.dmlcompetition.net Total: $5,632,000 (4/1/09-6/30/12) | PI: David Theo Goldberg This grant funds the Digital Media and Learning Competition, administered by UCHRI in collaboration HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, co-founded by David Theo Goldberg and Cathy Davidson). The MacArthur Foundation approved the original three-year $5,500,000 grant, which covered the first three competitions, in 2008; this spring the grant was renewed for $5.5 million to support the Digital Media and Learning Competition for the next three years.
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Research Hub www.dmlcentral.net Total: $2,970,000 (4/1/09-6/30/12) | Co-PIs: David Theo Goldberg and Mimi Ito This grant extends the work of the Research Hub, the infrastructure for research, communication and collaborative work around core research themes emerging from the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning initiative. This grant was recently renewed for $4.5 million to continue the work of the DML Research Hub for three more years.
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Research Network on Learning Development for 21st Century $650,000 (extended to June 30, 2011) PI: Mimi Ito This one-year grant to set up a research network administered by the Research Hub has been extended through the end of June; the funds support research by UCHRI Professor in Residence Mimi Ito into what skills and knowledge content are crucial to learning today.
COMPLETED GRANTS IMFTI: Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion Haitian Monetary Ecologies and Repertoires: A Qualitative Snapshot of Money Transfer and Savings | www.imtfi.uci.edu/imtfi_haiti_money_ transfer_project Total: $59,000 (2009-10); $55,424 (2011) PI: Heather Horst This research project provides a qualitative snapshot of Haitian monetary ecologies six months after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12, 2010. The research examined the variety of ways in which money, people and goods circulate throughout Haiti in light of the changing economic, social and financial landscape. Based upon over ninety qualitative interviews and focus groups with Haitians located in four key sites throughout the country, the report focuses upon the challenges that many Haitians face in their efforts to send, receive, exchange and store money, and the role of mobile phones and other conduits in this process. National Endowment for the Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML-UCHRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship Total: $249,895 | PI: David Theo Goldberg UCHRI, in partnership with Vectors and the Institute for Media Literacy (IML) at the University of Southern California, hosted a four-week institute on multimodal scholarship in the summer of 2010. Fifteen scholars (junior and senior faculty, as well as advanced graduate students) were selected from an application pool that sought individuals with limited computing experience but an interest in the digital humanities and digital media more broadly. The institute gave these scholars the opportunity to explore the benefits of interactive media for scholarly analysis and authorship, illustrating the possibilities of multimodal media for humanities investigation.
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UCHRI FUNDING STATISTICS | 2010-11
UCHRI AWARDS FOR 2011-12 BY DISCIPLINE 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0
APPLICATIONS AWARDS
UCHRI AWARDS FOR 2011-12 BY CAMPUS 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0
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UCHN FUNDING STATISTICS | 2010-11 UC HUMANITIES NETWORK AWARDS FOR 2011-12 BY DISCIPLINE 25 20 15 10 5 0
UCCSC FUNDING STATISTICS | 2010-11 UC CALIFORNIA STUDIES CONSORTIUM AWARDS FOR 2011-12 BY DISCIPLINE 8 6 4 2 0
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