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humanities

Shaking the family tree

UCI alumna discovers complicated ancestry via Slave Voyages database that UCI professor helped create

Frederic Jameson

Fredric Jameson donates personal, professional papers to UCI Libraries

Collection details the scholar’s illustrious career in critical theory

UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in history wins 2019 Native American 40 Under 40 award

Holly Guise, a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in history at UCI, has received a 2019 Native American 40 Under 40 award. The prestigious accolade from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development honors emerging Native American and Alaska Native leaders who have made significant contributions in their business, profession or community and demonstrated leadership, […]

Ngugi wa Thiong’o receives honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Edinburgh

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, UCI Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by Scotland’s University of Edinburgh on July 8. He was presented to the university’s academic senate by Thomas Molony of the School of Social & Political Science, who recognized the Kenyan author’s significant leadership in shifting the […]

Distinguished Professor is awarded the 2019 Lebowitz Prize for achievement in philosophy

Margaret P. Gilbert, Ph.D., UCI’s Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of philosophy, has been awarded the 2019 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for outstanding achievement in the field of philosophy. It includes an honorarium of $25,800. Gilbert’s research interests span diverse topics in social, political and […]

Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus wins award from Society for Study of Southern Literature

Brook Thomas has won the 2018 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature for The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), described as “the go-to book on Reconstruction for at least a generation” by the SSSL panel. Drawing on 19th-century historiography […]

Dissecting Disneyland

New UCI course examines inner workings and idiosyncrasies of theme park

Collecting stories

UCI professor documents the diversity of the Asian American community

A physician-scholar first

UCI grad student Sarah O’Dell is pursuing both an M.D. and a doctorate in the humanities

UCI’s Margherita Long is 1 of only 8 awarded UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowships

Margherita Long, associate professor of East Asian studies, has earned a UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship for 2019-20. One of only eight recipients across the University of California system, she will use the $30,000 in support of her book project, Care, Affect, Crackup: Literature & Activism After Fukushima, which takes an environmental humanities approach to […]