Greg Downs, professor and chair in the Department of History, writes about his experience as a 2023-24 Public Scholarship Faculty Fellows and his new community engaged work bringing under-told Black histories to light.
A new study shows how children’s and adolescents’ memories of the COVID lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 changed over time and related to their mental health.
UC Davis experts Martin Hilbert and Marit MacArthur from the UC Davis College of Letters and Science answer important questions about advancements in artificial intelligence at a recent Team Research Forum.
In this article, UC Davis history professor Ethen Scheiner discusses political expression and international conflict across the history of the modern Olympic Games.
In a new paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Jurisprudence, UC Davis philosopher and legal scholar Mark Reiff gives new insight into the source of the right to free speech and the limits that this right contains. The paper explains how these limits show us that hate speech and disinformation are not protected by the right, but rather must be limited to ensure all of our fundamental freedoms.
The 2024 Summer Olympics are in full swing. While you marvel at the amazing athletic feats of running stamina during the 2024 Summer Olympics, check out the historic basis and some of the most recent research exploring the idea that humans are “born to run.”
In the Integrative Anthropology Lab at UC Davis, Manvir Singh combines evolutionary, cognitive and sociocultural methods and theory to tease apart the origins of human behavior and societies.
Charles Walker, a professor of history in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science, was recently awarded a $100,000 grant to digitize archives from three major human rights organizations in Peru. With this funding from the UCLA Library’s Modern Endangered Archives Program, this project will preserve documents that chart a history of human rights in the country.
Not every crisis results in political conflict, but the ones that do all share something in common. A new book by UC Davis sociologist Tom Beamish compares the national discourses about a number of similar tragedies to understand why only some take on national proportions and further political divisions in society.
