The Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) has awarded two faculty in the College of Letters and Science with Network Collaboration Fellowships that invest in high-impact research.
The fellowships are supported through funds provided by the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). They provide $5,000 for each fellow to support travel for themselves or their collaborators to connect on a shared project.
“I’m thrilled that the DHI is able to support these two ground-breaking, collaborative research projects,” said Jenny Kaminer, Dean’s Office Faculty Advisor for the Arts and Humanities. “They were selected from a very competitive pool of applications, and I’m looking forward to following both of them as they evolve and come to fruition.”
Javier Arbona-Homar
Assistant Professor, American Studies
Javier Arbona-Homar is leading the research project Monumental Disappearance, which studies the complexity of political power by how landmarks and memorials are desecrated or elevated and protected. Puerto Rico, for example, has seen the dismantling of the national archives and Instituto de Cultura but the active preservation of the colonial architecture and walls that surround Old San Juan.
The Network Collaboration Fellowship will support Arbona-Homar’s travel to Puerto Rico to collaborate with Rafael Capó García and the Memoria (De)Colonial Collective, a non-profit organization that critically examines the legacies of colonialism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean through public and digital humanities initiatives. Arbona-Homar and Capó García would visit under- or un-documented sites of memory and include them in Memoria (De)Colonial’s growing archives.
Marian Schlotterbeck
Associate Professor, Department of History
Marian Schlotterbeck is working on a project that takes another look at Latin America during the 1980s, which has been thought of as the “lost decade.” Research on this period has seen limited peer-reviewed publications. However, what happened in the 1980s, after the end of the Cold War, continues to define our world today.
The Network Collaboration Fellowship will support the development and publication of a special issue on “Latin America in the 1980s” with the Journal of Latin American Studies published by Cambridge University Press. The funding will help Schlotterbeck to organize a two-day workshop at UC Davis for intensive peer-review feedback and drafting with contributors Elizabeth Schwall, an assistant professor of history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennifer Adair, an associate professor of history at Fairfield University.
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