In a new book, historian Stacy Fahrenthold unravels the history of Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian immigrants’ activism in the global textile industry and labor strikes. Her book reveals how women garment workers, child laborers and union activists struggled against white and even Arab American bosses, as well as why their impact has gone ignored.
The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) has recently funded two projects led by faculty in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science that document the lives of marginalized people, both in the past and present.
Five students from the College of Letters and Science were awarded the Norma J. Lang Prize for Undergraduate Information Research. Their work spans multiple disciplines across the prize category of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.
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.
A scholar examining the portrayal of the pregnant and postpartum body in maternal narratives of the Hispanic world, a historian examining the Middle Eastern diaspora in the Golden State and a chemist investigating the role of metal micronutrients in human health have been named 2024 Dean’s Faculty Fellows.
Thirteen faculty members from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis were recently awarded Revitalization Research Program Grants. Intended to support faculty whose research programs have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the college-funded grants support the continuation or completion of stalled, high-priority projects. The selected faculty members represent the breadth of research conducted at the College of Letters and Science.
Kathy Stuart, associate professor of history, delights in crime and deviance — her research specialty. Her research has inspired a period film, "The Devil’s Bath," based on her latest research and book, "Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation."
A science historian studying the complex history of sociogenomics, a historian revealing the lives of Chilean children during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, and a researcher chronicling the performances of contemporary Black women poets are among this year’s UC Davis recipients of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
