For this edition of Books of the Month, as protests and political divides continue to disrupt lives across the U.S., we’ve selected books that grapple with these issues, telling stories of both survival and resistance.
The Office of Research is pleased to announce the recipients of the second cohort of the UC Davis Humanities and Social Sciences Stimulating Exceptional and Essential Discovery (SEED) Funding Program. The awards support research activity in historically underfunded disciplines with a high likelihood of impact in the humanities and related social sciences.
The Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) has awarded two faculty in the College of Letters and Science with Network Collaboration Fellowships that provide $5,000 in support for fellows or their collaborators to travel to connect on a shared project.
Offering a novel approach to contemporary landscape studies, 'Explosivity' unearths the hidden legacies of violence that have shaped the physical and cultural environment of the San Francisco Bay area. Javier Arbona-Homar analyzes a series of explosions that took place between 1866 and 2011 to call attention to the scattered remnants of militarism and racialized capitalism embedded in the region’s geography.
