College of Letters and Science graduate students Mikhaila Redovian and Kirsten Schuhmacher were recently announced recipients of the 2025 UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize. The Ph.D. candidates in the Department of English, used library resources to help research, curate and design "Worlds Encompassed: Premodern Making and Mingling."
Scholars in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) program are working to dispel the caricatures of this era by de-centering European history from the discourse and showing how, in fact, much of the world was experiencing acculturalization, or borrowing, adapting and mixing traits from various cultures.
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.
A team of UC Davis Humanities scholars planning a 2024-2025 seminar, Thinking Food @ the Intersections, was recently awarded $225,000 for the project. The seminar will have dual goals of understanding the complexities of food justice through a humanities framework as well as finding new potential solutions.
