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Religious Studies professor receives UC President's Faculty Research Fellowship
Flagg Miller, associate professor of religious studies, has been awarded a 2013-2014 President's Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities. These competitively selected fellowships support what the UC Humanites Network calls "the most compelling research projects of faculty and graduate students across the UC system." Miller will use the fellowship to complete a book on the figuration of al Qa'ida under Osama Bin Laden's leadership. The ambitious project draws most of its insights from an archive of over 1500 audiotapes that were originally acquired by CNN in 2002 from Bin Laden's residential compound in Kandahar, Miller reported. [ More ] |
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HArCS faculty receive Academic Senate and Federation teaching awards
At the 2012-2013 Academic Awards ceremony presented by the Academic Federation and Academic Senate on May 10, three HArCS faculty members will be honored for excellence in teaching: Catherine Chin, associate professor of religious studies, will receive the 2013 Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching. Elizabeth Freeman, professor of English, will receive the 2013 Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for Graduate/Professional Teaching. Scott Herring, continuing lecturer in the University Writing Program, will receive the 2013 Academic Federation Excellence in Teaching Award. We congratulate these outstanding faculty members for their fine work. |
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UC Society of Fellows meeting showcases Davis faculty and graduate research
from the UC Davis Humanities Institute
How does Maori architecture travel? How did nineteenth-century Americans understand and engage Native American literacies? How have video games helped transform the experimental systems of the natural sciences? These are just a few of the questions posed by the UC Davis representatives at the annual meeting of the UC Society Fellows titled "Humanities in Circulation" held on April 19 at UCLA. This year's Society of Fellows meeting was organized around three one-hour panels of faculty fellows interspersed with three breakout sessions for digital lightning presentations by the graduate fellows. [ More ]
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Iacovelli wins LADCC set design award
from Dateline UC DavisThe rock-encircled mound, the crossroads of the play, is barren except for a small boulder and a spindly tree. Clouds are on the horizon, projected on a black screen to magical effect. This is where Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot played out a year ago at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles - on a set for which Professor John Iacovelli recently received the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for best design. "It is a minimal set, which I am definitely not known for," Iacovelli said. "I usually would be called a maximalist." [ More ]
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ACLS New Faculty Fellow to join American studies program
We are pleased to have recruited our second American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellow to UC Davis: Ryan Lee Cartwright. Cartwright comes to UC Davis from the University of Minnesota, where he received his Ph.D. in 2012. His dissertation Peculiar Places: A Queer History of Rural Nonconformity analyzes the queer history of gender, sexual, and social nonconformity in the twentieth-century rural U.S. The project contends that over the course of the twentieth century, rural U.S. gossip about queer and peculiar white neighbors was transformed into a popular discourse of white social degeneracy: the anti-idyll.
"Cartwright's research in rural sexualities and the construction of racial and social difference complements our traditional strengths in the fields of nature and culture, community studies, and social identities," said American Studies program chair Julie Sze. "In addition, he brings important perspectives in disability studies and in the theory and practice of digital and public humanities based on his work at the Minnesota Historical Society." [ More ]
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Research and Creative Work
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DHI interim director Seeta Chaganti offers perspective on the humanities
from the UC Davis Humanities Institute No one can deny that these are tough times for the humanities in the UC. We experience pressure to develop online courses for the sake of efficiency rather than the creative pedagogy at which humanists excel; we hear misguided demands to demonstrate the instrumentality and market value of the material and skills that we teach. As a humanities center director, I find it hard to stay optimistic sometimes. I have to admit, paraphrasing Keats, that this hungry generation is treading me down. Every once in a while, however, I encounter something that restores hope... [ More ] |
Together Again exhibition celebrates Gorman Museum's 40th anniversary
The C.N. Gorman Museum continues its 40th anniversary celebration by bringing back four artists who have contributed to the museum's rich history. Together Again features recent works by established artists Lillian Pitt (Warm Springs, Wasco, and Yakama), Gail Tremblay (Mi'kmaq and Onondaga), Joe Feddersen (Colville), and Rick Bartow (Wiyot and Yurok). The exhibition opened April 2 and will run through June 21. See exhibition and museum information here. |
New Faculty Books
Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Doing Good: Racial Tensions and Workplace Inequalities at a Community Clinic in El Nuevo South (University of Arizona Press, 2013).
Throughout the New South, relationships based on race, class, social status, gender, and citizenship are being upended by the recent influx of Latina/o residents. In Doing Good assistant professor of Chicana/o studies Natalia Deeb-Sossa examines these issues as they play out in the microcosm of a community health center in North Carolina that previously had served mostly African American clients but now serves predominantly Latina/o clients. Drawing on eighteen months of experience as a participant- observer in the clinic and in-depth interviews with clinic staff at all levels, Deeb-Sossa provides an informative and fascinating view of how changing demographics are profoundly affecting the new social order. [ More ]
Yvette Flores, Chicana and Chicano Mental Health: Alma, Mente y Corazón (University of Arizona Press, 2013).
In Chicana and Chicano Mental Health, professor of Chicana/o studies Yvette Flores offers a model to understand and to address the mental health challenges and service disparities affecting Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans/Chicanos. Yvette G. Flores, who has more than thirty years of experience as a clinical psychologist, provides in-depth analysis of the major mental health challenges facing these groups: depression; anxiety disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder; substance abuse; and intimate partner violence. Using a life-cycle perspective that incorporates indigenous health beliefs, Flores examines the mental health issues affecting children and adolescents, adult men and women, and elderly Mexican Americans. [ More ]
Susan Kaiser, Fashion and Cultural Studies (Bloomsbury, 2012).
Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text by Susan Kaiser, professor of textiles and clothing, and women and gender studies, and member of the cultural studies graduate group, provides an introduction to fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields.
Cultural studies relies on fashion to exemplify change as well as continuity, examine identity and difference, agency and structure, and production and consumption. Fashion, meanwhile, benefits from the interpretative lens of cultural studies; its key concepts, contextual flexibility, and attention to bridging 'high' and 'popular' culture, contemporary and historical perspectives, and diverse identity issues and methodologies. [ More ]
Judith Newton, Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen (She Writes Press, 2013).
Tasting Home by Judith Newton, professor emerita of women and gender studies, is the history of a woman's emotional education, the romantic tale of a marriage between a straight woman and a gay man, and an exploration of the ways that cooking can lay the groundwork for personal healing, intimate relation, and political community.
Organized by decade and by the cookbooks that shaped Judith Newton's life, Tasting Home takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the cuisines, cultural spirit, and politics of the 1940s through 2011, complete with recipes. [ More ]
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Performances and Exhibitions
Annabeth Rosen, Nature-Morphic
A solo exhibition called Nature-Morphic by art professor Annabeth Rosen is featured at Humboldt State University First Street Gallery in Arcata, CA through May 19. Rosen holds the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair in Ceramic Sculpture. The exhibition is composed of recent works on paper and nine ceramic sculptures. As the title of the exhibition suggests, Rosen draws subject matter from morphologies and shapes in nature, considered and reinterpreted under her poetic eye. Read more on the exhibition at the Times Standard of Eureka.
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In Brief
Michael Siminovitch, professor of design and director of the California Lighting Technology Center, discusses a new "just in time" bike path lighting system in a New York Times article on lighting innovations. Read the article here.
In an interview with Sacramento's Fox40 news, Susan Kaiser, professor of textiles and clothing, and women and gender studies, comments on the ways image retouching affects our self-perception and self-esteem. Read more here.
D. Kern Holoman, professor of music and conductor emeritus of the UC Davis symphony orchestra, speaks to the Denver Post about the Denver Symphony Orchestra's new conductor. Read the article here.
Music Ph.D. candidate and ASCAP Young Composer Award winner Will Cooper is featured in a video on the UC Davis YouTube channel. See the video here.
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SHARE YOUR NEWS
Please help us share news about research, creative work, and awards by sending announcements to Erin Hendel, graduate assistant to Dean Owens, at eehendel@ucdavis.edu.
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