The Davis Humanities Institute is an interdisciplinary research center that fosters intellectual collaborations and facilitates access to research resources for faculty and graduate students who are actively engaged in research and teaching in the humanities, the arts, cultural studies, and the humanistically-oriented social sciences. It advocates for the humanities within the UC Davis community and works with funding agencies to secure individual and programmatic resources for HArCS faculty. The DHI is also the home of the California Cultures Initiative, formerly the Pacific Regional Humanities Center, and is involved in planning for this new program throughout the 2007-2008 academic year.
Are You In the Know?
Join us for Knowledge Networking, a professional development workshop series for UC Davis graduate students in the humanities and social sciences. Throughout the year, the UC Davis Humanities Institute will offer workshops on grant writing, library resources, research strategies, conference presentations, academic networking and other skills crucial to success in graduate school and beyond.
We’re kicking off the fall quarter next Wednesday at 10 am with a workshop in partnership with the Shields Library - “The Smart Grad’s Guide to Cyber-Sleuthing: Using Local and Global e-Resources for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences” [more]
Environmental Humanities website launched!
The website for the Environmental Humanities research cluster, one the DHI’s “superclusters” for 2008-09, is now up and running. For information on membership, activities and plans for the spring conference, “California, the University and the Environment,” go to: http://environmentalhumanities.ucdavis.edu
Multi Campus Research Group: Studies of Food and the Body
The Studies of Food and the Body Multi Campus Research Group brings together faculty and graduate-student scholars in the humanities and social sciences from UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz who are exploring the relationship between food, the body and culture. Visit the new site »