Hilary Schor, professor of English, comparative literature and law, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The prestigious award includes $60,000 and supports her project “Thinking Like a Lawyer in the Victorian Novel,” through which she is developing a book examining the role of legal categories and law in the development of Victorian novels.
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, associate professor of history, spatial sciences and law, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The prestigious award includes $60,000 and supports his project “A Global History of Maritime Prize Law, 1498–1916.”
Alice Baumgartner, assistant professor of history, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The prestigious award includes $60,000 and supports her project “Slavery After Abolition: How Freedom Seekers from New Mexico to Alaska Invoked the Thirteenth Amendment to End Slavery in the United States (1862–1977),” leading to a book on laborers’ use of the 13th Amendment to seek relief from coercive work conditions in the American West.
In the 17 academic years between 2002–03 and 2018–19, California schools closed for nearly 34,000 days across 6,664 individual schools due to wildfires, natural hazard impacts, infrastructure and student safety concerns. Wildfires were the biggest cause of school closures in California, causing nearly two-thirds of all unplanned closures in the state.
Between 2017 and 2020, wildfires in California burned across nearly 8 million acres (approximately 8% of the state) and destroyed over 45,500 structures. These recent wildfires have left dozens of communities throughout California beginning the long process of rebuilding and recovery.
We are delighted to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has approved our grant application to its Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities for “Images Out of Time: Visual and Material Culture in a Digital Age.”
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted us $500,000 to support intersectional studies at the Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture. The grant will extend across 42 months to support several initiatives to bolster intersectional work.
I am writing a book about the long history of U.S. imperialism in the Pacific and culture’s role in challenging such imperialism. The project grew out of my participation in the Transpacific Studies research group (now Center) initiated by Viet Thanh Nguyen (English/American studies and ethnicity) and Janet Hoskins (anthropology). My book builds on my earlier Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Super excited about the catalogue I co-edited with USC Roski colleague, Professor Andy Campbell, titled “Queer Communion: Ron Athey.”
