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Aijaz Ahmad joins UC Irvine's Department of Comparative Literature
Aijaz Ahmad, renowned political and literary theorist, joins the School of Humanities as Chancellor's Professor in the Department…
  • Comparative Literature
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Matthias Lehmann awarded Fulbright research fellowship to write biography of Jewish philanthropist
The subject, Maurice de Hirsch, will broaden our perspective of modern Jewish history
  • Gifts & Grants
  • History
  • Jewish Studies
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Studies of Ancient Iran Receive Support from Farhang Foundation
Foundation Pledges Yearly Support of UC Irvine's Sasanika: Late Antique Iran Project
  • Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies
  • Persian Studies
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Writing a more inclusive history
Historian Alex Borucki's new book, From Shipmates to Soldiers, Emerging Black Identities in the Rio De La Plata, sheds light on…
  • History
  • Latin American Studies
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Mellon Foundation grants $2.7 million to School of Humanities graduate programs
UCI is first public institution to pair shorter degree time with postdoctoral positions
  • Graduate Students
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UC Irvine to lead Black studies consortium with collaborative workshops and seminars focused on the humanities
Consortium launches with $1.07 million grant from the UC Office of the President. UCI serves as the first host university.
  • African American Studies
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Mellon Foundation Awards School of Humanities $175,000 for “Documenting War” Sawyer Seminar
Starting in 2016, the Sawyer Seminar will create a temporary research center for cross-disciplinary, intensive study of how war…
  • Art History
  • English
  • Gifts & Grants
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