The UCI Humanities Center supports research and debate on a wide range of issues that draw vital connections between culture, history, literature, technology, media and the arts. The Humanities Center works to strengthen and enhance the public and academic reputation of UCI by promoting creative, pragmatic and theoretical engagements with global and local questions of culture and community, progress and tradition.

Through the events that we sponsor and the projects we fund, we showcase original Humanities scholarship in action, allowing faculty, students and the public to pursue conversations that they simply cannot find elsewhere. In addition to our programming, the UCI Humanities Center works to support faculty and graduate student research through two annual grant cycles. Humanities teaching and research anchor the intellectual life and service mission of an outstanding public University. It does so by nurturing dialogue and communication in the academic community, the public sphere and the democratic process.

Director

Catherine Liu, Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies

Faculty Advisory Board 2008-2009