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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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The death of the painter: new book by James Herbert challenges the place of the artist in his/her work
Brushstroke and Emergence: Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso (University of Chicago Press, 2015) uses emergence theory to challenge…
  • Art History
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Jane O. Newman to receive the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize
Newman will receive the award for her translation of Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach
  • Comparative Literature
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