Welcome to the 2025-2026 academic year at the University of California, Irvine!
This year, the Humanities Center is exploring the theme of “Food and Nurturance.” In the midst of current political divisions and social upheavals, our annual theme is an invitation to explore what sustains us biologically, emotionally, socially and culturally. Equally significant are questions regarding the political economy of food–who grows our food, transports, or prepares it? What is the environmental impact of having our favorite foods on hand? Are we able to tend to our needs and wellbeing, as well as others who are not our immediate kin?
The Humanities Center is engaging with these questions as well as supporting an exciting array of activities initiated by our partner research clusters and centers. This ecosystem of inquiry is at the heart of our collective endeavors, and there are multiple entry points to engage your curiosity–learning from and contributing to these intellectual communities. Please join us!
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Associate Dean in the School of Humanities of Research, Faculty Development, and Public Engagement
Faculty Director of the Humanities Center
Professor of History and Asian American Studies
Faculty Profile
Learn more about Professor Wu and her research:
Centering the human experience: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu to lead UCI Humanities Center [link]
(UCI School of Humanities News, 9/10/2020)
Title IX's legacy at 50: UCI professor pens first biography of Patsy Mink, author of Title IX [link]
(UCI School of Humanities News, 4/14/2022)