Erica Kohl-Arenas, faculty director of the UC Davis-based Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life and an associate professor of American studies, has received a Freedom Scholars Initiative award of $250,000. She is one of only 12 winners of the new award given by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation.
A new project led by UC Davis historian Charles Walker will digitize documents of the Peruvian Peasant Confederation (Confederación Campesina del Perú, or CCP) and make them accessible online.
Two UC Davis historians have received funding from the National Park Service to address the educational gap in U.S. women’s history and role in the nation’s national parks. Professors Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor and Lisa Materson will craft 80 biographies of women involved in national parks in the western region of the United States, and, in a longer article, connect those women’s lives to the ongoing struggle for voting rights.
Many faculty members in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science have done extensive research, writing and teaching connected to the discourses currently running through our daily lives and news feeds — racism, protests, police violence, monuments, incarceration, slavery, genocide and colonialism.
Hundreds of Filipinos answering a UC Davis survey tell researchers that 40 percent of their homes have a health care worker living there and more than 95 percent say they had not been tested for the coronavirus. The project is being conducted by the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies in the Department of Asian American Studies.
A book by Jeffrey Kahn, assistant professor of anthropology, about Haitian boat migration to the U.S. is the winner of a 2020 Herbert Jacob Book Prize from the Law and Society Association.
During this period of social distancing, what sort of void has been created? In our social lives, touches are often subtle and brief – a quick handshake or hug. Yet it seems as though these brief encounters contribute mightily to our emotional well-being.
Colin Milburn, Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities, has been selected as the first recipient of the Dean’s Prize for Distinguished Contributions to the Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Economists studied 12 pandemics occurring since the 14th century
The economy could be suffering the effects of the coronavirus for decades, suggest UC Davis economists who researched the financial effects of pandemics dating back to the 14th century.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Economics Division should expand data holdings to step up its research on how and what Americans are eating, who struggles to put food on the table, and how well federal nutrition assistance programs are working, according to a panel of experts led by UC Davis economist Marianne Bitler.