Past IHR Grant Recipients

2021-22:

IHR Seed Grants

Judit Kroo (School of International Letters and Cultures), "Sustainable Artisanship: Mapping Alternative Lifeways in Contemporary Japan"

Karen Kuo (School of Social Transformation), "'The Task is hers': Asian American women, literature, and reproduction"

Shirley Rose (Department of English), "A Third Act for Intergenerational Climate Activism: Using Narrative to Engage Climate Action"

Gregory Sale (School of Art), "Future IDs Art and Justice Leadership Cohort"

2021-2022 IHR Fellows

Shamara Alhassan (School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies), "Re-Membering the Maternal Goddess: Rastafari Women's Intellectual History and Activism in the Pan-African World"

Curtis Austin (School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies), "Dare to Win: A History of the San Francisco 8"

Alexander Aviña (School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies), "A War Against Poor People: Drug Wars, Dirty Wars and the Cold War Origins of Mexico's Contemporary Violence" 

Serena Ferrando (School of International Letters and Cultures), "City of Water: How Poetry Shaped Milan"

Daniel Gilfillan (School of International Letters and Cultures), "'The Unsung Planet': Resilience, Resonance, and Our Sonic Imagination"

Lisa Han (Department of English), "Benthic Media: Underwater Technology and the Taming of the Sea Floor"

Natalie Lozinski-Veach (School of International Letters and Cultures), "Creaturely Constellations: Animals, Language and Critical Thought after Auschwitz"

Françoise Mirguet (School of International Letters and Cultures), "Rediscovering Consolation: Can Three Antique Cultures Help Us Reimagine Grief and Its Relief?"

Julia Sarreal (School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies), "Yerba Mate: Empire, Nation and Contested Identities"

IHR Subvention Grant

Nina Berman (School of International Letters and Cultures), "Disability and Social Justice in Kenya: Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation"

Jacob Greene (Department of English), "Composing Place: Digital Rhetorics for a Mobile World"

Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (School of Social Transformation), "Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawai'i"

Mario Orospe Hernandez (School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies), "Biopolitics and Liberation: Reflections on the notion of human life in Giorgio Agamben and Enrique Dussel"

Naomi Jackson (School of Music, Dance and Theatre), "Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Culture"

Julia Sarreal (School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies), "Yerba Mate: Empire, Nation and Contested Identities"

Michael E. Smith (School of Human Evolution and Social Change), "Urban Life in the Distant Past"

The Paul Hirt Excellence in Environmental Humanities Prize

Daniel Gilfillan (School of International Letters and Cultures), "The Unsung Planet: Resilience, Resonance, and Our Sonic Imagination"

Christopher Jones (School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies), "The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Ignore the Natural World"