UCHRI
Encyclopedia
The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), is a university system
-wide research institute
at the University of California
under the University of California Office of the President and headquartered at the UC Irvine
campus. It promotes collaboration and interdisciplinarity
through supporting work by teams of researchers from varying fields both within and outside of the UC system. Through its dedication to "engaging connections," the Institute seeks to address the traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, philosophy, classics, languages, and history in new and innovative ways, as well as the pressing humanistic questions that arise in the social and natural sciences, medicine, and technology. Consequently, one primary focus of the Institution is overcoming and destroying the historic intellectual and institutional barriers separating the humanities from the sciences, technology, and the professions.
Every year, UCHRI hosts three to five research groups in residence. The Institute also sponsors a wide range of various workshops, conferences, and research projects at all of the ten UC campuses. It regularly collaborates with the other UC campus humanities centers. Recent projects have focused on topics as diverse as improvisation, medical humanities, and the digital technologies.
David Theo Goldberg
, PhD, was appointed Director in 2000. He also is Professor of Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law and Society at UC Irvine, is a Fellow of the UCI Critical Theory Institute, and co-founded the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC
) with Cathy Davidson
of Duke University
.
University system
A university system is a set of multiple, affiliated universities and colleges that are usually geographically distributed. Typically, all member universities in a university system share a common component among all of their various names...
-wide research institute
Research institute
A research institute is an establishment endowed for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research...
at the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
under the University of California Office of the President and headquartered at the UC Irvine
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
campus. It promotes collaboration and interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic fields into one single discipline. An interdisciplinary field crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions have emerged....
through supporting work by teams of researchers from varying fields both within and outside of the UC system. Through its dedication to "engaging connections," the Institute seeks to address the traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, philosophy, classics, languages, and history in new and innovative ways, as well as the pressing humanistic questions that arise in the social and natural sciences, medicine, and technology. Consequently, one primary focus of the Institution is overcoming and destroying the historic intellectual and institutional barriers separating the humanities from the sciences, technology, and the professions.
Every year, UCHRI hosts three to five research groups in residence. The Institute also sponsors a wide range of various workshops, conferences, and research projects at all of the ten UC campuses. It regularly collaborates with the other UC campus humanities centers. Recent projects have focused on topics as diverse as improvisation, medical humanities, and the digital technologies.
David Theo Goldberg
David Theo Goldberg
David Theo Goldberg, PhD was born and raised in South Africa, where he later received degrees in philosophy and economics from the University of Cape Town. He also holds a PhD in philosophy from City University of New York...
, PhD, was appointed Director in 2000. He also is Professor of Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law and Society at UC Irvine, is a Fellow of the UCI Critical Theory Institute, and co-founded the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC
HASTAC
is a virtual organization of over 7000 individuals and institutions inspired by the possibilities that new technologies offer for shaping how society learns, teaches, communicates, creates, and organizes at the local and global levels...
) with Cathy Davidson
Cathy Davidson
Cathy N. Davidson is an American scholar and university professor. She has served as the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University since 1996 and has held a second distinguished chair as the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies since 2006...
of Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
.