The EHRC, which is directed by Art History Chair James Nisbet, brings together years of environmental humanities research at UCI, including the work of the Environmental Humanities Research Cluster. Established in 2021 and co-directed by Nisbet and Visual Studies Ph.D. student Aaron Katzeman, the cluster organized workshops and shared relevant research from faculty across disciplines…

C-LAB seeks to foster research communities that are grounded in addressing issues related to race, Indigeneity and migration. The center intends to do so by identifying research questions, exploring research methodologies and experimenting with diverse publication dissemination methods that bring attention to social injustice and work towards social justice.

UCI Critical Theory is the institutional home for events, research, and study related to critical theory at the University of California, Irvine. In addition to the annual Wellek Lecture series and the Koehn Public Lecture in Critical Theory, the center oversees the Critical Theory Emphasis, which trains and certifies graduate students from across the campus—humanities,…

The International Center for Writing and Translation is interested in all understandings of writing and translation to foster multi-lingual, cross-cultural creative and critical research in UCI’s School of Humanities. Translation addresses difference—the difference between languages, of course, but also the difference between idioms within a language, the difference between time periods or generations, and the…

The Center for Culture and Capital brings together faculty and students who would understand how the dynamics of capital accumulation transform cultural production and its study. We take up the political economy of developed and underdeveloped nations alike, and our more discrete objects of study include traditional literary forms as well as a range of…

The Center for Storytelling is committed to cultivating an enthusiasm for the study of true storytelling among members of the academy and the public. We aim to explore and deepen our understanding of the many ways that storytelling is at the heart of what it means to be human, and central to our recognition of…

The Center for Knowledge, Technology and Society is devoted to research that approaches epistemological questions from an applied and interdisciplinary angle, with a particular focus on the application of epistemology to technological and societal issues. This includes such topics as social epistemology, intellectual virtue, political epistemology, epistemology of law, medical epistemology, epistemology of cognitive science,…

The mission of the Center for Jewish Studies is to serve as the hub for the interdisciplinary and comparative study of Jewish and Israeli culture and society at UCI and in Orange County; to engage the wider community through public programs and lectures; to support cutting-edge research and to inspire undergraduate scholarship in Jewish and…