The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work is a three-year multicampus research initiative devoted to exploring and assessing the critical historical and contemporary transformations in the meaning and experience of work. The project will also address how humanities practitioners can prepare students for the work that awaits them in 21st-century global society.
Funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the initiative supports an ambitious UC-wide program of research activities including competitively selected multi-campus working groups, graduate seminars, webinars and conferences, a summer institute and a residential research group at UCHRI. Each will bring together a diverse array of faculty and graduate students across the UC system to examine specific issues around the humanities and changing conceptions of work.
Grantees: 2012 Working Groups
Press Release: Mellon Foundation Awards $800,000 to Fund Research on the Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work
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