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| View News Home Two Humanities Research Programs Receive UC MRPI Awards July 23, 2009 Two research programs based in the Humanities Division recently received awards in the 2009 UC Multi-Campus Research Program and Initiatives Competition (UC MRPI). The Pacific Rim Research Program (PRRP) funds research that increases our understanding of how regions are made and unmade, and how societies envision their futures. Administered as a systemwide program for the past 23 years, the program will now be housed on the UCSC campus under the direction of history professor Gail Hershatter. PRRP provides grants for scholars from every UC campus to conduct cutting-edge research in and about the Pacific Rim. Investigations range from economics to the environment, migration to artistic innovation, and resource utilization to public health. This research continues to help Pacific Rim nations and peoples cooperate in confronting the challenges facing the region. "California's connections across the region are longstanding and complex, and the knowledge we produce about the Pacific Rim is important in understanding our intertwined past and shaping our shared future," said Hershatter. She added that grants made this coming year will support research on responses to crisis in the Pacific Rim, as well as funding advanced graduate student research. The Mediterranean Studies project will integrate UCSC’s long-standing Mediterranean Studies initiative—which includes campus-based activities and an NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors—with programs at eight other UC campuses to collaborate on a wide range of research and curricular projects. Mediterranean Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field that is part of the trend towards oceanic studies, environmental history, and the re-thinking of regional and national models of study in such fields as history, literature, art history, religious studies, political science, and anthropology. At present, 50 UC faculty have committed to the project, as well as nearly 100 associate scholars across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. “The Mediterranean is of particular importance as an area of origin for religions, a shared community of Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and a historical place of exchange between Africa, Europe and Asia,” said UCSC associate history professor Brian Catlos, who will co-direct the program with UCSC literature professor Sharon Kinoshita.
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