The UCI Humanities Collective is the UCI research node of the Multi-Campus Research Group, the UC Humanities Network administered by the University of California Humanities Research Institute. The Collective is a collaborative enterprise and umbrella organization made up of the UCI Humanities Center, Big Ideas and HumaniTech®. Catherine Liu is the Director of the UCI Humanities Center. The Center supports cutting edge, interdisciplinary research in the Humanities at UCI through public programming, and faculty and graduate student fellowships. The Center promotes inter-campus collaboration across the UC system. The Center promotes creative, pragmatic and theoretical research on global and local questions of critique and community, innovation and tradition, and theory and history. Big Ideas is a social media and digital resource featuring recent publications by SOH faculty and lecturers. Designed and maintained by Maritess Santiago, Big Ideas offers a thrilling overview of the creative and intellectual breadth and depth of the School of Humanities Faculty. HumaniTech® is a pioneering initiative, created by Barbara Cohen, an innovator in the Digital Humanities and Open Access movement. It is an on-line resource for the intersection of the Humanities and New Technologies. The UCI Humanities Collective works to enhance public understanding of the Humanities, while encouraging vigorous debate and dialogue across campuses, disciplines and media technologies.

Humanities Center Director
Catherine Liu, Film & Media/Visual Studies

2009-10 Faculty Advisory Board
Luis Aviles, Spanish
Sean Greenberg, Philosophy
Andrea Henderson, English
Laura Mitchell, History
Jared Sexton, African American Studies
Jon Wiener, History