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The Pacific Regional Humanities Center (PRHC) was an initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2002 and overseen by the UC Davis Humanities Institute. Created to generate and broker humanities research and public programs for the Pacific United States and Territories--California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas, the PRHC emphasized the study of "place" in its many dimensions, particularly alternative mappings of region that elude or defy conventional political or territorial boundaries. From 2003 through 2006, the PRHC worked primarily on oral history projects focused on Angel Island and Sutter Butte, producing the interviews archived here.

In 2007 the PRHC was reconceptualized as the California Cultures Initiative. Still coordinated by the UC Davis Humanities Institute, the California Cultures Initiative works to enhance the connection of humanities scholars at UC Davis to their surrounding region and to encourage engaged, place-based scholarship and public programs. The CCI provides funding for faculty research groups, individual speakers and events, and faculty collaborations on The Art of Regional Change, a yearly community-based multimedia documentary project. Key areas of interest include migration, immigration and transnational flows as well as the environment, community, ethnicity, gender, labor, economic change, sustainability and other issues of relevance to the region. In linking scholars to communities, the CCI aims to use the insights from these projects to reframe public conversations about how to develop, revitalize and sustain communities away from the technocratic and toward the human.

Questions about the California Cultures Initiative should be directed to Jennifer Langdon, the DHI's associate director, at jlangdon_at_ucdavis.edu or jesikah maria ross, the coordinator of the Art of Regional Change project, at jmross_at_ucdavis.edu.

Cover page of SBOH-1, Diana Almanderez

SBOH-1, Diana Almanderez

(2006)

SBOH-1, Diana Almanderez, Interviewer: Cynthia Guerrero, May 17, 2006

Cover page of AIOH-21, Hop Jeong

AIOH-21, Hop Jeong

(2006)

AIOH-21, Hop Jeong, Interviewer Ian Durfee, March 22, 2006

Cover page of SBOH-8, Craig Tarke

SBOH-8, Craig Tarke

(2006)

SBOH-8, Craig Tarke, Interviewer: Cora Stryker, March 3, 2006

Cover page of SBOH-9, Kermit Tarke

SBOH-9, Kermit Tarke

(2006)

SBOH-9, Kermit Tarke, Interviewer: Cora Stryker, March 3, 2006

Cover page of SBOH-3, Margit Sands

SBOH-3, Margit Sands

(2006)

SBOH-3, Margit Sands, Interviewer: Robyn Krock, March 2, 2006

Cover page of SBOH-6, Mary Spilman Crane

SBOH-6, Mary Spilman Crane

(2006)

SBOH-6, Mary Spilman Crane, Interviewer: Alison Kootstra, February 24, 2006

Cover page of SBOH-7, Marty Steidlmayer

SBOH-7, Marty Steidlmayer

(2006)

SBOH-7, Marty Steidlmayer, Interviewer: Robyn Krock, February 2, 2006

Cover page of SBOH-2, Walt Anderson

SBOH-2, Walt Anderson

(2006)

SBOH-2, Walt Anderson, Interviewer: Robyn Krock, January 19, 2006

Cover page of AIOH-12, Marvin Tetsushi Uratsu

AIOH-12, Marvin Tetsushi Uratsu

(2005)

AIOH-12, Marvin Tetsushi Uratsu, Interviewer Dew Ruiz, June 13, 2005