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Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group (IHGG)

The Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Humanities is an innovative comparative humanistic program applying analytical and theoretical approaches to the study of societies and cultures in relation to power and difference through social practices and cultural expressions across time and space.

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December 30, 2025

The Interdisciplinary Humanities Ph.D. Candidate of the University of California, Merced, Genevieve Egbunno, has been awarded the McClatchy Dissertation Research and Writing Fellowship for the Fall...

Mark Arax
September 18, 2025

UC Merced has debuted a writer-in-residence program with one of California’s premier chroniclers of its history, especially the titanic power plays for land and water that have shaped the state’s...

Interdisciplinary Humanities Ph.D. graduate Nicolette Lecy and her 4-year-old son, Alejandro
July 24, 2025

When Nicolette Lecy began her graduate studies at UC Merced, life was anything but typical. It was August 2020, in the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lecy’s classes were held remotely, and she had...