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Teaching with Blogs: A Leading Lines Interview with Humberto Garcia Posted by Derek Bruff on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 in News, Podcast. by Derek Bruff, CFT Director I’m happy to announce the start of Season 3 of Leading Lines, a podcast on educational technology co-produced by the Center for...

Facilities

In our lab: Chemical Vapor Deposition Glove Box and AFM HORIBA Raman Spectrometer 2D Materials Transfer Station The Imaging and Microscopy Facility at UC Merced: Zeiss Gemini SEM Talos F200C G2 TEM PANalytical X'Pert PRO XRD Nexus XPS

Projects

QUANTIFYING THE FOOTPRINT OF A DOMINANT ORGANISM: IMPACTS OF LEAF CUTTER ANTS ON BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING IN TROPICAL FORESTS One of the most conspicuous features of a tropical forest is the abundance of leaf cutter ants. Their networks of trails extend throughout the forest and workers walk single...

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About Me I am a historian of Early Modern Britain and the Atlantic World. My research has focused on constructions of hierarchy and power – gender, race, and class – in Britain and in the British Atlantic. I have also been deeply engaged in dialogue with literary scholars, and increasingly, involved...

Current Projects

I am currently working on two different projects. One I imagine as a relatively short book, a spin-off from my engagement with literary scholars, What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare, to be published in 2026 by the University of Manchester Press. I have long been...

Bio

Dr. Cristián H. Ricci is a Professor of Iberian Studies and North African Studies at the University of California, Merced. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating Magna Cum Laude from California State University Los Angeles in 1998. He earned his Master of Arts in 2000 and his doctorate in 2003 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His literary research interests and experience include the narrative of Spain, the literature of Morocco written in Western European languages (Castilian, Catalan, French, Dutch, English); and the literatures of Equatorial Guinea and Latin America from 1800 through the present.

Research

My research seeks to understand the impact of the US immigration system on the well-being of immigrants and their families. My studies and publications contribute to the growing evidence that immigrants who lack citizenship or legal status face unique barriers to health care and well-being and that...

Students

Who speaks for immigrants? Who creates knowledge about their lives and well-being? In the fall of 2020, students in PH 113 Latino and Immigrant Health constructed testimonios of people in their lives - family members, neighbors, friends - to listen to and share their stories. Here we share their...