Crystal Mun-hye Baik, an associate professor of gender and sexuality studies, has received a $300,000 fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowship is part of Mellon’s New Directions program, which assists faculty members in the humanities and social sciences in attaining their PhDs and acquiring training outside their disciplines...

Georg Michels, a UCR professor of history, has received a $60,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, or NEH, to support an upcoming book project. The title of Michels’ accepted NEH proposal is “Protect Us Against the Cruelty… of Christian Monarchs: Ottoman Support for Ukrainian Resistance Against the Russian Empire (1660...