UC Irvine

Mark Poster (1941-2012) was professor emeritus in History and Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. First hired in 1969, Poster played a central role in UCI's emergence as a leading center for work in Critical Theory. He helped launch the Critical Theory Institute, first as an informal reading group and then as a formal research center in 1987. He also served as director in its early years. In 2002 he became the founding chair of UCI's Department of Film and Media Studies. The collection includes Mark Poster's research files, notes, and email correspondence related to his ...

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Critical Theory Archive

This collection consists of printed materials, audio and videocassettes, and photographs taken by Brigitte Marshall, who worked as a volunteer in refugee camps in Thailand and as an English-language teacher in California. All materials relate to Southeast Asian refugees, principally Hmong, living in camps in Thailand, and adjusting to life in the United States. Photographs, articles, and reports document Hmong, refugees in camps in Thailand, as well as their resettlement in California, particularly the Fresno area. Printed materials include Hmong and Lao language lessons, memos, correspondence, reports, newsletters, newspaper and magazine articles, refugee orientation materials, publications, and unpublished papers.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive

This collection comprises oral history interviews conducted with 97 prominent faculty and administrators of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) by Samuel C. McCulloch, UCI historian and emeritus professor of History, who was a member of the founding faculty.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives

This collection consists of approximately 3000 black and white photographic negatives of Newport Beach and surrounding areas of Orange County, California in the mid-20th century taken by local historian Hugh R. McMillan.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections

This collection consists of 211 video recordings produced by the Media Services Department at the University of California, Irvine. It includes recordings of UCI events and subjects from 1965 to 1992.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives

The artificial collection comprises primary and secondary source materials on Helena Modjeska, a nineteenth-century Polish stage actress who had a successful career in the United States. Most items pertain to her stage career, while others provide insight into Modjeska's life at her Santiago Canyon ranch, Arden, in Orange County, California. Primary sources include original and photocopied Modjeska correspondence, ephemera, programs and playbills, photographs, scrapbooks, and artifacts, including a hand-written book of fairy tales. Secondary sources include biographical information on Modjeska in newspaper clippings, manuscripts typescripts, and published journal articles written by a number of authors.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections

This collection contains materials acquired by Gayle Morrison during the time she served with the Lao Family Community, Inc., and the Governor's Task Force regarding issues of Southeast Asian refugees living both in the United States and in camps located in Southeast Asia. Materials relating to the Lao Family Community and the Governor's Task Force include correspondence and information on agencies at the local, state, and federal level. The agencies and services included in the collection deal with the issues and challenges Southeast Asian refugees face living in the United States and ways of helping the refugees adapt to their ...

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive

New University is the student newspaper of the University of California, Irvine. Issues from 1968-1983 were digitized from microfilm in 2007-2008. Issues from 1983-2003 were digitized from microfilm in 2015. Current and some back issues are available at http://www.newuniversity.org

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives

Souvenir UCI dedication issue

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, University Archives

Engravings of ordinary people and everyday objects from the Gulf of Guinea Coast during the nineteenth century. These include Fante, Ouidah, and Asante people, as well as a stool, cushion, various hats, a fetish place, and a Dutch plantation. There is also an eighteenth century map of the region.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Digital Scholarship Services