Twenty-three UC faculty have been awarded fellowships in the tenth annual competition for The President's Research Fellowships in the Humanities. The University of California Office of Research congratulates the following 1997-98 Fellows:
| Fellow's Name | Campus | Department | Title of Proposal |
| Henning Anderson | UCLA | Slavic Languages | The Emergence of the Slavic Languages |
| David Brink | UCSD | Philosophy | Self & Others |
| Jesse Byock | UCLA | Germanic Languages/Literatures | Excavation of a Viking Chieftain |
| Chungmoo Choi | UCI | Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures | Colonialism, Modernity and Ambivalent Subjectivity: Korea |
| Jan deVries | UCB | History | The Industrious Revolution: The Family and the Economy Since 1650 |
| Henry Em | UCLA | East Asian Languages/Cultures | Nationalism and Democratic Thought in Modern Korean Historiography |
| Diane Favro | UCLA | Architecture/Urban Design | Time for Ancient Rome: Conceptual and Formal Urban Design Interconnections Between Temporal Systems and the Cityscape |
| Richard Friedman | UCSD | Literature | Language, Narrative, and Law: The Five Books of Moses: Translation and Commentary |
| Saidiya Hartman | UCB | English | Belated Encounters on the Gold Coast |
| David Johnson | UCB | History | The Great Temple Festivals of Shansi, China, in Late Imperial Times |
| Hasan Kayali | UCSD | History | End of Empire and the Remaking of Political Identities in the Middle East |
| Geoffrey Koziol | UCB | History | Allying the Saints: Monks, Marriage, and Discourses of Power in Tenth- Century France |
| Catherine Kudlick | UCD | History | Attitudes Toward Physical Disability in France, 1715-1914 |
| Kathleen McHugh | UCR | Department of Literatures and Languages | Inventions of Alterity: The Geneology and Poetics of Autobiographical Narration |
| Jacob Olupona | UCD | Department of African-American and African Studies | Yoruba Thought and Culture: Insights from Ifa Divination Poetry |
| Jeannette Peterson | UCSB | History of Art/Architecture | The Virgin of Guadalupe: From Earth Art, and Architecture Goddess to Virgin Queen |
| Ann Plane | UCSB | History | Family Lives, Colonial Worlds: Marriages, Households, and Racial Difference in Early New England |
| Raul Rabinow | UCB | Anthropology | French DNA |
| Leslie Rabine | UCI | French | The Global Circulation of African Style: Exchanges and Transformation of Clothing Symbolism Among the African American Community, the Kikuyu Area of Kenya, and Dakar, Senegal |
| Claudia Rapp | UCLA | History | Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity |
| Candace Slater | UCB | Spanish/Portuguese | The Nature of Amazonia (The Amazon as Metaphor for the Natural World) |
| Yenna Wu | UCR | Literatures and Languages | Of Body and Boundary: Cannibalistic Portrayals in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction |
| Michelle Yeh | UCD | Chinese/Japanese | Transculturation: Cultural Identity and Modern Chinese Poetry |