Eleven faculty members from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis, including Professor Talinn Grigor, were recently awarded Revitalization Research Program Grants. Intended to support faculty whose research programs have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the college-funded grants support the continuation or completion of stalled, high-priority projects.

Professor Grigor’s research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century art and architectural histories through the framework of postcolonial and critical theories. Grigor’s book project, currently titled “The Hyphenated Architect: ‘Minor’ Modernity & the Artists at Art History’s Peripheries,” investigates architecture during the reign of Reza Shah in Iran between 1925 and 1941.