THI Fellows
The Humanities Institute is a hub for academic research. We directly support the work of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates through our fellowship opportunities. These grants provide much needed time and resources for fellows to pursue their Humanities work. Since 1999, we have supported over 1300 scholars.
See our current and past cohorts, and explore funding opportunities.
Faculty Awards
Faculty Fellow
Anjali Arondekar
Feminist Studies
2025-26
Project: ““Oceanic Sex: Archives of Caste and Indenture””
Sophia Azeb
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab”
Shelly Chan
History
2025-26
Project: “Disappearance of the Nanyang: A Frontier History between China and Southeast Asia”
Caro Flores
Philosophy
2025-26
Project: “The unfinished return: Portuguese colonialism and white ignorance”
National Humanities Center Faculty Fellow
Josefina Bittar
Languages/Applied Linguistics
2024-25
Kate Jones
History
2024-25
Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2024-25
Graduate Student Awards
Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Research Fellow
Nathaniel Burke
Philosophy
2024-25
Project: “Philosophical Approaches to Institutional Abolition: Psychiatry”
Betsy Centeno
Social Psychology
2024-25
Project: “Harm Reduction Perspectives on Substance Use and Sexual Health Among Latine Students”
Jenny Ham
History of Consciousness
2024-25
Project: “California Cohousing Care Webs”
Katherine Johnson-Rogers
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Life Writing and the Conjuncture of US Medical Practice”
Inês Pedrosa e Melo
Film & Digital Media
2024-25
Project: “Tracing Multisensory Histories of Informal Reproductive Care Networks in California”
Elliot Richardson
History
2024-25
Project: “Trans Medicine and Carceral Power in San Francisco's Tenderloin”
Maria Betania Santos
Sociology
2024-25
Project: “Youth Mental Health Crisis and the Politics of Care”
Nicole Sarmieno
Environmental Art and Social Practice
2024-25
Project: “Counter-mapping towards care, fugitivity and abundance”
Barber Fellow
Spencer Armada
Literature
2025-26
Center for South Asian Studies Graduate Fellows
Ameneh Eskandari
Politics
2024-25
Aiswarya Gangadhar
Psychology
2024-25
Ayush Kumar
Economics
2024-25
Sagarika Pandey
History
2024-25
Ankit Sharma
Sociology
2024-25
Shatakshi Singh
Politics
2024-25
Sameem Wami
Literature
2024-25
Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow
Won Jeon
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Project for a Cybernetic Psychology: A History of Machine Learning, 1840 to the present”
Md Mizanur Rahman
Politics
2024-25
Project: “Politics beyond the State: The Birth of an Ethical Politics in Anticolonial Muslim Thought”
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Public Fellow
Daniel Arias
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Eastside Magazine”
Sam Kahn
Philosophy
2025-26
Project: “Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO)”
J. Ramos
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Pollen Initiative”
Linda Ulbrich
History
2025-26
Project: “City of Santa Cruz”
Summer Dissertation Fellow
Xafsa Ciise
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Hypnosis, The Other, and the Making of Modern Trauma Theory”
Stefania Cotei
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Unarchiving Memory: Silenced Histories of Romani Slavery in the Inter-Imperial Context of the Romanian Principalities”
Carlos Cruz
History
2025-26
Project: “Rethinking the Indigenous Proletariat: Land, Autonomy, and Resistance in Rural Mexico, 1890–1952”
Arlo Fosburg
Feminist Studies
2025-26
Project: “University Discipline: Militarization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Land-Grant College System”
Details: UC Network Fellow
Kiley McLaughlin
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Mámaw: Unruly Imaginings in the Undercurrents of Empire”
Em Padilla
Feminist Studies
2025-26
Project: “Inclusion as a Necropolitical Project: Transness, the Latinx Soldiering Experience and the Future(s) of the U.S. War Machine”
Jonathan Paramore
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Listeners Adapt Speech Based on Talker Social Status: Evidence from Pakistani Punjabi”
Mia Tempestt Boykin
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Wanda, Why Aren’t You Dead?: A Literary Revival & Honoring of Wanda Coleman”
Details: UC Network Fellow
Summer Pathways Fellow
Yadi Dong
Philosophy
2025-26
Project: “Memory in the Hands of Power: Institutional Mnemonic Injustice Against Black and Indigenous Communities”
Anna Egorova
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Muslim Socialist Visions: Volga Tatars and Self-Determination in Revolutionary Russia”
Francesca Gibson
History
2025-26
Project: “Hysterical Conceptions: The Intersection of Madness, Childbirth, and Medical Beliefs in the 17th and 18th Centuries”
Emily Knick
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Temporal meaning in Khalkha Mongolian”
Tanvi Rupakula
History
2025-26
Project: “Ethnohistory of Debt in Early Colonial India”
Summer Research Fellow
Annika Berry
Literature
2025-26
Project: “The Life of Another: Pulling at the Roots of Modern Biography”
Jose Chavez Ayala
History
2025-26
Project: “A Race in Division: Revisiting America’s Drug War and its Racial Dimensions”
Lilith Frakes
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “The Mystery Monkey: Hybrid Primates and the Politics of Conservation in a Changing World”
Sebahat Yagmur Kiper
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Ellipsis Investigations”
Larry Lyu
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Archive and investigation of the endangered Salar language”
Sagarika Pandey
History
2025-26
Project: “Industrial capitalism and Labour in Central India: a study of cotton textile and coal industry (1890-1990)”
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
Jonathan Van Harmelen
History
2023-24
Project: “Legislating Injustice: Congress and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II”
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Undergraduate Student Awards
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
Isa Anderson
Literature/Education
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”
Dalia Antebi
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Democratic Women's Club”
Alik Arslanian
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Boys and Girls Club Santa Cruz County”
Hannah Boatman
Feminist Studies/Sociology
2025-26
Project: “Your Future is Our Business”
Leo Colletta
History
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History”
Danielle De La Cruz
History
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History”
Kriti Dokania
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Seymour Marine Discovery Center”
Maddie Frealy
Literature/Legal Studies
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Poetry Project”
Paulina Garcia
Feminist Studies/Politics
2025-26
Project: “The Hive Poetry Collective”
Naomi Garrett
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Poet Laureate”
Sophie Goodwin
Philosophy
2025-26
Project: “Boys and Girls Club Santa Cruz County”
Michael Griffith
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Poetry Project”
Kian Hladky
Philosophy/Anthropology
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History”
Shoshana Katler
Sociology/Jewish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Your Future is Our Business”
Alex Lund
History/Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Works”
Daniel Mair
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”
Alanah Martinez
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Feminist Studies
2025-26
Project: “United Way of Santa Cruz County”
Grace Menagh
History/Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Poet Laureate”
Dina Minovitsky
Applied Linguistics/Cognitive Science
2025-26
Project: “Skills of Life Cafe”
Mayah Moore
Legal Studies/Psychology/Jewish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Democratic Women's Club”
Ashley Palma-Jimenez
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Jadyn-Kathleen Polk
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Black Surf Santa Cruz”
Riana Prieto
Cognitive Science/Literature
2025-26
Project: “Save Our Shores”
Sukhman Rai
2025-26
Project: “Sikh Foundation”
Riley Ramos
Literature/Psychology
2025-26
Project: “Second Harvest Food Bank”
Daymia Rousseau
History
2025-26
Project: “KSQD Community Radio”
Ruby Ruetmann
History
2025-26
Project: “Boys and Girls Club Santa Cruz County”
Ava Salinas
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Ayla Sana
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Psychology
2025-26
Project: “WILDR Santa Cruz”
Vee Santoscoy
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Open Campus”
Parker Shabhala
Environmental Studies/Literature
2025-26
Project: “The Hive Poetry Collective”
Michael Shires
Literature/Education
2025-26
Project: “Second Harvest Food Bank”
Galacia Stack Lozano
History
2025-26
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Lilly Tookey
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz County Youth Poet Laureate Program”
Punya Uppal
Cognitive Science/Literature
2025-26
Project: “Seymour Marine Discovery Center”
Morgan Woodley
History of Art and Visual Culture/History
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History”
Anna Yu
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Community Foundation”
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
Aivan Bach
Anthropology/Environmental Science/History
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Serena Barriga Ashurst
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Linguistics Oral History”
Ella Benson
Feminist Studies/Cognitive Science
2025-26
Project: “Archiving Movement: UC Campus Activism in a Time of Genocide”
Julieta Castro
History of Art and Visual Culture/History
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Sophia Coffing
Literature/Psychology
2025-26
Project: “Alien Intelligence and Human Imagination”
Mia Collins
Jewish Studies/Psychology
2025-26
Project: “Islamic Material Culture in West Africa: Exhibition and Academic Engagement at UCSC”
Sofia Dicesare-Bystrowicz
History/Sociology
2025-26
Project: “Border Futures: Undergraduates Reimagining the US-Mexico Boundary through Film, Research, and Community-Humanitarian Engagement”
Jamie Dy
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies/Sociology
2025-26
Project: “Saritaan: Filipino and Filipino American Stories - a Watsonville is in the Heart Project”
Hala Elamine
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Counter-Colonial Ecologies”
Eva Fox
Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism/Literature/Spanish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Acoustics of Bilingual Speech”
Eleanor Garrison
Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism/Spanish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Acoustics of Bilingual Speech”
Aldrine Gatpo
2025-26
Project: “Saritaan: Filipino and Filipino American Stories - a Watsonville is in the Heart Project”
Jade Glentzer
Anthropology/History
2025-26
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Jackson Gross
Philosophy
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Laaila Irshad
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Archiving Movement: UC Campus Activism in a Time of Genocide”
Tyler Kay
Linguistics/History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Discourse Analysis: The Happiness Project”
Lila Kindall
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Global and Community Health
2025-26
Project: “Archiving Movement: UC Campus Activism in a Time of Genocide”
Gigi Lea
Applied Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Multilingual Corpus of Paraguay”
Michael Lieu
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Hybridization of African American and Korean Cultures in K-pop and Call-and-Response Practices”
Claire Lindsay
History/Mathematics/History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Islamic Material Culture in West Africa: Exhibition and Academic Engagement at UCSC”
Lucy Liu
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
Andrei Lynch
History
2025-26
Project: “Border Futures: Undergraduates Reimagining the US-Mexico Boundary through Film, Research, and Community-Humanitarian Engagement”
Monnika Mattson
History/Psychology
2025-26
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Seiya Mendiola
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Carolyn Mish
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Discourse Analysis: The Happiness Project”
Niya Mustafa
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Education
2025-26
Project: “Counter-Colonial Ecologies”
Nancy Ortiz
History
2025-26
Project: “Saritaan: Filipino and Filipino American Stories - a Watsonville is in the Heart Project”
Priscilla Ramos
Psychology/Cognitive Studies/Spanish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Teguima Research and Revitalization”
Phoebe Rettberg
Feminist Studies/Film & Digital Media
2025-26
Project: “Border Futures: Undergraduates Reimagining the US-Mexico Boundary through Film, Research, and Community-Humanitarian Engagement”
Rafael Revolorio
Global Community Health/Latin American and Latino Studies
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
Abigale Roth
Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism
2025-26
Project: “Acoustics of Bilingual Speech”
Fatima Sanchez
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Teguima Research and Revitalization”
Shalini Satish
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Cognitive Science
2025-26
Project: “Alien Intelligence and Human Imagination”
Tikva Sheket
History/Environmental Science
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Kai Sotto
History
2025-26
Project: “Saritaan: Filipino and Filipino American Stories - a Watsonville is in the Heart Project”
Court Sugano
Global and Community Health/History
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Skyla Tomine
Feminist Studies/Politics
2025-26
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Aissata Wagne
Philosophy/History of Art & Visual Culture
2025-26
Project: “Islamic Material Culture in West Africa: Exhibition and Academic Engagement at UCSC”
Peyton White
History
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Caroline Wilson
Art/East Asian Studies
2025-26
Project: “The Visual Making of the Pajaro and Salinas Valleys”
Porter Wyche
History
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Jackson Young
History/History of Art and Visual Culture
2025-26
Project: “Selling Saqqara”
Pilar Zapien
Literature/Spanish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Alien Intelligence and Human Imagination”
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Katherine Arnold
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Linguistics and Applied Linguistics & Multilingualism”
Sam Beatty
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: ““Gendered voices and Transgender bodies: Where are we? What are we doing? And who are we talking to?””
Julian Crown
Linguistics/Sociology
2024-25
Project: ““Language, Media, and the Social Construction of Homelessness””
Joshua Lieberstein
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Verbless Clauses in Mayan K’ iche’: A non-copular approach”
Elliot-Elyjah Mcwhinnie
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Zooming in on the regional differences of African American Language in California”
Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize
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Sabrina Nguyen
Classical Studies/Literature
2024-25
Project: “Does Freedom Mean Free? Manumission, Marriage, and Public Perception in the Roman Empire”
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Jacqueline Nowak
History/Anthropology
2024-25
Project: “For a Bountiful Harvest: Women’s Roles in Animal Sacrifice to the Goddesses Demeter and Persephone”
Adelina Rocha
Sociology
2024-25
Project: “Benefits and Barriers of Radical Collaboration in Performance Arts”
Prizes
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
Yasmine Benabdallah
Film and Digital Media
2023-24
Project: “The one with the manes”
Details: 2023-24 Graduate Award Winner
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Kristine Buriel
Anthropology
2023-24
Project: “Whispers of Wear”
Details: 2023-24 Undergraduate Award Winner
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Chimera Mohammadi
Literature
2023-24
Project: “Computer Angel Born from Pain”
Details: 2023-24 Undergraduate Award Winner
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Jorge Palacios
Environmental Art and Social Practice
2023-24
Project: “Nomadic Infrastructures : Foraging, Craft, and New Media”
Details: 2023-24 Graduate Award Winner
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Rowan Powell
Politics
2023-24
Project: “Wood, the subject, ‘I’, St. George’s Hill 1649 – 2049”
Details: 2023-24 Graduate Award Winner
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Robbie Trocchia
Digital Arts and New Media
2023-24
Project: “eroto-system”
Details: 2023-24 Graduate Award Winner
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Fellows Archive
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Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Selling Saqqara”
Level: Undergraduate
Gabriel Evans Cayley
Feminist Studies
Public Fellow
2023-24
Project: “Tamarack Free Library”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023
Hussayn Abdul-Qawi
Politics
CMENA Arabic Language Study Fellow
2025-26
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Darien Acero
History of Consciousness
Summer Pathways Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Right Under Their Noses: Sovereignty, Surveillance, and Subversion in 18th Century Cuban Maroon Communities”
Level: Graduate
Chessa Adsit-Morris
History of Art and Visual Culture
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Evolutionary Thought: Transdisciplinary Practices and Collective Living”
Level: Graduate
Cole Akers
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Contemporary Classical Studies”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Mary-Kay Gamel, Professor of Literature
Niki Akhavan
History of Consciousness
Dissertation Fellow
2005-06
Project: “The Iranian Internet: Interventions in New Media and Old Politics”
Level: Graduate
Summer Al-Saleh
Feminist Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Gaza’s Great March of Return: Mapping Convergences Between the Politics of Human Rights Organizations & the Logic of the Settler-Colonial State”
Level: Undergraduate
Jasmin Aleman
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2015-16
Project: “Waging War: The Ethics of Following Orders”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Daniel Guevara, Philosophy
Joe Alicea
Literature
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2023-24
Project: “Improvising Outs: Rehearsals of Endurance, Erasure, and Other Street Things”
Level: Graduate
Riley Alinsug
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
Level: Undergraduate
Chloe Allen
Psychology
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “AI & Human Imagination”
Level: Undergraduate
Christian Alvarado
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Development and Ideology in the History of the Kenyan Education System”
Level: Graduate
Christian Alvarado
History of Consciousness
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2019-20
Project: “New Ways of Life Together": Pedagogical Thought in Anticolonial Kenya”
Level: Graduate
Christian Alvarado
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2020-21
Project: ““The Storm in Kenya”: Mau Mau in African Historical and Educational Thought”
Level: Graduate
Details: Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow
Pranav Anand
Linguistics
Faculty Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Dream Reports and /De Se/ Expressions: An Experimental Investigation”
Level: Faculty
Scott AnderBois
Linguistics
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Composing alternatives, proposing issues: a view from Yucatec Maya”
Level: Graduate
Isa Anderson
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”
Level: Undergraduate
Isa Anderson
Literature/Education
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Aidan Andreasen
Art & Design: Games & Playable Media
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
2021-22
Project: “Talos Machine”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: 2021-2022 Undergraduate Award Winner
Caroline Andrews
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2010-11
Project: “The Language of Experiments”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Pranav Anand, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Dalia Antebi
History of Consciousness
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Democratic Women's Club”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Sondra Archimedes
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Gendered Pathologies: Women, Sexuality, and Disease in Nineteenth-Century British Literature”
Level: Graduate
Max Ari'i
Anthropology/Literature
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Museum of Natural History”
Level: Undergraduate
Daniel Arias
Literature
Public Fellow
2025-26
Project: “Eastside Magazine”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Yatziri Arias Torres
Latin American and Latino Studies/Politics
Undergraduate Public Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Language Education Developer, Senderos”
Level: Undergraduate
William S. Arighi
American Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “TRASHTHETIC: “Camp” and the Politics of Representation of a Sub-Culture of the United States”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor of Literature
Mary Arlen
Literature/Anthropology
Undergraduate Public Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History/Davenport Jail Assistant Curator”
Level: Undergraduate
Spencer Armada
Literature
Barber Fellow
2025-26
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Katherine Arnold
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Linguistics and Applied Linguistics & Multilingualism”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Anjali Arondekar
Feminist Studies
Faculty Fellow
2004-05
Project: “Perverse Subjects: Sexuality, Governance and the Colonial Archive”
Level: Faculty
Anjali Arondekar
Feminist Studies
Faculty Fellow
2025-26
Project: ““Oceanic Sex: Archives of Caste and Indenture””
Level: Current
Level: Faculty
Alik Arslanian
Literature
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Boys and Girls Club Santa Cruz County”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Aaron Aruck
History
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Policing Sexuality and Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Bi-national Efforts to Control Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Homosexuality Across International Space, 1920-1965 ”
Level: Graduate
Aaron Aruck
History
Public Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Badge List”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2018
Aaron Aruck
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Tracking Contagious Cases: The Anti-Venereal Campaign and the Construction of Sexual Categories in Northern Mexico, 1920-1965”
Level: Graduate
Aaron Aruck
History
Public Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2020
Aaron Aruck
History
Graduate Student Awards
Sawyer Seminar Fellow
2022-23
Level: Graduate
Details: "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
Noriko Aso
History
IHR Fellow
2012-13
Project: “Mitsukoshi at War”
Level: Faculty
Neda Atanasoski
Feminist Studies
IHR Fellow
2011-12
Project: “Afterimages of Empire: Adapting Race and Freedom in U.S. Cold War Culture, 1950-2000”
Level: Faculty
Allison Athens
Literature
Research and Travel Grant
2010-11
Level: Graduate
Beckett Atkinson
History/Philosophy
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Mapping the offering of courses in African History through the UC system: what is Africa's place in History curricula?”
Level: Undergraduate
Alexander Attanasio
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2015-16
Project: “Who Were They and Why Did They Fight? A Study of Catholic Irishmen Who Volunteered for the British Army in WWI”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, History
Christina Ayson Plank
History of Art and Visual Culture
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Counter-framing the Nation: Art and Visual Culture of the Filipino Labor Diaspora”
Level: Graduate
Sophia Azeb
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Faculty Fellow
2025-26
Project: “Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab”
Level: Current
Level: Faculty
Ai Baba
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Post-War Japanese History Textbooks and the American Occupation of Japan”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Schorr Scholar
Mentor: Minghui Hu, Assistant Professor of History
Aivan Bach
Anthropology/Environmental Sciences
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Level: Undergraduate
Aivan Bach
Anthropology/Environmental Science/History
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Taylor R. Backman
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2013-14
Project: “A Global Genealogy to Wallace's Infinite Jest”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor of Literature
Lalitha Balachandran
Linguistics
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Linguistic Contexts in Memory”
Level: Graduate
Brian Ballard
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Materialsim and Epistemic Self-Defeat”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Ric Otte
Sienna Ballou
Literature
Public Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Thomas Balmat
Literature/Anthropology
Undergraduate Public Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards
2023-24
Project: “The American Prospect ”
Level: Undergraduate
RachelAnn Baltazar
Intensive Psychology
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2015-16
Project: “Human Trafficking Narrative: Understanding the creation of a salient human trafficking concept and the effects on the individual experience”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Feminist Studies
Victoria Banales
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
2002-03
Project: “Twentieth Century Latin American and Latin Women's Literature and the Paradox of Dictatorship and Democracy”
Level: Graduate
Elyse Banks
History
Summer Research Fellow
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Liliana Barajas
Literature/Anthropology
Undergraduate Public Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards
2023-24
Project: “Open Campus”
Level: Undergraduate
Liliana Barajas
Anthropology/Literature
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Open Campus”
Level: Undergraduate
Jessica Barbata
History
Research and Travel Grant
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Jessica Barbata Jackson
History
Summer Research Fellow
2014-15
Project: “Racial Transients in an In-Between State: Reinterpreting Anti-Italian Violence in 1890s Louisiana”
Level: Graduate
Banu Bargu
History of Consciousness
Faculty Awards
Faculty Fellow
2023-24
Project: “Toward a New Republic”
Level: Faculty
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2023-24
Walter Barnaby
History/Politics
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative ”
Level: Undergraduate
Serena Barriga Ashurst
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Linguistics Oral History”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
James Barton
Sociology/Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Wrongful Acquittals: Miscarriage of Justice in Potentially Capital, Lynching Cases”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Hiroshi Fukurai
Conner Bassett
Literature
Public Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Stone Soup Magazine”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
Karen Bassi
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2002-03
Project: “Places of the Past: Home and Identity in Ancient Greece”
Level: Faculty
Emma Bavera
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Shakespeare Workshop”
Level: Undergraduate
Sarabeth Bavin
American Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Assessment of Child Abuse Prevention Practices in Santa Cruz County”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Yvette Huginnie
Jessica Beard
Literature
Summer Research Fellow
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Sam Beatty
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2024-25
Project: ““Gendered voices and Transgender bodies: Where are we? What are we doing? And who are we talking to?””
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Jonathan Beecher
History
Faculty Fellow
2005-06
Project: “The Making and Unmaking of a Christian Communist”
Level: Faculty
Dorian Bell
Literature
UC Society Fellow
2011-12
Project: “Frontiers of Hate: Anti-Semitism and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France”
Level: Faculty
Jennifer Bellik
Linguistics
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Vowel Intrusion in Turkish Word-Initial Clusters”
Level: Graduate
Joanna Beltrán Girón
Intensive Psychology
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2015-16
Project: “Intimate "Illegalities": (Re)Framing El Salvador's Vicious Cycle of Violence”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Adrian Felix, Latin American and Latino Studies
Yasmine Benabdallah
Film and Digital Media
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
Prizes
2023-24
Project: “The one with the manes”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: 2023-24 Graduate Award Winner
Ryan Bennett
Linguistics
Summer Research Fellow
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Rhiannon Benson
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2010-11
Project: “African American Education”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Catherine Jones, Assistant Professor of History
Ella Benson
Feminist Studies/Cognitive Science
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Archiving Movement: UC Campus Activism in a Time of Genocide”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Elise Benton
History/Classical Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Praise the Gods and Kings: A Look at Ptolemaic Festivals in Alexandria”
Level: Undergraduate
Jessie Berg
Art/Women's Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Retelling”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Sheila Crane,Assistant Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
Clara Bergamini
History
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow
2021-22
Level: Graduate
Details: 2021 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Clara Bergamini
History
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster”
Level: Graduate
Clara Bergamini
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2023-24
Project: “Mapping Imperial Japan’s Greatest Calamities: Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster”
Level: Graduate
Bonnie Bernard
Anthropology/Genocide Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Documentation of Lithic Outcrops”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Christophe Delage
Nitza Bernard
Jewish Women's Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2009-10
Project: “Women Rabbis in America”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Winner
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Rachael Berry
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2009-10
Project: “Publicity and Media in the Gaza War”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Annika Berry
Literature
Summer Research Fellow
2025-26
Project: “The Life of Another: Pulling at the Roots of Modern Biography”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Josefina Bittar
Languages/Applied Linguistics
National Humanities Center Faculty Fellow
2024-25
Level: Current
Level: Faculty
Hunter Bivens
History of Consciousness
IHR Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Exilic Topographies”
Level: Faculty
Isaac Blacksin
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2014-15
Project: “Conflict Journalism and the Knowledge-Productions of War”
Level: Graduate
Isaac Blacksin
History of Consciousness
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Meaningful Violence: American War Reportage in Iraq, Syria, and Beyond, 2014–2018”
Level: Graduate
Stefano Bloch
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2000-01
Project: “Civic Spots”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Mentor: Christopher Connery, Professor of Literature
Hannah Boatman
Feminist Studies/Sociology
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Your Future is Our Business”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Rachel Bodin
Language Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2012-13
Project: “The Use of Conditionals in Online Forums”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Pranav Anand, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Lia Bonver
Literature/Classical Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Weaving, Witchcraft, and Women in Ancient Greece”
Level: Undergraduate
Bree Booth
Latin American and Latino Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Tracing Queerness Through the Atlantic”
Level: Graduate
Matthew James Borkenhagen
Linguistics/Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Bringing Modern Linguistics to the High School Classroom”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Sandy Chung, Professor of Linguistics
Thea Bosselmann
History of Art and Visual Culture/Studio Art
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2005-06
Project: “The Maya, The Tourist and the Ecologist: Issues of Sustainability in Belize and Guatemala”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Elisabeth Cameron, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Theresa Bostic
History/Sociology
Undergraduate Public Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Santa Cruz’s Elusive Figure: London Nelson”
Level: Undergraduate