Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows
Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows Since our Founding
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2016-2017
Dhyana Buckley, Linguistics
“Real World Entailments: A Semantic Approach to Improving Machine Learning”
Rose Greenberg, History
“An Investigation into the Intercolonial Slave Trade”
Armando Herrera, Literature
“Homosociality, Militarism, and the Nation; A Queer Analysis of Mario Vargas Llosa’s La Cuidad y Los Perros and Lituma en los Andes”
Cori Hoover, History
“Deir el Bahri Project”
Francesca Hovagimian, Philosophy
“Researching the Differences Between the Ethics Bowl Model and Traditional Debate”
Amalia Hubbert, History
“WWI Historical Research and Archival of the Laura Caldwell Collection”
Alexyss McClellan, History
“Tattooing and Assimilation in the Japanese Empire”
Krystal Mendez, Literature
“The Gothic in Transit: Nationalist Imaginations in French Translations of ‘The Monk’”
Robert Potmesil, History
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“The “Forgotten Boat People:” Memories of Chinese-Vietnamese Refugees in the US”
Alma Villa, Sociology
“Precarious Housing: The Experiences of Low-income Latinx Communities in Los Angeles, California”
2016-2017 Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows Posters
2015-2016
Jasmin L. Aleman, Philosophy
“Waging War: The Ethics of Following Orders”
Mentor: Daniel Guevara, Philosophy
Alexander M. Attanasio, History
“Who Were They and Why Did They Fight? A Study of Catholic Irishmen Who Volunteered for the British Army in WWI”
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, History
RachelAnn V. Baltazar, Intensive Psychology
“Human Trafficking Narrative: Understanding the creation of a salient human trafficking concept and the effects on the individual experience ”
Mentor: Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Feminist Studies
Joanna Beltrán Girón, Intensive Psychology
“Intimate ‘Illegalities’: (Re)Framing El Salvador’s Vicious Cycle of Violence”
Mentor: Adrian Félix, Latin American and Latino Studies
Stella F. Fronius, History
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“U.S. Militarism in Okinawa: Transformations in the Physical and Demographic Landscape, 1945-Present”
Mentor: Alan Christy, History
Ciera-Jevae T. Gordon, Sociology
“Incarcerated Words”
Mentor: Gary Young, Literature
Andrew G. Knochenhauer, Linguistics
“Unbounded Dependencies and Specifier Competition in Spanish”
Mentor: James Mccluskey, Linguistics
Matthew A. Ray, History
“Contesting Space and Labor in the ‘Workshop of the World’: Urban Villages and Migrant Labor in Shenzhen”
Mentor: Gail Hershatter, History
Andres Sandoval, Feminist Studies
“Dogs of State and Questions of Intra/Inter-Species ‘Hailing'”
Mentor: Karen Barad, Feminist Studies
Joel van de Sande, Feminist Studies
“HIV Origins and the Bioscience of History”
Mentor: Madhavi Murty, Feminist Studies
2015-2016 Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows Posters
2014–2015
Jordan C. Brown, History
“Rumored Fair Housing Act and California Proposition 14”
Mentor: David Brundage, Professor of History
Camille A. Charette, Philosophy
“Humanitarian Intervention, a Feminist Perspective”
Mentor: Neda Atanasoski, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
Amanda L. Cheung, Language Studies
“Missionaries and the Issue of Footbinding in Modern China”
Mentor: Emily Honig, Professor of History
Francisco M. Delgado, Linguistics
“Chamorro Loanword Morphology”
Mentor: Sandra Chung, Professor of Linguistics
Jennifer J. Lemieux, History
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“The Rise of the Feminist Movement in Okinawa and the Changing Role of Media, 1995-Present”
Mentor: Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History
Rafferty Lincoln, History
“Inscribed culture: Life and identity in the provincial Roman Empire”
Mentor: Charles Hedrick, Professor of History
Eileen R. O’Neill, Linguistics
“Phonetic and phonological change and the influence of English on Modern Irish”
Mentor: Jaye Padgett, Professor of Linguistics
Samantha Pineda, Feminist Studies
“Tracing Contributions: Salvadoran Women in the Diaspora and the 2014 Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) Presidential Campaign”
Mentor: Hector Perla, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
Valery V. Vanegas, Linguistics
“A Study in Voice Quality Using Accelerometers”
Mentor: Grant McGuire, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Jake Vincent, Linguistics
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“Chamorro Head-Internal Relative Clauses and the Linker”
Mentor: Sandra Chung, Professor of Linguistics
2014-2015 Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows Posters
2013–2014
Taylor R. Backman, Literature
“A Global Genealogy to Wallace’s Infinite Jest”
Mentor: Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor of Literature
Lisa J. Clark, Philosophy
“Knowing When I’m Right”
Mentor: Jonathan Ellis, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Nicholas A. Garcia, History
“Using Slave Advertisements to Analyze the Intercolonial Slave Trade”
Mentor: Gregory O’Malley, Assistant Professor of History
Guy Herschmann, Jewish Studies
“Israel and Turkey: 1955-1967”
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Abigail Katz, Linguistics
“Modern Hebrew Nicknames and Phonology”
Mentor: Junko Ito, Professor of Linguisitcs
Tobias O. Rushing, History
“The ‘Pashtunistan Issue’; Problems of Nation Building in Cold War Afghanistan”
Mentor: Edmund Burke III, Professor Emeritus of History
Priscilla M. Sanchez, History
“More Power Than Leisure: Property, Businesses, and Self-Reliance Among Late Colonial Mexican Elite and Working Women, 1700-1821”
Mentor: Grace Peña Delgado, Assistant Professor of History
Sophie Short, Classical Studies
“Death and Marriage in the Greco-Roman World”
Mentor: Jennifer K. Lynn, Lecturer in Classical Studies
Michael A. Titone, Linguistics
“The Semantics of Nothing If Not Constructions”
Mentor: Adrian Brasoveanu, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Samantha N. Vega, Politics
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“Remembering Their Finest Hour: Danish Memories of the Miraculous Rescue of Jews during World War II”
Mentor: Alice Yang, Associate Professor of History
2013-2014 Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows Posters
2012–2013
Rachel Bodin, Language Studies
“The Use of Conditionals in Online Forums”
Mentor: Pranav Anand, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Scarlett Clothier-Goldschmidt, Linguistics
“Person-Animacy Constraints in Chamorro”
Mentor: Matthew Wagers, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Taylor Feld, History
“Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe & Interpretations of History”
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Laura Gilmore, Linguistics
“Objectless Gerunds in English”
Mentor: Sandra Chung, Professor of Linguistics
Emma Peoples, Linguistics
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“Italian Clitics”
Mentor: Jorge Hankamer, Professor of Linguistics
Nicholas Primrose, Linguistics
“Distribution of Numerals and Quantifiers in Japanese”
Mentor: Jorge Hankamer, Professor of Linguistics
Lois Rosson, History
“Oral History in the Digital Age”
Mentor: Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History
Rebecca Royston, History
“A gendered analysis of 17th and 18th century captivity narratives”
Mentor: Gregory O’Malley, Assistant Professor of History
Maya Wagoner, American Studies
“(Il)legible Sustainabilities”
Mentor: Miriam Greenberg, Associate Professor of Sociology
Lauren Young, History
“Scottish History in the Writing of Daiches”
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
2012-2013 Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows Posters
2011–2012
Nicholas Gancedo, Philosophy
“Conceptual Foundations of Intervention Ecology: Towards a New Environmental Worldview”
Mentor: Rasmus Winther, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Jose Guerrero, Literature/Creative Writing
“‘I Once Was Lost’: The (Found) Poetics of Salvaging and Recycling (Capitalism)”
Mentor: Gary Young, Lecturer in Literature
Michael Hinojosa, History
“ROUTES – Design Group”
Mentor, Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History
Ruebi Jimenez, Anthropology/Ethnography
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“Technology and Storytelling in the Life of Celia Fritz”
Mentor: Donald Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology
Shawna Mattison, Linguistics
“New Methodologies in Psycholinguistics Research”
Mentor: Matthew Wagers, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Matilda Morrison, Linguistics
“A Dummy in German”
Mentor: Jorge Hankamer, Professor of Linguistics
Nataliya Munishkina, Linguistics
“Interaction Across Grammatical Categories: Verbs and Prepositions”
Mentor: Donka Farkas, Professor of Linguistics
Cory Schiff, History
“The House of La Mirada: Uncovering A New Perspective on the Early History of California”
Mentor: Mark Traugott, Professor of History
Jason Truchon, Philosophy
“What is Called Questioning?”
Mentor: Abraham Stone, Associate Professor of Philosophy
2010–2011
Caroline Andrews, Linguistics
“The Language of Experiments”
Mentor: Pranav Anand, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Ai Baba, History
* Schorr Scholar
“Post-War Japanese History Textbooks and the American Occupation of Japan”
Mentor: Minghui Hu, Assistant Professor of History
Rhiannon Benson, History
“African American Education”
Mentor: Catherine Jones, Assistant Professor of History
Joshua Brett, History
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Winner
“Building the Heavenly State: The Taiping Construction of Moral, Social, and Political Order”
Mentor: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History
Nathan Brown, History
“By the Rivers of Babylon”
Mentor: Gildas Hamel, Lecturer in History
Samuel Corbin, Linguistics
“Syntactic Priming in Comprehension”
Mentor: Matthew Wagers, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Catherine Damon, History
“Understanding the Ancient Egyptians’ Origin of Time with the Help of Modern Physics”
Mentor: Gildas Hamel, Lecturer in History
Gemma Givens, American Studies
“International Mayan Indian Adoption Oral Narratives”
Mentor: Amy Lonetree, Assistant Professor of American Studies
Devin Tankersley, Linguistics
“Sentence-Level Intonation in Shanghainese”
Mentor: Grant McGuire, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Brandy Wright, Feminist Studies
“Child Welfare: Targeting Youth of Color and the Re-fashioning of the Neoliberal Family”
Mentor: Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies
2009–2010
Rachael Berry, History
“Publicity and Media in the Gaza War”
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Nitza Bernard, Jewish Women’s Studies
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Winner
“Women Rabbis in America”
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Derek Davis, History
“Decisions in the Haitian Revolution”
Mentor: Gregory O’Malley, Assistant Professor in History
Benjamin Gabriel, Literature
“Hello Kitty Everything”
Mentor: Karen Yamashita, Professor of Literature
Miles Hatfield, Philosophy
“Articulated Crying: Sensation-words and Grammar”
Mentor: Jonathan Ellis, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Steven Roy, History
“Ottoman Power Projection and the Sixteenth-Century World War”
Mentor: Edmund Burke, III, Professor in History
Amanda Smith, Feminist Studies
* Schorr Scholar
“Now Queer Cinema: Fantasies and Nightmares”
Mentor: Neda Atanasoski, Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies
Erica Terrell, American Studies
“The Politics of Rebuilding Public Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans”
Mentor: Eric Porter, Professor of American Studies
Cynthia Thickpenny, History
“Resurrecting the Picts”
Mentor: Cynthia Polecritti, Associate Professor of History
2008–2009
Jacob Cribbs, Literature/Creative Writing
“The Atomist’s Tallow”
Mentor: Gary Young, Lecturer in Literature
Shaun Duke, Literature
“Otherism: The Dissection of Humanity and the Human in Science Fiction Film”
Mentor: Catherine Ramírez, Associate Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies
Nathan Hinchey, Linguistics
“A Phonological Analysis of Loan Words in German”
Mentor: Armin Mester, Professor of Linguistics
Erika Layman, Politics/Philosophy
“Leaving Behind the Human-Nature Divide”
Mentors: Robert Meister, Professor of Social Sciences and Political Thought; and Rasmus Winther, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Nathaniel Moya, Philosophy
“Stasis, Contingency, and Flux: The Ambiguity of Nature”
Mentor: Rasmus Winther, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
James Ong, History
“The Forgotten Holocaust and the Effects of War Memory”
Mentor: Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History
Scott Reed, Feminist Studies
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Winner
“Is Africa “In Beta”?: Northwestern Nigerian Reproductive Health Advocacy Workers and Silicon Valley Solutions”
Mentor: Megan Moodie, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Jennifer Sawyer, Linguistics
“Creation of a General Germanic Grammar for the Regulus Grammar Compiler”
Mentor: Beth Ann Hockey, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Monica Sedlock, History
“Ran’awe Buraido: Japanese Picture Brides, Their Husbands and Lovers, and Sexuality in the Progressive Era”
Mentor: Alice Yang, Associate Professor of History
2007-2008
James Barton, Sociology/Philosophy
“Wrongful Acquittais: Miscarriage of Justice in Potentially Capital, Lynching Cases”
Mentor: Hiroshi Fukurai
Thomas Luke Gadd, Philosophy
“Philosophy and the Empiricist Stance”
Mentor:Ric Otte
Brian Ballard, Philosophy
“Materialsim and Epistemic Self-Defeat”
Mentor: Ric Otte
Clearblue Jackson, Greek and Latin Literature
“Thrown Off Mount Olympus: Disabilities in Ancient Greece”
Mentor: Mary-Kay Gamel
Dale Megan Healey, Literature/Creative Writing
“Hold My Hand Hard: A Story of Family and Loss”
Mentor: Micah Perks
Ryan Farrell, History
“The Spirit of the Unknown Scout: Exploring Memories of the Second World War and American-Japanese Relations in a Multilateral World”
Mentor: Alan Christy
Talia Coutin
“Women and the Zionist Utopia: Representations of Women in Zionist Poster Art, 1930-1960”
Mentor: Bruce Thompson
Sina Grace, Creative Writing
“Cedric Hollows in… MAISON du MURDER!”
Mentor: Karen Yamashita
Maro Youssef, History
“Contemporary Feminist Movements in Egypt”
Mentor: Edmund Burke
Lia Winfield, History
“The Regulators in the Colonial Carolinas, 1766-1771”
Mentor: Marilyn Westerkamp
Kelly McCormick, History
“Japanese Amrican and Arab-American Coalition Against Racism in Post-9/11 America”
Mentor: Alice Yang Murray
Sarabeth Bavin, American Studies
“Assessment of Child Abuse Prevention Practices in Santa Cruz County”
Mentor: Yvette Huginnie
Jocelyn Kadas, History/Anthropology
“Re-Imagining the Nation and Gender”
Mentor: Dilip Basu
Cameron Taylor, Linguistics/Italian Studies
“The Morphosyntax of the Clitic ci in Italian”
Mentor: Jorge Hankramer
Alexandra Mufson, Feminist Studies
“The Reconstruction of Yellowstone National Park as Her-story”
Mentor: Michelle Erai
Jessica Branch, History
“The Role of the Media in the Conflict in Northern Ireland”
Mentor: Bruce Thompson
Jon Cho-Polizzi, European History/German Literature
“A Post-Colonial Reading of German Epic”
Mentor: Loisa Nygaard/Cynthia Polecritti
2006–2007
Dmitry Trakovsky, History of Art and Visual Culture
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky”
Mentor: Catherine Soussloff, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Peter Wagreich, Linguistics
“On The Scope of Descriptive Content”
Mentor: Donka Farkas, Professor of Linguistics
Beverly Parker, American Studies
“Retention: The Effects of Africanisms on the Diaspora in the Americas”
Mentor: Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor of Community Studies
Maureen Loomis, History
“From St. Anthony to Simon Kimbangu: Religion and Resistance in the Kongo Kingdom 1704-1921”
Mentor: David Anthony, Associate Professor of American Studies
Jonathan Aaron Cho-Polizzi, European History/English Langage Literature (German Focus)
“On Pagan Elements in Germanic Folklore, and the Enduring Märchen Tradition”
Mentor: Loisa Nygaard, Associate Professor of Literature
Emily Heller, History of Art and Visual Culture
“Seeing Mobutu: Visual Literacy in Post Colonial Congolese Identity”
Mentor: Elisabeth Cameron, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Irene Monica Sanchez, Sociology/LALS
“Mexico Social Movements within a historical context using historicity as it applies to today’s social movements”
Mentor: John Borrego, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
Dana M. Linda, Modern Literature/Feminist Studies
“Behind the Mask: Reading the Jewish Experience into the Myth of Venice”
Mentor: Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature
2005–2006
Heather Paul, History/Literature
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“Propaganda, the Public, and an American Identity”
Mentor: Marilyn Westerkamp, Professor of History
John Sousa, Literature
“Tiny: an Alzheimer’s Memoir”
Mentor: Karen Tei Yamashita, Professor of Literature
Thea Bosselmann, History of Art and Visual Culture/Studio Art
“The Maya, The Tourist and the Ecologist: Issues of Sustainability in Belize and Guatemala”
Mentor: Elisabeth Cameron, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Eric Metz, American Studies
“The Intersectionality of Race, Place, and Space in Los Angeles”
Mentor: A. Yvette Huginnie, Assistant Professor of American Studies
Jodi Waynberg, History of Art and Visual Culture
“Judgment’s Consumption: A Study of a Viewer’s Ineraction with a Work of Art”
Mentor: Catherine Soussloff, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
2004–2005
Cody Wofsy, Philosophy
“A New Libertarianism”
Mentor: Daniel Guevara, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Zoe Tobier, Literature
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“Ethical Gray Zones and Cultural Representations of Mobility”
Mentor: Jody Greene, Associate Professor of Literature
Stacy Hartman, Literature/Women’s Studies
“Blut, Tränen, und Heimweh: Women and Violence in the Writing of Saliha Scheinhardt”
Mentor: Loisa Nygaard, Associate Professor of Literature
Nicholas Jon Reynolds, Linguistics
“Aspect and Statives in the Past Tenses of Spanish”
Mentor: Donka Farkas, Professor of Linguistics
Mozelle Foreman, Norma Klahn
“Constructing a Feminist Poetic in Contemporary Chile”
Mentor: Norma Klahn, Associate Professor of Literature
Heather Paul, Creative Writing/US History
“Literature of the American Revolution”
Mentor: Marilyn Westerkamp, Professor of History
Laura Ann Landriau, French & Francophone Studies/French Literature
“An Extensive Study of the Re-Making of Paris by Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann n the 19th Century”
Mentor: Miriam Ellis, Lecturer in French
Derek Leben, Philosophy/History of Art & Visual Culture
“The Representation of Comedy in Modern Contexts”
Mentor: Geza Kallay, Professor of English
Tara Manna, British Literature
“Authority in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and ‘The Rover'”
Mentor: Jody Greene, Associate Professor of Literature
Tory Francisco, Sociology/English Literature
“Policy Analysis of California’s Ability to Address the Mental Health Needs of Returning Operation Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom Veterans”
Mentor: Gary Dvmski, Professor, Department of Economics
2003–2004
Carrie Seidler, Literature/Creative Writing
“Saturation”
Mentor: Micah Perks, Associate Professor of Literature
Frederick Dreier, History
“Researching the British Fascists: the Counterintelligence Agency’s Primary Documents”
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Cole Akers, Literature
“Contemporary Classical Studies”
Mentor: Mary-Kay Gamel, Professor of Literature
Cody Wofsy, Philosophy
“The Rational and The Right: The Role of Decision Theory in Value Theory”
Mentor: Richard Otte, Professor of Philosophy
Max Krochmal, Community Studies
“Sculpting Transnational Unionism: Building a Democratic Labor Movement in Ecuador’s Banana Fields”
Mentor: Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor of Community Studies
Martin Smith, History
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“The Soldiers’ Rebellion in Vietnam: Race, Class, and Resistance”
Mentor: Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor of Community Studies
William S. Arighi, American Literature
“TRASHTHETIC: ‘Camp’ and the Politics of Representation of a Sub-Culture of the United States”
Mentor: Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor of Literature
Benjamin M. Pietrenka, History/Politics
Mentor: Marilyn Westerkamp, Professor of History
Evynn Testa-Avila, Classical Studies/Linguistics
“Meter and Syntax in the Alcaic Odes of Horace”
Mentor: Sandy Chung, Professor of Linguistics
Alexa Goldstrom, Language Studies
“A Chachapoya History”
Mentor: Judith Aissen, Research Professor of Linguistics
Bonnie Bernard, Anthropology/Genocide Studies
“Documentation of Lithic Outcrops”
Mentor: Christophe Delage
Fiona Carlone, Women’s Studies
“Eklectic Realism: Subtle? Subversions -Installations in Creative Destruction-”
Mentor: Gina Dent, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
Morgan Jones, Philosophy/Linguistics
“Is Externalism about Meaning Compatible with I-Language?”
Mentor: Jonathan Ellis, Professor of Philosophy
Matthew James Borkenhagen, Linguistics/Literature
“Bringing Modern Linguistics to the High School Classroom”
Mentor: Sandy Chung, Professor of Linguistics
Jason File, Literature/Creative Writing
“I am Trying”
Mentor: Karen Yamashita, Professor of Literature
Maia Ipp, Literature
Mentor: Richard Terdiman, Professor of Literature
Marisa Louie, American Studies
“Moving Beyond Gold Mountain: Historical Memory and Practices in Chinese American Museums in New York City and San Francisco”
Mentor: Judy Yung, Professor of American Studies
Patrick Ohslund, Philosophy
“Technology and the Moral Image”
Mentor: Ellen Suckiel, Professor of Philosophy
Joshua Pollock, History
“Consignment of Identity: The Assyrian Question in Western Discourse”
Mentor: Dilip Basu, Professor of History
Sasha Santee, Psych/French Independent Studies
Mentor: Richard Terdiman, Professor of Literature
Eric Terao, Japanese Language/Global Economics
“Contemporary Utilization of the Japanese World-Final Glottal Stop in Japanese”
Mentor: Junko Ito, Professor of Linguistics
Bridget Gapp, History
Mentor: Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature
Erin Gardner, Pre/Early Modern Literature
“Lessons for an Expanding World in the Ancient Greek Novel”
Mentor: Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature
Michael Johnson, Literature (modern)
“Aesthetics and Politics: Selected Writings of Jacques Rancière”
Mentor: Chris Connery, Professor of Literature
2002–2003
Elias L. Quinn, Philosophy
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Mentor: Ric Otte, Professor of Philosophy
Mufaddal Taher Hotelwala, American Studies
“Indian Temporary Skilled Workers in the US High Tech Industry”
Mentor: Judy Yung, Professor of American Studies
Alex Jones, Philosophy
“In the Name of Addition, Subtraction, and the Holy Integral”
Mentor: Robert Goff, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Rebekah Werth, Literature
“Land of a Million Smiles: A Collection of Short Stories and Memoir Pieces Set in Arkansas”
Mentor: Karen Yamashita, Professor of Literature
Nataly (Naya) Lekht, Intensive Literature
Mentor: Bill Nickell, Lecturer of Literature
A. Linnea Wik, Latin American & Latino Studies
Mentor: Rosa Linda Fregoso, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
Andrea Medina-Smith, History
“Struggling in La Colmena: A Critical Evaluation of the Posguerra Era in Franco’s Spain”
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
2001–2002
Lisa M. Richter, Modern Literature
“Portrait and Parody within Cold Comfort Farm; Examining the Changing English Countryside”
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Brenda Wiser, Intensive Literature (modern & german)
“Spectacle, Spectatorship and the Spectacular”
Mentor: Loisa Nygaard, Associate Professor of Literature
Jessie Berg, Art/Women’s Studies
“Retelling”
Mentor: Sheila Crane, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
Anna M. Guiffre, American Studies
“Bernard DeVoto: Western Maverick”
Mentor: Forrest Robinson, Professor of American Studies
Clifford Webb, Linguistics
“Unlike Coordination in Italian and English”
Sandra Chung, Professor of Linguistics
Aron Ford, Film & Digital Media/Critical & Visual Theory
“Processes of Fantasy and Identification n the Work of Roland Barthes”
Mentor: Carla Freccero, Professor of Literature
Kristin Lee, Literature/Journalism
“Examining Effective Resistance”
Mentor: Marsha Hudson, Professor of Literature
*No Melkonian award given this year
2000–2001
Micah Myers, Classics
“The Aged Hero: The Character, Meaning and Problem of Laertes in Homer”
Mentor: John Lynch, Professor of Literature
Jonah K. Cohen, Politics
“Anti-discrimination law and its protection of racial groups in the United States and Brazil, a Legal Analysis”
Mentor: Robert Meister, Professor of Social Sciences and Political Thought
Matthew Wiegard, Cultural Anthropology
“Aikido and the Construction of Japanese Identities”
Mentor: Susan Harding, Professor of Anthropology
Jordan Rose, Art History
“Antiquity in the Age of Enlightenment: The Influence of Herculaneum and Pompeii in the Development of Neoclassical Art and Aesthetics”
Mentor: Donna Hunter, Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
Sarah Simons, Language Studies
“The Cinema of Julio Madem”
Mentor: Paco Ramirez, Lecturer in Humanities
“Creek” Lia Hull, American Studies/Environmental Studies
“View from the Hogan: Black Mesa Sovereign Radio”
Mentor: Ann Lane, Professor of History
J. Denise Diskin, Women’s Studies
“Negotiations of Citizenship: Reproductive Rights and Fetal Protection”
Mentor: Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Women’s Studies
Chris Gott, History
“Moving History”
Mentor: Bruce Levine, Professor of History
Diane Fisher, American Studies
“Dancing Souls: An exploration of the Empowering Aspects of Dance on Southern Slave Plantations”
Mentor: Dana Frank, Professor of History
Stefano Bloch, Literature
* Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
“Civic Spots”
Mentor: Christopher Connery, Professor of Literature
Mana Hayakawa, American Studies
“Justice for All? A Discussion of Marginalized Communities and Inclusion in the Classroom”
Mentor: Ann Lane, Professor of History
Arsineh Vartanian, Women’s Studies/American Studies
“The Invisible Hillbilly”
Mentor: Dana Frank, Professor of History
Marina Sarran, Intercultutal Communication
“American Dating Patterns: Love and Loving in Cross-Cultural Perspectives”
Mentor: Giulia Centineo, Lecturer in Italian
Phron McElroy, American Studies/Legal Studies
“Black Masculinities Explored: Education, Role Model Selection and Male/Female Relationships”
Mentor: Lionel Cantu, Professor of Sociology