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 450 scholars.
See our current and past cohorts, and explore funding opportunities.

Faculty Awards

 
Faculty Fellow

Juned Noor Shaikh

2024-25

Project: “Gangadhar Adhikari and South Asia: An Alternative History of the Twentieth Century”

Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2024-25

Christian  Ruvalcaba

2024-25

Project: “The Lost Vocabulary: Recovering and Analyzing an Elusive Manuscript of the Tegüima Language”

Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2024-25

Graduate Student Awards

 
Barber Fellow

Katie  O’Hare

Literature

2024-25

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Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow

Md  Mizanur Rahman

Politics

2024-25

Project: “Politics beyond the State: The Birth of an Ethical Politics in Anticolonial Muslim Thought”

 
Public Fellow

Arielle Burgdorf

Literature

2024-25

Project: “The Center for the Art of Translation”

Breanna Byrd

Feminist Studies

2024-25

Project: “Warren County Environmental Action Team”

Matthew Kogan

Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Indexical”

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Maria Pachon

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Pollen Initiative”

Somreeta Paul

Philosophy

2024-25

Project: “PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization)”

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Brian  Rivera Hernandez

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA)”

Marina Segatti

Feminist Studies

2024-25

Project: “Acervo Bajubá”

 
Summer Dissertation Fellow

Lalitha Balachandran

Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Linguistic Contexts in Memory”

Maya Wax  Cavallaro

Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “The phonetics and phonology of domain-final sonorant consonant devoicing”

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Man Ning  Chan

History

2024-25

Project: “Music, Tradition, and Politics: A History of Qin-zither in Early Modern China”

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Amanda Huse

History

2024-25

Project: “"She was afraid I would tell it": Women and Ku-Klux Violence in Reconstruction Georgia”

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Robin Jones

History of Consciousness

2024-25

Project: “Dissident communism: Trajectories of the independent left in postcolonial Syria”

Alexyss  McClellan-Ufugusuku

History

2024-25

Project: “Shima-centric: Political Indeterminacy of the Ryukyu Islands and the creation of the United States’s archipelagic empire, 1943- present”

Anny Mogollon

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Seizing the Means of Production: Multigenerational Testimonios and Domestic Worker Self-Representations in an Age of Neoliberalism”

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Monica Multer

Literature

2024-25

Project: “"Repairing the Ruin": The Didacticism of Embodied Passion in John Milton and Paradise Lost”

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Justine Parkin

History of Consciousness

2024-25

Project: “Oceanic Coordinations: Decolonial Ecologies in the Indigenous Pacific”

 
Summer Pathways Fellow

Darien Acero

History of Consciousness

2024-25

Project: “Right Under Their Noses: Sovereignty, Surveillance, and Subversion in 18th Century Cuban Maroon Communities”

Paulina Cardenas

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Boundless Utopianism: Julia Alvarez’s A Cafecito Story as Foundation for Worlding”

Lilith Frakes

History of Consciousness

2024-25

Project: “Hybrid Apes and Conservation in the Anthropocene”

Ania Mah Gricuk

History

2024-25

Project: “The Crossroads of Diaspora, Medicine, and Commerce: A Transnational Story of Cooling Herbal Tea”

Quyen Pham

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Unsettling the Book: Dictee and Disorientated Performances”

 
Summer Research Fellow

Leonard Butingan

History

2024-25

Project: “Spectres of Empire: Black British Activism and Cultural Politics in Neocolonial Britain 1976-2000”

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Stefania Cotei

History of Consciousness

2024-25

Project: “Unarchiving Memory”

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Anna Egorova

History of Consciousness

2024-25

Project: “Muslim Communism Archive”

Maxwell Kaplan

Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Crosslinguistic comparison of phonotactic repair”

Melissa Mack

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Literature of Marked and Unmarked Sites of Death and Memory”

Kristen Nelson

Literature

2024-25

Project: “The Witches of Benevento”

Elliot Richardson

History

2024-25

Project: “Expanding the Field of Trans History: Trans Networks of CareAcross the US-Mexico Border”

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Anthony Soliman

History

2024-25

Project: “Creating a Black Pacific: Black Internationalism and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century California”

Kristine  Swarts-Zanin

History

2024-25

Project: “Conflict and Coexistence within Jerusalem: The Jordanian Interpretations of the Status Quo”

 
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

 
EXCEL Fellow

Isa Anderson

2024-25

Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”

Max Ari'i

Anthropology/Literature

2024-25

Project: “Museum of Natural History”

Liliana Barajas

Anthropology/Literature

2024-25

Project: “Open Campus”

Maury Burnett-Cavoto

Philosophy

2024-25

Project: “KSQD Community Radio”

Leo Colletta

History

2024-25

Project: “Museum of Art & History (MAH)”

Isabel Cordova

Literature/Psychology

2024-25

Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”

Jake Davison

History

2024-25

Project: “San Lorenzo Valley Museum”

Arabella Edler

History of Art and Visual Culture/Literature

2024-25

Project: “Santa Cruz Poetry Project”

Bronwyn Eyre

History/Spanish Studies

2024-25

Project: “Museum of Art & History (MAH)”

Paulina Garcia

Feminist Studies/Politics

2024-25

Project: “The Hive Poetry Collective”

Gabby Goss

Film & Digital Media

2024-25

Project: “United Way”

Janelle Harvey

Literature

2024-25

Project: “United Way”

Esmeralda Hurtado

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

2024-25

Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”

Kyle Johnson

Anthropology/Literature

2024-25

Project: “Your Future Is Our Business”

Gurleen Kaur

Molecular Cell and Development Biology

2024-25

Project: “The Sikh Foundation”

Ava Macdonald

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Community Foundation”

Alanah Martinez

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Feminist Studies

2024-25

Project: “United Way”

Madeline Maurer

Environmental Studies/Literature

2024-25

Project: “Foolscap Press”

Kash Mejia

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

2024-25

Project: “Black Surf Santa Cruz”

Mayah Moore

Psychology

2024-25

Project: “Democratic Women's Club”

Emily Moua

2024-25

Project: “Your Future Is Our Business”

Lesly Nicasio

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

2024-25

Project: “Boys & Girls Club Santa Cruz Co.”

Mars (Makayla) Nored

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

2024-25

Project: “Santa Cruz Poetry Project”

Eva Overton

History

2024-25

Project: “San Lorenzo Valley Museum”

Jamie Penilla

History

2024-25

Project: “WILDR Santa Cruz”

Jadyn Polk

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

2024-25

Project: “Save Our Shores”

Serena Ramirez

2024-25

Project: “Santa Cruz Works”

Riley Ramos

Psychology/Literature

2024-25

Project: “Second Harvest Food Bank”

Mac Rogers

History of Art and Visual Culture

2024-25

Project: “Santa Cruz Youth Poet Laureate Program”

Tara Roshan

Cognitive Science

2024-25

Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”

Fatima Sanchez

Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music”

Eetai Schwartz

History/Philosophy

2024-25

Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”

Haley Shuford

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Leadership Santa Cruz”

Morgan Woodley

History of Art and Visual Culture

2024-25

Project: “Museum of Art & History (MAH)”

Heather Yee

Global and Community Health

2024-25

Project: “Seymour Marine Discovery Center”

 
EXPLORE Fellow

Chloe Allen

Psychology

2024-25

Project: “AI & Human Imagination”

Beckett Atkinson

History/Philosophy

2024-25

Project: “Mapping the offering of courses in African History through the UC system: what is Africa's place in History curricula?”

Aivan Bach

Anthropology/Environmental Sciences

2024-25

Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”

Emma Bavera

2024-25

Project: “Shakespeare Workshop”

Dani Dayao

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/History of Art and Visual Culture

2024-25

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”

Julie Fintamag

History

2024-25

Project: “Visual Constructions of the Pajaro and Salinas Valleys & Watsonville is in the Heart”

Jamie Florence Dy

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

2024-25

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”

Eleanor Garrison

Applied Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”

Jade Glentzer

Anthropology/History

2024-25

Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”

Dagny Hatch

History

2024-25

Project: “Multimodal AI as a Tool to Augment Historical Research”

Killian Kiuttu

Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Syllable Structure in Dialects of English”

Gigi Lea

Applied Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Corpus of Paraguayans in Spain”

James Leyton

History

2024-25

Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative ”

Nora Ligotti

Applied Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Corpus of Paraguayans in Spain”

Crystal Hicks Marin

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

2024-25

Project: “Visual Constructions of the Pajaro and Salinas Valleys”

Monnika Mattson

Psychology

2024-25

Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”

Abiagael Mcnelis

2024-25

Project: “The Literary Bridge: Linking Skills and Careers”

Chimera Mohammadi

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Creative Writing - What Happened Next?”

Alia Moore

History/Politics

2024-25

Project: “Multimodal AI as a Tool to Augment Historical Research”

Grace Nighswonger

Cognitive Science/Literature

2024-25

Project: “Discourse Analysis”

Isabella Nordstrom

Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Ultrasound/Acoustic Analysis”

Clare O'Brien

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Creative Writing - What Happened Next?”

Marissa Omaque

Anthropology

2024-25

Project: “AI & Human Imagination”

Joscelyn Osorio

2024-25

Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”

Jamie Penilla

History

2024-25

Project: “Multimodal AI as a Tool to Augment Historical Research”

Janeth Pérez Quirke

Education/Latin American and Latino Studies

2024-25

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”

Adam Ross

Global and Community Health/History

2024-25

Project: “Mapping the offering of courses in African History through the UC system: what is Africa's place in History curricula?”

Geneva Samuelson

History

2024-25

Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative ”

Ben Sommer

Sociology/Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Syllable Structure in Dialects of English”

Ethan Strom

History

2024-25

Project: “Mapping the offering of courses in African History through the UC system: what is Africa's place in History curricula?”

Court Sugano

Global and Community Health

2024-25

Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”

Skyla Tomine

Feminist Studies/Politics

2024-25

Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”

Dacia van Wormer

Cognitive Science

2024-25

Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”

Cassandra Ponce Ventura

Spanish Studies/Latin American and Latino Studies

2024-25

Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”

Caroline Wilson

Art

2024-25

Project: “AI & Human Imagination”

 
Undergraduate Public Fellow

Thomas Balmat

Literature/Anthropology

2023-24

Project: “The American Prospect ”

Liliana Barajas

Literature/Anthropology

2023-24

Project: “Open Campus”

Ian Doyle

History

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Coury Jones

History

2023-24

Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art”

Ruby Jung

Literature

2023-24

Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”

Maia Michelle Mislang

History

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

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Janeth Pérez-Quirke

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Jacob  Press

History

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Serena Ramirez

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Psychology

2023-24

Project: “Community Foundation”

Sharan Sethi

Literature/Philosophy

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Eetai Shwartz

History/Philosophy

2023-24

Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”

Sebastian Zamora

History

2023-24

Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art”

 
Undergraduate Research Fellow

John Boye-Lynn

Linguistics

2023-24

Project: “Investigating Visual Information as a Constraint on Sound Change”

Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize

Ian Chesluk-Staats

Literature

2023-24

Project: “What’s a Girl to Do? Successful Womanhood in the World of Jane Austen”

Brock Hrehor

Literature/History of Consciousness

2023-24

Project: “Multicultural Media: Supporting Cultural Pluralism and Fostering Global Awareness through International Radio”

Ivan Jimenez

History/Literature

2023-24

Project: “L'art Pour la Guerre: The Museo del Prado's Cultural Power in the Spanish Civil War”

Molly Maher

History/Psychology

2023-24

Project: “The Legacy of the Om Commune in Ben Lomond”

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Caroline Mcdonald

Philosophy/Literature

2023-24

Project: “Examination of the Ethics of Digital Pornography”

Ariattne Zarate Leon

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Legal Studies

2023-24

Project: “Critique of Global Migration Management ”

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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Gabriel Evans  Cayley

Feminist Studies

Public Fellow

2023-24

Project: “Tamarack Free Library”

Level: Graduate

Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023

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: Current

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

Chloe Allen

Psychology

EXPLORE Fellow

2024-25

Project: “AI & Human Imagination”

Level: Current

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

EXCEL Fellow

2024-25

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

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

EXCEL Fellow

2024-25

Project: “Museum of Natural History”

Level: Current

Level: Undergraduate

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

Anjali Arondekar

Feminist Studies

Faculty Fellow

2004-05

Project: “Perverse Subjects: Sexuality, Governance and the Colonial Archive”

Level: Faculty

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

EXPLORE Fellow

2024-25

Project: “Mapping the offering of courses in African History through the UC system: what is Africa's place in History curricula?”

Level: Current

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

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

EXPLORE Fellow

2024-25

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: Current

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

EXCEL Fellow

2024-25

Project: “Open Campus”

Level: Current

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

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

EXPLORE Fellow

2024-25

Project: “Shakespeare Workshop”

Level: Current

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

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

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

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

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

John Bowin

Philosophy

Faculty Fellow

2006-07

Project: “The Philosophical Uses of the Concept Potentiality in Aristotle and his Commentators”

Level: Faculty

John Boye-Lynn

Linguistics

Undergraduate Research Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards

2023-24

Project: “Investigating Visual Information as a Constraint on Sound Change”

Level: Undergraduate

Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize

Axelle Boyer

History of Art and Visual Culture

SSRC-DPD Fellow

2019-20

Project: “Gungu la Mcezo: Performing Citizenship Through Anticolonial Resistance”

Level: Graduate

Mia Tempestt Boykin

Literature

Public Fellow

2021-22

Project: “TG/ENBY Project”

Level: Graduate

Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021

Mia Tempestt Boykin

Literature

Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow

2022-23

Level: Graduate

Jessica Branch

History

Undergraduate Research Fellow

2007-08

Project: “The Role of the Media in the Conflict in Northern Ireland”

Level: Undergraduate

Mentor: Bruce Thompson

Dennis Brand

Literature

Research and Travel Grant

2009-10

Level: Graduate

Adrian Brasoveanu

Linguistics

IHR Fellow

2010-11

Project: “Decomposing Natural Language Quantification”

Level: Faculty

Benjamin Breen

History

Faculty Fellow

2018-19

Project: “The Early Modern Drug Database: A Pilot Project”

Level: Faculty

Details: Digital Research Faculty Fellowship for 2018-19

Ben Breen

History

Faculty Awards
Faculty Fellow

2023-24

Project: “The Digital Archive of Psychedelic History”

Level: Faculty

Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowship for 2023-24

Joshua Brett

History

Undergraduate Research Fellow

2010-11

Project: “Building the Heavenly State: The Taiping Construction of Moral, Social, and Political Order”

Level: Undergraduate

Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Winner

Mentor: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History

Mykel Brinkerhoff

Linguistics

Summer Research Fellow

2021-22

Project: “Prosodic and Phonetic Considerations in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec”

Level: Graduate

Christopher Brooks

History

Research and Travel Grant

2009-10

Level: Graduate

Margaret Brose

Literature

Faculty Fellow

2004-05

Project: “The Body of Italy: Allegories of the Female Figure in Italian Lyric Poetry”

Level: Faculty

Jordan C. Brown

History

Undergraduate Research Fellow

2014-15

Project: “Rumored Fair Housing Act and California Proposition 14”

Level: Undergraduate

Mentor: David Brundage, Professor of History

Nathan Brown

History

Undergraduate Research Fellow

2010-11

Project: “By the Rivers of Babylon”

Level: Undergraduate

Mentor: Gildas Hamel, Lecturer in History

Christopher Brown

History

Undergraduate Research Fellow

1998-1999

Project: “United States Religionists Responses to American Imperialism in Cuba, the Philipines and the Dominican Republic from 1898-1920”

Level: Undergraduate

Mentor: Marilyn Westerkamp

Melissa Brzycki

History

Summer Research Fellow

2014-15

Project: “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1949–1976”

Level: Graduate

Melissa Brzycki

History

Summer Research Fellow

2015-16

Project: “Inventing the Socialist Child in China, 1945-1976”

Level: Graduate

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