Research Fellows Program

THI Research Fellowships support faculty and students with all aspects of their scholarly work from generating new ideas to visiting archives to presenting findings in publications and other forums.

We directly fund the work of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students through a range of fellowship opportunities. Faculty receive course releases and stipends that enable them to pursue new projects or publish their work as articles or a book. Students receive yearlong or summer THI fellowships that allow them to engage in intensive research, including traveling for fieldwork and writing chapters of their dissertation.

Alongside our own grants, we help faculty and graduate students apply for extramural funding. Our Research Clusters provide seed funding for projects to become much larger initiatives that receive financial support from the largest foundations in the world. We work with faculty and students one-on-one to develop their projects for competitive national and international grants. We review proposals and our Committee on Graduate Student Grant Writing provides graduate students with timely feedback on their application materials.

When scholars become THI fellows, we help them present their work to academic audiences and the broader public, including as talks at colloquiums and research posters at symposiums. All THI fellows are invited to participate in a profile that is published on our website and in our weekly newsletter.

Through our Research Fellowship program, scholars gain much needed time, funding, and support to pursue and share their groundbreaking scholarship.

From left to right, THI Graduate Fellow Aaron Aruck at the GLBT Historical Society archives, Angie Sijun Lou presenting at the Graduate Research Symposium, and Assistant Professor of History Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez conducting research for Watsonville is in the Heart.

See a full list of THI Fellows here and read about their research in our profiles and news stories.

Current opportunities:

Faculty Research Fellowships
Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowships
Graduate Summer Dissertation Fellowships
Graduate Summer Research Fellowships
Graduate Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellowship
Graduate Summer Pathways Fellowships
Undergraduate Research Fellowships
Undergraduate Experiential Learning Opportunities in Research (EXPLORE) Fellowships
(more information here)

 

Go to our Faculty Support page, Graduate Support page, and Undergraduate Support page to learn more about the fellowships and resources we provide to scholars at different stages of their research.

Announcements:

Congratulations to THI’s 2024-2025 Fellows

THI Announces 2023-2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows

 

Faculty Research Fellows:

Muriam Davis (History)

E. Hande Tuna (Philosophy)

Jennifer Lynn Kelly (Feminist Studies Department and CRES)

Madhavi Murty (Feminist Studies Department)

Alice Yang (History)

 

Graduate Research Fellows:

Jonathan van Harmelen, Fellows Report (History)

Elliot Richardson (History)

Christina (Mengying) Wang (History)

Mark Howard (Politics)

Pablo Escudero Vasconez (History of Consciousness)

Michael McCarrin (History of Consciousness)

Caitlin Flaws (Literature)

Leonard Butingan (History)

Joe Alicea (Literature)

Rebecca Gross (Literature)

Michael McCarrin (History of Consciousness)

Adriane Stoia (History)

Pablo Escudero Vasconez (History of Consciousness)

Amanda Huse (History)

Aaron Aruck (History)

Daniel Butler (History of Consciousness)

David Duncan, Sausalito Marin City School District (History)

Ben Eischens, Pacific Collegiate School (Linguistics)

Jess Fournier, Critical Resistance (Feminist Studies)

Morgan Gates, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (Literature)

Kaiya Gordon, GLBT Historical Society (Feminist Studies)

Kendall Grady, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Literature)

Andrew Hedding, Senderos (Linguistics)

Trey Highton, Save the Waves Coalition (Literature)

Noya Kansky, Heart Mountain Interpretive Center (Feminist Studies)

Amani Liggett, Santa Cruz Shakespeare (Literature)

Kelsey McFaul, Center for the Art of Translation (Literature)

Thaïs Miller, Jewish Film Institute (Literature)

Gabriel Mindel, Indexical (History of Consciousness)

Anny Mogollón, California Domestic Workers Coalition (Literature)

Melody Nixon, The Humanities Institute (History of Consciousness)

Nathan Osorio, UC Press (Literature)

Em Padilla, Transgender Law Center (Feminist Studies)

Radhika Prasad, Center for the Art of Translation (Literature)

Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez, UC Press (Literature)

Kelsey Sasaki, Senderos (Linguistics)

Meleia Simon-Reynolds, Watsonville is in the Heart (History)

Eric Sneathen, GLBT Historical Society (Literature)

Emily Travis, Prison Journalism Project (Literature)

Vivian Underhill (Feminist Studies)

Jonathan Van Harmelen (History)

Kirstin Wagner (Literature)

Wyatt Young (History)

 

Undergraduate Research Fellows:

Molly Maher (History and Psychology)

Cal Boye-Lynn (Linguistics)

Theresa Bostic (History)

Elina Juvonen (History and Anthropology)

Dylan Reinders (Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism)

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