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.
Faculty Awards
Faculty Fellow
Filippo Gianferrari,
Literature
2020-21
Project: “Training the Reader: Dante and the Rise of Vernacular Literacy”
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2020-21
Caitlin Keliiaa,
Feminist Studies
2021-22
Project: “Unsettling Domesticity: Native Women and 20th-Century U.S. Indian Policy in the San Francisco Bay Area”
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2021-22
Graduate Student Awards
Barber Fellow
Katie O'Hare,
Literature
2021-22
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow
Clara Bergamini,
History
2021-22
Details: 2021 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Jordan Dopkins,
Philosophy
2021-22
Details: 2021 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Donald Hickey,
History
2021-22
Details: 2021 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Katie Ligmond,
History of Art and Visual Culture
2021-22
Details: 2021 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Jinghong Zhang,
History
2021-22
Details: 2021 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Public Fellow
Conner Bassett,
Literature
2021-22
Project: “Stone Soup Magazine”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
Mia Tempestt Boykin,
Literature
2021-22
Project: “TG/ENBY Project”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
David Duncan,
History
2021-22
Project: “Sausalito Marin City School District”
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2021-2022
Jess Fournier,
Feminist Studies
2021-22
Project: “Critical Resistance”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
Morgan Gates,
Literature
2021-22
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History”
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2021-2022
Kaiya Gordon,
Feminist Studies
2021-22
Project: “GLBT Historical Society”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
Anny Mogollón,
Literature
2021-22
Project: “California Domestic Workers Coalition”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
Meleia Simon-Reynolds,
History
2021-22
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2021-2022
SSRC-DPD Fellow
Christina Ayson Plank,
History of Art and Visual Culture
2021-22
Project: “Counter-framing the Nation: Art and Visual Culture of the Filipino Labor Diaspora”
Bree Booth,
Latin American and Latino Studies
2021-22
Project: “Tracing Queerness Through the Atlantic”
Philip Conklin,
History of Consciousness
2021-22
Project: “Visionary Politics: Popular Religious Movements in the Colonial Philippines”
Ksenia Firsova,
Film & Digital Media
2021-22
Project: “Robocops and Prison Spaceships: Carceral Futurism in American Film and Television”
Ana Flecha,
Latin American and Latino Studies
2021-22
Project: “The Santo Daime Bailado as Racialized and Gendered Psychedelic Religious Choreography”
Michelaina Johnson,
Environmental Studies
2021-22
Project: “Towards Equitable Groundwater Governance: A Case Study of California’s Most Critically Overdrafted Coastal Basin”
Marilia Kaisar,
Film & Digital Media
2021-22
Project: “When Bodies and Algorithms Meet”
Alexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku,
History
2021-22
Project: “Unmari kara Shimanchu, itsui madei Bichidannu: Ryukyuan Indigeneity and its Implications for Geopolitical Protocol, 1945-2019”
Rowan Powell,
Politics
2021-22
Project: “Radical Land Reform and Real Estate at St George’s Hill: A Case Study In and Against Colonial Property”
Catherine Ries,
History of Art and Visual Culture
2021-22
Project: “Facets of the Feminine: Javanese Portraits of Women, Material Culture, and Islam”
Joshua Tan,
History
2021-22
Project: “Migrants and Missionaries: Chinese Diaspora, Religion, and the Cold War”
Jonathan van Harmelen,
History
2021-22
Project: “Legislating Injustice: Congress and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans”
Summer Dissertation Fellow
Aaron Aruck,
History
2021-22
Project: “Tracking Contagious Cases: The Anti-Venereal Campaign and the Construction of Sexual Categories in Northern Mexico, 1920-1965”
Adrian Drummond-Cole,
History of Consciousness
2021-22
Project: “Making Water Liquid: Information, Finance, and Flow in California’s Central Valley”
Andrew Hedding,
Linguistics
2021-22
Project: “Focus in the Narrow Syntax”
Michael McCarrin,
History of Consciousness
2021-22
Project: “Metaphysical Bias in Western Mathematics”
Kelsey McFaul,
Literature
2021-22
Project: “Landscapes of Words: The Novel in the Horn of Africa from 1908 to 2020”
Thaïs Miller,
Literature
2021-22
Project: “Vaudeville to GLOW: One Hundred Years of Jewish Humor, Women, and Trauma in Los Angeles”
Wilson Miu,
History
2021-22
Project: “Breaking Habits, Changing Customs: Marriage Law and Practice in South China, 1930-1980”
Nicholas Van Handel,
Linguistics
2021-22
Project: “The Sound of Silence: Investigations of Implicit Prosody”
Ka-eul Yoo,
Literature
2021-22
Project: “Cold War Disability: The Biopolitics of U.S. Military Empire in Post-1945 Asia”
Details: UC Society of Fellows Award
Summer Research Fellow
Mykel Brinkerhoff,
Linguistics
2021-22
Project: “Prosodic and Phonetic Considerations in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec”
Man Ning Chan,
History
2021-22
Project: “High and Low in Early Modern China: Using Qin (a seven-stringed musical instrument) as an Example”
Xindi Li,
History of Consciousness
2021-22
Project: “Machine Infrastructures: Testing Race and Resilience in Built Environment”
Madison McCartha,
Literature
2021-22
Project: “Researching the Artist Book as Art-Object”
Crystal Smith,
History
2021-22
Project: “Empire Incorporated: Media, Liberalism, and the Productization of the British Empire in Africa, 1885-1890”
Linda Ulbrich,
History
2021-22
Project: “"Yesterday Was a Difficult Day to Be Sister": Nursing and Trauma in the First World War”
Maya Wax Cavallaro,
Linguistics
2021-22
Project: “Stress, Tone, and Prosodic Structure in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec”
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
Courtney Kersten,
Literature
2021-22
Project: “The Madwoman of Cripple Creek: An Imagined Life of Linda Goodman”
Undergraduate Student Awards
Undergraduate Public Fellows
Yatziri Arias Torres,
Latin American and Latino Studies/Politics
2020-21
Project: “Language Education Developer, Senderos”
Mikayla Falk,
Literature
2020-21
Project: “Program Coordinator, Senderos”
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Brandon Castro,
Film & Digital Media
2020-21
Project: “Sancho & The School of Quetzalcoatl”
Lucy DaSilva,
Independent Study
2020-21
Project: “The Blacklist Revisited: Jewish Screenwriters' Memories of the McCarthy Era”
Logan Fitzsimons,
Psychology
2020-21
Project: “Queering the Cowboy”
Jonah Gertz,
Intensive History
2020-21
Project: “The Relationship Between SCAP, the Development of Narcotics Control Laws in Postwar Japan and the "Hiropon Age"”
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Maya Gonzalez,
Intensive History
2020-21
Project: “Remember Us: Holocaust Representation in European-Jewish Émigré Film, 1942-1945”
Sage Michaels,
Intensive History
2020-21
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative Project History Timeline”
Jacinto Salz,
Film & Digital Media
2020-21
Project: “BIRTHRIGHT - A Documentary”
Kelly Swenson,
Literature
2020-21
Project: “Fulfilling Prophecies: Towards An Alternate History of Emancipation”
Jessica Valdez Alvarez,
Literature/Spanish Studies
2020-21
Project: “Art as a Resource for Indigenous Communities during COVID-19”
Karely Valdez Lopez,
Spanish Studies
2020-21
Project: “Language and Identity: Heritage Spanish Speakers’ Sense of Identity and Use of Spanish in the U.S.”
Prizes
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
Aaron Samuel Mulenga,
History of Art and Visual Culture
2021-22
Project: “From the Ground Up! Ulubuto”
Details: 2021 Graduate Award Winner
Saul Villegas,
Art
2021-22
Project: “Deep-Sea Coral II”
Details: 2021 Undergraduate Award Winner
Fellows Archive
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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
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
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
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
Yatziri Arias Torres,
Latin American and Latino Studies/Politics
Undergraduate Public Fellows 2020-21
Project: “Language Education Developer, Senderos”
Level: Current
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 Fellows 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: Current
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
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
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: Current
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: 2021 NHC Graduate Summer Program
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
Bree Booth,
Latin American and Latino Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow 2021-22
Project: “Tracing Queerness Through the Atlantic”
Level: Current
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
John Bowin,
Philosophy
Faculty Fellow 2006-07
Project: “The Philosophical Uses of the Concept Potentiality in Aristotle and his Commentators”
Level: Faculty
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: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
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
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: Current
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
Melissa Brzycki,
History
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow 2017-18
Project: “Inventing the Socialist Child in China, 1949-1966 (Funding provided by the Division of Graduate Studies)”
Level: Graduate
Dhyana Buckley,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2016-17
Project: “Real World Entailments: A Semantic Approach to Improving Machine Learning”
Level: Undergraduate
Ryan Bush,
Linguistics
Dissertation Fellow 1999-00
Project: “Exhaustivity without Identificational Focus”
Level: Graduate
Daniel Butler,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow 2019-20
Project: “A Child is Being Caged: Forced Migration and the Psychopolitics of Resignation”
Level: Graduate
Daniel Butler,
History of Consciousness
Public Fellow 2020-21
Project: “Infant-Parent Program at UCSF”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2020-2021
Maria Elena Caballero-Robb,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow 2002-03
Project: “Poetry and the Public Sphere: Politics, Participation, and Uncommon Speech”
Level: Graduate
Jessica Calvanico,
Feminist Studies
Summer Research Fellow 2017-18
Project: “The Girl Problem and the Origins of Juvenile Justice in Progressive Era New Orleans”
Level: Graduate
Jessica Calvanico,
Feminist Studies
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow 2020-21
Project: “New Orleans’s Girl Problems: The House of the Good Shepherd and the Making of Carceral Girlhood”
Jessica Calvanico,
Feminist Studies
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow 2019-20
Level: Graduate
Details: 2019 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Luz Calvo,
History of Consciousness
Dissertation Fellow 2000-01
Project: “Border Fantasies: Sexual Anxieties and Political Passions in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands”
Level: Graduate
Corey Capers,
History of Consciousness
Dissertation Fellow 2003-04
Project: “On the Streets and in the Vernacular: Race, Satire, and the Rhetoric of Difference in Early Republican Popular Politics”
Level: Graduate
Fiona Carlone,
Women's Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2003-04
Project: “Eklectic Realism: Subtle? Subversions -Installations in Creative Destruction-”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gina Dent, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
Brandon Castro,
Film & Digital Media
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2020-21
Project: “Sancho & The School of Quetzalcoatl”
Level: Current
Brian Catlos,
History
Faculty Fellow 2005-06
Project: “Conflicts of Interest: Minority Administrative Elites in 14th-Century Aragon”
Level: Faculty
Bristol Cave-LaCoste,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow 2020-21
Project: “Living Openly and Notoriously: Sexually-Nonconforming Women Navigating Immigration Control, 1852-1924”
Level: Graduate
Shelly Chan,
History
Dissertation Fellow 2007-08
Project: “Tales of Migration: Huaqiao ("the Overseas Chinese") and China since the late 1800s”
Level: Graduate
Man Ning Chan,
History
Summer Research Fellow 2021-22
Project: “High and Low in Early Modern China: Using Qin (a seven-stringed musical instrument) as an Example”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Shu Chang,
History
SSRC-DPD Fellow 2018-19
Project: “Constructing Communism: The Life and Death of a Chinese Factory, 1952-1999”
Level: Graduate
Shu Chang,
History
Public Fellow 2019-20
Project: “Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Haoran Chang,
Digital Arts and New Media
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures 2020-21
Project: “Fair Sai Rei Pi (Virtual Fire Therapy LLC)”
Level: Graduate
Details: 2020 Graduate Award Winner, Multimedia Winner
Camille A. Charette,
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2014-15
Project: “Humanitarian Intervention, a Feminist Perspective”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Neda Atanasoski, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
Christopher Chen,
Literature
2016-17
Project: “A House of Broken Things: Race, Commodity Form, and Post-Nationalist Identities in Contemporary US Experimental Poetry”
Level: Faculty
Yu Tung Holly Chen,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2017-18
Project: “Don Quixote in China”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Amanda L. Cheung,
Language Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2014-15
Project: “Missionaries and the Issue of Footbinding in Modern China”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Emily Honig, Professor of History
Angelina Chin,
History
Dissertation Fellow 2005-06
Project: “Women's Labor, Sexuality and Migration in Early 20th Century South China”
Level: Graduate
Yuki Obayashi,
Literature
American Generosity and Ideological Superiority in the Hiroshima Maidens Project
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Xiaoping Sun,
History
The New Life Movement: Building a Chinese Modernity with Traditional Virtues
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Ryan King,
Feminist Studies
Digital NEST
×
Robert Potmesil,
History
The Forgotten Boat People: Memories of Chinese-Vietnamese Refugees in the US
×
RachelAnn Baltazar,
Intensive Psychology
Human Trafficking Narrative: Understanding the creation of a salient human trafficking concept and the effects on the individual experience
×
Noel Edward Smyth,
History
×
Mark Franko,
Theater Arts
From Anti-fascism to Myth in the Work of Martha Graham (1938-1958)
×
Lindsey Collins,
History of Consciousness
Trial by Mountain: Suffering and Healing in Difficult Landscapes
×
Krystal Mendez,
Literature
The Gothic in Transit: Nationalist Imaginations in French Translations of The Monk
×
Justin Gilmore,
History of Consciousness
The Contradictory Role of Productivity as an Idea in the Postwar US Labor Movement
×
Jessica Calvanico,
Feminist Studies
The Girl Problem and the Origins of Juvenile Justice in Progressive Era New Orleans
×
Jeremy Tai,
History
Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT IV): Designing China. Shanghai, China
×
Jennifer Bellik,
Linguistics
Vowel Intrusion in Turkish Word-Initial Clusters
×
Erin McElroy,
Feminist Studies
The Siliconization of Postsocialist Romania: Techno Imaginaries and Materialities
×
Deniz Rudin,
Linguistics
The Semantics of Imperative Sentences (Funding provided by the Division of Graduate Studies)
×
Dhyana Buckley,
Linguistics
Real World Entailments: A Semantic Approach to Improving Machine Learning
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Daniel Joesten,
History
Flooded with Outsiders: Decolonization, Citizenship, and the Irish Diaspora in Interwar Britain
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Cori Hoover,
History
Deir el Bahri Project
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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
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Ana Karina Menezes de Morais,
History of Consciousness
Imperial Geographies: Ethnography, Museology, and the Cape-to-Cairo Dream
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Amani Liggett,
Literature
Santa Cruz Shakespeare
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Amalia Hubbert,
History
WWI Historical Research and Archival of the Laura Caldwell Collection
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Alma Villa,
Sociology
Precarious Housing: The Experiences of Low-income Latinx Communities in Los Angeles, California
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