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.
Project: “Werewolf Hunters, Jungle Queens, and Space Commandoes: The Lost Worlds of Women Comics Artists”
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellows for 2022-23
Jennifer Kelly
Feminist Studies/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2022-23
Project: “Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine”
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellows for 2022-23
Madhavi Murty
Feminist Studies
2022-23
Project: “Sonic India: Sound and the Making of Folk Nationalisms”
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2022-23
Elaine Sullivan
History
2022-23
Project: “Re-contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus at the Cemetery of Saqqara in Virtual Reality”
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellows for 2022-23
Emine Hande Tuna
Philosophy
2022-23
Project: “Sensitive Aesthetics”
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2022-23
Alice Yang
History/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2022-23
Project: “Stop Repeating History: Japanese American Women, Memories of the World War II Incarceration, and Contemporary Transnational Antiracist Activism”
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellows for 2022-23
Graduate Student Awards
Barber Fellow
Amani Liggett
Literature
2022-23
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
Mia Tempestt Boykin
Literature
2022-23
Debbie Duarte
Literature
2022-23
Caitlin-Anne Flaws
Literature
2022-23
Dustin Gray
Philosophy
2022-23
Mark Howard
Politics
2022-23
Marilia Kaisar
Film & Digital Media
2022-23
Allison Nguyen
Psychology
2022-23
LuLing Osofsky
History of Art and Visual Culture
2022-23
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow
Ksenia Fir
Film & Digital Media
2022-23
Details: 2022 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Philip Groth
Philosophy
2022-23
Details: 2022 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Piper Milton
History
2022-23
Details: 2022 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Joshua Tan
History
2022-23
Details: 2022 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Public Fellow
Kendall Grady
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Theresa Hice-Fromille
Sociology
2022-23
Project: “Reality Labs”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Thais Miller
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Jewish Film Institute (JFI)”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Nathan Osorio
Literature
2022-23
Project: “UC Press”
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2022-2023
Katie O’Hare
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Santa Cruz Shakespeare”
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2022-2023
Emily Padilla
Feminist Studies
2022-23
Project: “Transgender Law Center”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Radhika Prasad
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Center for the Art of Translation”
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2022-2023
Emily Travis
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Prison Journalism Project (PJP)”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Jonathan van Harmelen
History
2022-23
Project: “Densho”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Sawyer Seminar Fellow
Aaron Aruck
History
2022-23
Details: "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
Juliana Nzongo
Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
2022-23
Details: "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
SSRC-DPD Fellow
Clara Bergamini
History
2022-23
Project: “Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster”
Leonard Butingan
History
2022-23
Project: “Black Anti-Racism Activism and the Afterlife of Empire in Britain 1978-2000”
Susanna Collinson
History of Art and Visual Culture
2022-23
Project: “Pacific Experiments”
Anandi Gandhi
Anthropology
2022-23
Project: “Coexistent Futures: Elephant Socialities in South-East Asia”
Mario Gómez-Zamora
Latin American and Latino Studies
2022-23
Project: “Colonial Violence, Murder, and Strategies of Resistance among Queer P’urhépecha People in Michoacán and the United States”
Kaiya Gordon
Feminist Studies
2022-23
Project: “Abolition, Community Practices, and Gender Variance in the Transsexual News Telegraph Collection”
Aaron Samuel Mulenga
History of Art and Visual Culture
2022-23
Project: “Embodied Absence: The Phantom Load of the Tenga Tenga”
Lalu Esra Ozban
Film and Digital Media
2022-23
Project: “Koli Sinemaları: Sex Cinemas as Trans Sites of Memory, Community-Building, and Sex Work”
Matthew Polzin
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Speculative Biologies: Race, Gender, and Science in Feminist and Queer Utopian Fiction”
Koda Sokol
Sociology
2022-23
Project: “Feeling Gendered: Affect and the Relational Politics of Gender Recognition”
Summer Sullivan
Environmental Studies
2022-23
Project: “Fantasies of Farm Labor: Digital Agriculture’s New Kind of Worker in the Salinas Valley Lettuce Industry”
Alex Wand
Music
2022-23
Project: “Monarch Waystation Soundmap: Tracing the Migratory Corridors of the Western Monarch Butterfly”
Summer Dissertation Fellow
Shu Chang
History
2022-23
Project: “The Life and Death of the Socialist Factory: Spatial Politics and Factory Life in China, 1958 to the Present”
David Duncan
History
2022-23
Project: “Voices in the Tule: The Oral History of School Desegregation in the San Francisco Bay Area”
Steven Green
History
2022-23
Project: “Noshing in the Midwest: Foodways and Midwestern Jewish Communities”
Angie Sijun Lou
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Pale Unhappy Dog: Stories”
Michael McCarrin
History of Consciousness
2022-23
Project: “Metaphysical Bias in Western Mathematics”
Details: Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow
Anne Napatalung
Feminist Studies
2022-23
Project: “The Tuskegee School of Midwifery: Exposing the Suppression of Black and Indigenous Midwifery Knowledges in U.S. Medicine in Service to Reimagining Reproductive Care”
Marina Segatti
Feminist Studies
2022-23
Project: “Queer and Trans Digital Activism: Neoconservatism and Democracy in Brazil”
Meleia Simon-Reynolds
History
2022-23
Project: “Transpacific Images: Photographs of Filipinx Communities in Hawai'i and the Pajaro Valley”
Jinghong Zhang
History
2022-23
Project: “Down to the Roots: Teeth, Dentistry, and Oral Hygiene in Modern China, 1908-2021”
Summer Research Fellow
Man Ning Chan
History
2022-23
Project: “High and Low in Early Modern China: Using Qin-Zither as an Example”
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
Aidan Andreasen,
Art & Design: Games & Playable Media
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
2021-22
Project: “Talos Machine”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Details: 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
Yatziri Arias Torres,
Latin American and Latino Studies/Politics
Undergraduate Public Fellows
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 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”