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
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
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
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
Ronald Gunna,
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Feminist Studies
2021-22
Project: “Editorial Intern, The American Prospect”
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: 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”