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 1300 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
Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Research Fellow
Nathaniel Burke
Philosophy
2024-25
Project: “Philosophical Approaches to Institutional Abolition: Psychiatry”
Betsy Centeno
Social Psychology
2024-25
Project: “Harm Reduction Perspectives on Substance Use and Sexual Health Among Latine Students”
Jenny Ham
History of Consciousness
2024-25
Project: “California Cohousing Care Webs”
Katherine Johnson-Rogers
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Life Writing and the Conjuncture of US Medical Practice”
Inês Pedrosa e Melo
Film & Digital Media
2024-25
Project: “Tracing Multisensory Histories of Informal Reproductive Care Networks in California”
Elliot Richardson
History
2024-25
Project: “Trans Medicine and Carceral Power in San Francisco's Tenderloin”
Maria Betania Santos
Sociology
2024-25
Project: “Youth Mental Health Crisis and the Politics of Care”
Nicole Sarmieno
Environmental Art and Social Practice
2024-25
Project: “Counter-mapping towards care, fugitivity and abundance”
Barber Fellow
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”
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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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
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
Isa Anderson
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”
Max Ari'i
Anthropology/Literature
2024-25
Project: “Museum of Natural History”
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”
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
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Psychology
2023-24
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz Works”
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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”
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”
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
Riley Alinsug
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
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?”
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”
Kriti Dokania
2024-25
Project: “The Literary Bridge: Linking Skills and Careers”
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”
Lorelei Howe
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Ultrasound/Acoustic Analysis”
Silvia Íñiguez
Environmental Studies/Spanish Studies
2024-25
Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”
Killian Kiuttu
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Syllable Structure in Dialects of English”
Natalie Korobkova
Anthropology/History
2024-25
Project: “Selling Saqqara”
Gigi Lea
Applied Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Corpus of Paraguayans in Spain”
Nora Ligotti
Applied Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Corpus of Paraguayans in Spain”
Lucy Liu
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
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”
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)”
Janeth Pérez Quirke
Education/Latin American and Latino Studies
2024-25
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”
Rafael Revolorio
Global Community Health/Latin American and Latino Studies
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
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?”
Valerie Sainz
History/History of Visual Arts and Culture
2024-25
Project: “Speculative Futures”
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?”
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”
Pilar Zapien
Literature
2024-25
Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Katherine Arnold
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Linguistics and Applied Linguistics & Multilingualism”
Sam Beatty
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: ““Gendered voices and Transgender bodies: Where are we? What are we doing? And who are we talking to?””
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”
Julian Crown
Linguistics/Sociology
2024-25
Project: ““Language, Media, and the Social Construction of Homelessness””
Brock Hrehor
Literature/History of Consciousness
2023-24
Project: “Multicultural Media: Supporting Cultural Pluralism and Fostering Global Awareness through International Radio”
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Ivan Jimenez
History/Literature
2023-24
Project: “L'art Pour la Guerre: The Museo del Prado's Cultural Power in the Spanish Civil War”
Joshua Lieberstein
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: ““Verbless Clauses in Mayan K’ iche’: A non-copular approach””
Caroline Mcdonald
Philosophy/Literature
2023-24
Project: “Examination of the Ethics of Digital Pornography”
Elliot-Elyjah Mcwhinnie
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: ““Zooming in on the regional differences of African American Language in California””
Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize
Sabrina Nguyen
Classical Studies/Literature
2024-25
Project: ““Does Freedom Mean Free? Manumission, Marriage, and Public Perception in the Roman Empire””
Jacqueline Nowak
History/Anthropology
2024-25
Project: ““For a Bountiful Harvest: Women’s Roles in Animal Sacrifice to the Goddesses Demeter and Persephone"”
Adelina Rocha
Sociology
2024-25
Project: ““Benefits and Barriers of Radical Collaboration in Performance Arts””
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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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
Riley Alinsug
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Chloe Allen
Psychology
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
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
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
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
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
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
Katherine Arnold
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Linguistics and Applied Linguistics & Multilingualism”
Level: Current
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
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
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
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
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
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
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
Walter Barnaby
History/Politics
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative ”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
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
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
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
Sam Beatty
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2024-25
Project: ““Gendered voices and Transgender bodies: Where are we? What are we doing? And who are we talking to?””
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
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