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 450 scholars.
See our current and past cohorts, and explore funding opportunities.

Faculty Awards

 
Faculty Fellow

Banu Bargu

History of Consciousness

2023-24

Project: “Toward a New Republic”

Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2023-24

Ben Breen

History

2023-24

Project: “The Digital Archive of Psychedelic History”

Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowship for 2023-24

Muriam Davis

History

2023-24

Project: “Algeria, Decolonization, and the French Social Sciences”

Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2023-24

Christine Hong

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Literature

2023-24

Project: “The Local as Curriculum in K-12 Ethnic Studies in Santa Cruz County”

Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowship for 2023-24

Graduate Student Awards

 
Barber Fellow

Katie O'Hare

Literature

2023-2024

 
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow

Debbie Duarte

Literature

2023-2024

Caitlin-Anne Flaws

Literature

2023-2024

Mark Howard

Politics

2023-2024

Details: Peer Mentor

Won Jeon

History of Consciousness

2023-2024

Marilia  Kaisar

Politics

2023-2024

Details: Peer Mentor

Merve  Ünsal Genç

Film & Digital Media

2023-2024

 
NHC Graduate Winter Program Fellow

Stefania  Cotei

History of Consciousness

2023-2024

Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience

Inês Pedrosa e Melo

Film & Digital Media

2023-2024

Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience

Balakrishnan Raghavan

Music

2023-2024

Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience

David  Shaw

Anthropology/Environmental Studies

2023-2024

Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience

Vidula Sonagra

Music

2023-2024

Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience

 
Public Fellow

Gabriel Evans  Cayley

Feminist Studies

2023-2024

Project: “Tamarack Free Library”

Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023

Rafael  Franco-Flores

Literature

2023-2024

Project: “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society”

Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023

Rebecca Gross

Literature

2023-2024

Project: “Lux Magazine”

Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023

Piper Milton

History

2023-2024

Project: “Tumacácori National Historic Site”

Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023

Wesley  Viebahn

Literature

2023-2024

Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History”

Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023

 
Summer Dissertation Fellow

Joe Alicea

Literature

2023-2024

Project: “Improvising Outs: Rehearsals of Endurance, Erasure, and Other Street Things”

Clara Bergamini

History

2023-2024

Project: “Mapping Imperial Japan’s Greatest Calamities: Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster”

Leonard Butingan

History

2023-2024

Project: “SPECTRES OF EMPIRE: Black Activism and Cultural Politics in Neocolonial Britain 1975-2000”

Stephen David  Engel

History of Consciousness

2023-2024

Project: “Deep History and Genre: A Case for Experimentation”

Details: Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow

Lani Hanna

Feminist Studies

2023-2024

Project: “Counter-Institutional Archives as Political Infrastructure”

Melody Nixon

History of Consciousness

2023-2024

Project: “Thinking Its Subject: Conceptions and Contestations of Race in Contemporary Transpacific Poetics”

Radhika Prasad

Literature

2023-2024

Project: “Hindi Experimentalism and National Language Politics”

Vishal  Sunil Arvindam

Linguistics

2023-2024

Project: “Processing of anti-local reflexives in Telugu”

Mengying (Christina)  Wang

History

2023-2024

Project: “Breaking the Glass Case: Memory-Making, Imperialism, and Decolonization in Japanese Postwar Museums”

Wyatt Young

History

2023-2024

Project: “‘An Honest One:’ Exploiting an Empire at the 1904 Philippine Exposition in St. Louis”

 
Summer Pathways Fellow

Pablo  Escudero

History of Consciousness

2023-2024

Project: “A New Sense of History in a World Caught Between Extractivism and Progress: mining and resistance in Fierro Urco, Ecuador”

Elliot Richardson

History

2023-2024

Project: “Expanding the Field of Trans History: Gender Fluidity and Crossing the US-Mexico Border”

Brian  Rivera Hernandez

Literature

2023-2024

Project: “Tierra y Libertad!: The Promise of Agrarian Reform in the Mexican Revolution”

Adriane Stoia

History

2023-2024

Project: “Indigeneity in Diaspora: The Reclamation of Hajichi Tattooing in the Okinawan Diaspora”

Grace Yun

Literature

2023-2024

Project: “Research about death rituals and cultural and religious beliefs within the Korean diaspora”

 
Summer Research Fellow

Bart Feberwee

History of Consciousness

2023-2024

Project: “Crisis, Revolutionary Subjectivity, and Dutch ‘Council Communism’”

Kaiya  Gordon

Feminist Studies

2023-2024

Project: “Trans Poetics in the Transsexual News Telegraph Archives”

Jenny Ham

History of Consciousness

2023-2024

Project: “Paradise for the Insane: Communizing Health/Care, A Case Study of Geel, Belgium”

Ania Mah Gricuk

History

2023-2024

Project: “Chinese medicine and the diaspora in Malaya and Singapore: the case of Ho Yan Hor herbal tea”

Maria  Pachon Varon

Literature

2023-2024

Project: “Reconfiguring Displacement and the ‘American Dream’ through Borderlands Stories”

Jonathan Paramore

Linguistics

2023-2024

Project: “Nasalization in Punjabi and Mankiyali”

Linda Ulbrich

History

2023-2024

Project: “’Yesterday was a difficult day to be Sister’: An Emotional History of First World War Nursing”

Ke  Zhao

History

2023-2024

Project: “The Global Journey of Ginseng: A Comprehensive Study of its Impact on Early Modern Trade and Cultural Exchange”

 
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow

Jonathan  Van Harmelen

History

2023-2024

Project: “Legislating Injustice: Congress and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II”

Undergraduate Student Awards

 
Undergraduate Public Fellows

Thomas Balmat

Literature/Anthropology

2023-24

Project: “The American Prospect ”

Liliana Barajas

Literature/Anthropology

2023-24

Project: “Open Campus”

Ian Doyle

History

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Coury Jones

History

2023-24

Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art”

Ruby Jung

Literature

2023-24

Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”

Maia Michelle Mislang

History

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Janeth Pérez-Quirke

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Jacob  Press

History

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Serena Ramirez

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Psychology

2023-24

Project: “Community Foundation”

Sharan Sethi

Literature/Philosophy

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Eetai Shwartz

History/Philosophy

2023-24

Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”

Sebastian Zamora

History

2023-24

Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art”

 
Undergraduate Research Fellow

John Boye-Lynn

Linguistics

2023-2024

Project: “Investigating Visual Information as a Constraint on Sound Change”

Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize

Ian Chesluk-Staats

Literature

2023-2024

Project: “What’s a Girl to Do? Successful Womanhood in the World of Jane Austen”

Brock Hrehor

Literature/History of Consciousness

2023-2024

Project: “Multicultural Media: Supporting Cultural Pluralism and Fostering Global Awareness through International Radio”

Ivan Jimenez

History/Literature

2023-2024

Project: “L'art Pour la Guerre: The Museo del Prado's Cultural Power in the Spanish Civil War”

Molly Maher

History/Psychology

2023-2024

Project: “The Legacy of the Om Commune in Ben Lomond”

Caroline Mcdonald

Philosophy/Literature

2023-2024

Project: “Examination of the Ethics of Digital Pornography”

Ariattne Zarate Leon

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Legal Studies

2023-2024

Project: “Critique of Global Migration Management ”

Prizes

 
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures

Mitra Ghaffari

Film & Digital Media

2022-23

Project: “Island Cycles”

Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner

Chisato Hughes

Social Documentation

2022-23

Project: “Treasure Island”

Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner

Ant Lorenzo

Environmental Art and Social Practice

2022-23

Project: “auxiology: on value on gold”

Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner

Lior Shamriz

Film & Digital Media

2022-23

Project: “Bird Divination in Mesopotamia Today”

Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner

Oana Tenter

Film & Digital Media

2022-23

Project: “Treasure Island”

Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner

Jingtian Zong

Environmental Art and Social Practice

2022-23

Project: “Dreaming of Shanghai in the San Lorenzo River”

Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner

Fellows Archive

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Gabriel Evans  Cayley, Feminist Studies


Public Fellow

2023-2024

Project: “Tamarack Free Library”

Level: Current

Level: Graduate

Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023

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

2023-2024

Project: “Improvising Outs: Rehearsals of Endurance, Erasure, and Other Street Things”

Level: Current

Level: Graduate

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

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

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”

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

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

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

Thomas Balmat, Literature/Anthropology


Undergraduate Public Fellows
Undergraduate Student Awards

2023-24

Project: “The American Prospect ”

Level: Current

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 Fellows
Undergraduate Student Awards

2023-24

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: Current

Level: Faculty

Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2023-24

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

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

2023-2024

Project: “Mapping Imperial Japan’s Greatest Calamities: Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster”

Level: Current

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 Fellows

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

2023-2024

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: Current

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

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

Leonard Butingan, History


SSRC-DPD Fellow

2022-23

Project: “Black Anti-Racism Activism and the Afterlife of Empire in Britain 1978-2000”

Level: Graduate

Leonard Butingan, History


Summer Dissertation Fellow

2023-2024

Project: “SPECTRES OF EMPIRE: Black Activism and Cultural Politics in Neocolonial Britain 1975-2000”

Level: Current

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”