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: “Training the Reader: Dante and the Rise of Vernacular Literacy”
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2020-21
Amanda Rysling,
Linguistics
2019-20
Project: “Prediction in Speech Processing”
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2019-20
Brenda Sanfilippo,
Writing
2019-20
Details: CITL/Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow 2019-20
Amy Vidali,
Writing
2019-20
Details: CITL/Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow 2019-20
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
Isaac Blacksin,
History of Consciousness
2019-20
Project: “Meaningful Violence: American War Reportage in Iraq, Syria, and Beyond, 2014–2018”
Summer Research Fellows
Daniel Butler,
History of Consciousness
2019-20
Project: “A Child is Being Caged: Forced Migration and the Psychopolitics of Resignation”
Jordan Dopkins,
Philosophy
2019-20
Project: “A Content View of Perceptual Experience”
Gabriel Evans Cayley,
Feminist Studies
2019-20
Project: “Movement Infrastructures: Tracing Colonial Temporalities of Age, Generation and Inheritance”
Kyuhyun Han,
History
2019-20
Project: “Seeing the Forest Like a State: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949 – 1988”
Halima Kazem Stojanovic,
Feminist Studies
2019-20
Project: “Feminism in Afghanistan”
Margaret Kroll,
Linguistics
2019-20
Project: “A Matter of Perspective: Constructing Meaning and Truth”
Piper Milton,
History
2019-20
Project: “Gender, Religion, and Race: Indigenous, Mixed-Race, and African-Descended Women in New Spain”
Krizia Puig,
Feminist Studies
2019-20
Project: “A Garden of Stardust: Lovely Matter(s) & The Colonization of Mars”
Drew Richardson,
History
2019-20
Project: “Mediating Monsters: A New Media History of Japanese Ethnography”
Eric Sneathen,
Literature
2019-20
Project: “The Future Unites Us: Historical Feeling and Queer Poetics in San Francisco, 1960-2010”
Summer Dissertation Fellows
Trung Nguyen,
History of Consciousness
2019-20
Project: “War Material: Vietnam and Transpacific Imaginaries of Capital and Transition”
Thomas Roberts,
Linguistics
2019-20
Project: “Dimensions of Belief in Verbal Semantics”
Jaclyn Schultz,
History
2019-20
Project: “Learning the Values of a Dollar: Childhood and Cultures of Economy in the U.S., 1825-1900”
Tara Thomas,
Literature
2019-20
Project: “Queer Decadent Classicism: Fin de Siècle British Reception of Decadent Rome”
Cynthia Tibbetts,
Philosophy
2019-20
Project: “Metaphysics of the Moral Agent”
Public Fellows
Sienna Ballou,
Literature
2019-20
Project: “Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music”
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Shu Chang,
History
2019-20
Project: “Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula”
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Jared Gampel,
History of Consciousness
2019-20
Project: “KZSC/Digital NEST”
Details: Year-Long Public Fellow 2019-2020
Morgan Gates,
Literature
2019-20
Project: “Santa Cruz Shakespeare”
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Lani Hanna,
Feminist Studies
2019-20
Project: “Freedom Archives”
Details: Year-Long Public Fellow 2019-2020
Joshua Jones,
Literature
2019-20
Project: “Norwich Soup Movement”
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Noya Kansky,
Feminist Studies
2019-20
Project: “Heart Mountain Interpretive Center”
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Gabriel Mindel,
History of Consciousness
2019-20
Project: “Indexical”
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Hafsa Mohammed,
History of Consciousness
2019-20
Project: “AjA”
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Eric Sneathen,
Literature
2019-20
Project: “GLBT Historical Society”
Details: Year-Long Public Fellow 2019-2020
Undergraduate Research Fellows
Summer Al-Saleh,
Feminist Studies
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”
Morgan Corona,
Literature/Creative Writing
2018-19
Project: “Don't Pick Corn Before It's Ripe and Other Lessons: Embodying Personal Narrative in the Codex”
Natalie Gonzales,
Feminist Studies
2018-19
Project: “Archiving the Future through the Digital: Redesigning the Human through Indigenous and Decolonial Technoscientific Imaginaries”
Metztli Hamelius,
Music
2018-19
Project: “Queering Female Pachuquismo: Fashion, Identity, and Relationships in 1940s Los Angeles”
Paula Ledesma,
Linguistics
2018-19
Project: “Clitic Placement and Clitic Climbing in Spanish”
Stephanie Perez,
Legal Studies
2018-19
Project: “Law and the Early History of Bioprospecting in the Ecuadorian Amazon”
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Garrett Starke,
History
2018-19
Project: “Renewal and Resistance: A Study of the Ghost Dance Movements and Their Legacy”
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Avery Weinman,
History/Jewish Studies
2018-19
Project: “From Ma’abarot to Mahapakh: How Israel’s Mizrahim Became the Foundation of the Israeli Right”
SSRC-DPD Fellows
Christian Alvarado,
History of Consciousness
2019-20
Project: “New Ways of Life Together": Pedagogical Thought in Anticolonial Kenya”
Axelle Boyer,
History of Art and Visual Culture
2019-20
Project: “Gungu la Mcezo: Performing Citizenship Through Anticolonial Resistance”
Raed El Rafei,
Film and Digital Media
2019-20
Project: “Queer Subjectivity and Space in Tripoli”
Eli Erlick,
Feminist Studies
2019-20
Project: “Biopolitics, Activism, and Transgender Resilience in the United States”
Donald Hickey,
History
2019-20
Project: “The Logics of Power, Citizenship, and Greater Reconstruction in San Francisco, 1865-1906”
Leslie Lodwick,
History of Art and Visual Culture
2019-20
Project: “Public School Buildings as Politics: Civic Identity, Nation Making and Modern Architecture”
Alexandra Macheski,
History of Art and Visual Culture
2019-20
Project: “The Sub-Altern’s “Other”: Relations of Extraction and Alterity between the Inka and the Amazon”
Aysha Peterson,
Environmental Studies
2019-20
Project: “Towards farmer-centered water quality governance in a nitrate-polluted region”
Gabriela Segura,
Latin American and Latino Studies
2019-20
Project: “Defending Western Civilization: Immigration Policy and the Rise of Right-Wing Authoritarian Populism in the Americas”
Ankit Sharma,
Sociology
2019-20
Project: “Worlds of Precarity: Memory, Narrative, and Labor Movements”
Roxanna Villalobos,
Sociology
2019-20
Project: “Latina Rural Girlhoods in the United States”
Jinghong Zhang,
History
2019-20
Project: “Good Deeds, Changing Needs: Religion, Philanthropy and the Making of Modern Chinese Welfare in Sichuan, 1895-1966”
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: Current
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: Current
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
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
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
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
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: Current
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”
