THI Fellows

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

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

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

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”

Jessica Calvanico, Feminist Studies

NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow

2019-20

Level: Graduate

Details: 2019 NHC Graduate Summer Program

Luz Calvo, History of Consciousness

Dissertation Fellow

2000-01

Project: “Border Fantasies: Sexual Anxieties and Political Passions in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands”

Level: Graduate

Corey Capers, History of Consciousness

Dissertation Fellow

2003-04

Project: “On the Streets and in the Vernacular: Race, Satire, and the Rhetoric of Difference in Early Republican Popular Politics”

Level: Graduate