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: “After Homosexuality: Cities, War and Capitalism”
Level: Graduate
Jon Cho-Polizzi,
European History/German Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “A Post-Colonial Reading of German Epic”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Loisa Nygaard/Cynthia Polecritti
Jonathan Aaron Cho-Polizzi,
European History/English Language Literature (German Focus)
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2006-07
Project: “On Pagan Elements in Germanic Folklore, and the Enduring M'rchen Tradition”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Loisa Nygaard, Associate Professor of Literature
Todd Chretien,
History
Research and Travel Grant
2010-11
Level: Graduate
Alan Christy,
History
Faculty Fellow
2009-10
Project: “The Afterlives of War Monuments in Late Twentieth Century Japan”
Level: Faculty
Alan Christy,
History
CITL Faculty Fellow
2018-19
Level: Faculty
Details: CITL/Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow 2018-19
Louis Chude-Sokei,
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2007-08
Project: “The Sound of Culture: Caribbean Music and Black Technopoetics”
Level: Faculty
Sandra Chung,
Linguistics
Faculty Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Reference Grammar of Chamorro”
Level: Faculty
Mark Cioc,
History
Faculty Fellow
2002-03
Project: “Environmental Diplomacy: Ecological Interdependence and Twentieth Century Statecraft”
Level: Faculty
Lisa J. Clark,
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2013-14
Project: “Knowing When Im Right”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Jonathan Ellis, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Scarlett Clothier-Goldschmidt,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2012-13
Project: “Person-Animacy Constraints in Chamorro”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Matthew Wagers, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Wayne Spencer Coffey,
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Reproducing the Crisis: Blackness, Violence and Visual Culture in the Postwar American City”
Level: Graduate
Jonah K. Cohen,
Politics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2000-01
Project: “Anti-discrimination law and its protection of racial groups in the United States and Brazil, a Legal Analysis”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Robert Meister, Professor of Social Sciences and Political Thought
Lindsey Collins,
History of Consciousness
Dissertation Fellow
2008-09
Project: “Trial by Mountain: Suffering and Healing in Difficult Landscapes”
Level: Graduate
Nicole Collins,
Women's Studies/American Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
1998-1999
Project: “Labor Organizing and Community Sustainability in Tiajuana”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Dana Frank
Philip Conklin,
History of Consciousness
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Visionary Politics: Popular Religious Movements in the Colonial Philippines”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Christopher Connery,
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2001-02
Project: “The Last Ocean: Water, the Oceanic, and the Pacific in the Capitalist Geo-imaginary”
Level: Faculty
Nickolas Conrad,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2014-15
Project: “Leaving the Church: studies in the dissolution of religious belief in France, 1870-1940”
Level: Graduate
Details: Funded by the Graduate Division
Vilashini Cooppan,
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2006-07
Project: “Global Literature: the Racial Imaginary and the Literary World-System, 1688-2000”
Level: Faculty
Samuel Corbin,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Syntactic Priming in Comprehension”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Matthew Wagers, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Morgan Corona,
Literature/Creative Writing
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Don't Pick Corn Before It's Ripe and Other Lessons: Embodying Personal Narrative in the Codex”
Level: Undergraduate
Talia Coutin,
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Women and the Zionist Utopia: Representations of Women in Zionist Poster Art, 1930-1960”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson
Julie Cox,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
2005-06
Project: “Contact Literatures in North America: Colonial French and English Influences on American Literature from the Sixteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century”
Level: Graduate
Danielle Crawford,
Literature
Public Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Planning and Conservation League”
Level: Graduate
Danielle Crawford,
Literature
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Storms, Bombs, and Ecologies of Destruction: The Intimacies of Weather Disasters and U.S. Militarization in the Pacific”
Level: Graduate
Jacob Cribbs,
Literature/Creative Writing
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2008-09
Project: “The Atomists Tallow”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gary Young, Lecturer in Literature
Troy Crowder,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Catherine Damon,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Understanding the Ancient Egyptians Origin of Time with the Help of Modern Physics”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gildas Hamel, Lecturer in History
Lucy DaSilva,
Independent Study
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “The Blacklist Revisited: Jewish Screenwriters' Memories of the McCarthy Era”
Level: Current
Jack Davies,
History of Consciousness
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Settler Colonial Insurance: The Case of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund”
Level: Graduate
Derek Davis,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2009-10
Project: “Decisions in the Haitian Revolution”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gregory OMalley, Assistant Professor in History
Alex Davis,
Literature
Public Fellow
2020-21
Project: “City of San Jose Broadband, Digital Inclusion, and Privacy Team”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2020
Alexander Day,
History
Dissertation Fellow
2004-05
Project: “The Rural in Twentieth-Century Chinese Radical Discourse”
Level: Graduate
Teresa de Lauretis,
History of Consciousness
Faculty Fellow
2006-07
Project: “Death @ Work: Reflections for the End of a Century”
Level: Faculty
Amy Rose Deal,
Linguistics
Faculty Fellow
2013-14
Project: “Types of Ergative Case”
Level: Faculty
Jeramy DeCristo,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2012-13
Level: Graduate
Francisco M. Delgado,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2014-15
Project: “Chamorro Loanword Morphology”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Sandra Chung, Professor of Linguistics
Margaret DeRosia,
History of Consciousness
Dissertation Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Detecting Desire: Women in Film Noir”
Level: Graduate
Jennifer Derr,
History
Faculty Fellow
2014-15
Project: “A New Nile: the construction of the environment and the practice of the state in colonial Egypt”
Level: Faculty
Raissa DeSmet Trumbull,
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2012-13
Project: “A Liquid World: Figuring Coloniality in the Indies”
Level: Graduate
Details: Funded by the Graduate Division
Maria Elena Diaz,
History
Faculty Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Slave Emancipation and the Changing Meanings of Freedom in Spain and Cuba, 1780-1810”
Level: Faculty
Ella Diaz,
Independent Study
Undergraduate Research Fellow
1998-1999
Project: “The Implications of Textual Dialect in American Literature”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Mary-Kay Gamel
J. Denise Diskin,
Women's Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2000-01
Project: “Negotiations of Citizenship: Reproductive Rights and Fetal Protection”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Women's Studies
David Donley,
Philosophy
Public Fellow
2016-17
Project: “Santa Cruz County Jail”
Level: Graduate
Jordan Dopkins,
Philosophy
Summer Research Fellow
2019-20
Project: “A Content View of Perceptual Experience”
Level: Graduate
Jordan Dopkins,
Philosophy
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow
2021-22
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: 2021 NHC Graduate Summer Program
John Doris,
Philosophy
Faculty Fellow
2002-03
Project: “The Grammar of Freedom”
Level: Faculty
Kendra Dority,
Literature
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
2015-16
Project: “Deciding the Letter: Toward an Ethics of Reading across the Classical Tradition and Contemporary Latino/a Studies”
Level: Graduate
Kendra Dority,
Literature
Research and Travel Grant
2010-11
Level: Graduate
Frederick Dreier,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Researching the British Fascists: the Counterintelligence Agency's Primary Documents”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Adrian Drummond-Cole,
History of Consciousness
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Making Water Liquid”
Level: Graduate
Adrian Drummond-Cole,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2016-17
Project: “The Highway and the City of God: Lewish Mumford's Prophetic Response to the Automobile, Highway, and Suburb”
Level: Graduate
Adrian Drummond-Cole,
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Making Water Liquid: Information, Finance, and Flow in California’s Central Valley”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Debbie Duarte,
Literature
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Border Futurities: World-Making Practices From the Colonial Wound”
Level: Graduate
Karen Duek,
Linguistics
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
2016-17
Project: “Meaning, Flexibility, Composition, and Co-predication”
Level: Graduate
Shaun Duke,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2008-09
Project: “Otherism: The Dissection of Humanity and the Human in Science Fiction Film”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Catherine Ramrez, Associate Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies
David Duncan,
History
Public Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Sausalito Marin City School District”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2021-2022
Christoph Durt,
Philosophy
Research and Travel Grant
2010-11
Level: Graduate
Ben Eischens,
Linguistics
Public Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Pacific Collegiate School”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2018
Benjamin Eischens,
Linguistics
Summer Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Negative indefinites in San Martín Peras Mixtec”
Level: Graduate
Raed El Rafei,
Film and Digital Media
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Queer Subjectivity and Space in Tripoli”
Level: Graduate
Jon Ellis,
Philosophy
Faculty Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind”
Level: Faculty
Isabella Elmore,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2019-20
Project: “The Power of Fragmentation: Re-Translating The Middle Passage”
Meg Eppel Gudgeirsson,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2015-16
Project: “Raising Tomorrow's Child: Children, Gender, and Race in Nineteenth-Century Religious Utopian Communities in the United States”
Level: Graduate
Details: Funded by the Graduate Division
Barbara Epstein,
History of Consciousness
Faculty Fellow
2001-02
Project: “The Minsk Ghetto Underground, 1941-44: Cooperation between Jews and Belarussians against the German Occupation”
Level: Faculty
Eli Erlick,
Feminist Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Biopolitics, Activism, and Transgender Resilience in the United States”
Level: Graduate
Monica Estrada Arias,
Legal Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Defining the Digital Persona”
Cesar Estrella,
Latin American and Latino Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2018-19
Project: “The Threat from the South: Latin America and the Exportation of US Immigration Policy”
Level: Graduate
Kelsi Evans,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2012-13
Level: Graduate
Darcey Evans,
Anthropology
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Straits of Encounter: Bordering Waters between Settler States Division of Social Sciences”
Level: Graduate
Gabriel Evans Cayley,
Feminist Studies
Summer Research Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Movement Infrastructures: Tracing Colonial Temporalities of Age, Generation and Inheritance”
Level: Graduate
Peter Fabian,
Linguistics
Summer Research Fellow
2012-13
Level: Graduate
Mikayla Falk,
Literature
Undergraduate Public Fellows
2020-21
Project: “Program Coordinator, Senderos”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Donka Farkas,
Linguistics
Faculty Fellow
2004-05
Project: “Project on the Cross-Linguistics Semantics of Verbal Mood in Subordinate Clauses”
Level: Faculty
Ryan Farrell,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “The Spirit of the Unknown Scout: Exploring Memories of the Second World War and American-Japanese Relations in a Multilateral World”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Alan Christy
Shaina Feinberg,
Creative Writing
Undergraduate Research Fellow
1998-1999
Project: “The Art of Map-Making”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Yamashita
Kelly Feinstein-Johnson,
History
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
2011-12
Project: “An Account of Notorious Robbers, Murders, and Sporting Ladies: The Visual Culture of English Broadside Ballads, 1660-1800”
Level: Graduate
Taylor Feld,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2012-13
Project: “Sir Walter ScottsIvanhoe& Interpretations of History”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Mayanthi Fernando,
Anthropology
UC Society Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Mayanthi Fernando Reconfiguring France: Muslim Citizens in the Shadows of Secularism”
Level: Faculty
Jason File,
Literature/Creative Writing
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “I am Trying”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Yamashita, Professor of Literature
Keegan Finberg,
Literature
School of Criticism and Theory Fellowship
2010-11
Project: “School of Criticism and Theory 2010 at Cornell University. Ithaca, NY”
Level: Graduate
Ksenia Firsova,
Film & Digital Media
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Robocops and Prison Spaceships: Carceral Futurism in American Film and Television”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Diane Fisher,
American Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2000-01
Project: “Dancing Souls: An exploration of the Empowering Aspects of Dance on Southern Slave Plantations”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Dana Frank, Professor of History
Logan Fitzsimons,
Psychology
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Queering the Cowboy”
Level: Current
Ana Flecha,
Latin American and Latino Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2021-22
Project: “The Santo Daime Bailado as Racialized and Gendered Psychedelic Religious Choreography”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Aron Ford,
Film & Digital Media/Critical & Visual Theory
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Processes of Fantasy and Identification n the Work of Roland Barthes”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Carla Freccero, Professor of Literature
Mozelle/Norma Foreman/Klahn,
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2004-05
Project: “Constructing a Feminist Poetic in Contemporary Chile”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Norma Klahn, Associate Professor of Literature
Valerie Forman,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
1999-00
Project: “Counterfeit Investments: Economy, Exemplarity, and the Question of Value in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literature”
Level: Graduate
Jess Fournier,
Feminist Studies
Public Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Critical Resistance”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
Renee Fox,
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Necromantic Victorians: Reanimation and the Historical Imagination in British and Irish Literature”
Level: Faculty
Tory Francisco,
Sociology/English Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2004-05
Project: “Policy Analysis of California's Ability to Address the Mental Health Needs of Returning Operation Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom Veterans”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gary Dvmski, Professor, Department of Economics
Maria Frangos,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
2004-05
Project: “Melusine and her Futures: A Genealogy of Female Monstrosity from the Middle Ages Through Early Modernity”
Level: Graduate
Dana Frank,
History
Faculty Fellow
2003-04
Project: “A History of U.S. Labor and International Solidarity”
Level: Faculty
Dana Frank,
History
Faculty Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Book on the AFL-CIO's intervention in the Honduran labor movement, 1954-1980”
Level: Faculty
Dana Frank,
History
UC Society Fellow
2011-12
Project: “Labor’s Own Empire: The AFL-CIO’s Cold War in Honduras, 1954-1980”
Level: Faculty
Mark Franko,
Theater Arts
UC Society Fellow
2010-11
Project: “From Anti-fascism to Myth in the Work of Martha Graham (1938-1958)”
Level: Faculty
Stella F. Fronius,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2015-16
Project: “U.S. Militarism in Okinawa: Transformations in the Physical and Demographic Landscape, 1945-Present”