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: “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
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
Jack Davies,
History of Consciousness
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Settler Colonial Insurance: The Case of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund”
Level: Current
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: Current
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
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
Debbie Duarte,
Literature
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Border Futurities: World-Making Practices From the Colonial Wound”
Level: Current
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
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: Current
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”
Level: Current
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”
Level: Current
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
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
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
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
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”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Mentor: Alan Christy, History
Benjamin Gabriel,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2009-10
Project: “Hello Kitty Everything”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Yamashita, Professor of Literature
Thomas Luke Gadd,
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Philosophy and the Empiricist Stance”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Ric Otte
Pascale Gaitet,
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Cam'ra Arabe”
Level: Faculty
Kyle Galindez,
Sociology
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2017-18
Project: “History of Guam’s Urban, Political and Ecological Transformations Since 1898”
Level: Graduate
Greta Galuszka,
American Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
1998-1999
Project: “Minstrelsy in the American Ad”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Mentor: David Wellman
Jared Gampel,
History of Consciousness
Public Fellow
2019-20
Project: “KZSC/Digital NEST”
Level: Graduate
Details: Year-Long Public Fellow 2019-2020
Nicholas Gancedo,
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2011-12
Project: “Conceptual Foundations of Intervention Ecology: Towards a New Environmental Worldview”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Rasmus Winther, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Xiaofei Gao,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2016-17
Project: “Maritime Manchuria: Empire, State, and Labor 1905-1989”
Level: Graduate
Xiaofei Gao,
History
Research and Travel Grant
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Bridget Gapp,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature
Kiran Garcha,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2013-14
Project: “Black Panther Party families in California”
Level: Graduate
Kiran Garcha,
History
Public Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Cal Humanities”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2018
Kiran Garcha,
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow
2019-20
Level: Graduate
Details: 2019 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Nicholas A. Garcia,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2013-14
Project: “Using Slave Advertisements to Analyze the Intercolonial Slave Trade”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gregory OMalley, Assistant Professor of History
Christopher Garcia,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Relative Clauses in Santaigo Laxopa Zapotec: Islands, Crossover, and Parasiticity”
Level: Undergraduate
Erin Gardner,
Pre/Early Modern Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Lessons for an Expanding World in the Ancient Greek Novel”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature
Morgan Gates,
Literature
Public Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Santa Cruz Shakespeare”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Morgan Gates,
Literature
Summer Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Listening to the Frank Kofsky Archives”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Morgan Gates,
Literature
Public Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2020
Adam Geary,
History of Consciousness
Dissertation Fellow
2002-03
Project: “A Gay Ascetics: Toward an Ethic of Safer Sex Activism”
Level: Graduate
Thomas Genova,
Literature
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Details: Funded by the Graduate Division
Thomas Genova,
Literature
Research and Travel Grant
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Filippo Gianferrari,
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Training the Reader: Dante and the Rise of Vernacular Literacy”
Level: Current
Level: Faculty
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2020-21
Justin Gilmore,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2017-18
Project: “The Contradictory Role of Productivity as an Idea in the Postwar US Labor Movement”
