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: “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
Fiona Carlone,
Women's Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Eklectic Realism: Subtle? Subversions -Installations in Creative Destruction-”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gina Dent, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
Brandon Castro,
Film & Digital Media
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Sancho & The School of Quetzalcoatl”
Level: Undergraduate
Brian Catlos,
History
Faculty Fellow
2005-06
Project: “Conflicts of Interest: Minority Administrative Elites in 14th-Century Aragon”
Level: Faculty
Bristol Cave-LaCoste,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Living Openly and Notoriously: Sexually-Nonconforming Women Navigating Immigration Control, 1852-1924”
Level: Graduate
Shelly Chan,
History
Dissertation Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Tales of Migration: Huaqiao ("the Overseas Chinese") and China since the late 1800s”
Level: Graduate
Man Ning Chan,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2021-22
Project: “High and Low in Early Modern China: Using Qin (a seven-stringed musical instrument) as an Example”
Level: Graduate
Man Ning Chan,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2022-23
Project: “High and Low in Early Modern China: Using Qin-Zither as an Example”
Level: Graduate
Shu Chang,
History
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Constructing Communism: The Life and Death of a Chinese Factory, 1952-1999”
Level: Graduate
Shu Chang,
History
Public Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Haoran Chang,
Digital Arts and New Media
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
2020-21
Project: “Fair Sai Rei Pi (Virtual Fire Therapy LLC)”
Level: Graduate
Details: 2020 Graduate Award Winner, Multimedia Winner
Shu Chang,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2022-23
Project: “The Life and Death of the Socialist Factory: Spatial Politics and Factory Life in China, 1958 to the Present”
Level: Graduate
Camille A. Charette,
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2014-15
Project: “Humanitarian Intervention, a Feminist Perspective”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Neda Atanasoski, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
Christopher Chen,
Literature
2016-17
Project: “A House of Broken Things: Race, Commodity Form, and Post-Nationalist Identities in Contemporary US Experimental Poetry”
Level: Faculty
Yu Tung Holly Chen,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Don Quixote in China”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Ian Chesluk-Staats,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards
2023-2024
Project: “What’s a Girl to Do? Successful Womanhood in the World of Jane Austen”
Level: Undergraduate
Amanda L. Cheung,
Language Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2014-15
Project: “Missionaries and the Issue of Footbinding in Modern China”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Emily Honig, Professor of History
Angelina Chin,
History
Dissertation Fellow
2005-06
Project: “Women's Labor, Sexuality and Migration in Early 20th Century South China”
Level: Graduate
Christopher Chitty,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2013-14
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
Magali Chonteco,
Literature/Spanish Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Design, Production, and Intellectual Property: The Evolution of Fast Fashion in the Age of Social Media”
Level: Undergraduate
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
Susanna Collinson,
History of Art and Visual Culture
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Pacific Experiments”
Level: Graduate
Philip Conklin,
History of Consciousness
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Visionary Politics: Popular Religious Movements in the Colonial Philippines”
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
Owen Cooksy ,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards
2022-23
Project: “The Death of the Irish Soldier: The British Army, Irish Guerrillas, and the Murder of Henry Wilson”
Level: Undergraduate
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
Stefania Cotei ,
History of Consciousness
NHC Graduate Winter Program Fellow
2023-2024
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience
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: Undergraduate
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
Muriam Davis,
History
Faculty Awards
Faculty Fellow
2023-24
Project: “Algeria, Decolonization, and the French Social Sciences”
Level: Current
Level: Faculty
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2023-24
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: 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
Ian Doyle,
History
Undergraduate Public Fellows
Undergraduate Student Awards
2022-23
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”
Level: Undergraduate
Ian Doyle,
History
Undergraduate Public Fellows
Undergraduate Student Awards
2023-24
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
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: Graduate
Debbie Duarte,
Literature
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Border Futurities: World-Making Practices From the Colonial Wound”
Level: Graduate
Debbie Duarte,
Literature
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2022-23
Level: Graduate
Debbie Duarte,
Literature
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2023-2024
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
David Duncan,
History
Public Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Sausalito Marin City School District”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2021-2022
David Duncan,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Voices in the Tule: The Oral History of School Desegregation in the San Francisco Bay Area”
Level: Graduate
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”
Stephen David Engel,
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2023-2024
Project: “Deep History and Genre: A Case for Experimentation”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow
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
Pablo Escudero,
History of Consciousness
Summer Pathways Fellow
2023-2024
Project: “A New Sense of History in a World Caught Between Extractivism and Progress: mining and resistance in Fierro Urco, Ecuador”