THI Fellows
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 1300 scholars.
See our current and past cohorts, and explore funding opportunities.
Faculty Awards
Faculty Fellow
Juned Noor Shaikh
2024-25
Project: “Gangadhar Adhikari and South Asia: An Alternative History of the Twentieth Century”
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2024-25
Christian Ruvalcaba
2024-25
Project: “The Lost Vocabulary: Recovering and Analyzing an Elusive Manuscript of the Tegüima Language”
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2024-25
Graduate Student Awards
Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Research Fellow
Nathaniel Burke
Philosophy
2024-25
Project: “Philosophical Approaches to Institutional Abolition: Psychiatry”
Betsy Centeno
Social Psychology
2024-25
Project: “Harm Reduction Perspectives on Substance Use and Sexual Health Among Latine Students”
Jenny Ham
History of Consciousness
2024-25
Project: “California Cohousing Care Webs”
Katherine Johnson-Rogers
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Life Writing and the Conjuncture of US Medical Practice”
Inês Pedrosa e Melo
Film & Digital Media
2024-25
Project: “Tracing Multisensory Histories of Informal Reproductive Care Networks in California”
Elliot Richardson
History
2024-25
Project: “Trans Medicine and Carceral Power in San Francisco's Tenderloin”
Maria Betania Santos
Sociology
2024-25
Project: “Youth Mental Health Crisis and the Politics of Care”
Nicole Sarmieno
Environmental Art and Social Practice
2024-25
Project: “Counter-mapping towards care, fugitivity and abundance”
Barber Fellow
Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow
Md Mizanur Rahman
Politics
2024-25
Project: “Politics beyond the State: The Birth of an Ethical Politics in Anticolonial Muslim Thought”
Public Fellow
Arielle Burgdorf
Literature
2024-25
Project: “The Center for the Art of Translation”
Breanna Byrd
Feminist Studies
2024-25
Project: “Warren County Environmental Action Team”
Maria Pachon
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Pollen Initiative”
Somreeta Paul
Philosophy
2024-25
Project: “PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization)”
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Brian Rivera Hernandez
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA)”
Marina Segatti
Feminist Studies
2024-25
Project: “Acervo Bajubá”
Summer Dissertation Fellow
Lalitha Balachandran
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Linguistic Contexts in Memory”
Maya Wax Cavallaro
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “The phonetics and phonology of domain-final sonorant consonant devoicing”
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Man Ning Chan
History
2024-25
Project: “Music, Tradition, and Politics: A History of Qin-zither in Early Modern China”
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Amanda Huse
History
2024-25
Project: “"She was afraid I would tell it": Women and Ku-Klux Violence in Reconstruction Georgia”
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Robin Jones
History of Consciousness
2024-25
Project: “Dissident communism: Trajectories of the independent left in postcolonial Syria”
Alexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku
History
2024-25
Project: “Shima-centric: Political Indeterminacy of the Ryukyu Islands and the creation of the United States’s archipelagic empire, 1943- present”
Anny Mogollon
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Seizing the Means of Production: Multigenerational Testimonios and Domestic Worker Self-Representations in an Age of Neoliberalism”
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Monica Multer
Literature
2024-25
Project: “"Repairing the Ruin": The Didacticism of Embodied Passion in John Milton and Paradise Lost”
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Justine Parkin
History of Consciousness
2024-25
Project: “Oceanic Coordinations: Decolonial Ecologies in the Indigenous Pacific”
Summer Pathways Fellow
Darien Acero
History of Consciousness
2024-25
Project: “Right Under Their Noses: Sovereignty, Surveillance, and Subversion in 18th Century Cuban Maroon Communities”
Paulina Cardenas
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Boundless Utopianism: Julia Alvarez’s A Cafecito Story as Foundation for Worlding”
Lilith Frakes
History of Consciousness
2024-25
Project: “Hybrid Apes and Conservation in the Anthropocene”
Ania Mah Gricuk
History
2024-25
Project: “The Crossroads of Diaspora, Medicine, and Commerce: A Transnational Story of Cooling Herbal Tea”
Quyen Pham
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Unsettling the Book: Dictee and Disorientated Performances”
Summer Research Fellow
Leonard Butingan
History
2024-25
Project: “Spectres of Empire: Black British Activism and Cultural Politics in Neocolonial Britain 1976-2000”
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Anna Egorova
History of Consciousness
2024-25
Project: “Muslim Communism Archive”
Maxwell Kaplan
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Crosslinguistic comparison of phonotactic repair”
Melissa Mack
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Literature of Marked and Unmarked Sites of Death and Memory”
Kristen Nelson
Literature
2024-25
Project: “The Witches of Benevento”
Elliot Richardson
History
2024-25
Project: “Expanding the Field of Trans History: Trans Networks of CareAcross the US-Mexico Border”
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Anthony Soliman
History
2024-25
Project: “Creating a Black Pacific: Black Internationalism and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century California”
Kristine Swarts-Zanin
History
2024-25
Project: “Conflict and Coexistence within Jerusalem: The Jordanian Interpretations of the Status Quo”
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
Jonathan Van Harmelen
History
2023-24
Project: “Legislating Injustice: Congress and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II”
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Undergraduate Student Awards
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
Isa Anderson
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”
Max Ari'i
Anthropology/Literature
2024-25
Project: “Museum of Natural History”
Maury Burnett-Cavoto
Philosophy
2024-25
Project: “KSQD Community Radio”
Leo Colletta
History
2024-25
Project: “Museum of Art & History (MAH)”
Isabel Cordova
Literature/Psychology
2024-25
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Jake Davison
History
2024-25
Project: “San Lorenzo Valley Museum”
Arabella Edler
History of Art and Visual Culture/Literature
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz Poetry Project”
Bronwyn Eyre
History/Spanish Studies
2024-25
Project: “Museum of Art & History (MAH)”
Paulina Garcia
Feminist Studies/Politics
2024-25
Project: “The Hive Poetry Collective”
Gabby Goss
Film & Digital Media
2024-25
Project: “United Way”
Janelle Harvey
Literature
2024-25
Project: “United Way”
Esmeralda Hurtado
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”
Kyle Johnson
Anthropology/Literature
2024-25
Project: “Your Future Is Our Business”
Gurleen Kaur
Molecular Cell and Development Biology
2024-25
Project: “The Sikh Foundation”
Ava Macdonald
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Community Foundation”
Alanah Martinez
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Feminist Studies
2024-25
Project: “United Way”
Kash Mejia
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2024-25
Project: “Black Surf Santa Cruz”
Mayah Moore
Psychology
2024-25
Project: “Democratic Women's Club”
Emily Moua
2024-25
Project: “Your Future Is Our Business”
Lesly Nicasio
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2024-25
Project: “Boys & Girls Club Santa Cruz Co.”
Mars (Makayla) Nored
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz Poetry Project”
Eva Overton
History
2024-25
Project: “San Lorenzo Valley Museum”
Jamie Penilla
History
2024-25
Project: “WILDR Santa Cruz”
Jadyn Polk
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2024-25
Project: “Save Our Shores”
Serena Ramirez
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Psychology
2023-24
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz Works”
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Riley Ramos
Psychology/Literature
2024-25
Project: “Second Harvest Food Bank”
Mac Rogers
History of Art and Visual Culture
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz Youth Poet Laureate Program”
Tara Roshan
Cognitive Science
2024-25
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Fatima Sanchez
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music”
Haley Shuford
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Leadership Santa Cruz”
Morgan Woodley
History of Art and Visual Culture
2024-25
Project: “Museum of Art & History (MAH)”
Heather Yee
Global and Community Health
2024-25
Project: “Seymour Marine Discovery Center”
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
Riley Alinsug
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
Chloe Allen
Psychology
2024-25
Project: “AI & Human Imagination”
Beckett Atkinson
History/Philosophy
2024-25
Project: “Mapping the offering of courses in African History through the UC system: what is Africa's place in History curricula?”
Emma Bavera
2024-25
Project: “Shakespeare Workshop”
Dani Dayao
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/History of Art and Visual Culture
2024-25
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”
Kriti Dokania
2024-25
Project: “The Literary Bridge: Linking Skills and Careers”
Julie Fintamag
History
2024-25
Project: “Visual Constructions of the Pajaro and Salinas Valleys & Watsonville is in the Heart”
Jamie Florence Dy
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2024-25
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”
Eleanor Garrison
Applied Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”
Jade Glentzer
Anthropology/History
2024-25
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Lorelei Howe
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Ultrasound/Acoustic Analysis”
Silvia Íñiguez
Environmental Studies/Spanish Studies
2024-25
Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”
Killian Kiuttu
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Syllable Structure in Dialects of English”
Natalie Korobkova
Anthropology/History
2024-25
Project: “Selling Saqqara”
Gigi Lea
Applied Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Corpus of Paraguayans in Spain”
Nora Ligotti
Applied Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Corpus of Paraguayans in Spain”
Lucy Liu
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
Crystal Hicks Marin
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2024-25
Project: “Visual Constructions of the Pajaro and Salinas Valleys”
Monnika Mattson
Psychology
2024-25
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Abiagael Mcnelis
2024-25
Project: “The Literary Bridge: Linking Skills and Careers”
Grace Nighswonger
Cognitive Science/Literature
2024-25
Project: “Discourse Analysis”
Isabella Nordstrom
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Ultrasound/Acoustic Analysis”
Clare O'Brien
Literature
2024-25
Project: “Creative Writing - What Happened Next?”
Marissa Omaque
Anthropology
2024-25
Project: “AI & Human Imagination”
Joscelyn Osorio
2024-25
Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”
Janeth Pérez Quirke
Education/Latin American and Latino Studies
2024-25
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”
Rafael Revolorio
Global Community Health/Latin American and Latino Studies
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
Adam Ross
Global and Community Health/History
2024-25
Project: “Mapping the offering of courses in African History through the UC system: what is Africa's place in History curricula?”
Valerie Sainz
History/History of Visual Arts and Culture
2024-25
Project: “Speculative Futures”
Ben Sommer
Sociology/Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Syllable Structure in Dialects of English”
Ethan Strom
History
2024-25
Project: “Mapping the offering of courses in African History through the UC system: what is Africa's place in History curricula?”
Skyla Tomine
Feminist Studies/Politics
2024-25
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Dacia van Wormer
Cognitive Science
2024-25
Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”
Cassandra Ponce Ventura
Spanish Studies/Latin American and Latino Studies
2024-25
Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”
Caroline Wilson
Art
2024-25
Project: “AI & Human Imagination”
Pilar Zapien
Literature
2024-25
Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Katherine Arnold
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Linguistics and Applied Linguistics & Multilingualism”
Sam Beatty
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: ““Gendered voices and Transgender bodies: Where are we? What are we doing? And who are we talking to?””
John Boye-Lynn
Linguistics
2023-24
Project: “Investigating Visual Information as a Constraint on Sound Change”
Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize
Ian Chesluk-Staats
Literature
2023-24
Project: “What’s a Girl to Do? Successful Womanhood in the World of Jane Austen”
Julian Crown
Linguistics/Sociology
2024-25
Project: ““Language, Media, and the Social Construction of Homelessness””
Brock Hrehor
Literature/History of Consciousness
2023-24
Project: “Multicultural Media: Supporting Cultural Pluralism and Fostering Global Awareness through International Radio”
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Ivan Jimenez
History/Literature
2023-24
Project: “L'art Pour la Guerre: The Museo del Prado's Cultural Power in the Spanish Civil War”
Joshua Lieberstein
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: ““Verbless Clauses in Mayan K’ iche’: A non-copular approach””
Caroline Mcdonald
Philosophy/Literature
2023-24
Project: “Examination of the Ethics of Digital Pornography”
Elliot-Elyjah Mcwhinnie
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: ““Zooming in on the regional differences of African American Language in California””
Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize
Sabrina Nguyen
Classical Studies/Literature
2024-25
Project: ““Does Freedom Mean Free? Manumission, Marriage, and Public Perception in the Roman Empire””
Jacqueline Nowak
History/Anthropology
2024-25
Project: ““For a Bountiful Harvest: Women’s Roles in Animal Sacrifice to the Goddesses Demeter and Persephone"”
Adelina Rocha
Sociology
2024-25
Project: ““Benefits and Barriers of Radical Collaboration in Performance Arts””
Ariattne Zarate Leon
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Legal Studies
2023-24
Project: “Critique of Global Migration Management”
Prizes
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
Yasmine Benabdallah
Film and Digital Media
2023-24
Project: “The one with the manes”
Details: 2023-24 Graduate Award Winner
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Kristine Buriel
Anthropology
2023-24
Project: “Whispers of Wear”
Details: 2023-24 Undergraduate Award Winner
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Chimera Mohammadi
Literature
2023-24
Project: “Computer Angel Born from Pain”
Details: 2023-24 Undergraduate Award Winner
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Jorge Palacios
Environmental Art and Social Practice
2023-24
Project: “Nomadic Infrastructures : Foraging, Craft, and New Media”
Details: 2023-24 Graduate Award Winner
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Rowan Powell
Politics
2023-24
Project: “Wood, the subject, ‘I’, St. George’s Hill 1649 – 2049”
Details: 2023-24 Graduate Award Winner
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Robbie Trocchia
Digital Arts and New Media
2023-24
Project: “eroto-system”
Details: 2023-24 Graduate Award Winner
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Fellows Archive
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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
Arielle Burgdorf
Literature
Public Fellow
2024-25
Project: “The Center for the Art of Translation”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Kristine Buriel
Anthropology
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
Prizes
2023-24
Project: “Whispers of Wear”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: 2023-24 Undergraduate Award Winner
Nathaniel Burke
Philosophy
Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Research Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Philosophical Approaches to Institutional Abolition: Psychiatry”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Maury Burnett-Cavoto
Philosophy
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “KSQD Community Radio”
Level: Current
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
2023-24
Project: “SPECTRES OF EMPIRE: Black Activism and Cultural Politics in Neocolonial Britain 1975-2000”
Level: Graduate
Leonard Butingan
History
Summer Research Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Spectres of Empire: Black British Activism and Cultural Politics in Neocolonial Britain 1976-2000”
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
Breanna Byrd
Feminist Studies
Public Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Warren County Environmental Action Team”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
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
Paulina Cardenas
Literature
Summer Pathways Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Boundless Utopianism: Julia Alvarez’s A Cafecito Story as Foundation for Worlding”
Level: Current
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
Maya Wax Cavallaro
Linguistics
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2024-25
Project: “The phonetics and phonology of domain-final sonorant consonant devoicing”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Bristol Cave-LaCoste
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Living Openly and Notoriously: Sexually-Nonconforming Women Navigating Immigration Control, 1852-1924”
Level: Graduate
Betsy Centeno
Social Psychology
Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Research Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Harm Reduction Perspectives on Substance Use and Sexual Health Among Latine Students”
Level: Current
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
Man Ning Chan
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Music, Tradition, and Politics: A History of Qin-zither in Early Modern China”
Level: Current
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
2023-24
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
Leo Colletta
History
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Museum of Art & History (MAH)”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
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
Isabel Cordova
Literature/Psychology
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
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
2023-24
Level: Graduate
Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience
Stefania Cotei
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Unarchiving Memory”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
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
Julian Crown
Linguistics/Sociology
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2024-25
Project: ““Language, Media, and the Social Construction of Homelessness””
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
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: Faculty
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2023-24
Jake Davison
History
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “San Lorenzo Valley Museum”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Alexander Day
History
Dissertation Fellow
2004-05
Project: “The Rural in Twentieth-Century Chinese Radical Discourse”
Level: Graduate
Dani Dayao
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/History of Art and Visual Culture
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
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
Kriti Dokania
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “The Literary Bridge: Linking Skills and Careers”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate