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 450 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

 
Barber Fellow

Katie  O’Hare

Literature

2024-25

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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”

Matthew Kogan

Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Indexical”

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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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Stefania Cotei

History of Consciousness

2024-25

Project: “Unarchiving Memory”

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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

 
EXCEL Fellow

Isa Anderson

2024-25

Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”

Max Ari'i

Anthropology/Literature

2024-25

Project: “Museum of Natural History”

Liliana Barajas

Anthropology/Literature

2024-25

Project: “Open Campus”

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

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”

Madeline Maurer

Environmental Studies/Literature

2024-25

Project: “Foolscap Press”

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

2024-25

Project: “Santa Cruz Works”

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”

Eetai Schwartz

History/Philosophy

2024-25

Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”

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”

 
EXPLORE Fellow

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?”

Aivan Bach

Anthropology/Environmental Sciences

2024-25

Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”

Jade Glentzer

Anthropology/History

2024-25

Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”

Nora Ligotti

Applied Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Corpus of Paraguayans in Spain”

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”

Chimera Mohammadi

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Creative Writing - What Happened Next?”

Alia Moore

History/Politics

2024-25

Project: “Multimodal AI as a Tool to Augment Historical Research”

Grace Nighswonger

Cognitive Science/Literature

2024-25

Project: “Discourse Analysis”

Clare O'Brien

Literature

2024-25

Project: “Creative Writing - What Happened Next?”

Marissa Omaque

Anthropology

2024-25

Project: “AI & Human Imagination”

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?”

Ben Sommer

Sociology/Linguistics

2024-25

Project: “Syllable Structure in Dialects of English”

Court Sugano

Global and Community Health

2024-25

Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”

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”

 
Undergraduate Public Fellow

Thomas Balmat

Literature/Anthropology

2023-24

Project: “The American Prospect ”

Liliana Barajas

Literature/Anthropology

2023-24

Project: “Open Campus”

Ian Doyle

History

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Coury Jones

History

2023-24

Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art”

Ruby Jung

Literature

2023-24

Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”

Maia Michelle Mislang

History

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

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Janeth Pérez-Quirke

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Jacob  Press

History

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Serena Ramirez

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Psychology

2023-24

Project: “Community Foundation”

Sharan Sethi

Literature/Philosophy

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

Eetai Shwartz

History/Philosophy

2023-24

Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”

Sebastian Zamora

History

2023-24

Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art”

 
Undergraduate Research Fellow

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”

Brock Hrehor

Literature/History of Consciousness

2023-24

Project: “Multicultural Media: Supporting Cultural Pluralism and Fostering Global Awareness through International Radio”

Ivan Jimenez

History/Literature

2023-24

Project: “L'art Pour la Guerre: The Museo del Prado's Cultural Power in the Spanish Civil War”

Molly Maher

History/Psychology

2023-24

Project: “The Legacy of the Om Commune in Ben Lomond”

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Caroline Mcdonald

Philosophy/Literature

2023-24

Project: “Examination of the Ethics of Digital Pornography”

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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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

Maury Burnett-Cavoto

Philosophy

EXCEL Fellow

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

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

EXCEL Fellow

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

EXCEL Fellow

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

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

EXCEL Fellow

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

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 Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards

2022-23

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”

Level: Undergraduate

Ian Doyle

History

Undergraduate Public Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards

2023-24

Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”

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

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