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
Anjali Arondekar
Feminist Studies
2025-26
Project: ““Oceanic Sex: Archives of Caste and Indenture””
Sophia Azeb
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab”
Shelly Chan
History
2025-26
Project: “Disappearance of the Nanyang: A Frontier History between China and Southeast Asia”
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Caro Flores
Philosophy
2025-26
Project: “The unfinished return: Portuguese colonialism and white ignorance”
National Humanities Center Faculty Fellow
Josefina Bittar
Languages/Applied Linguistics
2024-25
Kate Jones
History
2024-25
Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
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
Spencer Armada
Literature
2025-26
Center for South Asian Studies Graduate Fellows
Ameneh Eskandari
Politics
2024-25
Aiswarya Gangadhar
Psychology
2024-25
Ayush Kumar
Economics
2024-25
Sagarika Pandey
History
2024-25
Ankit Sharma
Sociology
2024-25
Shatakshi Singh
Politics
2024-25
Sameem Wami
Literature
2024-25
Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow
Won Jeon
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Project for a Cybernetic Psychology: A History of Machine Learning, 1840 to the present”
Md Mizanur Rahman
Politics
2024-25
Project: “Politics beyond the State: The Birth of an Ethical Politics in Anticolonial Muslim Thought”
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Public Fellow
Sam Kahn
Philosophy
2025-26
Project: “Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO)”
Linda Ulbrich
History
2025-26
Project: “City of Santa Cruz”
Summer Dissertation Fellow
Xafsa Ciise
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Hypnosis, The Other, and the Making of Modern Trauma Theory”
Stefania Cotei
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Unarchiving Memory: Silenced Histories of Romani Slavery in the Inter-Imperial Context of the Romanian Principalities”
Carlos Cruz
History
2025-26
Project: “Rethinking the Indigenous Proletariat: Land, Autonomy, and Resistance in Rural Mexico, 1890–1952”
Arlo Fosburg
Feminist Studies
2025-26
Project: “University Discipline: Militarization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Land-Grant College System”
Details: UC Network Fellow
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Kiley McLaughlin
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Mámaw: Unruly Imaginings in the Undercurrents of Empire”
Em Padilla
Feminist Studies
2025-26
Project: “Inclusion as a Necropolitical Project: Transness, the Latinx Soldiering Experience and the Future(s) of the U.S. War Machine”
Jonathan Paramore
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Listeners Adapt Speech Based on Talker Social Status: Evidence from Pakistani Punjabi”
Mia Tempestt Boykin
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Wanda, Why Aren’t You Dead?: A Literary Revival & Honoring of Wanda Coleman”
Details: UC Network Fellow
Summer Pathways Fellow
Yadi Dong
Philosophy
2025-26
Project: “Memory in the Hands of Power: Institutional Mnemonic Injustice Against Black and Indigenous Communities”
Anna Egorova
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Muslim Socialist Visions: Volga Tatars and Self-Determination in Revolutionary Russia”
Francesca Gibson
History
2025-26
Project: “Hysterical Conceptions: The Intersection of Madness, Childbirth, and Medical Beliefs in the 17th and 18th Centuries”
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Emily Knick
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Temporal meaning in Khalkha Mongolian”
Tanvi Rupakula
History
2025-26
Project: “Ethnohistory of Debt in Early Colonial India”
Summer Research Fellow
Annika Berry
Literature
2025-26
Project: “The Life of Another: Pulling at the Roots of Modern Biography”
Jose Chavez Ayala
History
2025-26
Project: “A Race in Division: Revisiting America’s Drug War and its Racial Dimensions”
Lilith Frakes
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “The Mystery Monkey: Hybrid Primates and the Politics of Conservation in a Changing World”
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Larry Lyu
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Archive and investigation of the endangered Salar language”
Sagarika Pandey
History
2025-26
Project: “Industrial capitalism and Labour in Central India: a study of cotton textile and coal industry (1890-1990)”
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards
Earth Futures Institute Frontier Fellows
Michaela Barker
Creative Technologies/Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Enhancing Digital Equity for the Earth’s Future: Bridging the Digital Divide with Languages of Resilience”
Leo Colletta
History/Politics
2025-26
Project: “Public Power in the Age of the Atomic Bomb: The Impact of Global Anti-Nuclear Activism on the Proliferation of Nuclear Arms”
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Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
Isa Anderson
Literature/Education
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”
Dalia Antebi
History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Democratic Women's Club”
Alik Arslanian
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Boys and Girls Club Santa Cruz County”
Hannah Boatman
Feminist Studies/Sociology
2025-26
Project: “Your Future is Our Business”
Danielle De La Cruz
History
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History”
Kriti Dokania
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Seymour Marine Discovery Center”
Maddie Frealy
Literature/Legal Studies
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Poetry Project”
Paulina Garcia
Feminist Studies/Politics
2025-26
Project: “The Hive Poetry Collective”
Naomi Garrett
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Poet Laureate”
Sophie Goodwin
Philosophy
2025-26
Project: “Boys and Girls Club Santa Cruz County”
Michael Griffith
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Poetry Project”
Kian Hladky
Philosophy/Anthropology
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History”
Shoshana Katler
Sociology/Jewish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Your Future is Our Business”
Alex Lund
History/Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Works”
Daniel Mair
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Public Libraries”
Alanah Martinez
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Feminist Studies
2025-26
Project: “United Way of Santa Cruz County”
Grace Menagh
History/Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Poet Laureate”
Dina Minovitsky
Applied Linguistics/Cognitive Science
2025-26
Project: “Skills of Life Cafe”
Mayah Moore
Legal Studies/Psychology/Jewish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Democratic Women's Club”
Ashley Palma-Jimenez
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Jadyn-Kathleen Polk
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Black Surf Santa Cruz”
Riana Prieto
Cognitive Science/Literature
2025-26
Project: “Save Our Shores”
Sukhman Rai
2025-26
Project: “Sikh Foundation”
Riley Ramos
Literature/Psychology
2025-26
Project: “Second Harvest Food Bank”
Daymia Rousseau
History
2025-26
Project: “KSQD Community Radio”
Ruby Ruetmann
History
2025-26
Project: “Boys and Girls Club Santa Cruz County”
Ava Salinas
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Ayla Sana
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Psychology
2025-26
Project: “WILDR Santa Cruz”
Vee Santoscoy
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Open Campus”
Parker Shabhala
Environmental Studies/Literature
2025-26
Project: “The Hive Poetry Collective”
Michael Shires
Literature/Education
2025-26
Project: “Second Harvest Food Bank”
Galacia Stack Lozano
History
2025-26
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Lilly Tookey
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz County Youth Poet Laureate Program”
Punya Uppal
Cognitive Science/Literature
2025-26
Project: “Seymour Marine Discovery Center”
Morgan Woodley
History of Art and Visual Culture/History
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History”
Anna Yu
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Community Foundation”
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
Aivan Bach
Anthropology/Environmental Science/History
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Serena Barriga Ashurst
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Linguistics Oral History”
Ella Benson
Feminist Studies/Cognitive Science
2025-26
Project: “Archiving Movement: UC Campus Activism in a Time of Genocide”
Julieta Castro
History of Art and Visual Culture/History
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Sophia Coffing
Literature/Psychology
2025-26
Project: “Alien Intelligence and Human Imagination”
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Mia Collins
Jewish Studies/Psychology
2025-26
Project: “Islamic Material Culture in West Africa: Exhibition and Academic Engagement at UCSC”
Sofia Dicesare-Bystrowicz
History/Sociology
2025-26
Project: “Border Futures: Undergraduates Reimagining the US-Mexico Boundary through Film, Research, and Community-Humanitarian Engagement”
Jamie Dy
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies/Sociology
2025-26
Project: “Saritaan: Filipino and Filipino American Stories - a Watsonville is in the Heart Project”
Hala Elamine
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Counter-Colonial Ecologies”
Eva Fox
Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism/Literature/Spanish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Acoustics of Bilingual Speech”
Eleanor Garrison
Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism/Spanish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Acoustics of Bilingual Speech”
Aldrine Gatpo
2025-26
Project: “Saritaan: Filipino and Filipino American Stories - a Watsonville is in the Heart Project”
Jade Glentzer
Anthropology/History
2025-26
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Jackson Gross
Philosophy
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Laaila Irshad
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Archiving Movement: UC Campus Activism in a Time of Genocide”
Tyler Kay
Linguistics/History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Discourse Analysis: The Happiness Project”
Lila Kindall
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Global and Community Health
2025-26
Project: “Archiving Movement: UC Campus Activism in a Time of Genocide”
Gigi Lea
Applied Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Multilingual Corpus of Paraguay”
Michael Lieu
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2025-26
Project: “Hybridization of African American and Korean Cultures in K-pop and Call-and-Response Practices”
Claire Lindsay
History/Mathematics/History of Consciousness
2025-26
Project: “Islamic Material Culture in West Africa: Exhibition and Academic Engagement at UCSC”
Lucy Liu
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
Andrei Lynch
History
2025-26
Project: “Border Futures: Undergraduates Reimagining the US-Mexico Boundary through Film, Research, and Community-Humanitarian Engagement”
Monnika Mattson
History/Psychology
2025-26
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Seiya Mendiola
Literature
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Carolyn Mish
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Discourse Analysis: The Happiness Project”
Niya Mustafa
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Education
2025-26
Project: “Counter-Colonial Ecologies”
Nancy Ortiz
History
2025-26
Project: “Saritaan: Filipino and Filipino American Stories - a Watsonville is in the Heart Project”
Priscilla Ramos
Psychology/Cognitive Studies/Spanish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Teguima Research and Revitalization”
Phoebe Rettberg
Feminist Studies/Film & Digital Media
2025-26
Project: “Border Futures: Undergraduates Reimagining the US-Mexico Boundary through Film, Research, and Community-Humanitarian Engagement”
Rafael Revolorio
Global Community Health/Latin American and Latino Studies
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz in Color”
Abigale Roth
Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism
2025-26
Project: “Acoustics of Bilingual Speech”
Fatima Sanchez
Linguistics
2025-26
Project: “Teguima Research and Revitalization”
Shalini Satish
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Cognitive Science
2025-26
Project: “Alien Intelligence and Human Imagination”
Tikva Sheket
History/Environmental Science
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Kai Sotto
History
2025-26
Project: “Saritaan: Filipino and Filipino American Stories - a Watsonville is in the Heart Project”
Court Sugano
Global and Community Health/History
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Skyla Tomine
Feminist Studies/Politics
2025-26
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Aissata Wagne
Philosophy/History of Art & Visual Culture
2025-26
Project: “Islamic Material Culture in West Africa: Exhibition and Academic Engagement at UCSC”
Peyton White
History
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Caroline Wilson
Art/East Asian Studies
2025-26
Project: “The Visual Making of the Pajaro and Salinas Valleys”
Porter Wyche
History
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Jackson Young
History/History of Art and Visual Culture
2025-26
Project: “Selling Saqqara”
Pilar Zapien
Literature/Spanish Studies
2025-26
Project: “Alien Intelligence and Human Imagination”
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?””
Julian Crown
Linguistics/Sociology
2024-25
Project: ““Language, Media, and the Social Construction of Homelessness””
Joshua Lieberstein
Linguistics
2024-25
Project: “Verbless Clauses in Mayan K’ iche’: A non-copular approach”
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
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Sabrina Nguyen
Classical Studies/Literature
2024-25
Project: “Does Freedom Mean Free? Manumission, Marriage, and Public Perception in the Roman Empire”
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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”
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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John Bowin
Philosophy
Faculty Fellow
2006-07
Project: “The Philosophical Uses of the Concept Potentiality in Aristotle and his Commentators”
Level: Faculty
John Boye-Lynn
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards
2023-24
Project: “Investigating Visual Information as a Constraint on Sound Change”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize
Axelle Boyer
History of Art and Visual Culture
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Gungu la Mcezo: Performing Citizenship Through Anticolonial Resistance”
Level: Graduate
Mia Tempestt Boykin
Literature
Public Fellow
2021-22
Project: “TG/ENBY Project”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
Mia Tempestt Boykin
Literature
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2022-23
Level: Graduate
Jessica Branch
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “The Role of the Media in the Conflict in Northern Ireland”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson
Dennis Brand
Literature
Research and Travel Grant
2009-10
Level: Graduate
Adrian Brasoveanu
Linguistics
IHR Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Decomposing Natural Language Quantification”
Level: Faculty
Benjamin Breen
History
Faculty Fellow
2018-19
Project: “The Early Modern Drug Database: A Pilot Project”
Level: Faculty
Details: Digital Research Faculty Fellowship for 2018-19
Ben Breen
History
Faculty Awards
Faculty Fellow
2023-24
Project: “The Digital Archive of Psychedelic History”
Level: Faculty
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowship for 2023-24
Joshua Brett
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Building the Heavenly State: The Taiping Construction of Moral, Social, and Political Order”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Winner
Mentor: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History
Mykel Brinkerhoff
Linguistics
Summer Research Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Prosodic and Phonetic Considerations in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec”
Level: Graduate
Christopher Brooks
History
Research and Travel Grant
2009-10
Level: Graduate
Margaret Brose
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2004-05
Project: “The Body of Italy: Allegories of the Female Figure in Italian Lyric Poetry”
Level: Faculty
Jordan C. Brown
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2014-15
Project: “Rumored Fair Housing Act and California Proposition 14”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: David Brundage, Professor of History
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: 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: 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: Graduate
Leonard Butingan
History
Graduate Student Awards
THI Moving Image Lab Public Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Curatorial Archive Fellow, Isaac Julien Studio (London) and Isaac Julien Lab (UC Santa Cruz)”
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: 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: 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
Julieta Castro
History of Art and Visual Culture/History
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Level: Current
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: 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: Graduate
Shelly Chan
History
Faculty Awards
Faculty Fellow
2025-26
Project: “Disappearance of the Nanyang: A Frontier History between China and Southeast Asia”
Level: Current
Level: Faculty
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
Jose Chavez Ayala
History
Summer Research Fellow
2025-26
Project: “A Race in Division: Revisiting America’s Drug War and its Racial Dimensions”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
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
Xafsa Ciise
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2025-26
Project: “Hypnosis, The Other, and the Making of Modern Trauma Theory”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
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
Sophia Coffing
Literature/Psychology
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Alien Intelligence and Human Imagination”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
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: Undergraduate
Leo Colletta
History
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Leo Colletta
History/Politics
Earth Futures Institute Frontier Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Public Power in the Age of the Atomic Bomb: The Impact of Global Anti-Nuclear Activism on the Proliferation of Nuclear Arms”
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
Mia Collins
Jewish Studies/Psychology
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Islamic Material Culture in West Africa: Exhibition and Academic Engagement at UCSC”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
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: 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: Graduate
Stefania Cotei
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2025-26
Project: “Unarchiving Memory: Silenced Histories of Romani Slavery in the Inter-Imperial Context of the Romanian Principalities”
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