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.
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2023-24
Ben Breen
History
2023-24
Project: “The Digital Archive of Psychedelic History”
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowship for 2023-24
Muriam Davis
History
2023-24
Project: “Algeria, Decolonization, and the French Social Sciences”
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2023-24
Renee Fox
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Werewolf Hunters, Jungle Queens, and Space Commandoes: The Lost Worlds of Women Comics Artists”
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellows for 2022-23
Christine Hong
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Literature
2023-24
Project: “The Local as Curriculum in K-12 Ethnic Studies in Santa Cruz County”
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowship for 2023-24
Jennifer Kelly
Feminist Studies/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2022-23
Project: “Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine”
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellows for 2022-23
Madhavi Murty
Feminist Studies
2022-23
Project: “Sonic India: Sound and the Making of Folk Nationalisms”
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2022-23
Elaine Sullivan
History
2022-23
Project: “Re-contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus at the Cemetery of Saqqara in Virtual Reality”
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellows for 2022-23
Emine Hande Tuna
Philosophy
2022-23
Project: “Sensitive Aesthetics”
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2022-23
Alice Yang
History/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
2022-23
Project: “Stop Repeating History: Japanese American Women, Memories of the World War II Incarceration, and Contemporary Transnational Antiracist Activism”
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellows for 2022-23
Graduate Student Awards
Barber Fellow
Amani Liggett
Literature
2022-23
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
Mia Tempestt Boykin
Literature
2022-23
Debbie Duarte
Literature
2022-23
Caitlin-Anne Flaws
Literature
2022-23
Dustin Gray
Philosophy
2022-23
Mark Howard
Politics
2022-23
Marilia Kaisar
Film & Digital Media
2022-23
Allison Nguyen
Psychology
2022-23
LuLing Osofsky
History of Art and Visual Culture
2022-23
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow
Ksenia Fir
Film & Digital Media
2022-23
Philip Groth
Philosophy
2022-23
Piper Milton
History
2022-23
Joshua Tan
History
2022-23
NHC Graduate Winter Program Fellow
Brittney Jimenez-Bayardo
Latin American and Latino Studies
2022-23
Priscilla Martinez
History
2022-23
Maureen McGuire
Visual Studies
2022-23
Erick Msumanje
Film & Digital Media
2022-23
Adriane Stoia
History
2022-23
Public Fellow
Kendall Grady
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Theresa Hice-Fromille
Sociology
2022-23
Project: “Reality Labs”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Thais Miller
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Jewish Film Institute (JFI)”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Nathan Osorio
Literature
2022-23
Project: “UC Press”
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2022-2023
Katie O’Hare
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Santa Cruz Shakespeare”
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2022-2023
Emily Padilla
Feminist Studies
2022-23
Project: “Transgender Law Center”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Radhika Prasad
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Center for the Art of Translation”
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2022-2023
Emily Travis
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Prison Journalism Project (PJP)”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Jonathan van Harmelen
History
2022-23
Project: “Densho”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Sawyer Seminar Fellow
Aaron Aruck
History
2022-23
Details: "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
Juliana Nzongo
Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
2022-23
Details: "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
SSRC-DPD Fellow
Clara Bergamini
History
2022-23
Project: “Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster”
Leonard Butingan
History
2022-23
Project: “Black Anti-Racism Activism and the Afterlife of Empire in Britain 1978-2000”
Susanna Collinson
History of Art and Visual Culture
2022-23
Project: “Pacific Experiments”
Anandi Gandhi
Anthropology
2022-23
Project: “Coexistent Futures: Elephant Socialities in South-East Asia”
Mario Gómez-Zamora
Latin American and Latino Studies
2022-23
Project: “Colonial Violence, Murder, and Strategies of Resistance among Queer P’urhépecha People in Michoacán and the United States”
Kaiya Gordon
Feminist Studies
2022-23
Project: “Abolition, Community Practices, and Gender Variance in the Transsexual News Telegraph Collection”
Aaron Samuel Mulenga
History of Art and Visual Culture
2022-23
Project: “Embodied Absence: The Phantom Load of the Tenga Tenga”
Lalu Esra Ozban
Film and Digital Media
2022-23
Project: “Koli Sinemaları: Sex Cinemas as Trans Sites of Memory, Community-Building, and Sex Work”
Matthew Polzin
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Speculative Biologies: Race, Gender, and Science in Feminist and Queer Utopian Fiction”
Koda Sokol
Sociology
2022-23
Project: “Feeling Gendered: Affect and the Relational Politics of Gender Recognition”
Summer Sullivan
Environmental Studies
2022-23
Project: “Fantasies of Farm Labor: Digital Agriculture’s New Kind of Worker in the Salinas Valley Lettuce Industry”
Alex Wand
Music
2022-23
Project: “Monarch Waystation Soundmap: Tracing the Migratory Corridors of the Western Monarch Butterfly”
Summer Dissertation Fellow
Shu Chang
History
2022-23
Project: “The Life and Death of the Socialist Factory: Spatial Politics and Factory Life in China, 1958 to the Present”
David Duncan
History
2022-23
Project: “Voices in the Tule: The Oral History of School Desegregation in the San Francisco Bay Area”
Steven Green
History
2022-23
Project: “Noshing in the Midwest: Foodways and Midwestern Jewish Communities”
Angie Sijun Lou
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Pale Unhappy Dog: Stories”
Michael McCarrin
History of Consciousness
2022-23
Project: “Metaphysical Bias in Western Mathematics”
Details: Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow
Anne Napatalung
Feminist Studies
2022-23
Project: “The Tuskegee School of Midwifery: Exposing the Suppression of Black and Indigenous Midwifery Knowledges in U.S. Medicine in Service to Reimagining Reproductive Care”
Marina Segatti
Feminist Studies
2022-23
Project: “Queer and Trans Digital Activism: Neoconservatism and Democracy in Brazil”
Meleia Simon-Reynolds
History
2022-23
Project: “Transpacific Images: Photographs of Filipinx Communities in Hawai'i and the Pajaro Valley”
Jinghong Zhang
History
2022-23
Project: “Down to the Roots: Teeth, Dentistry, and Oral Hygiene in Modern China, 1908-2021”
Summer Research Fellow
Man Ning Chan
History
2022-23
Project: “High and Low in Early Modern China: Using Qin-Zither as an Example”
Project: “Praise the Gods and Kings: A Look at Ptolemaic Festivals in Alexandria”
Lia Bonver
Literature/Classical Studies
2021-22
Project: “Weaving, Witchcraft, and Women in Ancient Greece”
Theresa Bostic
History/Sociology
2021-22
Project: “Santa Cruz’s Elusive Figure: London Nelson”
Magali Chonteco
Literature/Spanish Studies
2021-22
Project: “Design, Production, and Intellectual Property: The Evolution of Fast Fashion in the Age of Social Media”
Owen Cooksy
History
2022-23
Project: “The Death of the Irish Soldier: The British Army, Irish Guerrillas, and the Murder of Henry Wilson”
Valeria Garcia
Sociology
2022-23
Project: “Whose HSI? A Look into the Undergraduate Latine Student Experience at UCSC”
Uriel Herszage
Literature/Music
2021-22
Project: “20th Century Myth: The Epic in Modern Poetry”
Elina Juvonen
History/Anthropology
2022-23
Project: “Drafting the New American Woman: Women's Magazines and the Foreign During the Cold War”
Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize
Matthew Kogan
Linguistics/Literature
2021-22
Project: “When Complexity Becomes too Complex: Agreement Attraction in Embedded Questions”
Yitong Lei
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/East Asian Studies
2022-23
Project: “Dreaming of Chinatown: How Changing Images of Chinatown Act as Sites of Racemaking”
Shavit Melamed
Literature/Sociology
2022-23
Project: “Radio Activities: Extracurricular College Radio and Academic Success”
Sage Michaels
History/Jewish Studies
2021-22
Project: “The Overlooked Women of the Fight for Irish Independence
”
Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize
Ann Niland
Literature/Feminist Studies
2022-23
Project: “To Identity or Not To Identity: Diversity, Marketing, and the White Savior in Science Fiction & Fantasy From The Dark Tower Series to Star Trek”
Ivette Orozco Sanchez
Literature/Spanish Studies
2022-23
Project: “Tijuana: Transformations of a Border City”
Dylan Reinders
Applied Linguistics
2021-22
Project: “Compare and Contrast of Inclusivity in ESL Education in various Metropolitan Areas Across the United States”
Nataliia Rivera
Literature
2022-23
Project: “Human Suffering in Buddha's and Shakespeare's Work”
Robin Robinson
Literature/Spanish Studies
2022-23
Project: “Making a Man: The Monstrous and Divine Transsexual”
Arik Talmon
History/Legal Studies
2022-23
Project: “"His grain stood in the field, and the reaper appeared not": Contemporary Reactions to the Origin and Global Spread of Boycotting”
Maia Zelkha
History
2021-22
Project: “Pens of Iron: Echoes of the Psalms of David in Hebrew Poetry from Samuel HaNagid to Yehuda Amichai”
Prizes
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
Aidan Andreasen
Art & Design: Games & Playable Media
2021-22
Project: “Talos Machine”
Details: 2021-2022 Undergraduate Award Winner
Rafael Franco
Literature
2021-22
Project: “Future Farmers of Amerika: Poems From the Year 2054”
Details: 2021-2022 Graduate Award Winner
Mitra Ghaffari
Film & Digital Media
2022-23
Project: “Island Cycles”
Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner
Chisato Hughes
Social Documentation
2022-23
Project: “Treasure Island”
Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner
Ant Lorenzo
Environmental Art and Social Practice
2022-23
Project: “auxiology: on value on gold”
Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner
Chloe Rickards
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
2021-22
Project: “Cordyceps Chordata”
Details: 2021-2022 Graduate Award Winner
Lior Shamriz
Film & Digital Media
2022-23
Project: “Bird Divination in Mesopotamia Today”
Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner
Oana Tenter
Film & Digital Media
2022-23
Project: “Treasure Island”
Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner
Jingtian Zong
Environmental Art and Social Practice
2022-23
Project: “Dreaming of Shanghai in the San Lorenzo River”
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: 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: Current
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
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: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Todd Chretien,
History
Research and Travel Grant
2010-11
Level: Graduate
Alan Christy,
History
Faculty Fellow
2009-10
Project: “The Afterlives of War Monuments in Late Twentieth Century Japan”
Level: Faculty
Alan Christy,
History
CITL Faculty Fellow
2018-19
Level: Faculty
Details: CITL/Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow 2018-19
Louis Chude-Sokei,
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2007-08
Project: “The Sound of Culture: Caribbean Music and Black Technopoetics”
Level: Faculty
Sandra Chung,
Linguistics
Faculty Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Reference Grammar of Chamorro”
Level: Faculty
Mark Cioc,
History
Faculty Fellow
2002-03
Project: “Environmental Diplomacy: Ecological Interdependence and Twentieth Century Statecraft”
Level: Faculty
Lisa J. Clark,
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2013-14
Project: “Knowing When Im Right”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Jonathan Ellis, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Scarlett Clothier-Goldschmidt,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2012-13
Project: “Person-Animacy Constraints in Chamorro”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Matthew Wagers, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Wayne Spencer Coffey,
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Reproducing the Crisis: Blackness, Violence and Visual Culture in the Postwar American City”
Level: Graduate
Jonah K. Cohen,
Politics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2000-01
Project: “Anti-discrimination law and its protection of racial groups in the United States and Brazil, a Legal Analysis”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Robert Meister, Professor of Social Sciences and Political Thought
Lindsey Collins,
History of Consciousness
Dissertation Fellow
2008-09
Project: “Trial by Mountain: Suffering and Healing in Difficult Landscapes”
Level: Graduate
Nicole Collins,
Women's Studies/American Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
1998-1999
Project: “Labor Organizing and Community Sustainability in Tiajuana”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Dana Frank
Susanna Collinson,
History of Art and Visual Culture
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Pacific Experiments”
Level: Current
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: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Vilashini Cooppan,
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2006-07
Project: “Global Literature: the Racial Imaginary and the Literary World-System, 1688-2000”
Level: Faculty
Samuel Corbin,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Syntactic Priming in Comprehension”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Matthew Wagers, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Morgan Corona,
Literature/Creative Writing
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Don't Pick Corn Before It's Ripe and Other Lessons: Embodying Personal Narrative in the Codex”
Level: Undergraduate
Talia Coutin,
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Women and the Zionist Utopia: Representations of Women in Zionist Poster Art, 1930-1960”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson
Julie Cox,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
2005-06
Project: “Contact Literatures in North America: Colonial French and English Influences on American Literature from the Sixteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century”
Level: Graduate
Danielle Crawford,
Literature
Public Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Planning and Conservation League”
Level: Graduate
Danielle Crawford,
Literature
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Storms, Bombs, and Ecologies of Destruction: The Intimacies of Weather Disasters and U.S. Militarization in the Pacific”
Level: Graduate
Jacob Cribbs,
Literature/Creative Writing
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2008-09
Project: “The Atomists Tallow”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gary Young, Lecturer in Literature
Troy Crowder,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Catherine Damon,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Understanding the Ancient Egyptians Origin of Time with the Help of Modern Physics”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gildas Hamel, Lecturer in History
Lucy DaSilva,
Independent Study
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “The Blacklist Revisited: Jewish Screenwriters' Memories of the McCarthy Era”
Level: Undergraduate
Jack Davies,
History of Consciousness
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Settler Colonial Insurance: The Case of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund”
Level: Graduate
Derek Davis,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2009-10
Project: “Decisions in the Haitian Revolution”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gregory OMalley, Assistant Professor in History
Alex Davis,
Literature
Public Fellow
2020-21
Project: “City of San Jose Broadband, Digital Inclusion, and Privacy Team”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2020
Muriam Davis,
History
Faculty Awards
Faculty Fellow
2023-24
Project: “Algeria, Decolonization, and the French Social Sciences”
Level: Current
Level: Faculty
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2023-24
Alexander Day,
History
Dissertation Fellow
2004-05
Project: “The Rural in Twentieth-Century Chinese Radical Discourse”
Level: Graduate
Teresa de Lauretis,
History of Consciousness
Faculty Fellow
2006-07
Project: “Death @ Work: Reflections for the End of a Century”
Level: Faculty
Amy Rose Deal,
Linguistics
Faculty Fellow
2013-14
Project: “Types of Ergative Case”
Level: Faculty
Jeramy DeCristo,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2012-13
Level: Graduate
Francisco M. Delgado,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2014-15
Project: “Chamorro Loanword Morphology”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Sandra Chung, Professor of Linguistics
Margaret DeRosia,
History of Consciousness
Dissertation Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Detecting Desire: Women in Film Noir”
Level: Graduate
Jennifer Derr,
History
Faculty Fellow
2014-15
Project: “A New Nile: the construction of the environment and the practice of the state in colonial Egypt”
Level: Faculty
Raissa DeSmet Trumbull,
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2012-13
Project: “A Liquid World: Figuring Coloniality in the Indies”
Level: Graduate
Details: Funded by the Graduate Division
Maria Elena Diaz,
History
Faculty Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Slave Emancipation and the Changing Meanings of Freedom in Spain and Cuba, 1780-1810”
Level: Faculty
Ella Diaz,
Independent Study
Undergraduate Research Fellow
1998-1999
Project: “The Implications of Textual Dialect in American Literature”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Mary-Kay Gamel
J. Denise Diskin,
Women's Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2000-01
Project: “Negotiations of Citizenship: Reproductive Rights and Fetal Protection”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Women's Studies
David Donley,
Philosophy
Public Fellow
2016-17
Project: “Santa Cruz County Jail”
Level: Graduate
Jordan Dopkins,
Philosophy
Summer Research Fellow
2019-20
Project: “A Content View of Perceptual Experience”
Level: Graduate
Jordan Dopkins,
Philosophy
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow
2021-22
Level: Graduate
Details: 2021 NHC Graduate Summer Program
John Doris,
Philosophy
Faculty Fellow
2002-03
Project: “The Grammar of Freedom”
Level: Faculty
Kendra Dority,
Literature
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
2015-16
Project: “Deciding the Letter: Toward an Ethics of Reading across the Classical Tradition and Contemporary Latino/a Studies”
Level: Graduate
Kendra Dority,
Literature
Research and Travel Grant
2010-11
Level: Graduate
Ian Doyle,
History
Undergraduate Public Fellows
Undergraduate Student Awards
2022-23
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Frederick Dreier,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Researching the British Fascists: the Counterintelligence Agency's Primary Documents”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Adrian Drummond-Cole,
History of Consciousness
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Making Water Liquid”
Level: Graduate
Adrian Drummond-Cole,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2016-17
Project: “The Highway and the City of God: Lewish Mumford's Prophetic Response to the Automobile, Highway, and Suburb”
Level: Graduate
Adrian Drummond-Cole,
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Making Water Liquid: Information, Finance, and Flow in California’s Central Valley”
Level: Graduate
Debbie Duarte,
Literature
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Border Futurities: World-Making Practices From the Colonial Wound”
Level: Graduate
Debbie Duarte,
Literature
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2022-23
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Karen Duek,
Linguistics
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
2016-17
Project: “Meaning, Flexibility, Composition, and Co-predication”
Level: Graduate
Shaun Duke,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2008-09
Project: “Otherism: The Dissection of Humanity and the Human in Science Fiction Film”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Catherine Ramrez, Associate Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies
David Duncan,
History
Public Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Sausalito Marin City School District”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2021-2022
David Duncan,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Voices in the Tule: The Oral History of School Desegregation in the San Francisco Bay Area”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Christoph Durt,
Philosophy
Research and Travel Grant
2010-11
Level: Graduate
Ben Eischens,
Linguistics
Public Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Pacific Collegiate School”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2018
Benjamin Eischens,
Linguistics
Summer Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Negative indefinites in San Martín Peras Mixtec”
Level: Graduate
Raed El Rafei,
Film and Digital Media
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Queer Subjectivity and Space in Tripoli”
Level: Graduate
Jon Ellis,
Philosophy
Faculty Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind”
Level: Faculty
Isabella Elmore,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2019-20
Project: “The Power of Fragmentation: Re-Translating The Middle Passage”
Meg Eppel Gudgeirsson,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2015-16
Project: “Raising Tomorrow's Child: Children, Gender, and Race in Nineteenth-Century Religious Utopian Communities in the United States”
Level: Graduate
Details: Funded by the Graduate Division
Barbara Epstein,
History of Consciousness
Faculty Fellow
2001-02
Project: “The Minsk Ghetto Underground, 1941-44: Cooperation between Jews and Belarussians against the German Occupation”
Level: Faculty
Eli Erlick,
Feminist Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Biopolitics, Activism, and Transgender Resilience in the United States”
Level: Graduate
Monica Estrada Arias,
Legal Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Defining the Digital Persona”
Cesar Estrella,
Latin American and Latino Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2018-19
Project: “The Threat from the South: Latin America and the Exportation of US Immigration Policy”
Level: Graduate
Kelsi Evans,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2012-13
Level: Graduate
Darcey Evans,
Anthropology
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Straits of Encounter: Bordering Waters between Settler States Division of Social Sciences”
Level: Graduate
Gabriel Evans Cayley,
Feminist Studies
Summer Research Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Movement Infrastructures: Tracing Colonial Temporalities of Age, Generation and Inheritance”
Level: Graduate
Peter Fabian,
Linguistics
Summer Research Fellow
2012-13
Level: Graduate
Mikayla Falk,
Literature
Undergraduate Public Fellows
2020-21
Project: “Program Coordinator, Senderos”
Level: Undergraduate
Donka Farkas,
Linguistics
Faculty Fellow
2004-05
Project: “Project on the Cross-Linguistics Semantics of Verbal Mood in Subordinate Clauses”
Level: Faculty
Ryan Farrell,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “The Spirit of the Unknown Scout: Exploring Memories of the Second World War and American-Japanese Relations in a Multilateral World”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Alan Christy
Shaina Feinberg,
Creative Writing
Undergraduate Research Fellow
1998-1999
Project: “The Art of Map-Making”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Yamashita
Kelly Feinstein-Johnson,
History
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
2011-12
Project: “An Account of Notorious Robbers, Murders, and Sporting Ladies: The Visual Culture of English Broadside Ballads, 1660-1800”
Level: Graduate
Taylor Feld,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2012-13
Project: “Sir Walter ScottsIvanhoe& Interpretations of History”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Mayanthi Fernando,
Anthropology
UC Society Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Mayanthi Fernando Reconfiguring France: Muslim Citizens in the Shadows of Secularism”