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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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
Carlos Cruz
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2025-26
Project: “Rethinking the Indigenous Proletariat: Land, Autonomy, and Resistance in Rural Mexico, 1890–1952”
Level: Current
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
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “San Lorenzo Valley Museum”
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: Undergraduate
Danielle De La Cruz
History
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History”
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
Sofia Dicesare-Bystrowicz
History/Sociology
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Border Futures: Undergraduates Reimagining the US-Mexico Boundary through Film, Research, and Community-Humanitarian Engagement”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
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
Literature
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “The Literary Bridge: Linking Skills and Careers”
Level: Undergraduate
Kriti Dokania
Literature
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Seymour Marine Discovery Center”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Yadi Dong
Philosophy
Summer Pathways Fellow
2025-26
Project: “Memory in the Hands of Power: Institutional Mnemonic Injustice Against Black and Indigenous Communities”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
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
Adrian Drummond-Cole
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2016-17
Project: “The Highway and the City of God: Lewish Mumford's Prophetic Response to the Automobile, Highway, and Suburb”
Level: Graduate
Adrian Drummond-Cole
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Making Water Liquid: Information, Finance, and Flow in California’s Central Valley”
Level: Graduate
Debbie Duarte
Literature
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Border Futurities: World-Making Practices From the Colonial Wound”
Level: Graduate
Debbie Duarte
Literature
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2022-23
Level: Graduate
Debbie Duarte
Literature
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2023-24
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Karen Duek
Linguistics
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
2016-17
Project: “Meaning, Flexibility, Composition, and Co-predication”
Level: Graduate
Shaun Duke
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2008-09
Project: “Otherism: The Dissection of Humanity and the Human in Science Fiction Film”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Catherine Ramrez, Associate Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies
David Duncan
History
Public Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Sausalito Marin City School District”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2021-2022
David Duncan
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Voices in the Tule: The Oral History of School Desegregation in the San Francisco Bay Area”
Level: Graduate
Christoph Durt
Philosophy
Research and Travel Grant
2010-11
Level: Graduate
Jamie Dy
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies/Sociology
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Saritaan: Filipino and Filipino American Stories - a Watsonville is in the Heart Project”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Arabella Edler
History of Art and Visual Culture/Literature
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Santa Cruz Poetry Project”
Level: Undergraduate
Anna Egorova
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Muslim Communism Archive”
Level: Graduate
Anna Egorova
History of Consciousness
Summer Pathways Fellow
2025-26
Project: “Muslim Socialist Visions: Volga Tatars and Self-Determination in Revolutionary Russia”
Level: Current
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
Hala Elamine
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Counter-Colonial Ecologies”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Jon Ellis
Philosophy
Faculty Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind”
Level: Faculty
Isabella Elmore
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2019-20
Project: “The Power of Fragmentation: Re-Translating The Middle Passage”
Stephen David Engel
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2023-24
Project: “Deep History and Genre: A Case for Experimentation”
Level: Graduate
Details: Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow
Meg Eppel Gudgeirsson
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2015-16
Project: “Raising Tomorrow's Child: Children, Gender, and Race in Nineteenth-Century Religious Utopian Communities in the United States”
Level: Graduate
Details: Funded by the Graduate Division
Barbara Epstein
History of Consciousness
Faculty Fellow
2001-02
Project: “The Minsk Ghetto Underground, 1941-44: Cooperation between Jews and Belarussians against the German Occupation”
Level: Faculty
Eli Erlick
Feminist Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Biopolitics, Activism, and Transgender Resilience in the United States”
Level: Graduate
Pablo Escudero
History of Consciousness
Summer Pathways Fellow
2023-24
Project: “A New Sense of History in a World Caught Between Extractivism and Progress: mining and resistance in Fierro Urco, Ecuador”
Level: Graduate
Ameneh Eskandari
Politics
Center for South Asian Studies Graduate Fellows
2024-25
Level: Current
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
Bronwyn Eyre
History/Spanish Studies
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Museum of Art & History (MAH)”
Level: Undergraduate
Peter Fabian
Linguistics
Summer Research Fellow
2012-13
Level: Graduate
Mikayla Falk
Literature
Undergraduate Public Fellow
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
Bart Feberwee
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2023-24
Project: “Crisis, Revolutionary Subjectivity, and Dutch ‘Council Communism’”
Level: Graduate
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”
Level: Faculty
Jason File
Literature/Creative Writing
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “I am Trying”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Yamashita, Professor of Literature
Keegan Finberg
Literature
School of Criticism and Theory Fellowship
2010-11
Project: “School of Criticism and Theory 2010 at Cornell University. Ithaca, NY”
Level: Graduate
Julie Fintamag
History
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Visual Constructions of the Pajaro and Salinas Valleys & Watsonville is in the Heart”
Level: Undergraduate
Ksenia Fir
Film & Digital Media
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow
2022-23
Level: Graduate
Ksenia Firsova
Film & Digital Media
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Robocops and Prison Spaceships: Carceral Futurism in American Film and Television”
Level: Graduate
Diane Fisher
American Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2000-01
Project: “Dancing Souls: An exploration of the Empowering Aspects of Dance on Southern Slave Plantations”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Dana Frank, Professor of History
Logan Fitzsimons
Psychology
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Queering the Cowboy”
Level: Undergraduate
Caitlin-Anne Flaws
Literature
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2022-23
Level: Graduate
Caitlin-Anne Flaws
Literature
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2023-24
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Ana Flecha
Latin American and Latino Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2021-22
Project: “The Santo Daime Bailado as Racialized and Gendered Psychedelic Religious Choreography”
Level: Graduate
Jamie Florence Dy
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart”
Level: Undergraduate
Caro Flores
Philosophy
Faculty Fellow
2025-26
Project: “The unfinished return: Portuguese colonialism and white ignorance”
Level: Current
Level: Faculty
Aron Ford
Film & Digital Media/Critical & Visual Theory
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Processes of Fantasy and Identification n the Work of Roland Barthes”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Carla Freccero, Professor of Literature
Mozelle/Norma Foreman/Klahn
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2004-05
Project: “Constructing a Feminist Poetic in Contemporary Chile”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Norma Klahn, Associate Professor of Literature
Valerie Forman
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
1999-00
Project: “Counterfeit Investments: Economy, Exemplarity, and the Question of Value in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literature”
Level: Graduate
Arlo Fosburg
Feminist Studies
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2025-26
Project: “University Discipline: Militarization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Land-Grant College System”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: UC Network Fellow
Jess Fournier
Feminist Studies
Public Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Critical Resistance”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
Renee Fox
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Necromantic Victorians: Reanimation and the Historical Imagination in British and Irish Literature”
Level: Faculty