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.
Mentor: Forrest Robinson, Professor of American Studies
Rodrigo Guitierrez-Bravo,
Linguistics
Dissertation Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Fronting Operations and Subject Positions in Spanish”
Level: Graduate
Ronald Gunna,
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Feminist Studies
Undergraduate Public Fellows
2021-22
Project: “Editorial Intern, The American Prospect”
Level: Undergraduate
Yizhou Guo,
Feminist Studies
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Postsocialist Youth and Online China”
Level: Graduate
Lisabeth Haas,
History
Faculty Fellow
2002-03
Project: “The Chumash Rafael and the History of Colonial and Mexican California”
Level: Faculty
Asad Haider,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2014-15
Project: “Title pending”
Level: Graduate
Suzy Halajian,
Film & Digital Media
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Reimagining Narratives of Crisis: Moving Image and Performance Practices in the Middle East, North Africa, and its Diaspora”
Level: Graduate
Rebecca Hall,
History
Dissertation Fellow
2001-02
Project: “African American Women in Slave Revolts: The Historical Construction of Racialized Gender”
Level: Graduate
Robert Halpern,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Between Autonomy and Engagement: Social Dissent and Artistic Innovation in the Work of Louis Bertrand”
Level: Graduate
Jenny Ham,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2023-2024
Project: “Paradise for the Insane: Communizing Health/Care, A Case Study of Geel, Belgium”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Metztli Hamelius,
Music
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Queering Female Pachuquismo: Fashion, Identity, and Relationships in 1940s Los Angeles”
Level: Undergraduate
Kyuhyun Han,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Seeing the Forest Like a State: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949 – 1988”
Level: Graduate
Kyuhyun Han,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Seeing the Forest Like a State: Forest Management, Wildlife Conservation, and Center-Periphery Relations in Northeast China, 1949 – 1988”
Level: Graduate
Jorge Hankamer,
Linguistics
Faculty Fellow
2005-06
Project: “Investigations in Scandinavian Nominals Structure”
Level: Faculty
Lani Hanna,
Feminist Studies
Public Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Freedom Archives”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2018
Lani Hanna,
Feminist Studies
Public Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Freedom Archives”
Level: Graduate
Details: Year-Long Public Fellow 2019-2020
Lani Hanna,
Feminist Studies
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2023-2024
Project: “Counter-Institutional Archives as Political Infrastructure”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Natalie Hansen,
Literature
School of Criticism and Theory Fellowship
2009-10
Project: “School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) 2009 at Cornell University. Ithaca, NY”
Level: Graduate
Stacy Hartman,
Literature/Women's Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2004-05
Project: “Blut,Tränen, und Heimweh: Women and Violence in the Writing of Saliha Scheinhardt”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Loisa Nygaard, Associate Professor of Literature
Miles Hatfield,
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2009-10
Project: “Articulated Crying: Sensation-words and Grammar”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Jonathan Ellis, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Steven Haug,
Philosophy
Summer Research Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Understanding Art and Community in Heidegger”
Level: Graduate
Alexandra Haugh,
History
Dissertation Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Colonial Encounters: Indigenous Siberians and the Muscovite Government, 1581-1700”
Level: Graduate
Mana Hayakawa,
American Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2000-01
Project: “Justice for All? A Discussion of Marginalized Communities and Inclusion in the Classroom”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Ann Lane,Professor of History
Dale Megan Healey,
Literature/Creative Writing
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Hold My Hand Hard: A Story of Family and Loss”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Micah Perks
Andrew Hedding,
Linguistics
Public Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Senderos”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2018
Andrew Hedding,
Linguistics
Summer Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “On the Relationship between Questions and Answers: Evidence from San Martín Peras Mixtec”
Level: Graduate
Andrew Hedding,
Linguistics
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Focus in the Narrow Syntax”
Level: Graduate
Emily Heller,
History of Art and Visual Culture
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2006-07
Project: “Seeing Mobutu: Visual Literacy in Post Colonial Congolese Identity”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Elisabeth Cameron, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Ariane N. Helou,
Literature
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2013-14
Project: “Figures of Voice in Early Modern Europe”
Level: Graduate
Details: Funded by the Graduate Division
Sherri Helvie,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
2003-04
Project: “The New Woman, Sexual Inversion, and Sex Panics”
Level: Graduate
Armando Herrera,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2016-17
Project: “Homosociality, Militarism, and the Nation; A Queer Analysis of Mario Vargas Llosa's La Cuidad y Los Perros and Lituma en los Andes”
Level: Undergraduate
Guy Herschmann,
Jewish Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2013-14
Project: “Israel and Turkey: 1955-1967”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Uriel Herszage,
Literature/Music
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2021-22
Project: “20th Century Myth: The Epic in Modern Poetry”
Level: Undergraduate
Ashley Herum,
Literature
Barber Fellow
2016-17
2017-18
Project: “Santa Cruz Shakespeare”
Level: Graduate
Ashley Herum,
Literature
Barber Fellow
2019-20
Level: Graduate
Theresa Hice-Fromille,
Sociology
Public Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Reality Labs”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Donald Hickey,
History
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2019-20
Project: “The Logics of Power, Citizenship, and Greater Reconstruction in San Francisco, 1865-1906”
Level: Graduate
Donald Hickey,
History
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow
2021-22
Level: Graduate
Details: 2021 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Ingy Higazy,
Politics
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Moving Cairo: (Im)mobility Politics in the Post-Colonial Metropolis”
Level: Graduate
Trey Highton,
Literature
Public Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Save the Waves [Profile]”
Level: Graduate
Details: Year-Long Public Fellow 2018-2019
Nathan Hinchey,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2008-09
Project: “A Phonological Analysis of Loan Words in German”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Armin Mester, Professor of Linguistics
Michael Hinojosa,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2011-12
Project: “ROUTES Design Group”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor, Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History
Kara Hisatake,
Literature
Public Fellow
2016-17
Project: “Japanese American Museum of San Jose”
Level: Graduate
Adalaine Holton,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Black Fictions: Renegotiating Race, Disrupting Time, and Revising Histories”
Level: Graduate
Christine Hong,
Linguistics
IHR Fellow
2012-13
Project: “Legal Fictions: Afro-Asian Human Rights Cultural Production and the Pax Americana in the Pacific Rim”
Level: Faculty
Christine Hong,
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Literature
Faculty Awards
Faculty Fellow
2023-24
Project: “The Local as Curriculum in K-12 Ethnic Studies in Santa Cruz County”
Level: Current
Level: Faculty
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowship for 2023-24
Cori Hoover,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2016-17
Project: “Deir el Bahri Project”
Level: Undergraduate
Francesca Hovagimian,
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2016-17
Project: “Researching the Differences Between the Ethics Bowl Model and Traditional Debate”
Level: Undergraduate
Mark Howard,
Politics
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2022-23
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Mark Howard,
Politics
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2023-2024
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: Peer Mentor
David Hoy,
Philosophy
Faculty Fellow
2006-07
Project: “The Time of Our Lives”
Level: Faculty
Brock Hrehor,
Literature/History of Consciousness
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards
2023-2024
Project: “Multicultural Media: Supporting Cultural Pluralism and Fostering Global Awareness through International Radio”
Level: Undergraduate
Minghui Hu,
History
Faculty Fellow
2008-09
Project: “Science, Civility, and Politics: Dai Zhen and the Dawn of Modern Chinese Thought”
Level: Faculty
Amalia Hubbert,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2016-17
Project: “WWI Historical Research and Archival of the Laura Caldwell Collection”
Level: Undergraduate
Chisato Hughes,
Social Documentation
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
Prizes
2022-23
Project: “Treasure Island”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner
A. Yvette Huginnie,
American Studies
Faculty Fellow
2002-03
Project: “Mexican Labor in a White Man's Town: Race, Class and Copper in Arizona, 1840-1925”
Level: Faculty
“Creek” Lia Hull,
American Studies/Environmental Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2000-01
Project: “View from the Hogan: Black Mesa Sovereign Radio”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Ann Lane, Professor of History
Amanda Huse,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Freedwomen, Testimony, and Ku-Klux Violence in Reconstruction Georgia”
Level: Graduate
Amanda Huse,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2022-23
Project: “'She Was Afraid I Would Tell It’: Women and Postwar Violence in Georgia, 1870-1871”
Level: Graduate
Nelsen Hutchison,
Music
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Community, Practice, and Labor in the San Francisco Bay Area Jazz Scene”
Level: Graduate
Maddison Hwang,
Latin American and Latino Studies/History of Consciousness
Undergraduate Public Fellows
Undergraduate Student Awards
2022-23
Project: “Open Campus”
Level: Undergraduate
Maria Elena Ianetta,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
2000-01
Project: “Literary Melancholia, or the Refusal to Mourn:amnesia and anamnesis memories of love, loss, and abjection in feminine writing”
Level: Graduate
James Illingworth,
History
Dissertation Fellow
2009-10
Project: “The Rise and Fall of Free Labor Politics in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans”
Level: Graduate
Maia Ipp,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Richard Terdiman, Professor of Literature
Johanna Isaacson,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
2006-07
Project: “Literature and Oppositional Culture in the Age of Financial Capital”
Level: Graduate
James Issacs,
Linguistics
Dissertation Fellow
2005-06
Project: “Suppositional Imperatives”
Level: Graduate
Clearblue Jackson,
Greek and Latin Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Thrown Off Mount Olympus: Disabilities in Ancient Greece”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Mary-Kay Gamel
Thanayl Jackson,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
1998-1999
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Levine
David Jacobson,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
1998-1999
Project: “Achilles in Wonderland”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: John Lynch
David Jacobson,
ClassicsHistory
Undergraduate Research Fellow
1999-00
Project: “Milk, Wine, Honey, and Death: An exploration of the dual nature of the first choral ode in Euripides' Baccahe within the socio-political and socio-religious context of 5th Century Athens”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Bassi
Teodor Jaich,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2017-18
Project: “A History of State Control over Christianity in the People’s Republic of China”
Level: Undergraduate
Won Jeon,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Neither Addictive nor Adaptive: A Theory of Learning”
Level: Graduate
Won Jeon,
History of Consciousness
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2023-2024
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Ruebi Jimenez,
Anthropology/Ethnology
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2011-12
Project: “Technology and Storytelling in the Life of Celia Fritz”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Mentor: Donald Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology
Ivan Jimenez,
History/Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards
2023-2024
Project: “L'art Pour la Guerre: The Museo del Prado's Cultural Power in the Spanish Civil War”
Level: Undergraduate
Brittney Jimenez-Bayardo,
Latin American and Latino Studies
Graduate Student Awards
NHC Graduate Winter Program Fellow
2022-23
Level: Graduate
Michael Jin,
History
Dissertation Fellow
2009-10
Project: “Beyond Two Homelands: Migrations and Transnationalism of Japanese Americans in the Pacific, 1930-1955”
Level: Graduate
Michael Jin,
History
Research and Travel Grant
2010-11
Level: Graduate
Daniel Joesten,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Flooded with Outsiders: Decolonization, Citizenship, and the Irish Diaspora in Interwar Britain”
Level: Graduate
Daniel Joesten,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2018-19
Project: “By the Accident of Birth”: British Subjects, Free State Citizens, and the Irish Diaspora in Interwar Britain”
Level: Graduate
Michael Johnson,
Literature (modern)
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Aesthetics and Politics: Selected Writings of Jacques Rancire”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Chris Connery, Professor of Literature
Theresa Johnson,
Sociology
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Black Around the World: Youth racial identity formation in the African diaspora”
Level: Graduate
Michelaina Johnson,
Environmental Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Towards Equitable Groundwater Governance: A Case Study of California’s Most Critically Overdrafted Coastal Basin”
Level: Graduate
Alex Jones,
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2002-03
Project: “In the Name of Addition, Subtraction, and the Holy Integral”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Robert Goff, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Catherine Jones,
History
IHR Fellow
2011-12
Project: “Intimate Reconstructions: Children in Postemancipation Virginia”
Level: Faculty
Morgan Jones,
Philosophy/Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Is Externalism about Meaning Compatible with I-Language?”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Jonathan Ellis, Professor of Philosophy
Rita Jones,
History
Summer Research Fellow
2014-15
Project: “Title pending”
Level: Graduate
Catherine Jones,
History
CITL Faculty Fellow
2017-18
Level: Faculty
Details: CITL/Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow 2017-18
Joshua Jones,
Literature
Public Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Norwich Soup Movement”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Coury Jones,
History
Undergraduate Public Fellows
Undergraduate Student Awards
2023-24
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Jiyoon Jung,
Music
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Political Economy of Contemporary Musical Theater Performance in South Korea”
Level: Graduate
Ruby Jung,
Literature
Undergraduate Public Fellows
Undergraduate Student Awards
2023-24
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Elina Juvonen ,
History/Anthropology
Undergraduate Public Fellows
Undergraduate Student Awards
2022-23
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Level: Undergraduate
Elina Juvonen ,
History/Anthropology
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards
2022-23
Project: “Drafting the New American Woman: Women's Magazines and the Foreign During the Cold War”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize
Jocelyn Kadas,
History/Anthropology
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Re-Imagining the Nation and Gender”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Dilip Basu
Marilia Kaisar,
Film & Digital Media
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2021-22
Project: “When Bodies and Algorithms Meet”
Level: Graduate
Marilia Kaisar,
Film & Digital Media
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2022-23
Level: Graduate
Marilia Kaisar ,
Politics
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2023-2024
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: Peer Mentor
Nicholas Kalivoda,
Linguistics
Summer Research Fellow
2014-15
Project: “Agreement in Teotitl'n del Valle Zapotec”