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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Renee Fox
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Werewolf Hunters, Jungle Queens, and Space Commandoes: The Lost Worlds of Women Comics Artists”
Level: Faculty
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellows for 2022-23
Eva Fox
Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism/Literature/Spanish Studies
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Acoustics of Bilingual Speech”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Lilith Frakes
History of Consciousness
Summer Pathways Fellow
2024-25
Project: “Hybrid Apes and Conservation in the Anthropocene”
Level: Graduate
Lilith Frakes
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2025-26
Project: “The Mystery Monkey: Hybrid Primates and the Politics of Conservation in a Changing World”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Tory Francisco
Sociology/English Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2004-05
Project: “Policy Analysis of California's Ability to Address the Mental Health Needs of Returning Operation Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom Veterans”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gary Dvmski, Professor, Department of Economics
Rafael Franco
Literature
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
2021-22
Project: “Future Farmers of Amerika: Poems From the Year 2054”
Level: Graduate
Details: 2021-2022 Graduate Award Winner
Rafael Franco-Flores
Literature
Public Fellow
2023-24
Project: “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023
Maria Frangos
Literature
Dissertation Fellow
2004-05
Project: “Melusine and her Futures: A Genealogy of Female Monstrosity from the Middle Ages Through Early Modernity”
Level: Graduate
Dana Frank
History
Faculty Fellow
2003-04
Project: “A History of U.S. Labor and International Solidarity”
Level: Faculty
Dana Frank
History
Faculty Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Book on the AFL-CIO's intervention in the Honduran labor movement, 1954-1980”
Level: Faculty
Dana Frank
History
UC Society Fellow
2011-12
Project: “Labor’s Own Empire: The AFL-CIO’s Cold War in Honduras, 1954-1980”
Level: Faculty
Mark Franko
Theater Arts
UC Society Fellow
2010-11
Project: “From Anti-fascism to Myth in the Work of Martha Graham (1938-1958)”
Level: Faculty
Maddie Frealy
Literature/Legal Studies
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Poetry Project”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Stella F. Fronius
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2015-16
Project: “U.S. Militarism in Okinawa: Transformations in the Physical and Demographic Landscape, 1945-Present”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Mentor: Alan Christy, History
Benjamin Gabriel
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2009-10
Project: “Hello Kitty Everything”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Yamashita, Professor of Literature
Thomas Luke Gadd
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Philosophy and the Empiricist Stance”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Ric Otte
Pascale Gaitet
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Cam'ra Arabe”
Level: Faculty
Kyle Galindez
Sociology
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2017-18
Project: “History of Guam’s Urban, Political and Ecological Transformations Since 1898”
Level: Graduate
Greta Galuszka
American Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
1998-1999
Project: “Minstrelsy in the American Ad”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Mentor: David Wellman
Jared Gampel
History of Consciousness
Public Fellow
2019-20
Project: “KZSC/Digital NEST”
Level: Graduate
Details: Year-Long Public Fellow 2019-2020
Nicholas Gancedo
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2011-12
Project: “Conceptual Foundations of Intervention Ecology: Towards a New Environmental Worldview”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Rasmus Winther, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Anandi Gandhi
Anthropology
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Coexistent Futures: Elephant Socialities in South-East Asia”
Level: Graduate
Aiswarya Gangadhar
Psychology
Center for South Asian Studies Graduate Fellows
2024-25
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Xiaofei Gao
History
Summer Research Fellow
2016-17
Project: “Maritime Manchuria: Empire, State, and Labor 1905-1989”
Level: Graduate
Xiaofei Gao
History
Research and Travel Grant
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Bridget Gapp
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature
Kiran Garcha
History
Summer Research Fellow
2013-14
Project: “Black Panther Party families in California”
Level: Graduate
Kiran Garcha
History
Public Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Cal Humanities”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2018
Kiran Garcha
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow
2019-20
Level: Graduate
Details: 2019 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Nicholas A. Garcia
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2013-14
Project: “Using Slave Advertisements to Analyze the Intercolonial Slave Trade”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gregory OMalley, Assistant Professor of History
Christopher Garcia
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2017-18
Project: “Relative Clauses in Santaigo Laxopa Zapotec: Islands, Crossover, and Parasiticity”
Level: Undergraduate
Valeria Garcia
Sociology
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Undergraduate Student Awards
2022-23
Project: “Whose HSI? A Look into the Undergraduate Latine Student Experience at UCSC”
Level: Undergraduate
Paulina Garcia
Feminist Studies/Politics
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “The Hive Poetry Collective”
Level: Undergraduate
Paulina Garcia
Feminist Studies/Politics
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “The Hive Poetry Collective”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Erin Gardner
Pre/Early Modern Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “Lessons for an Expanding World in the Ancient Greek Novel”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature
Naomi Garrett
Literature
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Poet Laureate”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Eleanor Garrison
Applied Linguistics
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “MuHSiC (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in CA)”
Level: Undergraduate
Eleanor Garrison
Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism/Spanish Studies
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Acoustics of Bilingual Speech”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Morgan Gates
Literature
Public Fellow
2019-20
Project: “Santa Cruz Shakespeare”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Morgan Gates
Literature
Summer Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Listening to the Frank Kofsky Archives”
Level: Graduate
Morgan Gates
Literature
Public Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2020
Morgan Gates
Literature
Public Fellow
2021-22
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2021-2022
Aldrine Gatpo
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Saritaan: Filipino and Filipino American Stories - a Watsonville is in the Heart Project”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Adam Geary
History of Consciousness
Dissertation Fellow
2002-03
Project: “A Gay Ascetics: Toward an Ethic of Safer Sex Activism”
Level: Graduate
Willow Gelphman
Literature/Creative Writing
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
2020-21
Project: “Mr. Muskrat’s One-Way Ticket to the Great Unknown”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: 2020 Undergraduate Award Winner, Narrative Winner
Thomas Genova
Literature
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Details: Funded by the Graduate Division
Thomas Genova
Literature
Research and Travel Grant
2011-12
Level: Graduate
Jonah Gertz
Intensive History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “The Relationship Between SCAP, the Development of Narcotics Control Laws in Postwar Japan and the "Hiropon Age"”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Mitra Ghaffari
Film & Digital Media
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
Prizes
2022-23
Project: “Island Cycles”
Level: Graduate
Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner
Filippo Gianferrari
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Training the Reader: Dante and the Rise of Vernacular Literacy”
Level: Faculty
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2020-21
Francesca Gibson
History
Summer Pathways Fellow
2025-26
Project: “Hysterical Conceptions: The Intersection of Madness, Childbirth, and Medical Beliefs in the 17th and 18th Centuries”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Justin Gilmore
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow
2017-18
Project: “The Contradictory Role of Productivity as an Idea in the Postwar US Labor Movement”
Level: Graduate
Laura Gilmore
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2012-13
Project: “Objectless Gerunds in English”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Sandra Chung, Professor of Linguistics
Gemma Givens Givens
American Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2010-11
Project: “International Mayan Indian Adoption Oral Narratives”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Amy Lonetree, Assistant Professor of American Studies
Jade Glentzer
Anthropology/History
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Level: Undergraduate
Jade Glentzer
Anthropology/History
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Japanese American Redress Projects”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Alexa Goldstrom
Language Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2003-04
Project: “A Chachapoya History”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Judith Aissen, Research Professor ofLinguistics
Mario Gómez-Zamora
Latin American and Latino Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Colonial Violence, Murder, and Strategies of Resistance among Queer P’urhépecha People in Michoacán and the United States”
Level: Graduate
Lucian Gomoll
History of Consciousness
Dissertation Fellow
Quarter-long Fellow
2010-11
Project: “Performativity and Difference in Museums”
Level: Graduate
Natalie Gonzales
Feminist Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Archiving the Future through the Digital: Redesigning the Human through Indigenous and Decolonial Technoscientific Imaginaries”
Level: Undergraduate
Maya Gonzalez
Intensive History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2020-21
Project: “Remember Us: Holocaust Representation in European-Jewish Émigré Film, 1942-1945”
Level: Undergraduate
M. Victoria Gonzalez Pagani
Languages
Faculty Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Computer Mediated Communication and Vocabulary Acquisition”
Level: Faculty
M. Victoria Gonzalez Pagani
Language Program
Faculty Fellow
2008-09
Project: “Computer Mediated Communication and Vocabulary Acquisition Background”
Level: Faculty
Sophie Goodwin
Philosophy
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Boys and Girls Club Santa Cruz County”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Ciera-Jevae T. Gordon
Sociology
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2015-16
Project: “Incarcerated Words”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gary Young, Literature
Kaiya Gordon
Feminist Studies
Public Fellow
2021-22
Project: “GLBT Historical Society”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
Kaiya Gordon
Feminist Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Abolition, Community Practices, and Gender Variance in the Transsexual News Telegraph Collection”
Level: Graduate
Kaiya Gordon
Feminist Studies
Summer Research Fellow
2023-24
Project: “Trans Poetics in the Transsexual News Telegraph Archives”
Level: Graduate
Gabby Goss
Film & Digital Media
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2024-25
Project: “United Way”
Level: Undergraduate
Chris Gott
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2000-01
Project: “Moving History”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Levine,Professor of History
Sina Grace
Creative Writing
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2007-08
Project: “Cedric Hollows in MAISON du MURDER!”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Karen Yamashita
Kendall Grady
Literature
Summer Research Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Form & Differential Formation: Couple & Couplet”
Level: Graduate
Kendall Grady
Literature
Public Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2022
Dustin Gray
Philosophy
Graduate Student Awards
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
2022-23
Level: Graduate
Steven Green
History
Summer Research Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Yiddish, American Jewish History, and Jewish Foodways in New York”
Level: Graduate
Steven Green
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Noshing in the Midwest: Foodways and Midwestern Jewish Communities”
Level: Graduate
Rose Greenberg
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2016-17
Project: “An Investigation into the Intercolonial Slave Trade”
Level: Undergraduate
Rose Greenberg
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2016-17
Project: “An Investigation into the Intercolonial Slave Trade”
Level: Undergraduate
Jody Greene
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2004-05
Project: “Ego non sum Ego: Autobiography and the Advent of Print”
Level: Faculty
Jody Greene
Literature
Faculty Fellow
2001-02
Project: “The Dangerous Fate of Authors: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 1660-1730”
Level: Faculty
Anna Greenwood
Linguistics
Summer Dissertation Fellow
2015-16
Project: “The role of channel bias in naturalness effects: An experimental approach”
Level: Graduate
Details: Funded by the Graduate Division
Vera Gribanova
Linguistics
Research and Travel Grant
2009-10
Level: Graduate
Ania Mah Gricuk
History
Summer Pathways Fellow
2024-25
Project: “The Crossroads of Diaspora, Medicine, and Commerce: A Transnational Story of Cooling Herbal Tea”
Level: Graduate
Michael Griffith
Literature
Humanities EXCEL Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Santa Cruz Poetry Project”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Rebecca Gross
Literature
Summer Research Fellow
2022-23
Project: “Approaching Comparative Diasporic Memory and Intercultural Resistance through Fiction”
Level: Graduate
Rebecca Gross
Literature
Public Fellow
2023-24
Project: “Lux Magazine”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023
Jackson Gross
Philosophy
Humanities EXPLORE Program Fellows
2025-26
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Philip Groth
Philosophy
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow
2022-23
Level: Graduate
Alexandra Grundler
Philosophy
SSRC-DPD Fellow
2018-19
Project: “Embodied Mythology: Exploring the Moral Dimension of Dance Through History”
Level: Graduate
Evan Grupsmith
History
Summer Research Fellow
2013-14
Project: “Red Tourism in the Peoples Republic of China”
Level: Graduate
Jose Guerrero
Literature/Creative Writing
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2011-12
Project: “I Once Was Lost: The (Found) Poetics of Salvaging and Recycling (Capitalism)”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gary Young, Lecturer in Literature
Anna M. Guiffre
American Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow
2001-02
Project: “Bernard DeVoto: Western Maverick”
Level: Undergraduate
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 Fellow
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