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.
Faculty Awards
Faculty Fellow
Banu Bargu
History of Consciousness
2023-24
Project: “Toward a New Republic”
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
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
Graduate Student Awards
Barber Fellow
Katie O'Hare
Literature
2023-2024
Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow
Debbie Duarte
Literature
2023-2024
Caitlin-Anne Flaws
Literature
2023-2024
Mark Howard
Politics
2023-2024
Details: Peer Mentor
Won Jeon
History of Consciousness
2023-2024
Marilia Kaisar
Politics
2023-2024
Details: Peer Mentor
Merve Ünsal Genç
Film & Digital Media
2023-2024
NHC Graduate Winter Program Fellow
Stefania Cotei
History of Consciousness
2023-2024
Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience
Inês Pedrosa e Melo
Film & Digital Media
2023-2024
Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience
Balakrishnan Raghavan
Music
2023-2024
Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience
David Shaw
Anthropology/Environmental Studies
2023-2024
Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience
Vidula Sonagra
Music
2023-2024
Details: 2024 NHC Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience
Public Fellow
Gabriel Evans Cayley
Feminist Studies
2023-2024
Project: “Tamarack Free Library”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023
Rafael Franco-Flores
Literature
2023-2024
Project: “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023
Rebecca Gross
Literature
2023-2024
Project: “Lux Magazine”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023
Piper Milton
History
2023-2024
Project: “Tumacácori National Historic Site”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023
Wesley Viebahn
Literature
2023-2024
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History”
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023
Summer Dissertation Fellow
Joe Alicea
Literature
2023-2024
Project: “Improvising Outs: Rehearsals of Endurance, Erasure, and Other Street Things”
Clara Bergamini
History
2023-2024
Project: “Mapping Imperial Japan’s Greatest Calamities: Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster”
Leonard Butingan
History
2023-2024
Project: “SPECTRES OF EMPIRE: Black Activism and Cultural Politics in Neocolonial Britain 1975-2000”
Stephen David Engel
History of Consciousness
2023-2024
Project: “Deep History and Genre: A Case for Experimentation”
Details: Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow
Lani Hanna
Feminist Studies
2023-2024
Project: “Counter-Institutional Archives as Political Infrastructure”
Melody Nixon
History of Consciousness
2023-2024
Project: “Thinking Its Subject: Conceptions and Contestations of Race in Contemporary Transpacific Poetics”
Radhika Prasad
Literature
2023-2024
Project: “Hindi Experimentalism and National Language Politics”
Vishal Sunil Arvindam
Linguistics
2023-2024
Project: “Processing of anti-local reflexives in Telugu”
Mengying (Christina) Wang
History
2023-2024
Project: “Breaking the Glass Case: Memory-Making, Imperialism, and Decolonization in Japanese Postwar Museums”
Wyatt Young
History
2023-2024
Project: “‘An Honest One:’ Exploiting an Empire at the 1904 Philippine Exposition in St. Louis”
Summer Pathways Fellow
Pablo Escudero
History of Consciousness
2023-2024
Project: “A New Sense of History in a World Caught Between Extractivism and Progress: mining and resistance in Fierro Urco, Ecuador”
Elliot Richardson
History
2023-2024
Project: “Expanding the Field of Trans History: Gender Fluidity and Crossing the US-Mexico Border”
Brian Rivera Hernandez
Literature
2023-2024
Project: “Tierra y Libertad!: The Promise of Agrarian Reform in the Mexican Revolution”
Adriane Stoia
History
2023-2024
Project: “Indigeneity in Diaspora: The Reclamation of Hajichi Tattooing in the Okinawan Diaspora”
Grace Yun
Literature
2023-2024
Project: “Research about death rituals and cultural and religious beliefs within the Korean diaspora”
Summer Research Fellow
Bart Feberwee
History of Consciousness
2023-2024
Project: “Crisis, Revolutionary Subjectivity, and Dutch ‘Council Communism’”
Kaiya Gordon
Feminist Studies
2023-2024
Project: “Trans Poetics in the Transsexual News Telegraph Archives”
Jenny Ham
History of Consciousness
2023-2024
Project: “Paradise for the Insane: Communizing Health/Care, A Case Study of Geel, Belgium”
Ania Mah Gricuk
History
2023-2024
Project: “Chinese medicine and the diaspora in Malaya and Singapore: the case of Ho Yan Hor herbal tea”
Maria Pachon Varon
Literature
2023-2024
Project: “Reconfiguring Displacement and the ‘American Dream’ through Borderlands Stories”
Jonathan Paramore
Linguistics
2023-2024
Project: “Nasalization in Punjabi and Mankiyali”
Linda Ulbrich
History
2023-2024
Project: “’Yesterday was a difficult day to be Sister’: An Emotional History of First World War Nursing”
Ke Zhao
History
2023-2024
Project: “The Global Journey of Ginseng: A Comprehensive Study of its Impact on Early Modern Trade and Cultural Exchange”
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow
Jonathan Van Harmelen
History
2023-2024
Project: “Legislating Injustice: Congress and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II”
Undergraduate Student Awards
Undergraduate Public Fellows
Thomas Balmat
Literature/Anthropology
2023-24
Project: “The American Prospect
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Liliana Barajas
Literature/Anthropology
2023-24
Project: “Open Campus”
Ian Doyle
History
2023-24
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”
Coury Jones
History
2023-24
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art”
Ruby Jung
Literature
2023-24
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Maia Michelle Mislang
History
2023-24
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”
Janeth Pérez-Quirke
2023-24
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”
Jacob Press
History
2023-24
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”
Serena Ramirez
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Psychology
2023-24
Project: “Community Foundation”
Sharan Sethi
Literature/Philosophy
2023-24
Project: “Watsonville is in the Heart / Tobera Project”
Eetai Shwartz
History/Philosophy
2023-24
Project: “Lookout Santa Cruz”
Sebastian Zamora
History
2023-24
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art”
Undergraduate Research Fellow
John Boye-Lynn
Linguistics
2023-2024
Project: “Investigating Visual Information as a Constraint on Sound Change”
Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize
Ian Chesluk-Staats
Literature
2023-2024
Project: “What’s a Girl to Do? Successful Womanhood in the World of Jane Austen”
Brock Hrehor
Literature/History of Consciousness
2023-2024
Project: “Multicultural Media: Supporting Cultural Pluralism and Fostering Global Awareness through International Radio”
Ivan Jimenez
History/Literature
2023-2024
Project: “L'art Pour la Guerre: The Museo del Prado's Cultural Power in the Spanish Civil War”
Molly Maher
History/Psychology
2023-2024
Project: “The Legacy of the Om Commune in Ben Lomond”
Caroline Mcdonald
Philosophy/Literature
2023-2024
Project: “Examination of the Ethics of Digital Pornography”
Ariattne Zarate Leon
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies/Legal Studies
2023-2024
Project: “Critique of Global Migration Management
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Prizes
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures
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
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”
Details: 2022-23 Graduate Award Winner
Fellows Archive
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Gabriel Evans Cayley,
Feminist Studies
Public Fellow 2023-2024
Project: “Tamarack Free Library”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2023
Chessa Adsit-Morris,
History of Art and Visual Culture
SSRC-DPD Fellow 2018-19
Project: “Evolutionary Thought: Transdisciplinary Practices and Collective Living”
Level: Graduate
Cole Akers,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2003-04
Project: “Contemporary Classical Studies”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Mary-Kay Gamel, Professor of Literature
Niki Akhavan,
History of Consciousness
Dissertation Fellow 2005-06
Project: “The Iranian Internet: Interventions in New Media and Old Politics”
Level: Graduate
Summer Al-Saleh,
Feminist Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2018-19
Project: “Gaza’s Great March of Return: Mapping Convergences Between the Politics of Human Rights Organizations & the Logic of the Settler-Colonial State”
Level: Undergraduate
Jasmin Aleman,
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2015-16
Project: “Waging War: The Ethics of Following Orders”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Daniel Guevara, Philosophy
Joe Alicea,
Literature
Summer Dissertation Fellow 2023-2024
Project: “Improvising Outs: Rehearsals of Endurance, Erasure, and Other Street Things”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Christian Alvarado,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow 2018-19
Project: “Development and Ideology in the History of the Kenyan Education System”
Level: Graduate
Christian Alvarado,
History of Consciousness
SSRC-DPD Fellow 2019-20
Project: “New Ways of Life Together": Pedagogical Thought in Anticolonial Kenya”
Level: Graduate
Christian Alvarado,
History of Consciousness
Summer Dissertation Fellow 2020-21
Project: ““The Storm in Kenya”: Mau Mau in African Historical and Educational Thought”
Level: Graduate
Details: Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow
Pranav Anand,
Linguistics
Faculty Fellow 2007-08
Project: “Dream Reports and /De Se/ Expressions: An Experimental Investigation”
Level: Faculty
Scott AnderBois,
Linguistics
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow 2010-11
Project: “Composing alternatives, proposing issues: a view from Yucatec Maya”
Level: Graduate
Aidan Andreasen,
Art & Design: Games & Playable Media
Coha-Gunderson Prizes in Speculative Futures 2021-22
Project: “Talos Machine”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: 2021-2022 Undergraduate Award Winner
Caroline Andrews,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2010-11
Project: “The Language of Experiments”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Pranav Anand, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Sondra Archimedes,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow 2003-04
Project: “Gendered Pathologies: Women, Sexuality, and Disease in Nineteenth-Century British Literature”
Level: Graduate
Yatziri Arias Torres,
Latin American and Latino Studies/Politics
Undergraduate Public Fellows 2020-21
Project: “Language Education Developer, Senderos”
Level: Undergraduate
William S. Arighi,
American Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2003-04
Project: “TRASHTHETIC: “Camp” and the Politics of Representation of a Sub-Culture of the United States”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor of Literature
Mary Arlen,
Literature/Anthropology
Undergraduate Public Fellows 2019-20
Project: “Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History/Davenport Jail Assistant Curator”
Level: Undergraduate
Anjali Arondekar,
Feminist Studies
Faculty Fellow 2004-05
Project: “Perverse Subjects: Sexuality, Governance and the Colonial Archive”
Level: Faculty
Aaron Aruck,
History
SSRC-DPD Fellow 2017-18
Project: “Policing Sexuality and Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Bi-national Efforts to Control Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Homosexuality Across International Space, 1920-1965 ”
Level: Graduate
Aaron Aruck,
History
Public Fellow 2018-19
Project: “Badge List”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2018
Aaron Aruck,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow 2021-22
Project: “Tracking Contagious Cases: The Anti-Venereal Campaign and the Construction of Sexual Categories in Northern Mexico, 1920-1965”
Level: Graduate
Aaron Aruck,
History
Public Fellow 2020-21
Project: “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2020
Aaron Aruck,
History
Graduate Student Awards Sawyer Seminar Fellow 2022-23
Level: Graduate
Details: "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
Noriko Aso,
History
IHR Fellow 2012-13
Project: “Mitsukoshi at War”
Level: Faculty
Neda Atanasoski,
Feminist Studies
IHR Fellow 2011-12
Project: “Afterimages of Empire: Adapting Race and Freedom in U.S. Cold War Culture, 1950-2000”
Level: Faculty
Allison Athens,
Literature
Research and Travel Grant 2010-11
Level: Graduate
Alexander Attanasio,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2015-16
Project: “Who Were They and Why Did They Fight? A Study of Catholic Irishmen Who Volunteered for the British Army in WWI”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, History
Christina Ayson Plank,
History of Art and Visual Culture
SSRC-DPD Fellow 2021-22
Project: “Counter-framing the Nation: Art and Visual Culture of the Filipino Labor Diaspora”
Level: Graduate
Ai Baba,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2010-11
Project: “Post-War Japanese History Textbooks and the American Occupation of Japan”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Schorr Scholar
Mentor: Minghui Hu, Assistant Professor of History
Taylor R. Backman,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2013-14
Project: “A Global Genealogy to Wallace's Infinite Jest”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor of Literature
Brian Ballard,
Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2007-08
Project: “Materialsim and Epistemic Self-Defeat”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Ric Otte
Sienna Ballou,
Literature
Public Fellow 2019-20
Project: “Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music”
Level: Graduate
Details: Summer Public Fellow 2019
Thomas Balmat,
Literature/Anthropology
Undergraduate Public Fellows Undergraduate Student Awards 2023-24
Project: “The American Prospect
”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
RachelAnn Baltazar,
Intensive Psychology
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2015-16
Project: “Human Trafficking Narrative: Understanding the creation of a salient human trafficking concept and the effects on the individual experience”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Feminist Studies
Victoria Banales,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow 2002-03
Project: “Twentieth Century Latin American and Latin Women's Literature and the Paradox of Dictatorship and Democracy”
Level: Graduate
Elyse Banks,
History
Summer Research Fellow 2011-12
Level: Graduate
Liliana Barajas ,
Literature/Anthropology
Undergraduate Public Fellows Undergraduate Student Awards 2023-24
Project: “Open Campus”
Level: Current
Level: Undergraduate
Jessica Barbata,
History
Research and Travel Grant 2011-12
Level: Graduate
Jessica Barbata Jackson,
History
Summer Research Fellow 2014-15
Project: “Racial Transients in an In-Between State: Reinterpreting Anti-Italian Violence in 1890s Louisiana”
Level: Graduate
Banu Bargu,
History of Consciousness
Faculty Awards Faculty Fellow 2023-24
Project: “Toward a New Republic”
Level: Current
Level: Faculty
Details: THI Faculty Research Fellowship for 2023-24
James Barton,
Sociology/Philosophy
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2007-08
Project: “Wrongful Acquittals: Miscarriage of Justice in Potentially Capital, Lynching Cases”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Hiroshi Fukurai
Conner Bassett,
Literature
Public Fellow 2021-22
Project: “Stone Soup Magazine”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
Karen Bassi,
Literature
Faculty Fellow 2002-03
Project: “Places of the Past: Home and Identity in Ancient Greece”
Level: Faculty
Sarabeth Bavin,
American Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2007-08
Project: “Assessment of Child Abuse Prevention Practices in Santa Cruz County”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Yvette Huginnie
Jessica Beard,
Literature
Summer Research Fellow 2011-12
Level: Graduate
Jonathan Beecher,
History
Faculty Fellow 2005-06
Project: “The Making and Unmaking of a Christian Communist”
Level: Faculty
Dorian Bell,
Literature
UC Society Fellow 2011-12
Project: “Frontiers of Hate: Anti-Semitism and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France”
Level: Faculty
Jennifer Bellik,
Linguistics
Summer Dissertation Fellow 2017-18
Project: “Vowel Intrusion in Turkish Word-Initial Clusters”
Level: Graduate
Joanna Beltrán Girón,
Intensive Psychology
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2015-16
Project: “Intimate "Illegalities": (Re)Framing El Salvador's Vicious Cycle of Violence”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Adrian Felix, Latin American and Latino Studies
Ryan Bennett,
Linguistics
Summer Research Fellow 2011-12
Level: Graduate
Rhiannon Benson,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2010-11
Project: “African American Education”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Catherine Jones, Assistant Professor of History
Elise Benton,
History/Classical Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2021-22
Project: “Praise the Gods and Kings: A Look at Ptolemaic Festivals in Alexandria”
Level: Undergraduate
Jessie Berg,
Art/Women's Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2001-02
Project: “Retelling”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Sheila Crane,Assistant Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
Clara Bergamini,
History
NHC Graduate Summer Program Fellow 2021-22
Level: Graduate
Details: 2021 NHC Graduate Summer Program
Clara Bergamini,
History
SSRC-DPD Fellow 2022-23
Project: “Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster”
Level: Graduate
Clara Bergamini,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow 2023-2024
Project: “Mapping Imperial Japan’s Greatest Calamities: Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Bonnie Bernard,
Anthropology/Genocide Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2003-04
Project: “Documentation of Lithic Outcrops”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Christophe Delage
Nitza Bernard,
Jewish Women's Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2009-10
Project: “Women Rabbis in America”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Winner
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Rachael Berry,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2009-10
Project: “Publicity and Media in the Gaza War”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Hunter Bivens,
History of Consciousness
IHR Fellow 2010-11
Project: “Exilic Topographies”
Level: Faculty
Isaac Blacksin,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow 2014-15
Project: “Conflict Journalism and the Knowledge-Productions of War”
Level: Graduate
Isaac Blacksin,
History of Consciousness
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow 2019-20
Project: “Meaningful Violence: American War Reportage in Iraq, Syria, and Beyond, 2014–2018”
Level: Graduate
Stefano Bloch,
Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2000-01
Project: “Civic Spots”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Recipient
Mentor: Christopher Connery, Professor of Literature
Rachel Bodin,
Language Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2012-13
Project: “The Use of Conditionals in Online Forums”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Pranav Anand, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Lia Bonver,
Literature/Classical Studies
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2021-22
Project: “Weaving, Witchcraft, and Women in Ancient Greece”
Level: Undergraduate
Bree Booth,
Latin American and Latino Studies
SSRC-DPD Fellow 2021-22
Project: “Tracing Queerness Through the Atlantic”
Level: Graduate
Matthew James Borkenhagen,
Linguistics/Literature
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2003-04
Project: “Bringing Modern Linguistics to the High School Classroom”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Sandy Chung, Professor of Linguistics
Thea Bosselmann,
History of Art and Visual Culture/Studio Art
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2005-06
Project: “The Maya, The Tourist and the Ecologist: Issues of Sustainability in Belize and Guatemala”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Elisabeth Cameron, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Theresa Bostic,
History/Sociology
Undergraduate Public Fellows 2022-23
Project: “Santa Cruz’s Elusive Figure: London Nelson”
Level: Undergraduate
John Bowin,
Philosophy
Faculty Fellow 2006-07
Project: “The Philosophical Uses of the Concept Potentiality in Aristotle and his Commentators”
Level: Faculty
John Boye-Lynn,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow Undergraduate Student Awards 2023-2024
Project: “Investigating Visual Information as a Constraint on Sound Change”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Winner of the Bertha N. Melkonian Prize
Axelle Boyer,
History of Art and Visual Culture
SSRC-DPD Fellow 2019-20
Project: “Gungu la Mcezo: Performing Citizenship Through Anticolonial Resistance”
Level: Graduate
Mia Tempestt Boykin,
Literature
Public Fellow 2021-22
Project: “TG/ENBY Project”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Summer Public Fellow 2021
Mia Tempestt Boykin,
Literature
Graduate Student Awards Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellow 2022-23
Level: Graduate
Jessica Branch,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2007-08
Project: “The Role of the Media in the Conflict in Northern Ireland”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Bruce Thompson
Dennis Brand,
Literature
Research and Travel Grant 2009-10
Level: Graduate
Adrian Brasoveanu,
Linguistics
IHR Fellow 2010-11
Project: “Decomposing Natural Language Quantification”
Level: Faculty
Benjamin Breen,
History
Faculty Fellow 2018-19
Project: “The Early Modern Drug Database: A Pilot Project”
Level: Faculty
Details: Digital Research Faculty Fellowship for 2018-19
Ben Breen,
History
Faculty Awards Faculty Fellow 2023-24
Project: “The Digital Archive of Psychedelic History”
Level: Current
Level: Faculty
Details: Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowship for 2023-24
Joshua Brett,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2010-11
Project: “Building the Heavenly State: The Taiping Construction of Moral, Social, and Political Order”
Level: Undergraduate
Details: Bertha N. Melkonian Prize Winner
Mentor: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History
Mykel Brinkerhoff,
Linguistics
Summer Research Fellow 2021-22
Project: “Prosodic and Phonetic Considerations in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec”
Level: Graduate
Christopher Brooks,
History
Research and Travel Grant 2009-10
Level: Graduate
Margaret Brose,
Literature
Faculty Fellow 2004-05
Project: “The Body of Italy: Allegories of the Female Figure in Italian Lyric Poetry”
Level: Faculty
Jordan C. Brown,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2014-15
Project: “Rumored Fair Housing Act and California Proposition 14”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: David Brundage, Professor of History
Nathan Brown,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2010-11
Project: “By the Rivers of Babylon”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Gildas Hamel, Lecturer in History
Christopher Brown,
History
Undergraduate Research Fellow 1998-1999
Project: “United States Religionists Responses to American Imperialism in Cuba, the Philipines and the Dominican Republic from 1898-1920”
Level: Undergraduate
Mentor: Marilyn Westerkamp
Melissa Brzycki,
History
Summer Research Fellow 2014-15
Project: “Inventing the Socialist Child, 1949–1976”
Level: Graduate
Melissa Brzycki,
History
Summer Research Fellow 2015-16
Project: “Inventing the Socialist Child in China, 1945-1976”
Level: Graduate
Melissa Brzycki,
History
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow 2017-18
Project: “Inventing the Socialist Child in China, 1949-1966 (Funding provided by the Division of Graduate Studies)”
Level: Graduate
Dhyana Buckley,
Linguistics
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2016-17
Project: “Real World Entailments: A Semantic Approach to Improving Machine Learning”
Level: Undergraduate
Ryan Bush,
Linguistics
Dissertation Fellow 1999-00
Project: “Exhaustivity without Identificational Focus”
Level: Graduate
Leonard Butingan,
History
SSRC-DPD Fellow 2022-23
Project: “Black Anti-Racism Activism and the Afterlife of Empire in Britain 1978-2000”
Level: Graduate
Leonard Butingan,
History
Summer Dissertation Fellow 2023-2024
Project: “SPECTRES OF EMPIRE: Black Activism and Cultural Politics in Neocolonial Britain 1975-2000”
Level: Current
Level: Graduate
Daniel Butler,
History of Consciousness
Summer Research Fellow 2019-20
Project: “A Child is Being Caged: Forced Migration and the Psychopolitics of Resignation”
Level: Graduate
Daniel Butler,
History of Consciousness
Public Fellow 2020-21
Project: “Infant-Parent Program at UCSF”
Level: Graduate
Details: THI Year-Long Public Fellow 2020-2021
Maria Elena Caballero-Robb,
Literature
Dissertation Fellow 2002-03
Project: “Poetry and the Public Sphere: Politics, Participation, and Uncommon Speech”
Level: Graduate
Jessica Calvanico,
Feminist Studies
Summer Research Fellow 2017-18
Project: “The Girl Problem and the Origins of Juvenile Justice in Progressive Era New Orleans”
Level: Graduate
Jessica Calvanico,
Feminist Studies
Year-Long Dissertation Fellow 2020-21
Project: “New Orleans’s Girl Problems: The House of the Good Shepherd and the Making of Carceral Girlhood”
Yuki Obayashi,
Literature
American Generosity and Ideological Superiority in the Hiroshima Maidens Project
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Xiaoping Sun,
History
The New Life Movement: Building a Chinese Modernity with Traditional Virtues
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Ryan King,
Feminist Studies
Digital NEST
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Robert Potmesil,
History
The Forgotten Boat People: Memories of Chinese-Vietnamese Refugees in the US
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RachelAnn Baltazar,
Intensive Psychology
Human Trafficking Narrative: Understanding the creation of a salient human trafficking concept and the effects on the individual experience
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Noel Edward Smyth,
History
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Mark Franko,
Theater Arts
From Anti-fascism to Myth in the Work of Martha Graham (1938-1958)
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Lindsey Collins,
History of Consciousness
Trial by Mountain: Suffering and Healing in Difficult Landscapes
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Krystal Mendez,
Literature
The Gothic in Transit: Nationalist Imaginations in French Translations of The Monk
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Justin Gilmore,
History of Consciousness
The Contradictory Role of Productivity as an Idea in the Postwar US Labor Movement
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Jessica Calvanico,
Feminist Studies
The Girl Problem and the Origins of Juvenile Justice in Progressive Era New Orleans
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Jeremy Tai,
History
Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT IV): Designing China. Shanghai, China
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Jennifer Bellik,
Linguistics
Vowel Intrusion in Turkish Word-Initial Clusters
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Erin McElroy,
Feminist Studies
The Siliconization of Postsocialist Romania: Techno Imaginaries and Materialities
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Deniz Rudin,
Linguistics
The Semantics of Imperative Sentences (Funding provided by the Division of Graduate Studies)
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Dhyana Buckley,
Linguistics
Real World Entailments: A Semantic Approach to Improving Machine Learning
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Daniel Joesten,
History
Flooded with Outsiders: Decolonization, Citizenship, and the Irish Diaspora in Interwar Britain
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Cori Hoover,
History
Deir el Bahri Project
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Armando Herrera,
Literature
Homosociality, Militarism, and the Nation; A Queer Analysis of Mario Vargas Llosa's La Cuidad y Los Perros and Lituma en los Andes
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Amani Liggett,
Literature
Santa Cruz Shakespeare
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Ana Karina Menezes de Morais,
History of Consciousness
Imperial Geographies: Ethnography, Museology, and the Cape-to-Cairo Dream
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Amalia Hubbert,
History
WWI Historical Research and Archival of the Laura Caldwell Collection
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Alma Villa,
Sociology
Precarious Housing: The Experiences of Low-income Latinx Communities in Los Angeles, California
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