Departmental Graduate Awards
History Department
Sarah Chang2022-2023 Mabelle McLeod Lewis Dissertation Fellowship |
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David DuncanModern Language Association Public Humanities Incubator David Duncan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and spent 8 years working as an EMT on an ambulance and as a reserve fire fighter. Stepping away from being a first responder was extremely challenging, but at UC Santa Cruz, David was introduced to oral history and found that it fulfilled what he missed most about working and connecting with the public. Currently David's dissertation uses oral history to examine the school desegregation efforts of Sausalito/Marin City, East Palo Alto, and Richmond, California. |
Ania GricukGSS Fellowship, SEACoast Junior Scholar Research Funds |
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Alexyss McClellan-UfugusukuLuce Foundation funded Okinawa Memories Initiative Scholars Program grant, Humanities Without Walls National Career Diversity Workshop Fellow, Ukwanshin Kabudan Student Scholarship, American Heritage Center travel and research fellowship, United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples Fellow, Judy Yung Memorial Fellowship in Asian American/Pacific Islander Studies, 2023, Western Women's Lacrosse League Division Two Coach of the Year, 2023 Lex has given statements at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva, and been in consultation with the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights about numerous issues affecting the Ryukyu Islands and Ryukyuan people. Lex has participated in funded seminars at the National Humanities Center and through the National Endowment for the Humanities; her work has been featured in The Avery Review, Public History Weekly, and Shimanchu nu Kwii. In her free time, Lex is the Head Coach for the UC Santa Cruz intercollegiate women’s lacrosse team, which at its peak was ranked #5 nationally in 2022. Lex was named WWLL Division Two Coach of the Year in 2023, and is also an assistant coach for the high boys’ lacrosse team at Pacific Collegiate School in Santa Cruz. |
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Meleia Simon-ReynoldsOkinawa Memories Initiative Graduate Student Exhibits Lead via Henry Luce Foundation Grant 2022-2023 ; Watsonville is in the Heart Graduate Student Curriculum Development Lead via Monterey Peninsula Foundation Grant 2023 Meleia Simon-Reynolds is scholar, educator, and public historian based in Santa Cruz, California. She is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on 20th century Filipino migration, labor, and photography. She is the co-director of the Watsonville is in the Heart Digital Archive and a graduate student lead for the Okinawa Memories Initiative. She is interested in community-engaged research practices, increasing access to archival collections, and amplifying lesser known histories. |
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Adriane Kelani Stoia
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Jonathan van Harmelen2023 UCLA James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowship; 2023 Past Wrongs, Future Choices Visiting Scholar, University of Victoria funded by SSHRC; 2022 Bancroft Library Friends of the Bancroft Fellowship Jonathan van Harmelen is a PhD Candidate in History. He is a specialist in 20th century U.S. history and Asian American studies. He is currently writing his dissertation on the role of Congress in the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. In his spare time, he enjoys writing for various community newspapers such as Discover Nikkei, the Rafu Shimpo, and International Examiner. |
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Jinghong ZhangChancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship 2022-23 |
Piper MiltonThom Gentle Research Award for Environmental History, Center for World History, UC Santa Cruz, 2022
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