The Humanities Institute Graduate Awards

C.L. Barber Fellow 2022-23

C.L. Barber Fellow 2022-23

Amani Liggett

Literature

Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellows 2022-2023

Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellows 2022-2023
	Mia Tempestt Boykin Literature
	Debbie Duarte Literature
	Caitlin-Anne Flaws Literature
	Dustin Gray Philosophy
	Mark Howard Politics
	Marilia Kaisar Film & Digital Media
	Allison Nguyen Psychology
	LuLing Osofsky History of Art & Visual Culture

THI Year-Long Dissertation Fellow 2022-23

THI Year-Long Dissertation Fellow 2022-23

Kesley McFaul

Literature

“Landscapes of Words: The Novel in the Horn of Africa”

THI/UC Network Dissertation Fellow 2022-23

THI/UC Network Dissertation Fellow 2022-23

Gabriel Mindel

History of Consciousness

“Profanity: Performance, Protest & and the Sovereign Politics of Noise ”

THI Summer Dissertation Fellows 2022-23

THI Summer Dissertation Fellows 2022-23
	Sarah Chang History “The Life and Death of the Socialist Factory: Spatial Politics and Factory Life in China, 1958 to the Present”
	David Duncan History “Voices in the Tule: The Oral History of School Desegregation in the San Francisco Bay Area”
	Steven Green History “Noshing in the Midwest: Foodways and Midwestern Jewish Communities”
	Angie Sijun Lou Literature “Pale Unhappy Dog: Stories”
	Michael McCarrin History of Consciousness “Metaphysical Bias in Western Mathematics”
	Anne Napatalung Feminist Studies “The Tuskegee School of Midwifery: Exposing the Suppression of Black and Indigenous Midwifery Knowledges in U.S. Medicine in Service to Reimagining Reproductive Care” Anne is a Ph.D. candidate in Feminist Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. She is completing her dissertation, “Re-membering Healing: The Tuskegee School of Midwifery and Its Legacies for Reproductive Care,” for a June 2023 graduation, under the mentorship of Professor Gina Dent and committee members Anjali Arondekar, Nancy Chen, and Gina Athena Ulysse. Anne is thrilled to have received the UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship and will begin working with mentor Robin D.G. Kelley on her research topic, “The Midwives Never Left: Tracing Healing Justice Solidarities from Tuskegee to Haiti,” in July 2023.
	Marina Segatti Feminist Studies “Queer and Trans Digital Activism: Neoconservatism and Democracy in Brazil” Marina is a Ph.D. candidate in the Feminist Studies Department with designated emphases in Latin American Latino Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Latin American Latino Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests focus primarily on digital culture, queer anthropology, and sociocultural linguistics. She co-authored the article The colonial necropolitics of “gender ideology” in Brazil: the queer as a question of national security.
	Meleia Simon-Reynolds History “Transpacific Images: Photographs of Filipinx Communities in Hawai'i and the Pajaro Valley”
	Jinghong Zhang History “Down to the Roots: Teeth, Dentistry, and Oral Hygiene in Modern China, 1908-2021”

Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellow 2022-23

Michael McCarrin

History of Consciousness

“Metaphysical Bias in Western Mathematics”

THI Summer Research Fellows 2022-23

THI Summer Research Fellows 2022-23
	Man Ning Chan History “High and Low in Early Modern China: Using Qin-Zither as an Example”
	Kendall Grady Literature “Form & Differential Formation: Couple & Couplet”
	Rebecca Gross Literature “Approaching Comparative Diasporic Memory and Intercultural Resistance through Fiction”
	Amanda Huse History “‘She Was Afraid I Would Tell It’: Women and Postwar Violence in Georgia, 1870-1871”
	Won Jeon History of Consciousness “Neither Addictive nor Adaptive: A Theory of Learning”
	Anny Mogollón Literature “CDWC Testimonial Archive”
	Jonathan Paramore Linguistics “Acoustic Correlates of Stress in Mankiyali”
	Matthew Polzin Literature “Speculative Biologies: Race, Gender, and Science in Early Twentieth Century Feminist Utopian Fiction”
	Joshua Tan History “Migrants and Missionaries: Religion, Culture and China's Cold War Diaspora”
	Jonathan Van Harmelen History “A Failure of Oversight: Congress and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans”

THI Graduate Public Fellows

THI Graduate Public Fellows 2022-23
	Kendall Grady Literature partnered with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
	Theresa Hice-Fromille Sociology Worked with Reality Labs
	Thaïs Miller Literature Worked with Jewish Film Institute
	Em Padilla Feminist Studies Worked with Transgender Law Center
	Emily Travis Literature Worked with Prison Journalism Project
	Jonathan Van Harmelen History Worked with Densho
	Katie O'Hare Literature Worked with Santa Cruz Shakespeare
	Nathan Osorio Literature Worked with UC Press
	Radhika Prasad Literature Worked with Center for the Art of Translation

UCSC-SSRC DPD Fellows 2022-23

UCSC-SSRC DPD Fellows 2022-23
	Clara Bergamini History “Learning Nation and Enacting Empire Through Disaster”
	Leonard Butingan History “Black Anti-Racism Activism and the Afterlife of Empire in Britain 1978-2000”
	Susanna Collinson History of Art and Visual Culture “Pacific Experiments”
	Anandi Gandhi Anthropology “Coexistent Futures: Elephant Socialities in South-East Asia”
	Mario Gómez-Zamora Latin American and Latino Studies “Colonial Violence, Murder, and Strategies of Resistance among Queer P’urhépecha People in Michoacán and the United States”
	Kaiya Gordon Feminist Studies “Abolition, Community Practices, and Gender Variance in the Transsexual News Telegraph Collection”
	Aaron Samuel Mulenga History of Art and Visual Culture “Embodied Absence: The Phantom Load of the Tenga Tenga”
	Lalu Esra Ozban Film & Digital Media “Koli Sinemaları: Sex Cinemas as Trans Sites of Memory, Community-Building, and Sex Work”
	Matthew Polzin Literature “Speculative Biologies: Race, Gender, and Science in Feminist and Queer Utopian Fiction”
	Koda Sokol Sociology “Feeling Gendered: Affect and the Relational Politics of Gender Recognition”
	Summer Sullivan Environmental Studies “Fantasies of Farm Labor: Digital Agriculture’s New Kind of Worker in the Salinas Valley Lettuce Industry”
	Alex Wand Music “Monarch Waystation Soundmap: Tracing the Migratory Corridors of the Western Monarch Butterfly”

National Humanities Center Graduate Summer Program Fellows 2022-23

National Humanities Center Graduate Summer Program Fellows 2022-23

Ksenia Fir

Film & Digital Media

Philip Groth

Philosophy

Piper Milton

History

Joshua Tan

History

National Humanities Center Graduate Winter Program Fellows 2022-23

National Humanities Center Graduate Winter Program Fellows 2022-23
	Brittney Jimenez-Bayardo Latin American and Latino Studies
	Priscilla Martinez History
	Maureen McGuire History of Art and Visual Culture
	Erick Msumanje Film & Digital Media
	Adriane Kelani Stoia History

Sawyer Seminar Fellows 2022-23

Sawyer Seminar Fellows 2022-23

Aaron Aruck

History

Juliana Nzongo

Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology

Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures 2022-23

Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures 2022-23
	Mitra Ghaffari Film & Digital Media “Island Cycles”
	Chisato Hughes Social Documentation “Treasure Island”
	Ant Lorenzo Environmental Art and Social Practice “auxiology: on value on gold”
	Lior Shamriz Film & Digital Media “Bird Divination in Mesopotamia Today”
	Oana Tenter Film & Digital Media “Treasure Island”
	Jingtian Zong Environmental Art and Social Practice “Dreaming of Shanghai in the San Lorenzo River”

Graduate Student Success Fellows 2022-23

Graduate Student Success Fellows 2022-23
Bart Feberwee	History of Consciousness
Grace Yun	Literature
Kristine Swarts-Zanin	History
Ania Gricuk	History
Adriane Stoia	History
Matthew Marzec	Philosophy
Brian Rivera Hernandez	Literature
Elliot Richardson	History
Sebahat Kiper	Linguistics
Caitlin Flaws	Literature
Chelsea Qu	Philosophy
Kristen Nelson	Literature
Rafael Franco-Flores	Literature
Pablo Escudero	History of Consciousness
Wesley Viebahn	Literature
Melissa Mack	Literature
Somreeta Paul	Philosophy
Daniel Arias	Literature

Graduate Student Success Peer Mentors 2022-23

Graduate Student Success Peer Mentors 2022-23

Radhika Prasad
Literature

Kirstin Wagner
Literature

Christian Alvarado

History of Consciousness

Angie Sijun Lou
Literature