Graduate Awards & Honors

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FEMINIST STUDIES

• DANA AHERN

  2020-21 Chancellor’s Dissertation Quarter Fellowship
  

   

• JESSICA CALVANICO

  Bettina Aptheker Award for Research or Community Service on Sexual, Gendered, and Racial Violence

  National Humanities Center Graduate Summer Program Fellows 2019-20

   

• YIZHOU GUO

  Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship

  Film + Digital Media Dissertation Fellowship

   

• VIVIAN UNDERHILL

  American Association of University Women Fellowship, 2020-2021

   

• CLAIRE URBANSKI

  2019 CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute “Crises of Democracy” conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, July 2019

  Short-Term Research Fellow, Philadelphia at the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, August 2019

  Liminal Landscapes of Neoliberalism: Mounting Resistance to Settler Colonial Anti-Black State Violence, Desecration, and Dispossession,

  National Women’s Studies Association conference, November 2019
  

  Autry Museum Research Fellowship, 2020-2021

  P.E.O. Scholar Award, 2020-2021

  UCHRI Dissertation Support Award, 2020-2021

  Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Huntington Library, 2020-2021

  Bettina Aptheker Award for Research or Community Service on Sexual, Gendered, and Racial Violence

   

• TAYLOR WONDERGEM

  Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) Pedagogy Fellowship

   

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HISTORY

• BRISTOL CAVE-LACOSTE

  2020-21 Chancellor’s Dissertation Quarter Fellowship

  Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) Graduate Pedagogy Mentor, Summer Graduate Student Instructor (GSI)

   

• KIRAN GARCHA

  National Humanities Center Graduate Summer Program Fellows 2019-20

   

• STEVEN GREEN

  State Historical Society of Iowa, Summer Fellowship

  Linda Mack Schloff Research Grant, Upper Midwest Jewish Archives

   

• KYUHYUN HAN

  American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) Equity Graduate Student Fellowship

  American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) Hal Rothman Dissertation Research Fellowship 

  D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia Travel/Research Grant

   

• SEAN LAWRENCE

  Germany’s Gerda-Henkel Ph.D. Scholarship

   

• ALEXYESS MCCLELLAN

  Thom Gentle Endowment, Graduate Research Award

   

• MELEIA SIMON-REYNOLDS

  Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) Graduate Student Pedagogy Fellowship

   

• JINGHONG ZHANG

  American Historical Association Bernadotte Schmitt Research Grants

   

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HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

• ISAAC BLACKSIN

  Affiliate Researcher. Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies

   

• NATALIA KOULINKA

  2020-21 Chancellor’s Dissertation Quarter Fellowship

  Visiting scholar at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University, September-December 2019

  American University of Beirut

   

• KEY MACFARLANE

  2020-21 Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship

   

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LINGUISTICS

• MARGARET KROLL

  2019-20 Chancellor's Dissertation-Year Fellowship

   

• THOMAS ROBERTS

  2020-21 Chancellor’s Dissertation Quarter Fellowship

   

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LITERATURE

• SPENCER ARMADA

  Anne and Jim Bay Fellowship in Victorian Studies
  

   

• SHANE BAKER

  2020 Graduate Pedagogy Fellow
  Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)

   

• WHITNEY DEVOS

  Winner - Catamaran's George Hitchcock Memorial Poetry Contest

   

• COURTNEY KERSTEN

  2019-20 The Humanities Institute (THI) Public Humanities Graduate Student Instructor (GSI)

   

• CHACKO KURUVILLA

  Visiting Fellow (Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellowship for 2020-21)
  Houghton Library, Harvard University

   

• AMANI LIGGETT

  2018-19 Outstanding TA Award

   

• ANGIE SIJUN LOU

  2019 Robert Day Award for Fiction fromNew Letters

  Winner of the 2019 Columbia Journal Fall Fiction Contest 

  2020 Mendocino Coast Doug Fortier Short Fiction Scholarship

   

• JEN MACASEK

  2020-21 Chancellor’s Dissertation Quarter Fellowship

   

• KELSEY MCFAUL

  Fellow, Los Angeles Review of Book Summer Publishing Workshop (July 2019)

  Multi-campus Graduate Student Working Group 2019-2020
  University of California Humanities Research Institute
  "Feminist Futures in the Indian Ocean"

   

• THAÏS MILLER

  2018-19 Outstanding TA Award

  The Stephanie G. Hoffman Scholarship from The Jewish Community Federation

  2020 YIVO-Bard Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture Tuition Scholarship

  2020 Constance Rourke Prize for Graduate Students 

  American Humor Studies Association

  2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition, Quarterfinalist for Short Story “Passing”

  2019 Writing Courageously Graduate Writing Retreat

  Land of Medicine Buddha Retreat Center, Soquel, CA

   

• HANNAH NEWBURN

  2018-19 Outstanding TA Award

  Summer 2019 Artist in Residence at the Hôtel Sainte Valière, Sainte Valière, France

   

• YUKI OBAYASHI

  2020-21 President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship

   

• EMILY TRAVIS

  Special Collections Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) Fellowship to work on the Kay Metz papers

   

• KIRSTIN WAGNER

  2019-20 The Humanities Institute (THI) Public Humanities Graduate Student Instructor (GSI)

   

• EMMA WOOD

  Poetry manuscript “Preferred Internal Landscape” was a finalist in:  CSU’s First Book Prize (2019)

  Zone 3’s First Book Prize (2019)

  Switchback Books Gatewood Prize (2019)

  Noemi Press’s Poetry Award for First Books (2019)

  Autumn House Press, Rising Writer Contest (2020)

  Poem “Living” nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2019) by Meridian

   

• KA-EUL YOO

  2018-19 Outstanding TA Award

  Jessica L. Roy Memorial Award

  Runner-up for the 2019 Yasuo Sakakibara prize of the American Studies Association 
  Honorable Mention by the ASA Caucus on Critical Disability Studies “Deformed Ambassadors: The ‘Red’ Threat and U.S. Hansen’s Disease Controlling Policies in Cold War Korea”

  2020 Summer Graduate Pedagogy Fellow
  Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)

   

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PHILOSOPHY

• THOMAS RULE

  2020-21 Chancellor’s Dissertation Quarter Fellowship