The Humanities Institute
Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program Fellows 2019-2020

• CHRISTIAN ALVARADO

  History of Consciousness

  “New Ways of Life Together: Pedagogical Thought in Anticolonial Kenya”

   

• AXELLE BOYER

  History of Art and Visual Culture

  “Gungu la Mcezo: Performing Citizeship Through Anticolonial Resistance”

   

• RAED EL RAFEI

  Film and Digital Media

  “Queer Subjectivity and Space in Tripoli”

   

• ELI ERLICK

  Feminist Studies

  “Biopolitics, Activism, and Transgender Resilience in the United States”

   

• DONALD HICKEY

  History

  “The Logics of Power, Citizenship, and Greater Reconstruction in San Francisco, 1865-1906”

   

• LESLIE LODWICK

  History of Art and Visual Culture

  “Public School Buildings as Politics: Civic Identity, Nation Making and Modern Architecture” 

   

• ALEXANDRA MACHESKI

  History of Art and Visual Culture

  “The Sub-Altern’s “Other”: Relations of Extraction and Alterity between the Inka and the Amazon”

   

• AYSHA PETERSON

  Environmental Studies

  “Towards Farmer-Centered Water Quality Governance in a Nitrate-Populated Region”

   

• GABRIELA SEGURA

  Latin American and Latino Studies

  “Defending Western Civilization: Immigration Policy and the Rise of Right-Wing Authoritarian Populism in the Americas”

   

• ANKIT SHARMA

  Sociology

  “Worlds of Precarity: Memory, Narrative, and Labor Movements”

   

• ROXANNA VILLALOBOS

  Sociology

  “Latina Rural Girlhoods in the United States”

   

• JINGHONG ZHANG

  History

  “Good Deeds, Changing Needs: Religion, Philanthropy and the Making of Modern Chinese Welfare in Sichuan, 1895-1966”

   

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