The Humanities Institute
Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program Fellows 2020-2021

• JACK DAVIES

  History of Consciousness

  “Settler Colonial Insurance: The Case of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund”

   

• DEBBIE DUARTE

  Literature

  “Border Futurities: World-Making Practices From the Colonial Wound”

   

• SUZY HALAJIAN

  Film and Digital Media

  “Reimagining Narratives of Crisis: Moving Image and Performance Practices in the Middle East, North Africa, and its Diaspora”

   

• INGY HIGAZY

  Politics

  “Moving Cairo: (Im)mobility Politics in the Post-Colonial Metropolis”

   

• NELSEN HUTCHISON

  Music

  “Community, Practice, and Labor in the San Francisco Bay Area Jazz Scene”

   

• THERESA JOHNSON

  Sociology

  “Black Around the World: Youth Racial Identity Formation in the African Diaspora”

   

• BOYEONG KIM

  Latin American and Latino Studies

  “A (Migrant) Woman’s Place in the Pathway to ‘Development’: Developmentalism and Gendered Citizenship Making in South Korea and Chile”

   

• JANE KOMORI

  History of Consciousness

  “Japanese Canadian Theories of Racialization and Speciation”

   

• NATALI LEVIN SCHWARTZ

  Politics

  “Testimony and Resistance: Towards a Political Theory of Testimony”

   

• YASHENG SHE

  Film and Digital Media

  “Traumatic Femininity”

   

• MELEIA SIMON-REYNOLDS

  History

  “Visualizing Trans-Colonial Labor: Photographic Representations of Filipino Sugar Plantation Workers in Hawai’i”

   

• ZOE WELDON-YOCHIM

  History of Art and Visual Culture

  “In/visible Toxicity: Nuclear Landscapes in Contemporary Art”

   

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