Graduate Awards & Honors

• CHRISTIAN ALVARADO

  History of Consciousness, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
  Ph.D candidate in History of Consciousness with a DE in CRES

  2022-23 UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship

   

• SIENNA BALLOU

  Literature

  2022 CART Fellowship
  "Miriam C. and Ray Rice Papers"

   

• PHILIP CONKLIN

  Feminist Studies

  2022 Gary Lease Fellowship

   

• WHITNEY DEVOS

  Literature

  Co-PI: Ford-Latin American Studies Association Special Project Grant
  Emergent Political Ecologies in South American Contemporary Poetry: A Multilingual Anthology Addressing Climate Change from a Transregional Perspective

  National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship

  Global South Translation Fellowship, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University

  Columbia Journal Translation Prize (Spring 2022)
  "Valeria Meiller's El mes raro"

   

• JORDAN DOPKINS

  Philosophy

  NEH Institute: Hume in the 21st Century

   

• JESS FOURNIER

  Literature

  2021-22 THI Summer Public Fellowship

  2022 Bettina Aptheker Award for Research on Sexual, Gendered, and Racial Violence
  

   

• RAFAEL FRANCO

  Literature

  Anne and Jim Bay Fellowship in Victorian Studies
  Monstrous Maps: Western Geography as a Colonization Method in Victorian Monster Literature

  2021-22 Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures
  "Future Farmers of Amerika: Poems from the Year 2054" - Poetry Collection

   

• KAIYA GORDON

  Feminist Studies

  UCSC Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development (UCSC SSRC-DPD) Fellowship

  2021-22 THI Summer Public Fellowship

   

• KENDALL GRADY

  Literature

  2022 THI Summer Research Award
  “Form & Differential Formation: Couple & Couplet”

   

• REBECCA GROSS

  Literature

  2022 THI Summer Research Award
  “Approaching Comparative Diasporic Memory and Intercultural Resistance through Fiction”

   

• PHILLIP GROTH

  Philosophy

  Public Humanities GSI Fellowship
  Questions That Matter, powered by The Humanities Institute
  

   

• MORWENNA HOEKS

  Ph.D candidate in Linguistics

  2021-22 Jorge Hankamer Outstanding Graduate Instructor in Linguistics Award

   

• WON JEON

  History of Consciousness

  THI Summer Research Award
  “Neither Addictive nor Adaptive: A Theory of Learning”

   

• HALIMA KAZEM-STOJANOVIC

  Feminist Studies

  2022-23 Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship

   

• XINDI LI

  History of Consciousness, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
  Ph.D candidate in History of Consciousness with a DE in CRES

  2021-22 Summer Research Fellow
  “Machine Infrastructures: Testing Race and Resilience in Built Environment”

   

• ANGIE SIJUN LOU

  Literature

  THI Summer Dissertation Fellowship 2022
  Pale Unhappy Dog: Stories

   

• MICHAEL MCCARRIN

  History of Consciousness

  Hayden V. White Summer Dissertation Fellowship
  “Metaphysical Bias in Western Mathematics”

   

• KELSEY MCFAUL

  Literature

  2022-23 THI Yearlong Dissertation Completion Fellowship 
  “Landscapes of Words: The Novel in the Horn of Africa”

   

• KILEY MCLAUGHLIN

  Literature

  2022-23 Rachel Khong Fellowship from The Ruby collective, SF
  Maw: A Novel

   

• THAIS MILLER

  Literature

  2021-22 Stephanie G. Hoffman Scholarship, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco

  THI Summer 2021 Dissertation Fellowship

  UCSC Graduate Dean’s Research Travel Grant, March 2022

   

• PIPER MILTON

  History

  2021-22 Thom Gentle Research Award in Environmental History

   

• GABRIEL MINDEL

  History of Consciousness, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
  Ph.D candidate in History of Consciousness with a DE in CRES

  Fall 2022 THI UC Network Dissertation Project for work on “Profanity: Performance, Protest & the Sovereign Politics of Noise”

   

• ANNY MOGOLLÓN

  Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
  Ph.D candidate in Literature with a DE in CRES

  2021 THI Summer Public Fellow
  “California Domestic Workers Coalition”

  2022 THI Summer Research Award
  CDWC Testimonial Archive

   

• ANNA NAPATALUNG

  Feminist Studies

  2022 THI Summer Dissertation Fellowship

   

• MATTHEW POLZIN

  Literature

  2022 THI Summer Research Award
  “Speculative Biologies: Race, Gender & Science in Early 20th c Feminist Utopian Fiction”

  SSRC Dissertation Development Program Fellowship 2022
  “Speculative Biologies: Race, Gender, and Science in Feminist and Queer Utopian Fiction”

   

• STEPHANIE RICH

  Ph.D candidate in Linguistics

  2021-22 Jorge Hankamer Outstanding Graduate Instructor in Linguistics Award

   

• CHLOE RICKARDS

  Ph.D candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

  2021-22 Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures
  "Cordyceps" - Watercolors and Accompanying Description

   

• MARINA SEGATTI

  Feminist Studies

  2022 THI Summer Dissertation Fellowship

   

• VIVIAN UNDERHILL

  Feminist Studies
  Ph.D in FMST conferred January 2022

  T32 PostDoc grant, Northeastern University Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute

  2020-21 American Association of University Women Fellowship, 

   

• CLAIRE URBANSKI

  Feminist Studies

  Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)

  2020-21 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Huntington Library

  2020-21 Autry Museum Research Fellowship, 2020-2021

  2020-21 P.E.O. Scholar Award, 

  2020-21 UCHRI Dissertation Support Award, 2020-2021

   

• JOSÉ ANTONIO VILLARÁN

  Literature

  2021 Mellon Foundation MLA Summer Institute

   

• KA-EUL YOO

  Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
  Ph.D candidate in Literature with DEs in CRES and FMST

  2022-23 UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship

  2021-22 UC Society of Fellows Award for work on Project
  “Cold War Disability: The Biopolitics of U.S. Military Empire in Post-1945 Asia”

  2022-23 UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Irvine
  “Cold War Disability: the Biopolitics of U.S. Military Empire in post-1945 Asia”

  UCSC Feminist Media Histories Initiative Fellowship