The Humanities Institute
Dissertation Fellows 2021-22

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  AARON ARUCK
  

  History

  The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellow 2022
  “Tracking Contagious Cases: The Anti-Venereal Campaign and the Construction of Sexual Categories in Northern Mexico, 1920-1965”

   

• ADRIAN DRUMMOND-COLE

  History of Consciousness

  The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellow 2022
  “Making Water Liquid: Information, Finance, and Flow in California’s Central Valley”
  

   

• 
  ANDREW HEDDING

  Linguistics

  The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellow 2022
  “Focus in the Narrow Syntax”

   

• COURTNEY KERSTEN

  Literature

  The Humanities Institute Year-Long Dissertation Fellow 2021-22
  The Madwoman of Cripple Creek: An Imagined Life of Linda Goodman

   

• MICHAEL MCCARRIN

  History of Consciousness

  The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellow 2022
  “Metaphysical Bias in Western Mathematics”

   

• 
  KELSEY MCFAUL

  Literature

  The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellow 2022
  “Landscapes of Words: The Novel in the Horn of Africa from 1908 to 2020”

   

• 
  THAÏS MILLER

  Literature

  The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellow 2022
  “Vaudeville to GLOW: One Hundred Years of Jewish Humor, Women, and Trauma in Los Angeles”

   

• WILSON MIU

  History

  The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellow 2022
  “Breaking Habits, Changing Customs: Marriage Law and Practice in South China, 1930-1980”

   

• NICHOLAS VAN HANDEL

  Linguistics

  The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellow 2022
  “The Sound of Silence: Investigations of Implicit Prosody”

   

• 
  KA-EUL YOO

  Literature

  The Humanities Institute/UC Network Year-Long Dissertation Fellow 2021-22
  Cold War Disability: The Biopolitics of U.S. Military Empire in Post-1945 Asia