Deans' & Chancellor's Awards 2022-2023
2022-2023 Deans' & Chancellor's Award Recipients
The Deans’ and Chancellor’s Awards encourage and stimulate outstanding scholarship and creativity among undergraduate students, based on work developed in courses or programs in the normal pattern of 2022-2023 academic activity at UC Santa Cruz.
Ten undergraduate projects from the Humanities Division received a Deans’ Award, and three of those projects were also selected for Chancellor's awards. Congratulations to our awardees and their projects!
Vann Camryn Jones
Feminist Studies & History of Art and Visual Culture
“What to Expect When He's Expecting: A Complete Guide to Transmasculine Reproduction”
Elina Camilla Juvonen
History & Anthropology““A Great Big Warm-Hearted Southern Family”: The United Daughters of the Confederacy in New York City”
Elina is a fourth year history and anthropology double major. During her time at UCSC, she has worked with the Okinawa Memories Initiative on archival and exhibits projects, and worked as the lead intern 2021-2023. Her research focuses on women's history and historical memory.
Rachel Ledeboer
Literature & Classical Studies
“Metamorphoses of the Metamorphoses: An Examination of a 16th C. Venetian Printed Book of Ovd's Metamorphoses in UCSC Library Special Collections & Archives”
Owen Leslie Cooksy
History"The Death of an Irish Soldier: Irish Nationalism, Ulster Nationalism, and the Murder of Henry Wilson”
Owen Cooksy is a graduating student of European and Eurasian history. His focus is on nationalism, state development, and languages. In addition to studying history, he has worked on education policy, international political violence journalism, and classical languages. He plans to continue research and promote knowledge of and participation in public history.
Maria Renee Hele
Feminist Studies“Re-Membering Motherhood: Transforming Futures through Reassembling the Iconicity of the Mother”
Maria R. Hele is a student-mother pursuing a double major in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. During her time at UCSC, she hopes to contribute to the creative transformation of the futures available to us all through embracing deep complexity in the face of global hegemony and challenging the status quo with not just critical theory but also the celebration of life as a radical act. Hele's work is to use storytelling, art, and imagination to disrupt legacies of imperialism and weave connections between land and body, always toward liberation.
Colin Kim Hirshberg
Linguistics"Restrictions on Mandarin Bei-Passives"
As a linguist in training, I seek to advance the representation and inclusiveness of linguistic diversity in linguistic research and other domains. If I move on to industry, I will endeavor to scale up AI's potential for processing and lesser-known languages. If I remain in academia, I will strive to learn and/or document understudied languages and raise awareness of linguistic diversity on university campuses.
Tatum Justine Kubik
Literature“Redefining 'Normal' Bodies: Disability Studies in Fever Dream”
Tatum Kubik is a senior graduating from UCSC in spring 2023 with a degree in Literature and a minor in Linguistics. In her free time, she enjoys helping local Santa Cruz elementary school students develop their creative writing skills through the Young Writers Program. Her hobbies include writing poetry, reading, playing guitar, and cooking vegan food. In the future, she plans to move back to her hometown of Davis, California and hopes to pursue a career in the field of library science.
Ashley N. Marshall
Feminist Studies“Re-Membering Motherhood: Transforming Futures through Reassembling the Iconicity of the Mother”
Ashley N. Marshall is a herbalist, mother, poet, and transfer student currently double majoring in Feminist Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies with a minor in Literature. She has a love and passion for higher learning. She plans to eventually attend graduate school after graduating from UCSC to further her literary analysis and learn to fulfill her dreams of teaching feminist literary retellings of African and Greek mythology. She desires to explore how mythological story retellings can forge new forms of self-identity, cultural blending, and belonging through literary expressions. Ashley spends time outdoors, connecting with nature through foraging pursuits and self-taught wild herbal crafts when she is not busy in deep academic study.
Russell Moore
History“The Color and Politics of Locomovtives on the Central Pacific Railroad”
I am a senior history major, primarily focusing on the industrial history of the US West. History has been a lifelong passion, and I am very grateful that I have been able to study it in college. I have been working at the California State Railroad Museum for almost three years, first as an intern and now a researcher and restoration specialist. Studying history and working at the museum has been a dream come true and I hope that I can continue my research on the impacts of industrial settler colonialism after graduation.
Ryan Nguyen
Philosophy
“Observational Reports and Cognitive States: Sellars and McDowell”
I am a sophomore undergraduate in Philosophy who is hoping to get a minor in the History of Consciousness program. My interests lie in the philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy as well as in critical theory and some strains of continental philosophy. I started reading philosophy a few years ago, and ever since then I have had an enduring interest in all things that can be labeled as “philosophical”. I enjoy reading and listening to music. My favorite philosophers are Wittgenstein and Ray Brassier. My favorite musical artists/bands are Leonard Cohen, The Cure, and Mitski.
Ann C. Niland
Feminist Studies“To Identity Or Not To Identity: Diversity, Marketing, and the White Savior in Science Fiction & Fantasy From The Dark Tower to Star Trek”
Ann Niland’s work seeks to analyze substantive character shifts that occur when a Science Fiction or Fantasy novel is adapted to the screen. The two research papers they have completed work through the Feminist lens to consider the intersections of literature, politics, neuroscience, film, digital media, and the ever-liminal space of what is considered mainstream. In the Fall of 2023, they will continue their research at the graduate level alongside other scholars engaged in the topic of adaptation at ENMU.
CHANCELLOR'S AWARD RECIPIENTS 2022-2023
DEANS' AWARD RECIPIENTS 2022-2023
