Convening of the UC Humanities Graduate Fellows Collaborative

September 29, 2021

Eighteen graduate students from across the UC system were awarded research fellowships by their home campus and joined in a convening of Fellows on September 24, 2021. The Fellows participated in a professionalization workshop, led by Bri McWhorter of Activate to Captivate, to develop their ability to speak about their research and work in a range of settings.

The UC Humanities Graduate Fellows Collaborative is a project of the UC Humanities Center Consortium, which comprises the humanities centers and institutes from each of the ten UC campuses, and is funded by the University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding.

2021 UC Humanities Graduate Fellows

Simon Brown, History (UC Berkeley), “Useful Subjects: Theology, Education and Practical Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Britain”
Amanda Kong (UC Davis), “Reprinting Race: Racialization and Ethnic Newspapers”
Jasmine Wade, Cultural Studies (UC Davis), “Healing or Encountering: Black and Indigenous Radical Aesthetic Practices”
Stephanie Narrow (UC Irvine), “Systems of Subordination: Race, Culture, and Imperial Order in Hong Kong and Gold Rush California”
Scott Volz (UC Irvine), “Deadly Circularity: Waste and Ecology in Art of the 1970s and 1980s”
Ahmed Correa Alvarez (UC Merced), “Cuba and the Intimacy of Border: Toward an Archipelagic Imagination”
Dalena Ngo (UC Merced), “The University of California and Dignity Health: Catholic Infringement Upon the Right to Access Comprehensive Care”
Stephanie DeMora, Political Science (UC Riverside), “Who Supports Her? The Conditions of Gender Specific Voting”
Grecia Perez, Anthropology (UC Riverside), “Antiblackness Flowing Down the Rio Verde in the Costa Chica region of Oaxaca, México”
Evelyn Pruneda, Sociology (UC Riverside), “Navigating Multidimensional Borderlands: How Spatial Politics and Inequalities Shape the Working Conditions and Lived Experiences of Women Farmworkers in Rural California”
Semih Gokatalay, History (UC San Diego), “Political Economy of Trade Fairs and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1882-1939”
Ningning Huang, Literature (UC San Diego), “Queer Regression/Transgression of Race: From the Model Minority Subjectivity to the Nomadic Animal Corporeality”
Nicole de Silva, History (UC Santa Barbara), “From Homemaking to Peacemaking: Women’s International Organizing and the Practice of Consumer Diplomacy, 1918-1945”
Jonathan Dickstein, Religious Studies (UC Santa Barbara), “Animals in Hindu South Asia: From Cosmos to Slaughterhouse”
Julie Johnson, History (UC Santa Barbara), “Commodifying Contraception: A Political Economy of Interwar Britain”
Somak Mukherjee, English (UC Santa Barbara), “Elemental City: Ecology, Media, and Narratives of Crisis in Postcolonial Calcutta”
Mesadet Sözmen, Global Studies (UC Santa Barbara), “Gender, State and Women in Turkey: The Making of and the Challenge against Conservative Consensus, 1935-1960”
Ka-eul Yoo, Literature (UC Santa Cruz), “Cold War Disability: The Biopolitics of U.S. Military Empire in Post-1945 Asia”