Announcing CCSRE's 2017-2018 Fellows

Faculty Research Fellows

Faculty Research Fellows are outstanding Stanford scholars who have published timely work on how race and ethnicity have powerfully shaped human experience across time, context, and place. Please join us this year for our Chautauqua series featuring each fellow's new work.

Ana Raquel Minian | Undocumented Lives: The Untold History of Mexican Migration

Ana Raquel Minian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. Her forthcoming book, Undocumented Lives: The Untold History of Mexican Migration explores the late-twentieth-century history of Mexican undocumented migration to the United States, the growth of migrant communities, and bi-national efforts to regulate the border. It uses over two hundred oral history interviews, government archives, migrant correspondence, privately held organizational records and personal collections, pamphlets and unpublished ephemera, and newspapers and magazines collected in Washington D.C., Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Michoacán, Zacatecas, and Mexico City. As the first sustained history of transnational Mexican migration from 1965 to 1986, this work addresses audiences interested in U.S. and Latin American political history, Latina/o history, and Migration Studies. Minian is also working on a project on the United Farm Workers (UFW) union and another on Guatemalan transmigration through Mexico and into the United States.

Thomas Mullaney | The Chinese Typewriter: A History

Thomas S. Mullaney is Associate Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University, and Curator of the international exhibition, Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age. His new book, The Chinese Typewriter, examines China's development of a modern, nonalphabetic information infrastructure encompassing telegraphy, typewriting, word processing, and computing. This project has received three major awards and fellowships, including the 2013 Usher Prize, a three-year National Science Foundation fellowship, and a Hellman Faculty Fellowship. The sequel to this work, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, is scheduled to be released by MIT press. He is also the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (UC Press, 2010), and principal editor of Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China's Majority (UC Press, 2011). His writings have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Technology & Culture, Aeon, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and his work has been featured in the LA Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, and in invited lectures at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more. He also directs Digital Humanities Asia (DHAsia), a program at Stanford University focused on East, South, Southeast, and Inner/Central Asia.

Jonathan Rosa | Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of LatinidadJonathan Rosa is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, and, by courtesy, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics. In his forthcoming book, Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad, Dr. Rosa examines youth socialization to U.S. Latinidad as a contemporary site of political anxiety, "raciolinguistic" transformation, and urban inequity. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a highly segregated Chicago high school to analyze the racialization of language as a central form of modern governance. Rosa shows how anxieties surrounding language, race, and identity produce an administrative project that seeks to transform "at risk" Mexican and Puerto Rican students into "young Latino professionals." In addition to his formal scholarly research, Dr. Rosa is an ongoing participant in public intellectual projects focused on race, education, language, youth, (im)migration, and U.S. Latinxs. His work has appeared in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, as well as media outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and Univision.

CSRE Graduate Teaching & Fellowship Program

Graduate Teaching Fellows are outstanding Stanford doctoral students whose teaching and research focus on race, ethnicity, and inequality.

Rachael Hill | Dissertation - Scientists, Healers and Bioprospectors: the politics of therapeutic pluralism in Ethiopia, 1945-1990

Rachael Hill is a doctoral candidate in African History specializing in the social and cultural history of health and medicine in sub-Saharan Africa. She previously earned a Master of Arts in World History from San Francisco State. Her research interests include the social etiology of disease, the history of science in the global south, indigenous African therapeutic practice, and medical pluralism. Rachael will teach a course on the history of the intersection of race and science in the US and abroad with an emphasis on Africa and its Diasporas in the US.

Takuya Sawaoka | Dissertation - Imagining Keyser Söze: A Preference for Concentrated Attributions of Moral Responsibility

Takuya Sawaoka is a doctoral candidate in Social Psychology. His research focuses on the tension between moral judgments of individuals and collectives. He examines how collectives are tainted by the moral failings of their leaders; how people over-emphasize individual villainy as explanations for social ills; and how observers judge individuals who participate in collective viral outrage. His other line of work investigates how LGBTQ individuals respond to collective psychological threats. Takuya will teach a CSRE course on how psychology can contribute to our understanding of intersectional identities. 

Lucy Zhang Bencharit | Dissertation - The Role of Culture and Ideal Affect In Employment Settings

Lucy Zhang Bencharit is a doctoral candidate in Affective Science in the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on how to leverage cultural values around emotion to promote positive outcomes in employment, work, and classroom settings. Specifically, she examines how individuals from Western cultural contexts, which value excitement, and East Asian cultural contexts, which value calm, express themselves and are perceived by others in work and classroom settings. Lucy will teach a CSRE course on how to promote positive psychological, interpersonal, and adjustment outcomes in a multicultural world.