Past Dissertation Fellows

Destin Jenkins, Department of History

2012-2013

Maneka Deanna Brooks, School of Education

Louise Chim, Department of Psychology

Kelly Kelleher Richter, Department of History
"Uneasy Border State: the Politics and Public Policy of Latino Illegal Immigration in Metropolitan California, 1971-1996"

2011-2012

Steffi Dippold, Department of English
"Plain as in Primitive: The Figure of the Native in Early American Literature"

Cynthia Levine, Department of Psychology
“Who can improve? How a target’s race dictates perceptions of potential for growth”

Elda María Román, Department of English

2010-2011

Jennifer Harford Vargas, Department of English
“Dictating Form: Authoritarian Power in the Latina/o American Novel”

Laura López-Sanders, Department of Sociology
“Is Brown the New Black?: Latino Immigrant Incorporation in the Contemporary South”

Rania Kassab Sweis, Department of Anthropology
"Coming of Age in a Global Egypt: the Cultural Politics of Transnational Humanitarianism, Childhood and Youth"

2009-2010

Lori Flores, Department of History
“Other Californias: Tracing Mexican American Lives, Civil Rights Activism, and the Coming of the Chicano Movement to the Salinas Valley, 1945-1970”

Ramah McKay, Department of Anthropology
“Affective Interventions: Making Medical Welfare in Mozambique”

Emily Ryo, Department of Sociology
“Becoming Illegal”

2008-2009

Jocelyn Lim Chua, Department of Anthropology
"The Politics of Death: Suicide at the Margins of Sovereignty in Kerala, South India"

Jolene Hubbs, Department of English
"Revolting Whiteness: Race, Class, and the American Grotesque"

Valerie Jones, Department of Psychology
"The Gender Tax: The Effects of Underrepresentation on Effort and Preparation"

2007-2008

Mireille Le Breton, Department of French and Italian
"North African Youth, Contest Identities and Cultures in Contemporary France"

J. Roselyn Lee, Department of Communication
"Revealing and Challenging Social Identity Threat in Computer-Mediated Communication Environments"

David Nussbaum, Department of Psychology
"Defensiveness in the Classroom"

Michelle Young-Mee Rhee, Department of English
"Slant in Asian American Poetry and Fiction"

Frank L. Samson, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology
"A Question of Fairness?: White Commitment to Principles amidst Asian Success"

Amy Cynthia Tang, Department of English
"Postmodern Repetitions: Race and the Politics of Form in Contemporary U.S. Literature"

2006-2007

Lalaie Ameeriar, Department of Anthropology
"Making Globalization Work: Pakistani Muslim Women and Migration"

Mary Murphy, Department of Psychology
"The Importance of Context: Conceptualizing a Theory of Social Identity Threat in the Classroom"

Flavio Paniagua, Program in Modern Thought and Literature
"Mojados Malcriados: Unsettling Vernacular Representations and Migrant Routes"

Justine Tinkler, Department of Sociology
"A Social Psychological Analysis of Resistance to Equal Opportunity Law: The Case of Sexual Harassment Policy and Affirmative Action"

2005-2006

Isabel Awad, Department of Communication
"Latinos’ Civic Engagement and the Press: A Reader’s Approach to Latino-Targeted Newspapers"

Vida Mia García, Program in Modern Thought and Literature
"The (Other) Tourist and the River City: Heritage Tourism, Narratives of Citizenship, and Chicana/o Cultural (Re)production in San Antonio, Texas"

Irena Stepanikova, Department of Sociology
"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medical Care: The Role of Physician Bias and Organizational Factors"

2004-2005

Magdalena L. Barrera, Program in Modern Thought and Literature
"Domestic Drama: Visions of Mexican Families and American Identity, 1910-1941"

Ebru Erdem, Department of Political Science
"Political Salience of Ethnic Identities: A Comparative Study of Tajiks in Uzbekistan and Kurds in Turkey"

Shelley Lee, Department of History
"Cosmopolitan Identities: Japanese Americans in Seattle and the Pacific Rim, 1900-1953"

Rachel C. St. John, Department of History
"Line in the Sand: The Desert Border between the United States and Mexico, 1848-1934"

2003-2004

Andrea Kortenhoven, Department of Linguistics
“Word of their testimony: Black women’s church testimonies and narratives of faith”

Christopher D. Scott, Department of Asian Languages
“Spies, Rapists, Ghosts, and Gangsters: The Demanization of Resident Korean Men in Postwar Japanese Culture”

Robert Terrell Smith, Department of Religious Studies
“Jews and Space: Abraham Isaac Kook, Mordecai Kaplan and the Anthropological Project of Jewish Nationalism”

Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Program in Modern Thought and Literature
"Kitchen Culture: Food, Literature and the Body Politic"

2002-2003

Maya Beasley, Department of Sociology

Raúl Coronado Jr., Program in Modern Thought and Literature
"Competing American Liberalisms: nineteenth-Century Mexican American Literature and the Dialectics of Mexican and Anglo American Liberalisms"

Valerie J. Purdie, Department of Psychology
“Social Identity Threat: Towards a New Conceptual Framework"

M. Cherise Smith, Department of Art and Art History

2001-2002

Mishuana R. Goeman, Program in Modern Thought and Literature
"Unconquered Nations, Unconquered Women: American Indian Women Writers (Re)Conceptualizing Race, Gender, and Nation"

Venus Opal Reese, Department of Drama
"Initiating Acts: The Role of Ruptures in the Formation of American Cultural Identities"

Helle L. Rytkønen, Program in Modern Thought and Literature
"Europe and its ‘Almost-European’ Other: A Textual Analysis of Legal and Cultural Practices of Othering in Contemporary Europe"

Miriam Ticktin, Department of Anthropology
"Citizenship and Illegality: The Role of Human Rights and Compassion in the Fight for Equality in France"

2000-2001

Mark Brilliant, Department of History
"Beyond Black and White: The Struggle for Civil Rights on America’s ‘Racial Frontier,’ 1945-1975"

Stephanie A. Fryberg, Department of Psychology
"Representations of American Indians in the media: Do they influence how American Indian students negotiate their identities in mainstream contexts?"

Sara Johnson-La O, Department of Comparative Literature
"Migrant Recitals: Pan-Caribbean Interchanges in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution"

Gina Marie Pitti, Department of History
"To Hear About God in Spanish: Gender, Church, & Community in Bay Area Mexican American Colonias, 1942-1970"

1999-2000

John H. Davis, Jr., Department of Anthropology
"‘Racial Flexibility’ and the Politics of Human Rights in Japanese Society"

Heejung Kim, Department of Psychology
"We Talk, Therefore We Think? A Cultural Analysis on the Effect of Talking on Thinking"

Martín Valadez, Department of History
"Constructing a Modern Nation: Native and Foreign Railway Workers in Porfirian Mexico"