Past Teaching Fellows

2022-2023

Anna Jayne Kimmel, Department of Theater and Performance Studies 

"The Absent Flesh of Law: Dancing Bodies and Legal Choreographies 

Pablo Seward Delaporte, Department of Anthropology 

"Dwelling in Vulnerability: The Politics of Migrant Life in Chile" 

2019-2020

Allison Kendra, Department of Anthropology
"Ruptures and Continuities in Post-Conflict Peru: Labor, Violence, and Friendship in Landscapes of Coca and Insurgency"

Sam Maull, Department of Anthropology
"Fault Lines: Family, Race, and Responsibility in a San Francisco Jail"

Max Suechting, Modern Thought and Literature
"Brass Orchids: Technology and the Posthuman in Black Popular Music"

2018-2019

Kyle Beckham, Graduate School of Education
"The Real-Alternative School Paradox: Success, Failure, Race, and Sensemaking in a California Continuation High School"

Takuya Sawaoka, Department of Psychology
"Imagining Keyser Söze: A Preference for Concentrated Attributions of Moral Responsibility"

Max Suechting, Modern Thought and Literature
"Brass Orchids: Technology and the Posthuman in Black Popular Music"

2017-2018

Rachael Hill, Department of History
"Scientists, Healers and Bioprospectors: the politics of therapeutic pluralism in Ethiopia, 1945-1990"

Takuya Sawaoka, Department of Psychology
"Imagining Keyser Söze: A Preference for Concentrated Attributions of Moral Responsibility"

Lucy Zhang Bencharit, Department of Psychology
"The Role of Culture and Ideal Affect In Employment Settings"

2016-2017

Vivian Chenxue Lu, Department of Anthropology
"Risky Hearts: Igbo Nigerian merchant livelihoods across the Global South"

Victoria Christine Rodriguez, Graduate School of Education
"The Journey to College for First-Generation Latino Students"

Casey Philip Wong, Graduate School of Education
""Your people is what’s wrong with America": A study of how racial identities and ideologies are spread by youth within a diverse schooling context"

2015-2016

Annie Atura, Department of English
"Identity at a Distance: Aesthetic Afterlives of Judaism, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis"

Mark Gardiner, Department of Anthropology
"Technocracy in Black and White: Nature, Race, and Nation in the Management of Namibian Uranium"

Kody J. Manke, Department of Psychology
"Stereotype Threat Perseverance"

2014-2015

Mark Gardiner, Department of Anthropology

Adam L. Horowitz, Department of Sociology

Patricia J. Seo, Department of Sociology

2013-2014

James Estrella, Modern Thought and Literature

Diane Lee, Graduate School of Education

Patricia J. Seo, Department of Sociology

2012-2013

Tristan Ivory, Department of Sociology

Sarah Perkins, Department of English

Elda María Román, Department of English

Patricia J. Seo, Department of Sociology

2011-2012

Jakeya Caruthers, Graduate School of Education
"They Knew God Had a Brother: Political Affect and Oppositional Legitimacy in Black Humorous Literature and Performance"

Whitney M. Trump, Department of English

Patricia J. Seo, Department of Sociology

2010-2011

Regina A. Arnold, Modern Thought and Literature
"Rock Crowds and Power: Race, Space, and Representation"

Manwai Candy Ku, Department of Sociology
"Gender Segregation and Integration in Select Professions"

Shantal R. Marshall, Department of Psychology
"The Psychology of an Unbounded Identity: Whites as the Objective Norm"

2009-2010

Brenda Frink, Department of History
"Pioneers and Patriots: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Citizenship in California, 1875-1915"

Ju Yon Kim, Modern Thought and Literature
"Disappearing Acts and Uncanny Materializations: Performances of the Racial Mundane"

Rand Quinn, Graduate School of Education

2008-2009

Matthew Daube, Department of Theater & Performance Studies
"Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor: Race and Ethnicity in the Emergence of Stand-up Comedy"

Doris M. Madrigal, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
"Beyond "Spanglish": Ideologies of Language and Identity in Chicana/o Cultural Production"

Rand Quinn, Graduate School of Education
"Class Action. Integrating San Francisco Schools, 1978-2005" (Working Title)

2007-2008

MarYam Hamedani, Department of Psychology
"Interdependence in the Land of the Free"

Julie Minich, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
"National Bodies/Embodied Nations: Reading Disability in Chicana/o, Mexican, and Spanish Cultural Production"

Marcela Muñiz, Graduate School of Education
"The Politics of Diversity: How Affirmative Action Policies are Interpreted and Enacted in Faculty Hiring Decisions"

2006-2007

Sapna Cheryan, Department of Psychology
"Strategies of Belonging: Defending Threatened Identities"

Teresa Pellinen-Chávez, Modern Thought & Literature
"Shining Paths: Tourism and the Marketing of Innocence in Southern Peru"

Victor Thompson, Department of Sociology
"Learning from Multiracial Identity: Theorizing Racial Identities from Response Variability on Questions about Race"

2005-2006

Rachael Miyung Joo, Doctoral Candidate in Cultural and Social Anthropology
"Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivities: Manufacturing Koreanness through Media Sports"

Frank L. Samson, Department of Sociology

Victor Thompson, Department of Sociology
"Learning from Multiracial Identity: Theorizing Racial Identities from Response Variability on Questions about Race"

2004-2005

Graciela N. Borsato, Graduate School of Education

Todd Albert Dapremont, Department of English
""To Walk in the World Unquestioned": Europe, Race, and Nation in African American Literature"

2003-2004

Lisa Arellano, Modern Thought & Literature
"Lynching and the American Past: Violence, Narrative and Identity"

Jennifer Marie Chertow, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology
"National Minorities, Transnational Health Practices: Medicines, Modernities, and Constructions of Gender and Ethnicity in Tibet"

2002-2003

Marisol Negrón, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
"Salsa as Commodity and Cultural Signifier: An Analysis of a Nuyorican Musical Form"

Teceta Elaine Rudder Thomas, Department of Psychology
"Black Americans and Black Immigrants: The Influence of Ethnic Identification on Expectancies for Success and Perception of Prejudice"

2001-2002

Shana Beth Bernstein, Department of History
"Building Bridges at Home in a Time of Global Conflict: Interracial Cooperation and the Fight for Civil Rights in Los Angeles, 1933-1954"

Mark Robert Brilliant, Department of History
"Color Lines: The Struggles for Civil Rights on America's 'Racial Frontier,' 1945-1975"

Victoria Caroline Plaut, Department of Psychology

2000-2001

Marisol Negrón, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
"Salsa as Commodity and Cultural Signifier: An Analysis of a Nuyorican Musical Form"

Simon Weffer, Department of Sociology

1999-2000

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?"

Martha Mabie Gardner, Department of History
"The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965"

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

1998-1999

Maria Cotera, Modern Thought and Literature

Jacqueline Lazu, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Lisa Thompson, Modern Thought & Literature

1997-1998

Renya Ramirez, Graduate School of Education