Past Teaching Fellows
2023-2024
Sophie Allen, Department of Sociology and Stanford Law School
"COVID-19 and Health in Jail: Perspectives from people living inside"
Nikolaj Nielsen, Department of Comparative Literature
"Undeserved: Grieving Our Dead in the War on Drugs"
Hesu Yoon, Department of Sociology
"The social construction of neighborhood desirability"
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"
Sophie Allen, Sociology and Law School
"COVID-19 and Health in Jail: Perspectives from people living inside"
Madeline Anderson
2021-2022
Néstor L. Silva, Department of Anthropology
"Petro-farm: The Cultural Politics of Oil and Wheat in the Bakken"
Kerem Ussakli, Department of Anthropology
Rebecca Gleit, Department of Sociology
"De Facto School Discipline and the Maintenance of Inequality"
Cynthia Garcia, Modern Thought and Literature
"Narratives of Displacement: The Spatialization of Power in Chicanx/Latinx Cultural Production"
Marguerite De Loney, Department of Anthropology
"Cartographies of Belonging: Decolonial Explorations into the Making of Place with the Community of Portobelo, Panamá"
2020-2021
Néstor L. Silva, Department of Anthropology
"Petro-farm: The Cultural Politics of Oil and Wheat in the Bakken"
Calvin Cheung-Miaw, Modern Thought and Literature
"Asians and the Color Line: A History of Asian American Studies, 1969-2000"
Luz Minerva Jimenez Ruvalcaba
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