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