Discipline 2013
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(former UCSD-CPF)
Education:B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, History and Chicana/o Studies; M.A., Yale University, American Studies; Ph.D., Yale University, American Studies
Dissertation:The Second City Anew: Mexicans, Urban Culture, and Migration in the Transformation of Chicago, 1940-1965
Thesis Advisor:Stephen Pitti, Professor of American Studies and History, Yale University
Research Topic:The Second City Anew: Mexicans, Urban Culture, and Migration in the Transformation of Chicago, 1940-1986
Mentor:David Gutierrez, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
See Profile for Mike AmezcuaB.A., Swarthmore College, English Literature; M.A., University of California, San Diego, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Ethnic Studies
Dissertation:Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the "Almost White" Polynesian Race
Thesis Advisor:Ross Frank, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Research Topic:Hawaiian Types: Scientific and Popular Visualizations of Race and Racial Mixture in Hawai’i
Mentor:Andrea Smith, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
See Profile for Maile ArvinB.A, University of California, Los Angeles., Latin American Studies and Chicana/o Studies; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies
Dissertation:Nonprofits in Production: Race, Place, and the Politics of Care in Oakland, California
Thesis Advisor:Ramon Grosfoguel, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic:Politicizing Care: Race, Philanthropy, and the Making of the Latino Nonprofit Sector
Mentor:Maylei Blackwell, Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Women's Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
See Profile for Juan HerreraB.A.,, University of Kansas English; M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago, English; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Literature
Dissertation:Untelling the Tales of Empire: Intimate Epistemologies of the Korean War
Thesis Advisor:Shelley Streeby, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Literature, University of California, San Diego and Lisa Lowe, Professor of English, Tufts University
Research Topic:Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War
Mentor:James Kyung-Jin Lee, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine
B.A., Wellesley College, Psychology; M.A., University of California, San Diego, Communication; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Communication
Dissertation:Visualizing Violence: Photographic Evidence of Domestic Violence Trials and Popular Culture
Thesis Advisor:Patrick Anderson, Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Research Topic:Haptic Customs of Law Professionals Handling Domestic Violence Trials
Mentor:Marianne Constable, Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
(former UCD-CPF)
Education:B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Anthropology and International Development; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies; M.A., University of Southern California, American Studies & Ethnicity; Ph.D., University of Southern California, American Studies & Ethnicity
Dissertation:Rendered Visualities: Representation & Detention in the War on Terror
Thesis Advisor:Sarah Banet-Weiser, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Research Topic:Redacted Bodies, Rendered Visualities: Reading Digital Archives in the War on Terror
Mentor:Caren Kaplan, Professor of English, University of California, Davis
See Profile for Anjali NathB.A., American University, French and Public Communication; M.A., University of Memphis, Philosophy; Ph.D., Penn State University, Philosophy
Dissertation:The Assisted Reproduction of Race: Thinking Through Race as a Reproductive Technology
Thesis Advisor:Robert Bernasconi, Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University
Research Topic:Poor Whites in the US and South Africa in the early 20th Century
Mentor:David Theo Goldberg, Professor of Comparative Literature - Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine
See Profile for Camisha A. RussellB.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness (Notation in Feminist Studies)
Dissertation:Queer Remains: Insurgent Feelings and the Aesthetics of Violence
Thesis Advisor:Donna Haraway, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Topic:Epistemic Underground: Armed Struggle, Trans Politics and Queer Resistance
Mentor:Patrick Anderson, Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego
See Profile for Eric A. StanleyB.A., Boston College, Psychology; M.S., University of Texas, Arlington, Biology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology
Dissertation:Gonadotropin Inhibitory Hormone: New Insights into the Neuroendocrinology of Stress and Social Conditions
Thesis Advisor:George E. Bentley, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Research Topic:The Neurobiology of Vertebrate Speciation
Mentor:Lance Kriegsfeld, Professor of Psychology and Erica Bree Rosenblum, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
See Profile for Rebecca M. Calisi-RodriguezB.A., Pitzer College, Neuroscience and Psychology; Ph.D., Georgetown University, Neuroscience
Dissertation:Genetic Regulation of the Generation of Neuronal Diversity in the Developing Mammalian Basal Forebrain
Thesis Advisor:Joshua Corbin, Professor of Pediatrics and of Pharmacology & Physiology, Georgetown University
Research Topic:Cortical Inhibitory Circuit Defects in Mouse Models of ASD
Mentor:Sam Pleasure, Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
B.S., University of California Los Angeles, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Infectious Diseases and Immunity
Dissertation:Characterizing the Molecular Basis for mRNA Targeting and Destruction by the Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpes virus (KSHV) Protein Sox
Thesis Advisor:Britt A. Glaunsinger, Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic:Probing Novel Genetic Pathways to Promote Beta Cell Proliferation and Regeneration
Mentor:Michael T. McManus, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco
See Profile for Sergio Covarrubias(former UCB-CPF)
Education:B.S., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Biology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology
Dissertation:Behavior, Ecology, and Genetics of Geoffroy's Tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi)
Thesis Advisor:Eileen A. Lacey, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic:The Ecology of Virus Sex
Mentor:Steven E. Lindow, Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology and Ellen L. Simms, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
See Profile for Sam Diaz-MunozB.S., Brown University, Neuroscience; Ph.D., Stanford University, Neuroscience
Dissertation:Genetic Mosaic Analysis of Lineage and Activity in Wiring the Brain
Thesis Advisor:Liqun Luo, Professor of Biology, Stanford University
Research Topic:Structural and Functional Plasticity in Juvenile Mouse Visual Cortex
Mentor:Michael P. Stryker, Professor of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
See Profile for Juan Sebastian Espinosa(former UCI-CPF)
Education:B.A., Michigan State University, Spanish; B.S., Michigan State University, Fisheries and Wildlife; M.S., College of Charleston, Marine Biology; Ph.D., University of Southern California, Biology
Dissertation:Effects of global change on the physiology and biogeochemistry of the N2-fixing cyanobacteria Trichodesmium erythraeum and Crocosphaera watsonii
Thesis Advisor:David Hutchins, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California
Research Topic:Interactive controls of phytoplankton communities and rapidly changing ocean chemistry on CO2 fixation and nutrient acquisition
Mentor:Adam Martiny, Professor of Earth Systems Science and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine
See Profile for Nathan GarciaB.S., Emory University, Biology; Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, Molecular Biology
Dissertation:Mechanisms that specify promoter nucleosome location and identity
Thesis Advisor:Hiten Madhani, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Research Topic:The influence of HIV Vif on T cell Activation
Mentor:Nevan Krogan, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco
See Profile for Paul HartleyB.S, University of New Orleans., Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Florida State University, Biological Science
Dissertation:The role of Local Adaptation in the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation
Thesis Advisor:Alice A. Winn, Professor of Biological Science, Florida State University
Research Topic:The Evolution of Complex Adaptations
Mentor:Johanna Schmitt, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Davis and David Ackerly, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
B.S., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Biochemistry; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Biological Chemistry
Dissertation:Unifying Mechanisms of Developmental Timing: Genetic and Molecular Analysis of the Molting Cycle Timer of C. elegans
Thesis Advisor:Alison R. Frand, Professor of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic:Mechanisms Underlying the Determinative and Modulatory Actions of the Glucocorticoid Receptor
Mentor:Keith Yamamoto, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco
B.S., University of California, Irvine, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Neuroscience
Dissertation:Laminar Circuit Organization and Inhibitory Neuronal Control of Primary Visual Cortex
Thesis Advisor:Xiangmin Xu, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine
Research Topic:Network Level Encoding of Associative Learning Imaged in Individual Neurons in Vivo
Mentor:Joshua Trachtenberg, Professor of Neurobiology, University of California Los Angeles
See Profile for Nicholas D. OlivasB.S., University of California, Los Angeles, Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Human Genetics
Dissertation:Systems Genetics Approaches for the Understanding of Complex Clinical and Molecular Traits
Thesis Advisor:Jake Lusis, Professor of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic:Impact of DNA methylation differences among genetically diverse individuals on complex molecular and clinical traits
Mentor:Matteo Pellegrini, Professor of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
B.S., University of California, Davis, Biological Sciences; M.S., San Francisco State University, Biology; Ph.D., University of Alabama, Birmingham, Neurobiology
Dissertation:The Role of Mitochondria and Plasma Membrane Ca2+ Transport Systems in Ca2+- dependent Glutamate Release from Rat Cortical Astrocytes
Thesis Advisor:Vladimir Parpura, Professor of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Research Topic:Presynaptic Regulation of Glutamatergic Signaling in Schizophrenia
Mentor:Raymond Swanson, Professor of Neurology and Susan Voglmaier, Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
See Profile for Reno Cervo ReyesB.S., Georgetown University, Biology; M.D., Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Ph.D., Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Immunology
Dissertation:Self-antigen specific CD8+ T cell precursor Frequency determines the quality of the anti-tumor immune response
Thesis Advisor:Alan Honghoton, Professor of Immunology and Jedd Wolchok, Professor of Immunology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Research Topic:Immune response to infection at maternal-fetal interface
Mentor:Clifford Lowell, Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Anna Bakardjiev, Professor of Pediatric and Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco
See Profile for Gabrielle RizzutoB.A., University of Pennsylvania, Biology; Ph.D., Harvard University, Cell and Developmental Biology
Dissertation:Transcriptional Regulation of Synapse Remodeling in C. elegans
Thesis Advisor:Joshua Kaplan, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and Professor of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Topic:Identifying Novel Antagonists of Regeneration in the Central and Peripheral Nervous System
Mentor:Yuh Nung Jan, Professor of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
See Profile for Katherine L. Thompson-PeerB.A., University of Southern California, Psychology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Neuroscience
Dissertation:Frontal and Basal Ganglia Contributions to Working Memory and Attention
Thesis Advisor:Robert T. Knight, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic:Role of neuronal oscillations in coordinating frontal lobe dependent network activity in top-down cognitive processes
Mentor:Adam Gazzaley, Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
See Profile for Bradley Voytek(former UCD-CPF)
Education:B.S., California State University, San Marcos, Biological Sciences; M.S., California State University, San Marcos, Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Emory University, Neurobiology
Dissertation:Contributions of motor neuron intrinsic properties to motor pattern generation
Thesis Advisor:Ronald Calabrese, Professor of Biology, Emory University
Research Topic:Mechanisms of encoding information in coordinating neurons
Mentor:Brian Mulloney, Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davis
(former UCLA-CPF)
Education:B.S., North Dakota State University, Chemistry; Ph.D., North Dakota State University, Chemistry
Dissertation:Enantiospecific chiral transfer: 6π-photocyclization of axially chiral acrylanilides as model reactions
Thesis Advisor:Sivaguru Jayaraman, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University
Research Topic:Crystalline Photochromic Molecular Rotors
Mentor:Miguel Garcia-Garibay, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
See Profile for Anoklase Ayitou(former UCB-CPF and PPF)
Education:B.S., Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering; M.S., Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dissertation:Dielectric Charging in CMOS MEMS
Thesis Advisor:Gary Fedder, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Research Topic:Reliability of Inertial MEMS Sensors
Mentor:Al Pisano, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
(former UCSD-CPF)
Education:B.S., Purdue University, Agricultural Engineering; M.S., Purdue University, Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Civil Engineering
Dissertation:Integrated parcel-scale urban coastal flood modeling: accounting for tide, surge, wave, sea level rise, and flood control infrastructure
Thesis Advisor:Brett Sanders, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Research Topic:A Validated Runup and Overtopping Model for Advancing Urban Coastal Flood Prediction
Mentor:Robert Guza, Professor of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
(former UCB-CPF)
Education:B.S., University of Utah, Chemistry; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Chemistry
Dissertation:Functional Polypeptides for Biomedical Applications
Thesis Advisor:Timothy Deming, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic:The role of the mucin glycocalyx in cancer
Mentor:Carolyn Bertozzi, Professor of Chemistry & Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
(former UCI-CPF)
Education:B.S., University of Texas at Austin, Astronomy; B.S., University of Texas at Austin, Physics; Ph.D., University of Oxford, Astrophysics
Dissertation:The Assembly History of Disk Galaxies
Thesis Advisor:Mark Sullivan, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford
Research Topic:Fresh Leads on the Astrophysical Nature of Dark Matter
Mentor:James Bullock, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine
See Profile for Sarah Miller(former UCB-CPF)
Education:B.Tech., Osmania University, Chemical Engineering; M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering; Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Biological Sciences
Dissertation:Interaction between cell shape and signaling: a computational study
Thesis Advisor:Ravi Iyengar, Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research Topic:Biomechanics of Cellular Membranes
Mentor:George Oster, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and David Steigmann, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
See Profile for Padmini RangamaniB.S., Tulane University, Biomedical Engineering; M.S., Tulane University, Cell and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Dissertation:Statistical Models of the Protein Fitness Landscape: Applications to Protein Evolution and Engineering
Thesis Advisor:Frances H. Arnold, Professor of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Research Topic:Engineering proteins with ultra-high-throughput microfluidic screening
Mentor:Adam Abate, Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
See Profile for Philip A. RomeroM.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Mathematics; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Mathematics
Dissertation:Variational Models for Fine Structures
Thesis Advisor:Stanley Osher, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic:Variational methods and Sparse Computing
Mentor:Hongkai Zhao, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
B.S., Stanford University, Mathematics; M.S., University of Chicago, Mathematics; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Mathematics
Dissertation:Vanishing Integrals for Hall-Littlewood Polynomials
Thesis Advisor:Eric Rains, Professor of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
Research Topic:Combinatorial Representation Theory
Mentor:Monica Vazirani, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
B.S., University of New Mexico, Chemistry; Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Material Science and Engineering
Dissertation:Spectroscopic and calorimetric investigation of short and intermediate-range structures and energetics of amorphous SiCO, SiCN, and SiBCN polymer-derived ceramics
Thesis Advisor:Alexandra Navrotsky, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Sabyasachi Sen, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis
Research Topic:Investigation of the Effect of Composition and Atomic Structure on Electrochemical Properties of Ceramic Based Materials for Renewable Energy Applications
Mentor:Bradley F. Chmelka, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
See Profile for Scarlett WidgeonB.S., University of California, Irvine, Chemistry; M.S., California State University, Los Angeles, Analytical Chemistry; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, Analytical Chemistry
Dissertation:Mass Spectrometry and Density Functional Theory Characterizations of DNA Modifications
Thesis Advisor:Yinsheng Wang, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside
Research Topic:Study of the atmospheric chemistry of nanoparticles as it relates to complex, cooperative self-assembly process at the air/ocean interface between biopolymers, lipids and inorganic salts
Mentor:Robert Pomeroy, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
See Profile for Renee T. WilliamsB.S./B.A., University of the Pacific, Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies; M.S., The University of Texas, Austin, Geological Sciences; PhD., The University of Texas, Austin, Geological Sciences
Dissertation:Delineating Controls on Hydrologic Variability and Water Geochemistry in Central Texas
Thesis Advisor:Jay Banner, Professor of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas, Austin
Research Topic:Using Paleoclimate reconstructions to investigate how and why California rainfall will change with Global Warming
Mentor:Isabel P. Montañez, Professor of Geochemistry, University of California, Davis
See Profile for Corinne I. Wong(former UCB-CPF)
Education:B.S., University of California, Riverside, Environmental Engineering; M.S., California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering
Dissertation:Chemistry of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Thesis Advisor:John H. Seinfeld, Professor of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Research Topic:Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in Earth’s Atmosphere from a Combination of Natural and Anthropogenic Emissions
Mentor:Allen H. Goldstein, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
B.A., San Jose State University, Anthropology; M.A., San Jose State University, History and Anthropology; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco Joint Medical Anthropology Program, Medical Anthropology
Dissertation:Translating Sweetness: Type 2 Diabetes, Race, Research and Outreach
Thesis Advisor:Cori Hayden, Professor of Medical and Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic:Race, Genomics, and Health Disparities: Classificatory Politics and Bioethical Conscription
Mentor:Jennifer E. Reardon, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
See Profile for James BattleB.A., University of California, Davis, Asian American Studies; E.D.M., Harvard University, Education-Policy and Management; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Education
Dissertation:Colonial Articulations: English Instruction in the Philippines and the “Benevolence” of U.S. Overseas Expansion, 1898-1916
Thesis Advisor:Daniel Perlstein, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic:Colonialism and Education
Mentor:Cristina Gonzalez, Professor of Education, University of California, Davis
See Profile for Funie HsuB.A., Middlebury College, Spanish and Creative Writing; M.A., University of Texas, Austin, Latin American Studies and Anthropology; Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Sociocultural Anthropology
Dissertation:Soil Practitioners and ‘Vital Spaces’: Agricultural Ethics and Life Processes in the Colombian Amazon
Thesis Advisor:Marisol de la Cadena, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Research Topic:Alternative Science, Ecological Health and ‘Degrowth’ for a Different Life
Mentor:Andrew Mathews, Professor of Anthropology and Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A., California State University, Northridge, Psychology; Ph.D., University of Chicago, Cognitive Psychology and a Minor in Education
Dissertation:The Cognitive Mechanism Underlying Math Anxiety in Early Elementary School
Thesis Advisor:Sian L. Beilock, Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago
Research Topic:Teaching Practices of Math Anxious Teachers
Mentor:James W. Stigler, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
See Profile for Gerardo RamirezB.A., University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology; M.A., University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology
Dissertation:Placing Refuge: Shell Mounds and the Archaeology of Colonial Encounters in the San Francisco Bay, California
Thesis Advisor:Kent G. Lightfoot, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic:The Archaeology of Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California
Mentor:Lynn H. Gamble, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
See Profile for Tsim D. Schneider(former UCB-CPF)
Education:B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Psychology; M.A., University of California, San Diego, Sociology; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Sociology
Dissertation:Thin, White and Saved: Fat Stigma and the Fear of the Big Black Body
Thesis Advisor:Maria Charles, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Christena Turner, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Research Topic:Obesity Among Women of Color: Investigating the role of social and environmental factors in health outcome
Mentor:Amani Nuru-Jeter, Professor of Public Health and Sandra Susan Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley