Fellows 2014

Appointment:

(former UCD-CPF)

Education:

B.Arch., Cornell University, Architecture; M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Architecture Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Geography

Dissertation:

After The Blast: Building and Unbuilding Memories of Port Chicago

Thesis Advisor:

Richard A. Walker, Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic:

The landscapes for memorializing the 1944 Port Chicago explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and the subsequent African American work strike to resist segregation in the military

Mentor:

Caren Kaplan, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Davis

See Profile for Javier Arbona

Education:

B.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, American Indian Studies; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, American Studies

Dissertation:

Woyakapi Kin Ahdipi “Bringing the Story Home”: A History Within the Flandreau Santee Dakota Oyate

Thesis Advisor:

Jeani O’Brien Kehoe, Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and Brenda J. Child, Professor of American Studies, University of University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Research Topic:

Dakota history and language reclamation, ethical research practices in Indigenous communities

Mentor:

Amy Lonetree, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz

See Profile for Katherine Beane

Appointment:

(former UCB-CPF)

Education:

B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology; Ph.D., Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Dissertation:

Diversification in central African Reedfrogs

Thesis Advisor:

Kelly R. Zamudio, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University

Research Topic:

The genomic architecture and ecological function of a novel coloration phenotype

Mentor:

Jimmy A. McGuire, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

See Profile for Rayna Camille Bell

Education:

B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology; M.S., Utah State University, Wildlife Ecology; Ph.D., University of Washington, Biology

Dissertation:

Evolutionary Dynamics of Pine Squirrels (Tamiasciurus) in Western North America

Thesis Advisor:

G. J. (Jim) Kenagy, Professor of Biology, University of Washington

Research Topic:

Genetic Architecture of Adaptation and Reproductive Isolation in Hybridizing Tree Squirrels (Tamiasciurus)

Mentor:

Michael Nachman, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

See Profile for Andreas S. Chavez

Education:

B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, Spanish Literature/Latin American Studies; M.A., University of Texas at Austin, Latin American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, Cultural Anthropology

Dissertation:

Migrating Performative Traditions: The Guelaguetza Festival in Oaxacalifornia

Thesis Advisor:

Olga Nájera-Ramirez, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic:

Booming Bandas of Los Angeles: Oaxacan Women and Youth as New Cultural Bearers of Philharmonic Brass Bands

Mentor:

Deborah Wong, Professor of Music, University of California, Riverside

See Profile for Xóchitl C. Chavez

Appointment:

(former UCB-CPF)

Education:

B.S., University of California, Davis, Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity; Ph.D., Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Dissertation:

Next-Generation Population Genomics: Inversion Polymorphisms, Epistasis, and Segregation Distortion

Thesis Advisor:

Daniel Hartl, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Research Topic:

Impact of epistasis on human genetic variation

Mentor:

Rasmus Nielsen, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

See Profile for Russell Corbett-Detig

Education:

B.A., University of Kansas, English; M.A., University of California, Riverside, English; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, English with concentration in Native American Studies

Dissertation:

Autobiographical Indiscipline: Queering American Indian Life Narratives

Thesis Advisor:

Michelle Raheja, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

Research Topic:

The Queer Temporality of ‘Mixed-Race’ Indians

Mentor:

Elizabeth Freeman, Professor of English, University of California, Davis

See Profile for Alicia Cox

Appointment:

(former UCD-CPF)

Education:

B.A., Oberlin College, Politics; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Geography

Dissertation:

Waste, Race, and Space: Urban Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in southeast San Francisco

Thesis Advisor:

Richard A. Walker, Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic:

Body Burdens: The Toxic Afterlives of Radiological Defense in San Francisco

Mentor:

Julie Sze, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Davis and Julie Guthman, Professor of Social Sciences-Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

See Profile for Lindsey Dillon

Appointment:

(former UCI-CPF)

Education:

B.A., Pomona College, Sociology and History; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology

Dissertation:

Participating and Belonging without Papers: Theorizing the Tensions between Incorporation and Exclusion for Undocumented Immigrant Young Adults

Thesis Advisor:

Vilma Ortiz, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic:

For Love and Papers: Latina/o Family Formation in the Shadows of Immigration Policy

Mentor:

Rubén Rumbaut, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Education:

B.A., San Diego State University, Sociology; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Sociology; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Sociology

Dissertation:

Caught Up: Girls, Violence, and Wraparound Incarceration

Thesis Advisor:

Nikki Jones, Professor of African American Studies, University of California

Research Topic:

Race, Gender and Crime; Interpersonal and Institutional Pharmaceutical Abuse; Juvenile Delinquency; Ethnography and Qualitative Sociology; Latino/a Sociology

Mentor:

Howard Pinderhughes, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

Education:

B.S., University of California, Riverside, Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Biomedical Engineering

Dissertation:

High Resolution Imaging in a PET Scanner with Hybrid Depth of Interaction Detectors

Thesis Advisor:

Ramsey Badawi, Professor of Radiology, University of California, Davis

Research Topic:

The development of a multipurpose tool kit for PET imaging

Mentor:

Simon Cherry, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis

See Profile for Felipe Godinez

Education:

B.S., University of Toledo, Biology, Hope College; M.S., Biology; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Natural Resource and Environment

Dissertation:

Causes and consequences of biodiversity, complexity, and autonomous ecosystem services in coffee agro-ecosystems

Thesis Advisor:

Ivette Perfecto, Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Research Topic:

The role of functional and phylogenetic crop diversity in driving trade-offs or synergies in pollination, pest control, and yield

Mentor:

Claire Kremen, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley

See Profile for David Gonthier

Education:

B.S., California State University, San Marcos, Biochemistry; M.S., University of California, San Diego, Biochemistry; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Biochemistry

Dissertation:

The use of Mass Spectrometry to Characterize the Metabolic Output of Bacterial Pathogens

Thesis Advisor:

Pieter C. Dorrestein, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego

Research Topic:

New Mass Spectrometry Tools to Battle Human Bacterial Pathogens

Mentor:

Victor Nizet, Professor of Pediatrics & Pharmacy, University of California, San Diego and Jack E. Dixon, Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego

Education:

B.A., Amherst College, Anthropology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology emphasis in linguistic anthropology

Dissertation:

The Nature of Signs: Nepal’s Deaf Society, Local Sign, and the Production of Communicative Sociality

Thesis Advisor:

William F. Hanks, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic:

Grammar & Interaction in Nepali Sign Language and Local Sign Systems

Mentor:

Rachel Mayberry, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego

See Profile for E. Mara Green

Education:

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Geography (Geographic Technologies); M.S., California State University, Fullerton, Biology; Ph.D., Stanford University, Environmental Earth System Science

Dissertation:

Global Environmental Change in Aridland Environments: Solar Energy, Soil Ecology, and Carbon Dynamics

Thesis Advisor:

Christopher B. Field, Professor of Global Ecology, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science

Research Topic:

Global Hotspots of Solar Energy

Mentor:

Margaret S. Torn, Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley and LBNL and Professor Daniel M. Kammen, Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley

See Profile for Rebecca R. Hernandez

Appointment:

(former UCD-CPF)

Education:

B.S., University of Idaho, Biology; M.S., University of Idaho, Biology; Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Biological Sciences

Dissertation:

Novel computational tools and utilization of the gut microbiota for phylogeographic inference

Thesis Advisor:

Robb Brumfield, Professor of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University and Bryan Carstens, Professor of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University

Research Topic:

Phylogeography of function

Mentor:

Jonathan Eisen, Professor of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis

See Profile for Sarah M. Hird

Education:

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Cultural Anthropology with minor in Art History; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Latin American Studies with emphasis in Anthropology and History; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology

Dissertation:

Reconfiguring Archaeological Practice: Lesson from Currusté, Honduras

Thesis Advisor:

Rosemary Joyce, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic:

Local Memories, Local Pasts

Mentor:

Liza Grandia, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

Education:

B.S., Washington University in St. Louis, Civil Engineering; M.S., Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Ph.D., Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dissertation:

Application of time-dependent material properties and environmental impact in bio-based composite design

Thesis Advisor:

Sarah Billington, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University and Michael D. Lepech, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

Research Topic:

Sustainability of materials and infrastructure

Mentor:

Arpad Horvath, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

See Profile for Sabbie Miller

Education:

B.S., University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras, Physics and Mathematics; M.S., University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras, Physics; Ph.D., University of Florida, Physics

Dissertation:

Graviton Propagation During Inflation

Thesis Advisor:

Richard P. Woodard, Professor of Physics, University of Florida

Research Topic:

Quantum Gravity and Cosmology of the Early Universe

Mentor:

Andreas Albrecht, Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis

See Profile for Pedro J. Mora

Education:

B.A., Brown University, English and American Literature; M.F.A., Hunter College, City University of New York, Creative Nonfiction; Ph.D., New York University, American Studies

Dissertation:

Neither Washington, Nor Tehran: Political Cultures of Iranian American Un/Belonging 1953-2009

Thesis Advisor:

Gayatri Gopinath, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Research Topic:

The Gender, Sexual and Racial Politics of Iranian Transnational Cultural Production in the U.S.

Mentor:

Sunaina Maira, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis

See Profile for Manijeh Moradian

Appointment:

(former UCI-CPF)

Education:

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Spanish and Religious Studies; M.A., The University of Chicago, Divinity; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies

Dissertation:

Archivization and Its Alternatives: Toward a Critique of Chicana/o Religions and Spiritualities

Thesis Advisor:

José David Saldívar, Professor of Ethnic Studies and English, University of California, Berkeley and José Rabasa, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic:

The Politics of “Ethnic” Archives and Databases

Mentor:

Rodrigo Lazo, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine

See Profile for Joseph Morales

Appointment:

(former UCM-CPF)

Education:

B.S., University of Oregon, Ethnic Studies and Journalism; M.A., University of California, San Diego, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Ethnic Studies

Dissertation:

Race and the Violence of Love: Family and Nation in U.S. Adoption from Asia

Thesis Advisor:

Yen Le Espiritu, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego and Denise Ferreira da Silva, Professor of Ethics and Politics, Queen Mary University of London

Research Topic:

Race, Family and Adoption

Mentor:

Sean Malloy, Professor of Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts, University of California, Merced

See Profile for Kit Myers

Education:

B.S., Rochester Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering; M.S., Rochester Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation:

Aerosol Deposition in Healthy and Emphysematous Rat Lungs: Insights From MRI Measurements and Computational Simulations

Thesis Advisor:

Alison Marsden, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace and Engineering, University of California, San Diego and Chantal Darquenne, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

Research Topic:

Multi-scale Coupling of Particle Transport in Whole Lung Modeling

Mentor:

Shawn Shadden, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

See Profile for Jessica M. Oakes

Education:

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology and Chicana/o Studies; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology

Dissertation:

Young and Undocumented: The Impacts of Legal Status on the Incorporation of Immigrant Young Adults in California

Thesis Advisor:

Min Zhou, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles and Roger Waldinger, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic:

Individual, Household and Community Impacts of Immigration Detention; Assessing the Impacts of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program on Immigrant Young Adults

Mentor:

Susan Bibler Coutin, Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society, University of California, Irvine

See Profile for Caitlin Patler

Appointment:

(former UCSD-CPF)

Education:

B.A., University of Southern California, Biology; B.A., University of Southern California, French; Ph.D., University of Southern California, Neuroscience

Dissertation:

Exploring the Role of Cooperative and Competitive Interactions in Oligodendrocyte Differentiation and Myelination

Thesis Advisor:

Jonah R. Chan, Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco

Research Topic:

New Tools to Improve the Treatment of Brain Injury in Underserved Newborns: Quantitative Outcome Analysis and Epidermal Electronics

Mentor:

Todd Coleman, Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego and Mary J. Harbert, Professor of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego

Education:

B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Sociology; M.A., University of California, San Diego, Sociology; M.A., University of California, San Diego, Ethnic Studies; Dual Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Sociology and Ethnic Studies

Dissertation:

Savory Politics: Land, Memory, and the Eco-Occupation of Palestine

Thesis Advisor:

Yen Le Espiritu, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Research Topic:

The cultural politics and political economy of the olive tree for Palestinians located in the occupied territories and the diaspora

Mentor:

Keith Feldman, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Minoo Moallem, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley

See Profile for Lila Sharif

Education:

Sc.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; M.Sc., University of Washington, Astronomy; Ph.D., University of Washington, Astronomy and Astrobiology

Dissertation:

The Effect of Star-Planet Interactions on Planetary Climate

Thesis Advisor:

Victoria Meadows, Professor of Astronomy, University of Washington

Research Topic:

The Unknown Effect of Variable Rotation Rate on Planetary Habitability in M-dwarf multiple-planet systems

Mentor:

Brad Hansen, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles

See Profile for Aomawa Shields

Education:

B.S., University of California, Los Angeles, Physics; Ph.D., Texas A&M University, Physics (High Energy Experiment)

Dissertation:

Search for High Mass Resonances Decaying into Tau-Lepton Pairs in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV (L = 5ifb)

Thesis Advisor:

Alexei Safonov, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University

Research Topic:

Search for New Physics with Same-Sign Di-lepton Signature at the Large Hadron Collider

Mentor:

Claudio Campagnari, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Santa Barbara

See Profile for Indara Mayeli Suárez Silva

Education:

B.A., Brown University, Religious Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, Politics with emphasis in Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness

Dissertation:

Impositions of a slave girl abolitionism: a political theory of Harriet Jacobs's praxis of emancipation

Thesis Advisor:

Robert Meister, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic:

Race and Reason After Attica: Fugitive formations of solidarity, struggle, and self-defense at Alderson Federal Prison for Women

Mentor:

Erica Edwards, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

See Profile for Jasmine Syedullah

Appointment:

(former UCI-CPF)

Education:

B.S., Stanford University, Physics & Mathematics; M.A.St., Cambridge University, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics; M.S., Durham University, Physics; Ph.D., Cornell University, Physics

Dissertation:

Flight of the Warped Penguins and other Tales of Strong Coupling from Beyond the Standard Model

Thesis Advisor:

Csaba Csaki, Professor of Physics, Cornell University

Research Topic:

Dark Matter and new physics at the Large Hadron Collider

Mentor:

Tim Tait, Professor of Physics, University of California, Irvine

Appointment:

(former UCSD-CPF)

Education:

B.S., University of California, Irvine, Neurobiology; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Biology

Dissertation:

Cell-intrinsic Transforming Growth Factor-B receptor signaling mediates virus-specific CD8+ cell deletion and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus persistence in vivo

Thesis Advisor:

Elina I. Zuñiga, Professor of Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego

Research Topic:

Impact of adhesion molecules on T cell responses during viral infection

Mentor:

Michael David, Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego

Appointment:

(former UCI-CPF)

Education:

B.S., Skidmore College, Theatre; M.F.A., New York University, Dramatic Writing with Playwriting emphasis; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Drama with Critical Theory emphasis

Dissertation:

Solving for ‘x’: The Allegorhythms of Black Feminist Playwriting

Thesis Advisor:

Frank B. Wilderson, III, Professor of Drama and African American Studies, University of California, Irvine

Research Topic:

Situating the Black Feminist Dramatic Perspective within the Discourse on Diversity

Mentor:

Daniel Gary Busby, Professor of Drama, University of California, Irvine