Fellows 2023

B.S., Genomic Science, National Autonomous University of México; Ph.D., Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Adaptation and selection genomics of vertebrates

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

Natural selection on structural variants and transposable elements in canid populations of conservation concern

Kirk Lohmueller, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., History and Chinese, Bowdoin College; Ph.D., Information Systems and Management, University of California, Berkeley

State-Firm Co-Production of China’s Social Credit System

Steven Weber, Professor of Information, University of California, Berkeley

Islamophobia’s global influence over the development of surveillance technology

Safiya Noble, Professor of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Economics, University of Nevada, Reno; M.A., History, San Diego State University; Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

“The Storm in Kenya”: Mau Mau in Systems of Thought

Eric Porter, Professor of History of Consciousness and History, University of California, Santa Cruz

Transnational understandings of African decolonization, with an emphasis on issues of historical consciousness and global political economy

Bettina Ng’weno, Professor of African American and African Studies, University of California, Davis

B.A., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Near Eastern Studies, New York University; Ph.D., History, Columbia University

The Economic Nahda: Capital, Empire, and Economic Thought in the Modern Middle East, 1860–1920

Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University and Marwa Elshakry, Professor of History, Columbia University

Capitalism and economic thought in the modern Middle East, 1860–1970

Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., International Studies, Arabic and French, University of Mississippi; M.A., French Studies, University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Producing Terror: Secularism, Islamophobia, and the ‘Anti-Terrorism’ Regime

Zakia Salime, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University - New Brunswick

No Dignity in Captivity: Immigration Detention and America’s ‘War on Terror’

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

B.A., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles; M.Phil., History, Yale University; Ph.D., History, Yale University

A Wind from the South: The Algerian Revolution, Settler Colonial Internationalism, and the Third World Radical Imagination

Rosie Bsheer, Professor of History and Odd Arne Westad, Professor of History, Yale University

A Wind from the South: The Algerian Revolution, Settler Colonial Internationalism, and the Third World Radical Imagination

Sherene Seikaly, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., Biology, Wesleyan College; Ph.D., Cancer Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Molecular Regulation of Glioblastoma Spatial Heterogeneity and Therapeutic Resistance

Anita B. Hjelmeland, Professor of Cell, Developmental & Integrative Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Investigating the Interaction of Tumor Cells with Vascular and Immune Cells to Overcome Treatment Resistance in Glioblastoma

Harley Kornblum, Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Irvine

When Galaxies Go Quiet: Elucidating the Drivers of Environmental Quenching Across Cosmic Time

Michael Cooper, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis

Constraining the Cosmic Evolution of Environmental Quenching & Predicting Protocluster Populations

Alison Coil, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, San Diego

A.A., Chemistry, Miami Dade Community College; B.A., Comparative Literature & Chemistry, Columbia University; Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, Stanford University

Situating theories of neural function within a biologically plausible optimization framework

Anthony Wagner, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University and Dan Yamins, Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, Stanford University

Building and evaluating biologically plausible computational models of human memory

Alexei Efros, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley and Charan Ranganath, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of California, Davis

B.A., Theater and Communication, Carthage College; M.A., Communication and American Indian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle; Ph.D., Culture and Performance, University of California, Los Angeles

Wówayupike: Relational Practices Between Lakota Art, Land, and Culture

David D. Shorter, Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles

Indigenous Arts and Culture: Lakota Creative Practices and the Continuum of Lakota Intellectual Traditions

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

B.A., Journalism-Public Relations and Psychology, University of Memphis; Ph.D., Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis

A comparison of voice and gesture across the first two years of life

D. Kimbrough Oller, Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis

Understanding the transition from canonical babbling to first words in language acquisition

Anne Warlaumont, Professor of Communication and Catherine Sandhofer, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Art, Hunter College; M.F.A., Art and Technology, California Institute of the Arts, M.A., Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine

Refusing Spectacle: Trans Latinx Counter-Security Media

Lucas Hilderbrand, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine Bliss Cua Lim, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto

trans Latinx activist media, creative strategies of resistance, and worldmaking.

Richard T. Rodríguez, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

B.S., Molecular Environmental Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley

Mechanisms of Resilience to Megafire in Californian Wildlife Communities

Justin Brashares, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley

Conserving California’s Wildlife Communities in the Age of Megafire

Morgan Tingley, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Physics and Math, Haverford College; M.A., Physics, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Transport in quantum materials: lessons from (almost) exactly solvable models

Joel Moore, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Prediction of spin-liquid signatures in trapped atom and spin transport experiments

Leon Balents, Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.S., Psychology, minor in Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Arizona; Ph.D., Biology with a focus in Physiology, Arizona State University

Examining the Effects of a High Fat Diet on the Development of Metabolic Syndrome and Intestinal Permeability in Male Sprague Dawley Rats

Karen L. Sweazea, Professor of Health Solutions, Arizona State University

Evaluating the effects of Agricultural Dust LPS on Intestinal Barrier Function

Declan F. McCole, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside

B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Metabolic Biology, University of California, Berkeley

New methods and applications to measure the kinetics of low abundance proteins, including receptors, signaling molecules and hormones, using heavy water (2H2O) labeling and mass spectrometry

Marc Hellerstein, Professor of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley

Structural biology of antibiotic function on regulating translation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

James Fraser, Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

B.A., English, Bowie State University; M.P.A., Public Administration, Bowie State University; Ph.D., Political Science, Howard University

Unlocking the Power of the Sister(hood) Vote: Exploring the Opinions and Motivations of NPHC Sorority Black Women Supporting Black Women Candidates

Keesha M. Middlemass, Professor of Political Science, Howard University

The Kamala Conversation: An Exploration of the Candidate Evaluation of Vice President Kamala Harris from Black Sorority Women

Davin L. Phoenix, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Sociology and Economics, Gonzaga University; M.A., Education, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Critical Studies of Race, Class, & Gender; designated emphasis in Women, Gender, & Sexuality, University of California, Berkeley

Antiblackness and Racialized Equity Labor at a Progressive and Elite Public University

Tianna Paschel, Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Zeus Leonardo Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley

Administering Black Im/Possibilities: The Politics of Anti-Racist Institutional Change in a Prospectively Hispanic-Serving Context

Laura Hamilton, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced

B.A., Biology, Oberlin College; M.A., Geography, University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Davis

Black lives unbounded: Policing, property, and the spatial practice of abolition in Sacramento

Julie Sze, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Davis

Abolitionist approaches to housing justice: dismantling a revolving door between policing, incarceration, and housing instability

Kelly Lytle Hernández, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Pure Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary; M.Phil., Computational Biology, University of Cambridge; Ph.D., Mathematical Genomics and Medicine, University of Cambridge

Phylogenetic inference using ancient environmental DNA

Eske Willerslev, Professor of Zoology, Richard Durbin, Professor of Genetics, and John Welch, Professor of Genetics, University of Cambridge

Quantifying long-term forest recovery after wildfire using ancient environmental DNA

Beth Shapiro, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Rowan University; Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley

Delivery and Applications for Small Molecule Drugs in Tissue Regeneration

Phillip Messersmith, Professor of Bioengineering and Material Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Engineered Living Materials

Christopher Hernandez, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

B.A., Psychology, Saint Martin’s University; M.A., Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine

Biological, Environmental, and Psychological Stress and the Human Gut Microbiome

Sarah D. Pressman, Professor of Psychological Science, and Jessica L. Borelli, Professor of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine

Attachment, Emotion, and Gut Microbial Composition in the Parent-Child Dyad

Emeran Mayer, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Biology, The American University of Beirut; M.A., Journalism, The City University of New York; Ph.D., Film and Digital Media Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Queer Film and Art Practice from Lebanon: New Political Imaginaries, Radical Aesthetics, and Utopian Futures

Peter Limbrick, Professor of Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz

Queer Film from the Arab Region and its Diasporas: New Decolonial Methodologies

Tarek Elhaik, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis

B.A., Environmental Studies and American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., Historical Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science; Ph.D., Africana Studies, Harvard University

Carceral Marronage and Mutations in Colonialism

Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of Africana Studies and Vincent Brown, Professor of Africana Studies, Harvard University

Historical Sociology of Anticolonial Insurgencies, Statecraft and Mass Incarceration

Eric Porter, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.S., Marine Biology, Chemistry minor, University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S., Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Marine Biology, University of California, San Diego

Climate-fishery interactions in coastal ecosystems

Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Professor of Marine Biology, University of California, San Diego

The effects of upwelling and climate change on commercially important fishery taxa

Kristy Kroeker, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; M.A., English, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., English, University of California, Riverside

Galaxies like Islands, Islands like Galaxies: Envisioning Futurity through Seascape Technologies

Michelle Raheja, Professor of English and Mark Minch-de Leon, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

Indigenous Futurisms, Native Hawaiian Virtual Art, & Oceanic Futurities

Stacy Kamehiro, Professor of History of Art & Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Geography and International Studies, Macalester College; M.P.H., Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley

Impact of Historical Redlining and Contemporary Gentrification on Severe Maternal Morbidity Racial and Ethnic Inequities

Mahasin S. Mujahid, Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley

The Effects of Place-Based Mechanisms of Structural Racism on Racial Inequities in Pregnancy-Related Outcomes and Infant Health

Tracey Woodruff, Professor of Obstetrics Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco and Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Biological Science, University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Horticultural Biology, Cornell University

Understanding the Influence of the Rhizosphere Microbiome on Horticultural Crop Traits and Production

Jenny Kao-Kniffin, Professor of Horticulture, Cornell University

Potential for Organic Amendments to Promote Soil Health and Crop Productivity in Urban Agriculture

Cristina Lazcano, Professor of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California Davis

B.A., Cultural Studies, Columbia College Chicago; M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

Advocacy as Punishment: Domestic Violence Victim Services, Anti-Black Punitivity, and the Production of Meaning

Alisa Bierria, Professor of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, and Dylan Rodriguez, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

When Did Care Become Carceral? Surveillance and the Containment of Black Life

Rana Jaleel, Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, University of California, Davis

B.S., Biology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; M.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; Ph.D., Genetics and Epigenetics and Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

p53 dimers elicit unique tumor suppressive activities through an altered metabolic program

Guillermina Lozano, Professor of Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Investigating the role of NF-kB pathway inhibition in overcoming drug resistance in EGFR-driven Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Jennifer R. Grandis and Daniel E. Johnson, Professors of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Francisco

B.M., Music, Centenary College of Louisiana; M.M., Early Music, Indiana University; Ph.D., Historical Musicology, University of California, Riverside

Luis A. Delgadillo and the Cultural Occupation of Nicaragua under U.S.-American Intervention

Leonora Saavedra, Professor of Music, University of California, Riverside

Sound, Colonization, and California Indians

Benjamin Madley, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., English Literature and Anthropology, McGill University; Ph.D., English Literature, The University of Chicago

Peons, Toilers, and Vagabonds: Labor and Literature in the Black Atlantic, 1900-1945

Kenneth Warren, Professor of English, The University of Chicago

My research explores the relationship between historical processes of class formation, labor politics, and cultural production in the Black Atlantic world. My first book project is tentatively titled “‘The Voice of Coloured Labor’: Labor and Literature in the Black Atlantic, 1900-1960.” Building on my dissertation, this project aims to tell the story of how the “Black working class” (referred to in my archive variously as “Negro workers,” “coloured labor,” or the “Dark Proletariat”) emerges as a distinctive political and cultural force on the global stage from the early twentieth century to the era of decolonization. I am also engaged in archival research and writing on the literature of the Marcus Garvey movement.

Yogita Goyal, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles; M.P.H., Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Health Policy, Population Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

Illegality, Racism, and Population Health: Mechanisms, Interventions, & Community-Engaged Research

Hector P. Rodriguez, Professor of Health Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley

Legal Status Disparities in the Management of Chronic Disease in LA County

Annie Ro, Professor of Public Health, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Biology, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana; Ph.D., Plant and Microbial Ecology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Impact of genetic diversity on the phenotype and ecological interactions of cultivated plants with emphasis on cotton

Ana E. Escalante, Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Plant-microbiome interactions

Brandon S. Gaut, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Anthropology and Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Sikh Television: Sovereignty, Religion, and Diaspora

Arvind-Pal Mandair, Professor of Asian Languages & Cultures, and Webb Keane, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, South Asian Studies, Religious Studies, Diaspora Studies, Media Studies, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnography

Purnima Mankekar, Professor of Asian American Studies and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Native American Studies, University of California, Riverside; M.A., Linguistics, University of Arizona; Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, San Diego

Topics in the Phonology and Morphology of Torres Martinez Desert (TMD) Cahuilla

Gabriela Caballero, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego

A Pedigogical Grammar of Cahuilla

Wesley Y. Leonard, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

M.F.A., Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley

Shared Bodies

Brody Reiman, Professor of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley

Shared Bodies is a constellation of sculptures and photographic works that bring attention to the aesthetic and political intersections between the historical subjects of the 1970s American sex worker rights organization COYOTE and contemporary racialized sexual subjects in the Bay Area.

Beth Stephens, Professor of Art, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; M.A., English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Ph.D., American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California

Atmospheres of Relief: Air and Militarism in the Pacific Ocean

John Carlos Rowe, Professor of English, Comparative Literature and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California

Atmospheres of Relief investigates air as a site of U.S.-Japanese inter-imperial violence across Asia and the Pacific Islands that is contested through movements for demilitarization and sovereignty built around breath and wind.

Christine Hong, Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Philosophy, University of Ibadan; M.A., Philosophy, University of Ibadan; M.A., Philosophy, University of Leuven; Ph.D., Philosophy, Cardiff University

Epistemology of Thought Experiments: The Reason-Responsiveness View

Alessandra Tanesini, Professor of Philosophy, and Liz Irvine, Lecturer of Philosophy, Cardiff University, and Mona Simeon, Professor of Philosophy, University of Glasgow

Nepotism: What is it? What Distinctive Harm and Wrong does it Inflict? And how might we Ameliorate it?

Duncan Pritchard, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Sociology, The College of William & Mary; M.S., International Educational Development, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Education, Culture, and Society, University of Pennsylvania

Secondary Schoolgirls: Education and the Politics of Inclusion for Young Women in Sierra Leone

Krystal Strong, Professor of Black Studies in Education, Rutgers University, and Rand Quinn, Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Legacies of Gender and Colonial Secondary Schooling in Africa and the African Diaspora

Jemima Pierre, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Chemistry, United States Naval Academy; Ph.D., Chemistry, Chemical and Materials Physics, University of California, Irvine

Innovative Approaches to NMR Instrumentation Design to Support Characterization of Complex Biomolecular Assemblies

Rachel Martin, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

Modeling the Dynamic Molecular Basis of Aggregation Disease Pathways

Douglas Tobias, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Mathematics, Stony Brook University; Ph.D., Mathematics, Columbia University

A coproduct structure on symplectic cohomology.

Mohammed Abouzaid, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University

Trace methods in Floer theory

Roger Casals Gutiérrez, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis

B.S., Science of Architecture, University of RomaTre; M.S. Science of Architecture; University of RomaTre, M.S., Geography and Urban & Environmental Studies, Concordia University; Ph.D., Culture & Theory, University of California, Irvine

Palestine, and the Future of Home

Sora Han, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine

Palestine, Alienation, and the Question of Home

David Lloyd, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

B.A., Geography, University of South Carolina; M.A., Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison; Ph.D., American Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Wrestling with Blackness: Play, Precarity, and the Black Geographies of Pro Wrestling

Adam Bledsoe, Professor of Geography, and Elliot Powell, Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Infinite Supply: Sportcraft, Black Athleticism, and the Disposability of The Black Athlete

Victoria Johnson, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Biological Sciences, Konkuk University; M.S., Medicine, Neuroscience, Konkuk University; Ph.D., Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University

Cellular mechanisms of GPCR signaling in the modulation of anxiety, fear, and pain

Richard van Rijn, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University

Glial mechanisms underlying sex differences in psychedelic medicine

Daniela Kaufer, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Classical Languages, and B.S., Molecular Environmental Biology, University of California, Berkeley; M.Phil. Classics, University of Cambridge, M.A., Classics, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Classics, University of California, Berkeley

Queer Futurities in Ovid’s Heroides

Kathleen McCarthy, Professor of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Queer Futurities in Ovid’s Heroides

Helen Morales, Professor of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Epistemic Haunting: Queer Latinx Ghosts in Academia

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

“Turning to the Ghosts: Latinx Scholars' Untimely Deaths, Hauntings, and Testimonios" intersects Latina feminist theory, queer archives, and cultural production to contend that Ethnic Studies has a cycle of queer Latinx scholars whose untimely deaths haunt (or reveal unsolved violence) in academia. By developing studies in Chicana feminism and hauntology as a framework to analyze repressed histories within this project, I argue that these hauntings have knowledge-based and deadly consequences.

Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor of Literature and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh; M.A., Anthropology, San Francisco State University; Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University

Japanese Diaspora in a WWII Incarceration Camp: Archaeology of Gila River

Barbara Voss, Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University

Consuming the Japanese Diaspora: Nihonmachi and Beyond

Jason De León, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Biochemistry, University of Virginia; Ph.D., Microbiology & Immunology, The George Washington University

Nanoparticle-based Photothermal Therapy to Treat Solid Tumors

Rohan Fernandes, Professor of Medicine, The George Washington University

Generating and assessing virus-like particle vaccines against metastasis and atherosclerosis

Nicole F. Steinmetz, Professor of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Black Studies, Amherst College; M.A., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Feeling Communal Motherhood: Black Women's Navigations of Class, Gender, and Parental Status

Camille Charles, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

This research uncovers dynamics often underrepresented in existing scholarship by examining the complex relationship between Black womanhood and communal mothering practices. Although current research about Black motherhood often attends to the severing of Black children from their mothers through slavery and its afterlives, as well as the mothering that transcends biological boundaries, which is commonplace in Black communities, little scholarship empirically considers these factors alongside Black women's experiences of gender inequality in the family. This study draws on semi-structured interviews with 80 Black mothers and childless women to ask how parental status and social class shape their experiences with communal motherhood. I employ affect theory to reveal the complex emotions and pressures accompanying communal mothering practices. By analyzing themes related to motherhood, caretaking, and class, the research contributes to a broader understanding of race, gender, emotion, and family.

Richard Pitt, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego

B.A., African, African-American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.A., African American Studies, Columbia University; M.A., American Studies, Yale University; Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University

The Psychic Landscape of Slavery: Modern Consciousness and Damning Attachments

Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, and Tavia Nyong’o, Professor of American Studies, Yale University

My project examines the psycho-affective formations engendered and sedimented by New World slavery and colonialism.

Sora Han, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, African American Studies and Law, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Native American Studies, University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

After the Tree Spoke: Juan Banderas and the Yaqui Uprisings of 1825-1833

Ines Hernandez-Avila, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

The Expansion and Interactions of Nahuatl in Colonial Mexico

Andrés Reséndez, Professor of History, University of California, Davis

B.A., French and Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; M.A., Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University; Ph.D., Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

In Search of Purity: Language, Ideology and Global Intellectual Movements in Ottoman Armenian History, 1750-1915

S. Peter Cowe, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

The Rise of Western Armenian in the Post-Ottoman Diaspora: A Social History (1915-1965)

Houri Berberian, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

Ph.D., Resource Management and Environmental Studies, The University of British Columbia

Indigeneity in urban communities: relationality, dualism, and the lived experiences of Indigenous persons who live in Vancouver and Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Terre Satterfield, Professor of Culture, Risk and the Environment, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, The University of British Columbia

Towards a New Social Democracy: Communal Resistance to Green Gentrification in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Julie Sze, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Davis, and Stephen Wheeler, Professor of Environmental Design, University of California, Davis

B.S., Aerospace Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo; B.S., Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo; M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; M.S., Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Model-Based Life Extending Control for Rotorcraft

J. V. R. Prasad, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Towards the Design of Safe-controllers for Novel Aerial Vehicles using Model-Based and Learning-based Control Strategies

Claire J. Tomlin, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., English Literature, Carleton University; M.A., British, American, and Postcolonial Studies, University of Münster; Ph.D., Culture & Theory, University of California, Irvine

Blackness, Terminable and Interminable

Frank B. Wilderson III, Professor of African American Studies and Culture & Theory, University of California, Irvine

The monetary structure of racial blackness in the political and libidinal economies

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

B.A., Philosophy, American University; M.A., Social Policy, American University; Ph.D., Culture and Performance, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles

Entre Flor y Fusil: Caribbean and Central American Cultural Memory in the Late and Post-Cold War Era (1968-2020)

Janet O’Shea, Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles

Entre Flor y Fusil/Between Flower and Rifle: Central American and Caribbean Arts Production capitalist-induced climate disasters, socially-engaged art productions, critical media studies, and oral histories

Keramet Reiter, Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz; M.P.A., Public Affairs, minor: Latinx Studies, Cornell University; Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Possibilities for Radical Resurgence: New Generations of Indigenous Women and Queer Youth in Contemporary Oaxacalifornia

Grace Chang, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Envisioning Indigenous Futures: Indigenous Women and Indigiqueer Youth in Oaxacalifornia

Renya Ramirez, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Racial Socialization and Black Undergraduates’ Community (Dis)Identification Talk in a Historically White Institution

Mary Bucholtz, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Community College Transfer Students and Black Community Socialization

Eddie Cole, Professor of Higher Education, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Physics, Yale University; M.S., Physics, Stanford University; Ph.D., Physics, Stanford University

Combining Spectroscopic and Imaging Galaxy Surveys for Improved Measurements of Large-Scale Structure

Steve Allen, Professor of Physics, Stanford University

Cosmology with Galaxy Surveys

Uros Seljak, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Communication, The University of Tampa; M.A., Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; M.A., Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University – New Brunswick; Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Re-membering Healing: The Tuskegee School of Midwifery and its Legacies for Reproductive Care

Gina Dent, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Midwives Never Left: Tracing Healing Justice Solidarities from Tuskegee to Haiti

Robin D.G. Kelley, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Asian American Studies (Gender Studies Concentration), University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., History of Consciousness (Designated Emphases in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies), University of California, Santa Cruz

War Material: Vietnam and Transpacific Imaginaries of Capital and Transition

Eric Porter, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Loss in Perpetuity: Vietnam, Refugee Necrovalue and Permanent War

Ma Vang, Professor of History and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, University of California, Merced

B.A., Ethnic Studies, Cal Poly Humboldt; M.A., Political Science, California State University, Northridge; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

The Political Economy of Contemporary Maya and Ladino Guatemalan Labor Migrations in Southern California’s Inland Empire (1980-2022)

Alfonso Gonzales Toribio, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

Tejiendo Solidaridad/Weaving Solidarity Political Accompaniment Praxis with the Guatemalan Grassroots in Southern California and Mesoamerica

Ben Olguín, Professor of English, and Charles Hale, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., History, California Polytechnic University, Humboldt; M.A., Public History, California State University, Sacramento; Ph.D., Native American Studies with designated emphasis in Human Rights, University of California, Davis

This is our home, this is our land: Visualizing Decolonization on the Klamath River Basin

Beth Rose Middleton-Manning, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

In 2002, a massive fish kill led to a concentrated environmental justice movement to remove four dams on the Klamath River Basin that negatively impacted the health and sustainability of the river system. The project addresses how federal and state environmental policy on the Klamath River Basin relies on narrow definitions of genocide, time, and settler-colonial concepts of ownership to continue land dispossession of Indigenous people in California. In response, Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk artists and activists work beyond the scope of environmental policy to assert place-based epistemology through trans-Indigenous relationships against the state, centering decolonization through dam removal, ongoing environmental injustice, and human rights abuses.

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

B.S., Oceanography, University of São Paulo; Ph.D., Oceanography, University of São Paulo and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Physical-biological interactions in the Brazil Current meanders

Ilson C. A. da Silveira, Professor of Physical Oceanography, University of São Paulo and Amit Tandon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Nonlinear feedbacks between smaller scale physical and biological processes during harmful algal blooms

Jennifer MacKinnon and Drew Lucas, Professors of Physical Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Political Science minor in Education, University of California, Los Angeles; M.S., Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., Education and Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Pedagogy for Ethnic-Racial Identity Development: Reimaging Identities Rooted in Resistance

Deborah Rivas-Drake, Professor of Education and Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

How educators, youth practitioners, and families can provide opportunities for Latinx adolescents to make meaning of their ethnic-racial identity in ways that are both culturally affirming and raise their critical social awareness.

Laura Wray-Lake, Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Science Biology, UNA University Center; M.S., Animal Biology - Herpetology, Federal University of Viçosa; Ph.D., Genetic, Conservation & Evolutionary Biology, National Institute of Amazonian Research

Testing diversification hypotheses in Neotropical rainforests based on amphibians and reptiles

Fernanda P. Werneck, Professor of Genetic, Conservation & Evolutionary Biology, National Institute of Amazonian Research

Testing if ecological isolation promotes speciation in Amazonian amphibians.

Michael Alfaro, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Florida

Arithmetic of Polynomial Semidomains

Scott Chapman, Professor of Mathematics, Sam Houston State University, Richard Crew, Professor of Mathematics, University of Florida, and Felix Gotti, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Arithmetic of Monoid Semidomains

Nathan Kaplan, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Environmental Science, California State University, Fresno; M.S., Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington; Ph.D., Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside

Soil Microbial Successional and Functional Dynamics After a Chaparral Wildfire

Sydney I. Glassman, Professor of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside

Assessment of cross-kingdom interactions during litter decomposition

Jennifer B.H. Martiny, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Sociology, California State University, Fullerton; M.A., Sociology, University of Southern California; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Southern California

Sieves in the Immigration Law Infrastructure: Immigration Attorneys’ Bounded Professionalism

Jody Agius Vallejo, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California

Latina Immigration Attorneys: Striving for Community Justice in an Unequal Profession

Amada Armenta, Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Black Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., History, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., History, University of California, San Diego

Indigenous Worldmaking in a World of Crisis: Race and the Making of the Migrant Circuit between Southern Mexico and the US/Mexican Pacific Coast, 1968-1994

Luis Alvarez, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego, and Natalia Molina, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

The People Went Walking: How the Communal Lives of Indigenous Mexican Migrants Remade the North American West

Shannon Speed, Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Psychology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; B.A., Psychology, Florida International University; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

App-based mindfulness meditation for people of color who experience elevated levels of race-related stress: A randomized controlled trial

Denise Chavira, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

Design and test of a peer support program to improve engagement and outcomes in app-based mental health interventions for people of color

Stephen Schueller, Professor of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Biology, University of Nebraska, Omaha; M.S., Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine

From Individual to Ecosystem: Multi-Stressor Effects of Acidification and Warming on the Physiological Responses of Coastal Marine Invertebrates

Cascade J.B. Sorte, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

Future-Proofing Shellfish Aquaculture In A Changing Climate

Kristy J. Kroeker, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., English and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers University; Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Transcarceral Care: Racialized Girlhood, Behavioral Diagnosis, and California’s Foster Care System

Mireille Miller-Young, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Criminalization, Girlhood Studies, Youth Studies, Feminist Abolition, Abolition Feminism Women of color feminisms, Latinx Studies, Feminist methodologies, Chicana methodologies, Chicana studies, queer of color critique, medical oppression, pathologization

Daphne Taylor-Garcia, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

B.A., English Literature, minor Africana Studies, University of Toledo; M.A., English Language & Literature, University of Michigan; Ph.D., English & Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan

Desired Bodies, Imagining Selves: Ideological Regimes and Creative Praxis in Black Trans Life Narratives

LaKisha Simmons, Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, and Ruby Tapia, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan

Exploring Black Trans Insurgency through Oral History

Eric A. Stanley, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Neurosciences, Boston University; Ph.D., Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Hippocampal Inhibitory Interneuron Dynamics During Associative Memory Processing

Lara Rangel, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

Action Potential Waveform Variability and Neuromodulation

Bradley Voytek, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego

B.S., Mathematics, Louisiana State University; M.S., Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Equivariant Schubert calculus and applications

Alexander Yong, Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Computational Combinatorics and Schubert Calculus

Igor Pak, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Comparative Literature and Translation, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Ph.D., Theatre and Drama, University of California, Irvine and University of California, San Diego

Colonizing and Decolonizing Latinidad with American Theatre

Daphne Lei, Professor of Drama, University of California, Irvine

Yet Unknown Acts of Making Representations of Latinidad and Latinxs in Nineteenth Century and Early-Twentieth Century US Theatre

Alessandro Fornazzari, Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of California, Riverside

B.A., Political Science, Universidad Católica de Córdoba; M.A., Latin American Studies, Georgetown University; Ph.D., History, University of California, Irvine

Mining Ecology: Capitalism and the Environment in Peru’s Central Highlands, 1884 – 1930

Heidi Tinsman, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

Veins of Conflict: Bodies and the Environment in Peru’s Copper Circuit, 1884 – 1930

Javiera Barandiarán, Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., Public Service/Political Science, University of California, Riverside; M.A., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

Majority Rules: The Origins of Voter ID Laws and Their Role in Electoral Strategy Today

Matt Barreto, Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

The origins of voter identification laws and impact of race/ethnicity and electoral competition in legislators’ support for voter identification bills

Thad Kousser, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

B.S., Geological Sciences with honors, Brown University; M.A., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis; Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

Paleoclimate of the Peruvian Andean highlands during the late Holocene

Bronwen Konecky, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

Reconstructing Southeast Asian Monsoon variability since the Late Pleistocene: a cross-archive regional-scale hydroclimate synthesis using an inverse modeling approach

Kathleen Johnson, Professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Art History, History, Global and International Studies, The Pennsylvania State University; M.L.A., College of Liberal & Professional Studies, The University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. Culture and Performance, University of California, Los Angeles

Decolonial Perspectives: Insights from Afro-Latin Museological Practice

David Delgado Shorter, Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles

Afro-Diasporic Gaze in Art Spaces: The Power of Seeing and Being Seen in Blackness

Bridget R. Cooks, Professor of African American Studies and Art History, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Psychology, California State University, San Marcos; M.A., Sociological Practice, California State University, San Marcos; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

La Mafia Global: Global Capitalism and the Struggle against Hyper-Incarceration

William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Digitalized Warfare: Global Capitalism, Digitalization, and the Spatial Social Control in Poor Barrios

Elliott Currie, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Applied Mathematics, Autonomous University of Queretaro; M.A., Applied Mathematics, Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi; Ph.D., Mathematics, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Ramsey-Type Theorems on Simplicial Complex Nerves

Deborah Oliveros Braniff, Professor of Mathematics, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Discrete Geometry and Data Analysis

Jesús De Loera, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis

B.Tech., Information Communication Technology, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication; M.S., Information Science, Cornell University; Ph.D., Information Science, Cornell University

Hidden in Plain Sight: Tracing Relations of Caste and Gender in Computing

Phoebe Sengers, Professor of Information Science and Steve Jackson, Professor of Information Science, Cornell University

Computing Begumpura: Archival and ethnographic research of labor, gender and caste in global computing

Lilly Irani, Professor of Communications, University of California, San Diego

B.S., Mathematics, Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi; M.S., Mathematical Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Ph.D., Mathematical Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Unavoidable Patterns, Balanceability, and Amoebas

Adriana Hansberg, Professor of Mathematics, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Ramsey-Turán Problems in Colored Structures

Jesús A. De Loera, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis

B.S., Computer Science and Math, Harvey Mudd College; Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University

Embedding Space sand Implicit Representations for Recovering High Frequency Cloth Geometry

Ronald Fedkiw, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University

Neural Representations for Deformable Manifolds

Jitendra Malik, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine; M.S., Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Structural and functional consequences of PTEN deletion in the adult central nervous system

Oswald Steward, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine

Exploring mechanisms of PTEN deletion-induced morphological and network modifications underlying the formation of a seizure-prone circuit in the adult brain

Oswald Steward, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine