Fellows 2016

B.A., English Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington; M.A., Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley

How the Qaṣīda Sees: Vision, Poetic Knowledge, and the Transformative Capacity of Poetry from al-Andalus to the Maghrib

Margaret Larkin, Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley

Line, Color, Shape: Decolonizing Form in Twentieth-Century Moroccan Poetry and Visual Arts

Jeffrey Sacks, Professor of Comparative Literature/Arabic, University of California, Riverside

(former UCI-CPF)

B.S., Chemical and Life Science Engineering, B.S., Applied Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University; M.S., Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University; Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University

Utilizing dielectrophoresis to determine the physiological differences of eukaryotic cells

Adrienne Minerick, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University

Novel separation of neural lineage cells to determine progenitor cell characteristics

Lisa Flanagan, Professor of Neurology, University of California, Irvine

(former UCR-CPF)

B.A., Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Smith College; M.A., Political Science, University of Oregon; Ph.D., Political Science, University of Oregon

If We Were Kin: Race, Identification and Intimate Political Appeal

Daniel Martinez HoSang, Professor of Political Science and Joseph Lowndes, Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon

Intimate Public: Open Letters in American Political Culture

Bronwyn Leebaw, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside

(former UCB-CPF)

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University; M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University; Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University

Machine Learning Methods for Computational Psychology

Jennifer G. Dy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University

Machine Learning with Impact

Michael I. Jordan, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCD-CPF)

B.A., Pure Mathematics, California State University, Northridge; M.A., Mathematics, The University of Georgia; Ph.D., Mathematics, The University of Georgia

Relative Trisections of 4-manifolds with Boundary

David T. Gay, Professor of Mathematics, The University of Georgia

Low-Dimensional Topology, Smooth 4-manifolds, Trisections

Abigail Thompson, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University; M.S.E., Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

Regional and load-independent function measured via real-time MRI

Robert Gorman, Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania

Advanced CT and MRI of cardiovascular function and anatomy. Specifically, imaging of coronary arteries during motion, quantifying pulmonary vascular obstructions, and right ventricular function in patients with pulmonary hypertension.

Elliot McVeigh, Professor of Bioengineering, Medicine, Radiology, University of California, San Diego

B.S., Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Biological Sciences in Public Health, Harvard University

The role of nutrient sensing in macrophage polarization

Tiffany Horng, Associate Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard University

The role of Sirt3 and Sirt5 in metabolic disease

Eric Verdin, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

B.F.A., Illustration, School of Visual Arts; M.F.A., Fiction, University of Iowa; M.L.I.S., Informatics, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Informatics, University of California, Los Angeles

The Coded Schoolhouse: Urban Public Education and the Cultural Meaning of Computers

Jean-François Blanchette, Professor of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Public Education, Data Mining, and Learning Analytics

Geoffrey Bowker, Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine

(former UCM-CPF)

B.A., Anthropology and Japanese Language & Literature, Boston University; M.S., Modern Japanese Studies, University of Oxford; M.S., Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford; Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

Metaphor in the Grammar of Argument Realization

Eve Sweetser, Professor of Linguistics and George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

Computational and experimental approaches to the study of metaphor in communications about immigration, climate change, disease and other societal challenges

Teenie Matlock, Professor of Cognitive & Information Sciences, University of California, Merced

B.S., Civil Engineering, Université d’Etat d’Haiti; M.S., Geophysics, Purdue University; Ph.D., Geophysics, Purdue University

3D Dynamic Rupture Simulation and Local Tomography Studies Following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake

Andrew M. Freed, Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University

Dynamic Models of Earthquake Rupture on the San Andreas Fault using Realistic Fault Structure, Stress and Material Properties

David D. Oglesby, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside

(former UCR-CPF)

B.A., English, Cornell University; M.A., Humanities and Social Thought, New York University; Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley

American Techno-Orientalism: Speculative Fiction and the Rise of China

Colleen Lye, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

American Techno-Orientalism: Speculative Fiction and the Rise of China

Sherryl Vint, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

(former UCM-CPF)

B.A., Biology, Oberlin College; M.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D., Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco/University of California, Berkeley

Stress and the Biopolitics of Work

Sharon Kaufman, Professor of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

“Hot Spotting” and the Political and Economic Management of Chronic Disease in the Urban Poor

Nancy Burke, Professor of Public Health, University of California, Merced

B.S., Physics, National University of Honduras; M.S., Physics, University of Stuttgart; Ph.D., Physics, Max Planck Institute/Technical University of Berlin

Ordering Phenomena in Transition-Metal-Oxide Heterostructures

Bernhard Keimer, Professor of Solid State Research, Max Planck Institute

X-ray and neutron scattering from strongly correlated electron systems

Robert Birgeneau, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Biology, University of Georgia; Ph.D., Microbiology & Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Defining the human alveolar macrophase response to the Q fever agent, Coxiella burnetti

Daniel Voth, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Role of actin based motility during Burkholderia infection and spread

Matthew Welch, Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCR-CPF)

B.A., Spanish, Florida International University; M.Phil., Speech-Language- Hearing Sciences, City University of New York Graduate Center; Ph.D., Speech-Language- Hearing Sciences, City University of New York Graduate Center

Native language adaptation to novel verb argument structures by Spanish-English bilinguals: An electrophysiological investigation

Loraine K. Obler, Professor of Speech-Language- Hearing Sciences and Linguistics, City University of New York Graduate Center, and Valerie L. Shafer, Professor of Speech-Language- Hearing Sciences and Linguistics, City University of New York Graduate Center

Does bilingualism protect older adults against age-related language decline?

Judith Kroll, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Riverside

B.A., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin

“Making hands”: Family sign languages in the San Juan Quiahije community

Richard P. Meier, Professor of Linguistics and Angela M. Nonaka, Professor of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin

The emergence of words in new sign languages

Carol A. Padden, Professor of Communication and Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego

(former UCSD-CPF)

B.A., English, Stanford University; M.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles

Revolutionary Futures: Romance and the Limits of Transnational Forms, 1910-1986

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

Genealogies of revolution in US literature within a Hemispheric framework

Shelley Streeby, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley; M.T.S., Women, Gender and Sexuality in Religion, Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Between the Times: Trans-Temporality and Historical Representation

Grace Hong, Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Postcolonial and queer of color temporality studies in transgender of color narratives on film and in literature

Fatimah Tobing Rony, Professor of Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine

(former UCSD-CPF)

B.S., Chemistry, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz

Discovery, Development, and Applications of Natural Products: Abyssomicin 2, Quinoline Amino Alcohols, and Fluorinated Bile Acids

Roger G. Linington, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz

Identification and Assignment of Abyssomicin 2 and Spirohexenolide B [4+2] Cyclases

Michael D. Burkart, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego

B.F.A., Visual Arts, Emily Carr University of Art and Design; M.A., Art History, University of British Columbia; Ph.D., Art History, University of California, San Diego

On Persian Blues: Queer Bodies, Racial Affects

Grant Kester, Professor of Art History, University of California, San Diego

Brown and Blue: Islam and Transnational Sexuality

Anjali Arondekar, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

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

Combinatorics of the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process

Lauren Williams, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Algebraic combinatorics, statistical mechanics, and probability

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

(former UCD-CPF)

B.S., Aquatic Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Marine & Atmospheric Science, Stony Brook University

Diversity of Skates (Batoidea: Rajoidei) and the Spatial Structure of NW Atlantic Communities

Michael G. Frisk, Professor of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University

Evolution of Head and Jaw Kinesis in Adaptive Radiations of Cichlid Fishes

Peter Wainwright, Professor of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis

B.S., Engineering, Harvey Mudd College; M.Phil., Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York; Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York

Institutionalizing Environmental Justice: A Geographical History of Environmental Impact Assessment

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York

A Change is Gonna Come: Social and Environmental Justice Acclimations to Climate Change

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

B.A., Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Cultural Anthropology, Columbia University; M.Phil., Cultural Anthropology, Columbia University; Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, Columbia University

Ground Wars: Thoughts for the Times on Representation and Economy in Afghanistan

Rosalind C. Morris, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

Afghanistan, Contemporary warfare, linguistic and symbolic transformation, natural resources, toxicity, poison and radioactive effects of bombs, psychoanalysis, cultural theory, literary theory

Stefania Pandolfo, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Percussion Performance, Rice University; M.A., Music, History and Literature, University of Southern California; Ph.D., Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles

Millennial Passions: New Music and the Ends of History, 1989-2001

Robert Fink, Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles

Post-Cold War Music and the Politics of Representation

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

(former UCD-CPF)

B.A., Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Toward A Native Feminist Reading Methodology

K. Wayne Yang, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Native Feminist Reading Methodology: Recognizing Survivance from a Place of Survivance

Inés Hernández-Avila, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

(former UCR-CPF)

B.S., Microbiology with minor in Chemistry/Forensic Science, San Jose State University; Ph.D., Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Pyrogenic Remobilization and Transport of Toxic Metals

A. Russell Flegal, Professor of Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Historical Patterns of Trace Element Delivery and Cycling Under Varying Water Conditions in Salton Sea, California, and Implications for Aggravated Toxic Dust Contributions via Basin Desiccation

Timothy Lyons, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside

B.A., Africana Studies, CUNY Hunter College; M.A., African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Ordinary Failures: Toward a Diasporan Ethics

Darieck Scott, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Examining black failure in memoir, neo slave narrative, visual art, and asexual representations through the lenses of diaspora theory and queer theory

Nadia Ellis, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Animal Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Ph.D., Biology, San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego

Analyzing Group B Streptococcal and Host Factors Influencing Vaginal Colonization and Exploring Therapeutic Interventions

Kelly Doran, Professor of Biology, San Diego State University

The role of Tamm-Horsfall protein in the female urogenital tract

Victor Nizet, Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego

(former UCSD-CPF)

B.S., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University; M.S., Bioengineering, Stanford University; Ph.D., Biophysics, Stanford University; M.D., Stanford University

Advances in Breast MRI

Gary H. Glover, Professor of Radiology, Stanford University

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Breast

Anders Dale, Professor of Radiology, University of California, San Diego and Nola Hylton, Professor of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco

B.S., Biology, Tufts University; Ph.D., Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Recognition, Activation, and Signaling Functions of the Arabidopsis NLR RPP1

Brian J. Staskawicz, Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley

How do legumes perceive and distinguish between pest-associated elicitors?

Eric A. Schmelz, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego

(former UCLA-CPF)

B.A., African American Studies and Anthropology, Columbia University; M.A., Early Childhood Education, Lehman College, City University of New York; M.A., Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Chicago; Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Chicago

Reconstructing Race: New Orleans Education Reform as Experimental Labor

Joseph Masco, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Model and Exception: Mobilizing New Orleans’ Post Katrina Education Reforms

Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of History and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

(former UCB-CPF)

B.A., Political & Social Thought, University of Virginia; M.A., Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine

The Great Experiment: California’s Prison Realignment and the Legal Reform of Mass Incarceration

Mona Lynch, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine

The “Afterlife” of Mass Incarceration: Prison Displacements and Community Health

Jonathan Simon, Professor of Jurisprudence & Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Interdisciplinary Geosciences, University of Montana; M.S., Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley

Watershed Collaborations: Entanglements with common streams

Isha Ray, Professor of Energy and Resources, and Stephanie Carlson, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley

The Watershed Body: Queer and trans perspectives in riverine science

Karen Barad, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Political Science, Grinnell College; M.A., American Studies, Yale University; Ph.D., American Studies, University of New Mexico

Experimental Liberalism: Violence and the Politics of Navajo Life

Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico

The Impact of Twentieth Century Liberal Ideologies of Growth on Navajo Social and Political Life

Mishuana Goeman, Professor of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles