Fellows 2019

B.S., Physics, Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria; M.S.-Eq. Diploma, Earth Systems Physics, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy; Ph.D., Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, University of Miami

The Impact of Meteorology on Smoke and Low-level Clouds over the Southeast Atlantic

Paquita Zuidema, Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Miami

Quantifying how desert dust particles impact global climate through the semi-direct effect

Jasper Kok, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University; M.S., Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University; Ph.D., Geology, Oklahoma State University

Intracontinental Sags (ICONS) Formation, Exhumation and Landscape Evolution: The Ethiopian Testimony

Mohamed G. Abdelsalam, Professor of Geology, Oklahoma State University

When during Grenvillian Orogeny inversion of the Mid-continent Rift System happen? Constraining exhumation and thrusting through integrated thermochronology

David Shuster, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, and Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCM-CPF)

B.A., History, York University; M.A., History, York University; Ph.D., History, York University

"Here in the Queen's Territory. Every Man and Woman is Free": Slavery and the Lives of the Enslaved in Late Nineteenth Century Sierra Leone

José C. Curto, Professor of History, York University

Slavery and Emancipation in British West Africa

Kevin Dawson, Professor of History, University of California, Merced

B.A., American Studies and Women & Gender Studies, University of California, Davis; M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

Reckoning the Rural: The San Joaquin Valley, California, and the Politics of Knowledge

Dylan Rodriguez, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside and Nick Mitchell, Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

The intersections of knowledge production, racial capitalism, and agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley

Mario Sifuentez, Professor of History, University of California, Merced

B.S., Biology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; Ph.D., Molecular Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

Targeting Stem Cell Pathways in Glioblastoma

Justin D. Lathia, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

Reconciling glioblastoma heterogeneity using a pathway-based approach

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

B.A., Chemistry, Sonoma State University; Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara

Heterogeneously catalyzed biomass reactions-lignin disassembly and Guerbet condensation and Kinetics of hydrogen peroxide facilitated release of CO from metal carbonyls

Peter C. Ford, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Conversion

Clifford P. Kubiak, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego

B.S., Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University; M.D., Medicine, Yale University; Ph.D., Neurobiology, Yale University

Evaluation of hyperactive mTORC1 signaling in the hippocampus of Tsc1 hetrozygous mice: Implications for the fragile X mental retardation protein

Angelique Bordey, Professor of Neurosurgery and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University

Autoantibody Discovery in Psychotic Disorders

Samuel Pleasure, Professor of Neurology and Michael Wilson, Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco

(former UCSF-CPF)

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, San Diego; M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University; Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Isn't It Swell?: the effect of osmotic swelling on articular cartilage and meniscal fibrocartilage mechanics and diagnostic approaches

Marc Levenston, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Exploring the role of perilacunar/canalicular remodeling of bone in the coupling of osteocyte tension and perilacunar material properties

Tamara Alliston, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

(former UCSC-CPF)

B.S., Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S., Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Ph.D., Biology & Wildlife, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Bridging the gap between pupping and molting phenology: behavioral and ecological drivers in Weddell seals

Jennifer Burns, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Migration routes in a changing ocean

Dan Costa, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Erika Zavaleta, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., History and Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills; Ph.D., Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Doing Dignity Work: Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization

Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Alicia Escalante, Chicana Welfare Rights and the Struggle for Human Dignity and Economic Justice

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

B.A., Sociology , University of New Orleans; M.A., African American Studies, Clark Atlanta University; Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Intersectional Lives, Intersectional Experiences: Exploring the Impact of Stigma in the Lives of African American Women

Craig Haney, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Stigma, Violence, and Discrimination against African American Transgender Women

Ula Y. Taylor, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCM-CPF)

B.A., Political Science, Global Studies and Latin American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Sociology, University of Southern California; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Southern California

Finding home: the migration and incorporation of undocumented and unaccompanied Latino youth in the U.S.

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Professor of Sociology and Jody Agius Vallejo, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California

Theorizing the incorporation of unaccompanied minor asylum-seekers in migrant farmworker families and communities

Marjorie Zatz, Professor of Sociology and Zulema Valdez, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced

(former UCSD-CPF)

B.S., Biology, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela; Ph.D., Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Functional DNA Repair Capacity Assays: A Focus On Base Excision Repair

Leona D. Samson, Professor of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Elucidating the effects of RNA damage on cell homeostasis

Gene Yeo, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego

(former UCSB-CPF)

B.A., Political Science, University of Redlands; M.A., Social and Cultural Contexts of Education, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Social and Cultural Contexts of Education, University of California, Santa Cruz

Just Innovation? Digital Education Reform in Silicon Valley and Oakland, California

Ronald David Glass, Professor of Education, University of California, Santa Cruz

Race, Religion, and Real Estate: Boundary Work among Grassroots Organizers for a Democratic Education

George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Diane Fujino, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., Sociology, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; M.A., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

Travesti Memory and Politics: Toward a Peruvian Transgender Imaginary

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

Travesti Memory and Politics: Toward a Peruvian Transgender Imaginary

Robert Irwin, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis

B.S., Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MPH, Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

Identifying Environmental Chemicals that Alter Glucocorticoid Receptor Activity

Martyn T. Smith, Professor of Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley

Analyzing the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and stress biomarkers in an adolescent population

Esteban Burchard, Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences and Medicine, and Neeta Thakur, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

(former UCI-CPF)

B.A., Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; M.A., Linguistics, University of Denmark, Copenhagen; Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, San Diego

Referential Cohesion in American Sign Language: Modality-Specific and Modality-General Influences

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

Code-blending and pronoun processing in bimodal bilinguals

Judith F. Kroll, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton University; Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

Environmental and biotic controls affecting recruitment and proliferation of algal turf communities in coral reef systems

Peggy Fong, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

What 'hidden diversity' lies in turf algal communities and how does it impact ecosystem functions?

Deron Burkepile, Professor of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., Sociology, Dartmouth College; M.A. Sociology, Harvard University; Ph.D. Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University

Tribal Lands, Tribal Men, Tribal Responsibilities: How Fathers with Criminal Records Find Work On and Off-Reservation

William Julius Wilson, University Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Expanding and implementing the Far North Tribal Offender Database at the regional and state level

Sandra Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCSC-CPF)

B.S., Biology, University of Texas, Austin; Ph.D., Ecology, University of Florida

Context dependence in effects of nutrient enrichment on tropical coral reefs

Craig Osenberg, Professor of Biology, University of Florida

I use field experiments and modeling to understand how information, shared incidentally within and between species, can affect the dynamics of natural ecosystems, with my primary focus on economically critical tropical coral reefs.

Pete Raimondi, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Anthropology, American Sign Language, and Spanish, University of Rochester; M.A., Anthropology, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

The Social Lives of Deaf Youth in Iquitos, Peru

John B. Haviland, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

Disentangling language and social interaction in language-delayed deaf children

Tanya Stivers, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Sociology, Grand Valley State University; M.A., Sociology, University of Kansas; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Kansas

Inflexible Illegality: Immigration and Integration Processes of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Latina/o Immigrants in the Midwest

ChangHwan Kim, Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas and Cecilia Menjívar, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Ethnoracial Solidarity: Social ties between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Latina/os in an anti-immigrant climate

Leisy Abrego, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., English, Shanghai International Studies University; M.Phil., Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge; Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, Duke University

Beyond “Revolutionary Humanitarianism”: Chinese Doctors in South Sudan

Charles Piot, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies and Ralph Litzinger, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University

China's medical programs in Africa, biopolitics in conflict and post-conflict zones

Mei Zhan, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Mathematics, University of Oregon; M.S., Mathematics, University of Southern California; Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Southern California

Categorical Operators and Crystal Structures on the Ring of Symmetric Functions

Aaron Lauda, Professor of Mathematics and Sami Assaf, Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California

representation theory, categorification, and algebraic combinatorics

Raphaël Rouquier, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

(former UCI-CPF)

B.S., Environmental Science, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Davis

Mineral Incorporations: Lead Science, Ethics, and Politics in Central Peru

Marisol de la Cadena, Professor of Anthropology, and Joseph Dumit, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis

The science of toxicity and chemical relationships within extractive economies, food cultures, and political mobilizations of Peru

Kim Fortun, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Native American Studies, Stanford University; M.Phil., History, Yale University; Ph.D., History, Yale University

World War II and the First Peoples of the Last Frontier: Alaska Native Voices, Indigenous Equilibrium Theory, and Wartime Alaska, 1942-1945

Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History, Yale University

Indigenous Alaskan Oral Histories of the Second World War, WWII North Pacific History, Digital Archives

Sharon Block, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

(former UCB-CPF)

B.A., Government and Economics, College of William and Mary; MPP, Democracy, Politics and Institutions, Harvard University; Ph.D., Political Science, Brown University

Corporation, Property, Sovereignty: The Settler Colonial Origins of the Modern Corporation in America

Alex Gourevitch, Professor of Political Science, Brown University

The Settler Colonial Origins of the Modern Corporation in America

Christopher Tomlins, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., English Literature and Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington; M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Lakh̆ótiyapi kiŋ uŋglúkinipi (We Revitalize our Lakota Language): Native Language Revitalization on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation

Thomas Biolsi, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Indigenous Language Revitalization

Teresa McCarty, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

(former UCI-CPF)

B.S., Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.S., Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Biological Science, University of California, Irvine

Landscape Genetics of African Malaria Parasite and Its Vectors

Guiyun Yan, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

Integrating Big Data, Machine Learning and Population Genetics to Forecast the Spread of Drug Resistance in Malaria Parasites

Xiaohui Xie, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

(former UCR-CPF)

B.A., Humanities, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; M.A., Andean Studies, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; Ph.D., Anthropology, Vanderbilt University

Legibility and Empire: Mediating the Inka Presence in Huarochirí Province, Peru

Tom. D. Dillehay, Professor of Anthropology and Steve A. Wernke, Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University

Gender and identity among the potters of Huarochirí

Kevin J. Vaughn, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside

B.A., History and Africana Studies, California State University, Long Beach; M.A., Pan African Studies, Syracuse University; Ph.D., Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis

This is What Solidarity Looks Like: Afro-Asian Solidarity in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Robyn Rodriquez, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis

Solidarity as Biography: Cecil Williams, Janice Mirikitani, and Afro-Asian Solidarity in the San Francisco Bay Area

Diane Fujino, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.Sc. Hons., Physics, McGill University; M.S., Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University; Ph.D., Applied Physics, University of Michigan

Laser-driven electron accelerators as a broadband radiation source – from infrared to X-rays

Karl Krushelnick, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and Louise Willingale, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

Femtosecond time-resolved X-ray measurements of warm dense matter

Franklin Dollar, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering and Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University; M.S., Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University; Ph.D., Earth System Science, Stanford University

Paleoclimate constraints on terrestrial hydroclimate, silicate weathering and the carbon cycle

C. Page Chamberlain, Professor of Geological Sciences, Stanford University

Reconstructing water cycle changes in the American West

Donald DePaolo, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Daniel Stolper, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCR-CPF)

B.S., Physics, Sun Yat-sen University; M.S., Physics, University of Science and Technology of China; Ph.D., Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida

Determination of Molecular Mechanisms of Organic Aerosols on PM Toxicity Using Cell-Free Assays

Myoseon Jang, Professor of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida

Linking Emission Sources, Atmospheric Processes and Health Effects of Atmospheric Organic Aerosols

David Cocker, Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Ying-Hsuan Lin, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside

(former UCI-CPF in CLS)

B.A., Sociology, Mills College; M.A., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Returning to Grace: Gender and responsibilization in the state's management of sex work and trafficking

Verta Taylor, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Prostitution diversion programs, victim-centered approaches to prostitution policy, and the gendered nature of carceral responsibilization strategies

Valerie Jenness, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine

(former UCSD-CPF)

B.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., American Culture, University of Michigan

Towards Decolonial Futures: New Media, Digital Infrastructures, and Imagined Geographies of Palestine

Lisa Nakamura, Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan, and Evelyn Alsultany, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

New Media and Palestine Activism

Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Native American Studies and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Unsettling Domesticity: Native Women and 20th-Century U.S. Indian Policy in the San Francisco Bay Area

Shari Huhndorf, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

20th-Century Native American women navigating the confines and possibilities of domestic labor in the San Francisco Bay Area

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

B.A., History, University of California, Irvine; M.Phil., Development Studies, University of Cambridge; Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley

Fueling the City: Coal, Land, and the Politics of Dispossession in South India

Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography, University of California, Los Angeles

Cities and climate justice; political ecology of energy and the environment; race, dispossession, and urban inequality

Rudolfo D. Torres, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of California, Irvine

(former UCD-CPF)

B.S., Plant Agro-resources, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal; Ph.D., Plant Genetics, University of California, Riverside

Mapping Domestication-Related Traites and QTL Pyramiding in Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata)

Timothy Close, Professor of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside

Genetic Mechanisms Controlling Pod Shattering in Cowpea

Paul Gepts, Professor of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis

(former UCR-CPF)

B.Tech., Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka; M.S., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Photolytic Fate of Antibiotics in UV-based Engineered and Natural Systems

Lee Blaney, Profesor of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Impact of mixed-oxidant systems on water reuse and distribution systems

Haizhou Liu, Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside

(former UCI-CPF)

B.A., History, California State University, Long Beach; M.A., American Studies, California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D., Latin American History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Freedom's Edge: Slavery, Manumission, and Empire in Rio de Janeiro, 1761-1808

Jerry Dávila, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Freedom's Edge: Slavery, Manumission, and Empire in Brazil and the South Atlantic World

Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Philosophy, English, and Linguistics, New Mexico State University; Ph.D., Philosophy and American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Michigan State University

TÉELAMAL//Every Word in Our Language is a Little Prayer: Weaving Together Indigenous Philosophies of Language

Kyle Powys Whyte, Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University

Rematriating Indigenous Languages: Co-Theorizing Indigenous Archival Sovereignty

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

B.S., Microbiology, University of Texas, El Paso; Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

A multi-scale approach investigating the physiological relevance of APC-Dia-microtubule- mediated actin assembly in the Drosophila ovary

Brooke M. McCartney, Professor of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Define novel G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-mediated molecular pathways that enhance endothelial barrier stabilization and reduce vascular leakage utilizing a cellular sepsis model

JoAnn Trejo, Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Political Communication, George Washington University; M.A., American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Remaking Biomedical Sexualities: Health Technologies and the Governance of HIV in the United States

Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor of American Culture, History, Women's Studies, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Digital Biomedicine and Networked Sexuality: LGBTQ Health, the Management of HIV, and Transforming Sexual Realities in U.S. Healthcare

Tom Boellstorff, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

(former UCR-CPF)

B.A., History, Viet Nam National University, Ha Noi; M.A., Southeast Asian Studies, Ohio University; M.A., History, University of Washington; Ph.D., History, University of Washington

Eve of Destruction: A Social History of Viet Nam's Royal City, 1957-1967

Christoph Giebel, Professor of International Studies and History, University of Washington

Social History of the Viet Nam War; Social and cultural life in the city of Hue in 1957-1967

David Biggs, Professor of History, University of California, Riverside

B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin; M.S., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Dynamics, Mechanics and Stability of Physical Gels

Zhen-Gang Wang, Professor of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

The Role of Fluid Dynamics in Biological Phase Transitions

Phillip Geissler, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCI-CPF)

B.A., History, Universidad de los Andes; M.A., Cultural Studies, Universidad de los Andes; Ph.D., Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis

In Suspicious Landscapes: Scales of Trust and Peace Laboratories in Rural Columbia

Marisol de la Cadena, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis

In Suspicious Landscapes: Scales of Trust and Peace Laboratories in Rural Colombia. An ethnography of Colombian rural ecologies as they are occupied and transformed by heterogeneous forces of warfare and peacemaking, specifically by improvised landmines and humanitarian demining.

Jennifer Terry, Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Irvine

(former UCR-CPF)

B.A., Sociology, University of British Columbia; M.P.H., Health Promotion, University of Toronto; Ph.D., Sociology, University of British Columbia

Socioeconomic and Racial-Ethnic Inequalities in Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: Empirically Testing Fundamental Cause, Health Lifestyle, and Prosocial Mechanisms of Health Inequalities

Richard M. Carpiano, Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, University of California, Riverside

Social inequalities in prosocial attitudes and human papillomavirus vaccination intentions among adults

Brandon Brown, Professor of Social Medicine, Population and Public Health, University of California, Riverside

(former UCB-CPF)

B.S., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut; M.S., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut; Ph.D., Fish, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology, Colorado State University

Using population dynamics to inform stream fish community ecology

Yoichiro Kanno, Professor of Fish, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology, Colorado State University

Challenges of evaluating success of captive breeding programs for imperiled aquatic species

Stephanie Carlson, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley and John Carlos Garza, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

(former UCLA-CPF)

B.S., Business Administration, Babson College; J.D., Harvard Law School; Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Diversity to Deradicalize

Catherine Albiston, Professor of Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Rethinking Employment Discrimination Based on Race and Sexual Orientation

Devon Carbado, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Musicology and Women's Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

“We Were There”: From Alice Bag to Emos The War on Punk Other Décadas Podridas”

Deborah Vargas, Professor of Comparative Sexuality, Gender, and Race, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, and Richard T. Rodríguez, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

Los Angeles Punk Culture “Post” COINTELPRO and Queer Afro/Chicana & Afro/Latina Punk Ethnography

Gaye T. Johnson, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

Delta eigenoperators and e-positivities in the theory of Macdonald polynomials

Adriano Garsia, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

An e-positivity phenomenon in the theory of Macdonald polynomials

Brendon Rhoades, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

(former UCD-CPF)

B.A., International Relations, University of California, Davis; M.A., Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Counterinsurgency and the Ethical Life of Material Things in Anbar, Iraq

Danilyn Rutherford, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Environmental Politics of Repair in Iraq

Suzana Sawyer, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis

B.S., Physics, University of South Florida; M.A., Physics, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Study of three-dimensional Kitaev honeycomb materials

James Analytis, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Quantum materials, frustrated magnetism, superconductivity

Oleg Shpyrko, Professor of Physics and Alex Frañó, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego

(former UCSC-CPF)

B.S., Organismal Biology, University of Kansas; Ph.D., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Mode and fidelity of bacterial symbiont transmission and its impact on symbiont genome evolution

Colleen M. Cavanaugh, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Cellular mechanisms of endosymbiont transmission between host generations

William T. Sullivan, Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

(former UCLA-CPF in the Bunche Center)

B.A., Psychology, Georgia State University; M.Phil, Clinical-Community Psychology, George Washington University; Ph.D., Clinical-Community Psychology, George Washington University

Racial Socialization Patterns among African American Families: Racial Discrimination as a Predictor

Sharon Lambert, Professor of Psychology, George Washington University

Understanding the protective role of teachers’ ethnic-racial socialization in the link between racial discrimination and psychological well-being for African American and Latinx adolescents.

Tyrone Howard, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Chemistry with Biochemistry option, Ball State University; Ph.D., Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Compartmentalization of metabolic pathways and their influence on cellular energetics

Songon An, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Spatial compartmentalization of cellular energy sensing and utilization

Jin Zhang, Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of Maryland; M.A., Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The Political Work of Memory in Collaborative Caribbean Archaeology

Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Archaeology and Memory in the African Diaspora: Comparisons and Connections in the Bahamas and Atlantic Canada

Laurie Wilkie, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Ethnic Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Education, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Education, University of California, Berkeley

Becoming Neoliberal Subjects: Power and Resistance in a Mentorship Program for Middle and High School Latino Boys

Zeus Leonardo, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley

My dissertation research explores the identity construction and learning experiences of Latino men and boys in schools. I bring an intersectional and political economic framing to this work and provide timely contributions to the growing conversation on boys of color and urban schooling. My postdoctoral project examines the professional experiences and classroom practices of queer, trans, and feminist-allied Latino men who are teachers.

Aída Hurtado, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., English Literature and the Environment, University of Alaska, Southeast; M.A., Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Indeterminate Natures: Race and Indigeneity in Ice-Geographies

Shari Huhndorf, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Alaska Native artistic and political economic responses to melting ice in a changing climate

Jessica Perea, Professor of Native American Studies, and Beth Rose Middleton, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

(former UCI-CPF)

B.S., Biochemistry, University of Buffalo; B.A., Chemistry, University of Buffalo; Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Virginia

Structural and functional studies of the Hfq family of ancient bacterial RNA-binding proteins

Cameron Mura, Professor of Chemistry, University of Virginia

Siderophore-mediated iron uptake in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Celia Goulding, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine

B.A., African American Studies and Sociology, Wesleyan University; M.A., African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University; M.A., American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California; Ph.D., American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears: The End of Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State, 1929-1986

Abel Valenzuela, Jr, Professor of Labor Studies, Urban Planning and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles and Byronn Bain, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Music, University of Maryland, College Park; B.S., Biology, University of Maryland, College Park; M.M., Music Performance, University of New Mexico; Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, University of New Mexico

CD82 membrane scaffolding regulates hematopoietic cell functions

Jennifer M. Gillette, Professor of Pathology, University of New Mexico

Proteoglycan regulation of hematopoietic stem cell repopulation

Karen Lyons, Professor of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology and John P. Chute, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Developmental Biology, Wesleyan University; MFA, Creative Writing, Fiction, University of Colorado, Boulder; Ph.D., Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

PoCo Mas / Salvage and Speculation in the Poetics of Caribbean Diaspora

Kimberly J. Lau, Professor of Literature, and Micah Perks, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

A Creative/Critical Genealogy of Unruliness in Afrodiasporic Women and Girls in Spaces of Delimited Play

Nalo Hopkinson, Professor of Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside

(former UCSF-CPF)

B.S., Biology, San Francisco State University; Ph.D., Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine

KCNQ2 encephalopathy: characterization, mechanisms, and novel treatments for variants of a potassium channel subunit

Edward Cooper, Professor of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine

The role of voltage-gated potassium channels associated proteins in autoimmune encephalitis and circuit dysfunction

Samuel Pleasure, Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco

(former UCM-CPF)

B.A., History and Latin American Studies, University of Kansas; M.A., Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, San Francisco

Balancing Risks: Health, Immigration, and Biopolitical Exclusion in the U.S.

Catherine Bliss, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Francisco

Biometrics and Immigration Policy

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

B.S., Mathematics and Physics, University of Akron; Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Irvine

Sweating the small stuff: simulating dwarf galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and their own tiny satellites

James Bullock, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine

Ultra-High Resolution Simulations of the Milky Way and its Satellites

Dusan Keres, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego

(former UCI-CPF)

B.A., Psychology, The Ohio State University; M.A., Psychology, The Ohio State University; Ph.D., Psychology, The Ohio State University

Ethnicity, Sex, and Vagal Activity: Differences in Hemodynamics Underlying Long-Term Blood Pressure Regulation

Julian F. Thayer, Professor of Psychology, The Ohio State University

Ethnic differences in cardiac-autonomic activity, and how such differences may interact with psychological phenomena and negatively impact health in African Americans

Roxane Silver, Professor of Psychological Science and Julian F. Thayer, Professor of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California; M.S., Bioengineering, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of California, Riverside

Decoding the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Electronic Cigarette Toxicity in Lung, Cancer and Stem Cells

Prue Talbot, Professor of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside

Bioenergetically Enhanced Neural Stem Cells and Mitochondria Transfer in Regenerating Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

Aileen Anderson, Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Anatomy and Neurobiology University of California, Irvine

B.S., Biochemistry, University of the Philippines, Manila; M.A., Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University

High-valent Metal-oxo and hydroxo Porphyrinoid Complexes: Structural and Mechanistic Studies

David P. Goldberg, Professor of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University

Biophysical Investigations on the Origins of Catalysis: The Impact of Protein Dynamics on Enzyme Catalysis

Judith P. Klinman, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCI-CPF)

B.A., East Asian Languages and Literature, University of California, Irvine; M.A., Chicana/o Studies, California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Invisible Bodies, Devalued Labor: Contract, Reproductive Labor, and the U.S. Sunbelt, 1900-1963

Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor Literature, and Curtis Marez, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

The Social Life of Plants: Black and Latina Reproductive Laborers in the U.S. Sunbelt, 1921-1963

Jonathan Alexander, Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Irvine

(former UCI-CPF)

B.S., Sanitary Engineering, National University of Engineering, Peru; M.S., Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Purdue University; Ph.D., Environmental Chemistry, Purdue University

Abiotic Reduction of Perfluoroalkyl Acids by nNi0Fe0-Activated Carbon

Linda S. Lee, Professor of Agronomy, Purdue University

Transport, distribution, bioaccumulation and degradation of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

Russell Detwiler, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Adeyemi Adeleye, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine