Fellows 2021

B.S., Physics and Minors in Mathematics & Economics, Minnesota State University Moorhead; M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University; Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University

Designing Materials with Hysteresis Free High-Valent Redox for Electrochemical Applications

William Chueh, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Thomas Devereaux, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University

Tuning Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials via Moiré Patterning and Ion-Insertion

Mark Asta, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Kwabena Bediako, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Literature, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; M.S., Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University; Ph.D., Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University

Bittersweet Poetics: Aesthetics and Politics of the Sugar Plantation in Brazil and the Caribbean (1990 – 2018)

Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Vivaldo Santos, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University

Plantation legacies/ Afro-Brazilian arts/ Afro-Latin American cultural and intellectual traditions/ Latin American Literature/Black Studies/ Visual Studies/ Cultural Studies

José Luiz Passos, Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., International Studies, Simon’s Rock of Bard College; M.A., Egyptology, University of Chicago; Ph.D., Egyptology, University of Chicago

Calling out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae

Janet H. Johnson, Professor of Egyptology, University of Chicago

Priestess, Queen, Goddess: The Divine Feminine in the Kingdom of Kush

Dr. Kathlyn M. Cooney, Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Communication, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego; M.A., Communication, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Communication, University of California, San Diego

Screening Racial Visions, Scripting State Violence: The Performance and Visual Culture of Patrol Work and Police Training in San Diego

Elana Zilberg, Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego

Staging Anti-Blackness: Role-Playing Racial Scripts and Choreographing State Violence in Police Training

Geoffrey Raymond, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara and Nikki Jones, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Integrative Biology and B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley; M.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

Carnivory in the Oligo-Miocene: Resource specialization, competition, and coexistence among North American fossil canids

Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

The isotopic signature of humans on carnivores over a century of urbanization

Jessica Blois, Professor of Life and Environmental Sciences, and Sora Kim Professors of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced

B.A., African American Studies and B.A., Communications, Virginia Commonwealth University; M.A., American Studies, California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D., African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Immoral Panics: Black Queer Aesthetics and the Construction of Risk

Leigh Raiford, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Black Studies, Contemporary Art, African American Art History, Literary Studies, Film and Media Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Queer Theory, Visual Culture Studies

Bridget R. Cooks, Professor of Department of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Genetics and Development, Cornell University; Ph.D., M.D., Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Functional Characterization of the Serine Protease High-Temperature Requirement A3 (HtrA3) in Lung Cancer

Viji Shridhar, Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Deciphering the role of PTPN14 in BMP9-Smad/Hippo-TAZ signaling and vascular malformations in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia

Rosemary J. Akhurst, Professor in Residence, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco

B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., English, and M.F.A., Creative Writing (Fiction), Cornell University; Ph.D., Literatures in English, Cornell University

Multitude Modernism: Democratic Epiphany in American Interwar Literature

George Hutchinson, Professor of American Culture, Cornell University

“That Damned Fence:” The Literature of Japanese American Internment

Traise Yamamoto, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

(former UCLA-CPF in the Bunche Center)

Ph.D., Religion, Florida State University

Studies in Sefer Yosippon: The Reception of Josephus in Medieval Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic Literature

David Levenson, Professor of Religion, Florida State University

Cloaked in Whiteness: Racecraft in Early Christian Apocalypticism

Terence Keel, Professor of Institute for Society & Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Experimental Characterization of Thermal Transport in Two-Dimensional Materials and Thin Films

Satish Kumar, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Baratunde Cola, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dual-Effect Cooling of Hypersonic Leading Edges

Timothy Fisher, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Biology, The University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Population Structure and Coevolutionary Dynamics of Fungus-Growing Ant Symbionts

Cameron Currie, Professor of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Coevolutionary dynamics of a dual-purpose, marine microbial symbiosis

Paul Barber, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., English Language and Literature, and B.A., Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia; M.A., Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Competing Discourses of Diversity and Inclusion in U.S. Higher Education: Institutional Rhetoric and Graduate Student Narratives at Two Minority Serving Institutions

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

Analyzing the digital documentation of African American Language, Black culture, and Black life on social media

H. Samy Alim, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Luso-Brazilian Literatures, The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; M.A., Lusophone African Literatures, The Fluminense Federal University, Brazil; Ph.D., Spanish and Portuguese, New York University

Fictions of Racelessness: The ‘Latin American’ Racial Imaginaries of Angola (1878-1992)

Sibylle Fischer, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University

The racial imaginary of the mainstream Angolan nationalism, particularly the translation of Latin American racial imaginaries of mestizaje, colorblindness and racelessness and its consequences in that black-African space and anti-colonial context.

Estelle Tarica, Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Portland; M.Ed., Educational Administration, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; M.A., Higher Education, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Higher Education and Organizational Change, University of California, Los Angeles

Indigenous Models of Higher Education: Understanding the Indigenizing and Decolonizing Processes

Mitchell J. Chang, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

Hoʻonaʻauao: Indigenous Models of Higher Education

Samuel Museus, Professor of Education Studies, University of California, San Diego

B.S., Biochemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Los Mochis; M.S., Biochemistry, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Ph.D., Biochemistry, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

The Role of TFIIH During Germ Cell Differentiation and Zygotic Genome Activation in Drosophila melanogaster

Mario E. Zurita, Professor of Developmental Genetics & Molecular Physiology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Functions of the Nucleosome-Binding HMGN and Dsup Proteins in Oxidative DNA Damage Protection and Chromatin Dynamics

James T. Kadonaga, Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego

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

Convexity In Contact Geometry And Reeb Dynamics

Michael Hutchings, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Contact Spectral Sequences and Reeb Dynamics

Ko Honda, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., History, University of Guadalajara; M.A., History, University of Guadalajara; Ph.D., Atlantic History, Vanderbilt University

Becoming Citizens: Afro-Mexicans, Identity, and Historical Memory in Guadalajara, 17th to 19th Centuries.

Jane Landers, Professor of History, and Edward Wright-Rios, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

A Social and Cultural History of Free and Enslaved Afro-Mexicans from Colonial Guadalajara

Alex Borucki, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Child and Adolescent Development, California State University, Northridge; M.A. and MPhil, Environmental Psychology, City University of New York; Ph.D., Environmental Psychology, City University of New York

A Poor Peoples Movement for A Better Los Angeles, 1960-2019

Cindi Katz, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Psychology, City University of New York

Contested Development: A Poor Peoples Movement for A Better Los Angeles, 1930-2019

Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Chemistry, and B.S., Physics, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

Transition Metal Complexes for Challenging Reductive Transformations: From Nitrogen Fixation Catalysts to Photoreductants

Harry B. Gray, Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

Metal-Organic Frameworks Incorporating Dipolar Molecular Rotors as Platforms for the Development of Dielectric Materials

Miguel García-Garibay, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Astronomy, San Diego State University; M.S., Physics, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Riverside

Evolution of z~2 Galaxies on Resolved Scales Using CANDELS/3D-HST Imaging and Emission Line Spectroscopy From the MOSDEF Survey

Naveen Reddy, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside

Exoplanet Mass and Atmospheric Characterization Through Photometric Phase Analyses

Stephen Kane, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside

L.L.B., Centro Universitário de Brasília, Brazil; L.L.M., Criminal Law, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil; Ph.D., International Criminal Law, American University Washington College of Law

Nonnegotiable lives: international criminal justice and the denial of black genocide in Brazil and the United States.

Angela J. Davis, Distinguished Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

Facets of Anti-Black Genocide: Toward a Theory of Rape as the Condition of Terror

Dylan Rodriguez, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

B.S., Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Chemistry, Northwestern University

Uncovering the Origins of the Binding Properties of Spherical Nucleic Acids

Chad Mirkin, Professor of Chemistry, and George Schatz, Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University

Molecular Factors of Multicomponent Immunoreceptor Assembly

William F. DeGrado, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco

B.A., Psychology, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley; M.A., Psychology, California State University, San Marcos; Ph.D., Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine

Acculturative Stress and Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Ilona Yim, Professor of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine and Belinda Campos, Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine

A social support SMS intervention for Latina victims of intimate partner violence

Adrian Aguilera, Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., English, The University of Texas at San Antonio; M.A., English, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Ph.D., Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Reclaiming La Bruja: Rage, the Speculative, and Contemporary Border Tejanx Feminist Affects

Chela Sandoval, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Affect Theory, the Speculative, and Chicanx/Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies (focusing on Chicana/Latina feminisms)

Shelley Streeby, Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

B.S., Physics, University of Pierre and Marie Curie/ ENS Cachan; M.S., Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science, Paris Observatory; Ph.D., Astronomy and Astrophysics, Paris Observatory

High Energy Astrophysics (Modeling relativistic jets and cosmic-ray acceleration processes)

Astrobiology Investigations

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz

(former UCI-CPF)

B.S., Botany and Environmental Studies, Minor in Chicanx and Latinx Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D., Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley

From soil fungi to bees: fertile grounds for agroecology in the San Joaquin Valley

Claire Kremen, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, and Timothy Bowles Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley

Enhancing agricultural resilience: how can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve outcomes for small family farms?

Kathleen Treseder, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Ph.D., Earth Sciences, University of California, San Diego

Santa Ana Winds of Southern California: Historical Variability and Future Climate Projections

Alexander Gershunov, Researcher of Climate, Atmospheric Science & Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

Regional Precipitation on the Dry Corridor of Central America and Southern Mexico: Connections with Forced Migration to the US

Leila Carvalho, Professor of Geography, and Summer Gray, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.S., Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

On the homotopy theory of stratified spaces

Clark Barwick, Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Edinburgh

Exit-path categories in microlocal sheaf theory

David Nadler, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Philosophy, Portland State University; M.A., Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ph.D., Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Perceiving Through the Racial Veil: The Inner Moral Life of Racism

Susan Wolf, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Racism and Interpersonal Ethics

Aaron James, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Applied Mathematics, California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D., Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Scaffolding, Multisite Phosphorylation and Other Aspects of Regulation in Signal Transduction

Lee Bardwell, Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology, and German Enciso, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine

Understanding Mycobacterium tuberculosis 20S proteasome assembly

Eric Deeds, Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S. with Honors, Chemistry, Brown University; Ph.D., Chemistry, Princeton University

Cobalt and Nickel Catalysts for Arene Borylation and Alkene Hydrofunctionalizations

Paul J. Chirik, Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University

Unraveling Electric Field Effects in Catalysis: From Enzymes to Transition Metals

Jenny Yang, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Earth Sciences, Franklin & Marshall College; Ph.D., Geology, University of Utah

Isotope Geochemistry Provides Insights to Groundwater Sustainability and Resource Resilience in Western North America

Brenda Bowen, Professor of Geology & Geophysics, University of Utah

Application of a novel paleo-hydrologic proxy: How long can water resource managers continue to rely on groundwater as a buffer to diminishing supplies in western North America?

Aradhna Tripati, Professor of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; M.Phil., Anthropology, New York University; Ph.D., Anthropology, New York University

“Crawling over Broken Glass”: The Legal Experience of Child Reunification in a California Child Welfare Court

Sally Merry, Silver Professor of Anthropology, New York University

Latinx Experiences in a California Child Welfare Court

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

B.Eng., Computer Engineering, University of Mumbai; M.S., Computer Science, University of Toronto; Ph.D., Information Studies, University of Michigan

Was That a Seizure? Diagnosis in Lived Experience and Medical Practice

Kentaro Toyama, Professor of Information, University of Michigan

Pursuing Health Equity in Neural Implants

Gillian Hayes, Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Latin American Studies, and B.A., Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Life Under Detention: Understanding the Consequences of Heightened Immigration Enforcement on Immigrants, Families, and Communities.

Stefan Timmerman, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

The Effects of Immigration Detention on US-Citizen Family Members

Caitlin Patler, Professor of Sociology, and Erin Hamilton, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

B.A., Sociology, and B.A., Spanish Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Sociology, Stanford University; Ph.D., Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Stanford University

Artifacts of Accountability: A Case Study of California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)

Woody Powell, Professor of Education, and Kenji Hakuta, Professor of Education, Stanford University

Computer Science for English Learners

Megan Hopkins, Professor of Education Studies, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Sociology, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Irvine

The Role of Household Composition and Household Transitions in the Educational Performance of Latina/o Children of Immigrants

Kristin Turney, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Undocumented Latina/o 1.5th Generation Parents, Citizen Children, and First- Generation Grandparents During the Absence of Immigration Reform

Leisy Abrego, Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, American University of Beirut; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Revolution Until Victory?: Decolonizing Land, Nation, and the People through Palestinian-Lebanese Transnational Resistance Praxis

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

Gendering Revolution: Palestinian-Lebanese Transnational Resistance and Decolonial Feminisms

Suad Joseph, Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, and Kalindi Vora, Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Director of the Feminist Research Institute, University of California, Davis

(former UCI-CPF)

B.S. (Honors), Astrophysics and Space Science, University of Cape Town; B.S., Physics, University of Pretoria; M.S., Theoretical Particle Physics, University of Kansas; Ph.D., Theoretical Particle Physics, University of Kansas

Charting the Unknown: A Hunt in the Dark

Kyoungchul Kong, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas

Illuminating Signals of Dark Matter at Current and Future Experiments

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

(former UCI-CPF)

B.A., Aesthetics, Universidad Católica de Chile; M.A., Museum Studies, New York University; Ph.D., Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Unsettling Evidence: An Anticolonial Archival Approach/Reproach to Federal Recognition

Anne Gilliland, Professor of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Unsettling Evidence: Imagining Anticolonial Conceptualizations of Evidence for Indigenous Sovereign Futures

Eve Darian-Smith, Professor of Global and International Studies, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, North Carolina State University; M.S., Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ph.D., Ecology, Pennsylvania State University

Examining how spatial-temporal interactions between multiple predators influence the distribution, vigilance, and survival of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawns

Duane Diefenbach, Professor of Wildlife Ecology, and David Miller Professor of Wildlife Population Ecology, Pennsylvania State University

How the loss of apex predators and Urbanization influences coyote interactions with smaller carnivores across North America

Chris Wilmers, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., History, Michigan State University; Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley

Reading and Misreading: The Social Life of Libraries and Colonial Control in Vietnam, 1865-1958

Peter Zinoman, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

History of libraries in Vietnam and colonial visual texts

John D. Blanco, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Claire Edington, Professor History, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Classics and Archaeology, Stanford University; Ph.D., Ancient History, Brown University

Vercingetorix in Vietnam: Classical Inheritance and Vietnamese Ambivalence

Johanna Hanink, Professor of Classics, Brown University

Developing a book manuscript from my dissertation research on the racialization of classical antiquity by Western empires and its subsequent reappropriation by Vietnamese communities to counter (neo)imperialism from the mid-19th century to the present.

James Porter, Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Women’s Studies, University of Utah; M.A., American Studies, Purdue University; Ph.D., Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

The Mana of The Tongan Everyday: Tongan Grief and Mourning, Patriarchal Violence and Remembering Va

Patricia Penn Hilden, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Tongan/ Pacific Islander futurities in the East Bay, California. I look at Tongan va, relationalities to fonua, land, cosmologies that are delineated as feminine and located at the heart of what we defined as Sacred. My research centers Tongan va, relationality, to the Lisjan Ohlone, the Indigenous peoples and original stewards of the East Bay, and I examine the current work of Lisjan Ohlone women leaders in building an Arbor (prayer house) and Sacred site in East Oakland. Concomitantly, my research also examines the land that lies next to the Ohlone Arbor, which is currently owned by the Tongan Methodist Church. and in addition, my analysis also includes the narratives of the Tongan Mormon families living next to the Arbor and I examine the two Mormon Sacred sites located in Oakland that Tongan Mormons honor and utilize for their Sacred Ceremonies and rituals. These sites include the opulent Mormon Temple positioned center stage on top of the Oakland hills and a chapel located in a wealthy Oakland neighborhood miles away from the working class Tongan communities located in East Oakland. In my analysis, I track the prominent hand of the colonial institution, heteropatriarchy, in legislating the architecture of the respective Tongan Methodist and Mormon Sacred sites here in Oakland and I examine the complexities of Tongan women's roles in these sites of exorbitant power and authority.

Elizabeth Middleton, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

B.A., Ethnic Studies, Columbia University; M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Bordering the Nation: Land, Life, & Law in the US-Mexico Borderlands and on O’odham Jeved

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

My project theorizes the US-Mexico borderlands from an Indigenous cultural, epistemological, and political standpoint.

Rachel St. John, Professor of History, University of California, Davis

B.S., Marine Biology, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis

Oceans and climate change in the Northeast Pacific through the Holocene

Tessa Hill, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences and Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis

Geochemical tracing of California wildfire: implications for paleofire reconstruction and wildfire pollutant distribution

Sora Kim, Professor of Life and Environmental Sciences, and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Professor of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced

B.A., Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin; M.S., Secondary Mathematics Education, Pace University; M.A., Mental Health Counseling, City College of New York; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin

Data-driven Prediction of the Emergence of and Recovery from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Jasper Smits, Professor of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin

Machine Learning Applications in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Sonya Norman, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Murray Stein, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Hispanic Language and Literature, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo; M.A., Indian-American Linguistics, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social; Ph.D., Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin

The Genius of Mocho’ (Mayan): Morphosyntactic Alignment and its Interaction with Grammatical Aspect and Information Structure

Nora C. England, Professor of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin

Mocho’ Grammar

Ryan Bennett, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Astrophysics & Physics, Harvard University; M.S., Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Microphysics of Protoplanetary Disks and Exoplanet Atmospheres

Ruth Murray-Clay, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, and Xi Zhang, Professor in Planetary Science, University of California, Santa Cruz

Origins: Relating Protoplanetary Disks to Planetary Atmospheres

Hilke Schlichting, Professor of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Biology, California State University, Monterey Bay; Ph.D., Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

Primary miRNA production in humans: biology, disease, and biotechnology

Feng Guo, Professor of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

How co-transcriptional splicing decisions are made in the cell

Manuel Ares Jr., Professor of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Urban Studies, San Diego State University; M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Inafa’ maolek Restoring Balance through Resilience, Resistance, and Coral Reefs: A Study of Pacific Island Climate Justice and the Right to Nature

Yến Lê Espiritu, Professor of Ethnic Studies, and Ross Frank, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Indigenous Island Ecologies and Marine Justice in the Pacific

David Pellow, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Pomona College; M.Phil., Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge; Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park

Identity Conditions on Ellipsis

Maria Polinsky, Professor of Linguistics and Omer Preminger, Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park

Ellipsis in Mesoamerican Languages

Harold Torrence, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Merced; M.S., Quantitative and Systems Biology, University of California, Merced; Ph.D., Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine

The function of BMP signaling and dynamic transcription factor gene expression in pre-implantation mouse development

Ken W. Y. Cho, Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine

Exploring aged p16INK4a+ mesenchyme and its potential to drive age-related changes in lung stem cell epithelial niche

Tien Peng, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

(former UCSB-CPF)

B.A., Political Science, and B.A., Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Arizona State University; M.A., Arts in Education, Harvard University; Ph.D., Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Immigrant Children: Resilience and Coping with HeART

Leisy Abrego, Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Judy Baca, Professor Emeritus of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Immigrant Students, Family Separation, and School & Community-Based Participatory Art Methods

Dolores Inés Casillas, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

(former UCD-CPF)

B.A., Biological Sciences, and B.A., Psychology, Wellesley College; Ph.D., Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Michigan State University

Socioecological Predictors of Microbiome Variation in Wild Populations of African Mammals

Kay Holekamp, Professor of Zoology, Michigan State University

Evolution and function of Felid microbiomes and their impacts on host functioning

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

(former UCLA-CPF-IAC)

B.S., Foreign Service, Georgetown University; M.A., Latin American Studies, Georgetown University; M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Anthropology (w/ Graduate Emphasis in Asian American Studies), University of California, Irvine

Dreaming Beside Progress: The Politics of Coalition and Racialized Identity in Korean American Immigrant Justice Activism

Eleana Kim, Professor of Anthropology, and Leo Chavez, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

I will revise and expand my dissertation, Contentious Solidarities: The Contemporary Politics of Racialized Identity and Korean American Immigrant Justice Activism, into a book manuscript. While my dissertation examined the relationship between undocumented political imaginations and commitments to multiracial solidarity, the fellowship will allow me to interrogate how the 501(c)(3)/(c)(4) non-profit, as the dominant form of U.S. immigrant justice movements, mediates diverse visions for immigrant justice and the political, financial, and logistical ability to pursue those goals.

Jennifer Jihye Chun, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Linguistics, University of Chicago; M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Accessible Ethics in Dhofar, Oman: Practices of Concealment Between this World and the Next

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

Communicative Exposures: The Ethics of Interactional Space

Erin Debenport, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

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

Gaps of saddle connection directions for some branched covers of tori

Jayadev Athreya, Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington

Paths on translation surfaces and renormalization dynamics

Amir Mohammadi, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

B.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., History, University of California, San Diego

Crafting the Mestizo State: Indigeneity, Customary Law, and Statecraft in Mexico

Matthew Vitz, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

The Value of Native Bodies: Indigeneity and the Logic of Elimination in Mexico

Shannon Speed, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Oceanography, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California; Ph.D., Oceanography, Oregon State University

The Role of Submesoscale Features in Transporting Heat and Salt Across Ocean Fronts

Kipp Shearman, Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Oregon State University

Analysis of regional and global patterns of upper ocean spice and implications for acoustics

Jennifer MacKinnon, Professor of Oceanography, Scripps Institute of Oceanography University of California, San Diego

B.A., Mathematics, Bard College of Simon’s Rock; Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

On the combinatorics of cluster structures in positroid varieties

Lauren Williams, Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University

Algebraic combinatorics, cluster algebras, total positivity

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

B.A., Political Science and Comparative Women’s Studies, Spelman College; M.A., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

No Strangers to Hardship: African Americans, Inequality, and the Politics of Resilience

Lorrie Frasure, Professor of African American Studies and Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

No Strangers to Hardship: African Americans, Inequality, and the Politics of Resilience

Michael Tesler, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine

B.A., History, Reed College; M.Phil., American Studies, New York University; Ph.D., American Studies, New York University

Dirty Money and Disorderly Homes: Civil Forfeiture, Vice Police, and Illicit Capital in Philadelphia

Michael Ralph, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Dirty Capital: Vice Police, Nuisance Property, and the Long War on Drugs in Philadelphia

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

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

Evolutionary Comparative Genomics and Analyses

Brandon S. Gaut, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

Population Genomics of Structural Variation in 26 Zea mays Lines

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Professor of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis

B.A., Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A., Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley

The Growth & Transformation of Galaxies Across Cosmic Time

Mariska Kriek, Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley

A Multi-Wavelength Understanding of the Multiple Pathways to Quenching

Brant Robertson, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz

(former UCI-CPF in CLS)

B.A., Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York; Ph.D., Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Roadblocks to Access: Perceptions of Law and Socioeconomic Problems in South Africa

Frederic Schaffer, Professor of Political Science, and Lauren McCarthy, Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

What hinders legal mobilization for socioeconomic rights? Who makes claims, when, and on which issues? My dissertation begins to answer these questions by examining Black South Africans' perceptions of law, rights, and courts and how they impact people's willingness to use courts as a means to access constitutionally guaranteed basic services like housing, healthcare, water, and education. In particular, I investigate when it is "thinkable" for citizens to make rights claims in the formal legal sphere and when they actually do make claims. With the fellowship, I will revise my dissertation into a book manuscript by preparing a new chapter on roadblocks to health and education claims-making, a critical extension of my theory on the thinkability of legal mobilization for basic services. I will also publish two articles from the dissertation to increase my competitiveness on the job market.

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

B.S., Physics, and B.A., Mathematics, University of California, San Diego; M.A., Astronomy, Boston University; Ph.D., Astronomy, Boston University

Low-mass Stars with Extreme Mid-Infrared Excesses: Potential Signatures of Planetary Collisions

Andrew West, Professor of Astronomy, Boston University

Investigating Spectral Peculiarities in Ultracool Dwarf Planet Hosts

Adam Burgasser, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego

(former UCLA-CPF)

B.A., Africana Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills; M.S.Ed., Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Social and Cultural Studies in Education, University of California, Berkeley

The (Good) Trouble with Black Boys: Investigating Black Transformative Agency and Political Meaning Making for Black Male Youth Activists in Los Angeles

Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley

Investigating Black Community Resistance to the Carceral Regime

Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

Technologies of Incapacitation: US Torture Regimes and the Captive Body

Samera Esmeir, Professor of Rhetoric, and Michael Mascuch, Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

Suspended Animation: The Rise of Force-Feeding in Carceral Times

Banu Bargu, Professor of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.S., Molecular Biology with Industrial Experience, University of Manchester; Ph.D., Developmental Biology and Stem Cells, The Francis Crick Institute

Extracellular Signalling and Stem Cell Self-Renewal

Kathy Niakan, Professor of Human Embryo and Stem Cell Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute

Building a nonhuman primate model for overcoming primary ovarian insufficiency with regeneration from pluripotent stem cells

Amander Clark, Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Modern Culture and Media, Brown University; M.F.A., Film Directing, Columbia University; Ph.D., Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley

Moving Images/Modern Policing: Silent Cinema and Its Afterlives

Mary Ann Doane, Professor of Film & Media, and Kristen Whissel, Professor of Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley

Moving Images, Policing, Abolition

Gina Dent, Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies; Faculty Fellow, Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.S., Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College; Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Metric Algebraic Geometry

Bernd Sturmfels, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Applications of algebraic geometry to differential geometry, distance optimization, and data analysis.

James McKernan, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

B.S., Kinesiology, Fresno State University; M.A., Educational Leadership and Administration, Fresno State University; Ph.D., Higher Education Administration and Policy, University of California, Riverside

Understanding the Racialized College-going Experiences of Black Foster Youth: A Multiple Perspective Critical Narrative Inquiry

Uma M. Jayakumar, Professor of Higher Education Administration and Policy, University of California, Riverside

The Racialized College-going Experiences of Foster Youth

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

B.A., Political Science, Jackson State University; M.A., Political Science, University of Michigan; Ph.D., Political Science, University of Michigan

The Politics of Place: How Southern Identity Shapes Americans’ Political Beliefs

Vincent Hutchings, Professor of Political Science, and Nicholas Valentino Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Our work will investigate how the communal kinship of high Southern identifiers engenders distinct pathways to political behavior from expressions of politically relevant emotions such as pride, anger, hope and shame.

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

B.A., Anthropology, and B.A., Linguistics, Pitzer College; M.A., Linguistic Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., Linguistic Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Khmer Honorifics: Re-emergence and Change after the Khmer Rouge

Judith T. Irvine, Professor Emerita of Linguistic Anthropology, and Michael Lempert, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Book Manuscript: Language, Equality, and Modernity in Contemporary Cambodia; New Project: My Great-Grandfather’s First Wife: Alternative Legacies of Chinese Migration

Penny Edwards, Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley