Fellows 2022

(former UCSC-CPF)

B.A., Archaeology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; M.A., Anthropology, Stanford University; Ph.D., Anthropology Stanford University

Seeking rights to a city of Huacas: Cultural Heritage Management and Urban Citizenship in Lima, Peru.

Lynn Meskell, Professor of Anthropology and Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania

Wasting away: Cultural Heritage and Environmental Destruction in Lima´s Urban Landscape.

Jon Daehnke, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.S., Architecture, University of Jordan; M.A., Urban Design, University of Sheffield; Ph.D., Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

Land, Camps, and Sanctuary: A Spatial History of Refuge, from Ottoman Migrants to the Syrian Refugee Crisis (1878-2011)

C. Greig Crysler, Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

Land, Camps, and Sanctuary: A Spatial History of Refuge, from Ottoman Migrants to the Syrian Refugee Crisis (1878-2011)

Stacy Fahrenthold, Professor of History, University of California, Davis

B.S., Ecology & Evolution and B.S., Earth & Planetary Sciences, Yale University; Ph.D., Earth Sciences, University of Oxford

Macroecological consequences of biotic and abiotic factors in marine ecosystems through time

Erin Saupe, Professor of Paleobiology and Tim Coulson, Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford

Mapping evolutionary radiations of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (485–444 million years ago) across oceans, environments, and phylogenetic trees

Mary Droser, Professor of Geology, University of California, Riverside

B.S., Biology, Bennett College for Women; M.S., Biology, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Ph.D., Applied Science, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Evolution of Copper Resistance in Escherichia coli

Joseph Graves Jr., Professor of Applied Science, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Examining the evolution and interaction of antibiotic and copper resistance in bacteria

Pamela Yeh, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

(former PPFP-Mellon Fellow)

B.A., History, University of Puget Sound; Ph.D., History, University of California, Davis

Tewa Pueblos at the Dawn of Atomic Modernity

Louis Warren, Professor of History, University of California, Davis

Stories of Incursion and Patterns of Accommodation in Modern Pueblo History

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

B.A., Anthropological Archaeology, University of California, San Diego; M.A., Anthropological Archaeology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Anthropological Archaeology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Becoming ’Amuwu: Socioeconomic Transformation and Persistence of the Chumash Community at Mission La Purísima Concepción, AD 1813-1848

Gregory D. Wilson, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Linking the Past to the Present: Narratives of Becoming and the Archaeology of a Post-Secular California Indigenous Community

Tsim D. Schneider, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.S., Biology, California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside

Early-Life Effects of Diet, Exercise, and Maternal Environment on Adult Activity Levels in Mice Selectively Bred for High Voluntary Wheel-Running Behavior

Theodore Garland Jr. Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside

Epigenetics of Early-Life Effects on Adult Physical Activity in Mice

Soojin Yi, Professor of Neuroscience, University of California, Santa Barbara

(former UCR-CPF)

B.A., Latin American & Latino Studies and Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Mi Existir es Resistir: Trans Latinxs Lives and Strategies of Self-Preservation

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

Illegality, Identity Formation, and Communities of Care in Trans Immigrant Lives

Brandon Andrew Robinson, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside

B.A., English, Rice University; M.S., Civil Engineering​, Rice University; M.S., International Politics, Trinity College Dublin; Ph.D., Environment and Resources, Stanford University

Coral refugia in the coastal zone: habitat conditions and governance strategies to increase coral resilience in the Hawaiian Archipelago

Greg Asner, Director, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, and Larry Crowder, Professor of Biology, Stanford University

Freshwater impacts on ecosystem vulnerability to ocean acidification along the U.S. West Coast

Tessa Hill, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis

(former UCI-ADVANCE-CPF)

B.A., English, University of Washington; Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley

The Wikipedic Novel: Reading & Writing in the Open-Source Era

Dorothy J. Hale, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

Signifyin(g) in Cyberspace: Digital Life in 21st Century Black Literature

Theodore Martin, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine

B.A., American Literature and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles; M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Communication, University of California, San Diego

Manifest (Re)Destined: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in the American West

Valerie Hartouni, Professor of Communication, University of California San Diego

Black Mariners of the Black Pacific: Reimagining Race, Migration, and Diaspora

David Igler, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

(former UCSB-CPF)

B.S., Human Development, Northwestern University; M.A., Urban Education, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Urban Education Policy, University of Southern California

Fever Dreams: The Promise and Limitations of BIPOC Parent Organizing During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Julie Marsh, Professor of Urban Education Policy, University of Southern California

The role of BIPOC radical education imaginaries in school reform

Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, Professor of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., Sociology, Texas Christian University; M.A., Sociology, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Examining School Discipline Under Restorative Justice

Andrew Penner, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Evaluating the Long-Term Outcomes of Restorative Justice for Students and Schools

Jacob Hibel, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

B.A., Psychology and Dance, Stanford University; M.A., Performance Studies, New York University; Ph.D., Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Chemical Diasporas: Legal, Aesthetic, and Cultural Performances of Agent Orange

SanSan Kwan, Professor of Dance and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley and Mel Chen, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Chemical Diasporas: Tracing Toxicity through Ecological Kinship investigates the relational networks that arise from the diasporic spread of Agent Orange through multispecies ecologies. Subjects: feminist science studies, disability studies, performance and media studies, environmental humanities

Rachel C. Lee, Professor of English and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

(former PPFP-Mellon Fellow)

B.A., Mathematics and Philosophy, Oxford University; MMathPhil, Mathematics and Philosophy Oxford University; Ph.D., Philosophy, Rutgers University

Bad Believers: Evidence-Resistance, Rational Persuasion, and Social Change

Elisabeth Camp, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University and Susanna Schellenberg, Professor of Philosophy Rutgers University

Belief and Social Identity

Annalisa Coliva, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine and Kate Richie, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine; M.S., Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine

Constraints to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Steven J. Davis, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine

Limitations of biomass sourced climate change mitigation strategies, and their impacts on communities in tropical regions and local conservation efforts.

Elsa Ordway, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles and Thomas Smith, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

M.S., Mathematics, National Institute of Science Education and Research; Ph,D., Mathematics, Texas A&M University

Quantum coloring of quantum graphs

Michael Brannan, Professor of Mathematics, Texas A&M University

Functional analysis, Operator algebras and Quantum information theory

Todd Kemp, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

(former UCI-ADVANCE-CPF)

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

An examination of cultural assets in Latinx student persistence in premedical studies

Frances Contreras, Professor of Education Studies, University of California, San Diego

Latinx Student’s Medical Dream (MD): Maintaining Culture and Community

Glenda Flores, Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine, and Frances Contreras, Professor of Education, University of California, Irvine

B.A., Chicana/o Latina/o Studies and Sociology, Pomona College; M.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Becoming Invisible: Aging and Stratification for Older Immigrants in the United States and Mexico

Irene Bloemraad, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley and Cybelle Fox, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Becoming Invisible: Aging and Stratification for Older Immigrants in the United States of Mexico, shines a spotlight on Mexican immigrant men and women at the other end of the spectrum – people who have lived in the United States for decades – and their transition into late adulthood. How does immigration status affect older immigrants’ late adulthood experiences? And how does the experience of illegality change across the life course? This work has implications for public policy as well as for academic theories of immigration and integration and aging.

Cecilia Menjívar, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

(former PPFP-Mellon Fellow)

B.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside; M.A., Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies, California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Intoxicated by Jenni Rivera: The Erotics of Fandom, Sonic Pedagogies of Deviance, and the Politics of Pirujeria

Yen Le Espiritu, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego and Jillian Hernandez, Professor of Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies, University of Florida

Performing Latinx Sexualities: A Feminist and Queer of Color Reading of Latinas in the Pornographic Archive.

Richard T. Rodriguez, Professor of Media & Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

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

Enhancing the Therapeutic Capacity of the MSC Secretome Using Engineered Biomaterials

J Kent Leach, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, Davis

Investigation into the effect of stress relaxation and cell binding domains in an engineered hiPSC cardiomyocyte model

Beth Pruitt and Ryan Stowers, Professors of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.S., Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Ph.D., Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science

On invariable generation in infinite groups and on groups of almost automorphisms of trees

Tsachik Gelander, Professor of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science

Geometric Group Theory

Tianyi Zheng, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies Field, University of California, Berkeley; M.S.W., Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley

The Legal Reproduction of Infant Health Inequities in Unincorporated Communities

Anu Manchikanti Gómez, Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley

Government systems and community resilience and adaptation to climate-change related health threats in unincorporated communities

A. Susana Ramirez, Professor of Public Health, University of California, Merced

B.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Davis; MESc., Environmental Science, Yale University; M.S., Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Stanford University; Ph.D., Environment and Resources, Stanford University

Upstream oil production, ambient air pollution, and adverse birth outcomes in California

Gary Shaw, Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University and Marshall Burke, Professor of Earth Systems Science, Stanford University

Wildfire smoke exposure and maternal health in Northern California

Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCLA-CPF in CSRC)

B.S., Psychology, Universidad de Chile, Chile; Ph.D., Basic Psychology, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Integration and use of information in the suboptimal choice task

Armando Machado, Professor of Psychology, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

The role of frontal cortex in the suboptimal choice phenomenon

Alicia Izquierdo, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Physics, Carleton College; M.S., Applied Physics, Cornell University; Ph.D., Applied Physics, Cornell University

Advances in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy for Materials Discovery and Innovation

Lena F. Kourkoutis, Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University

Novel synthesis approach for atomically engineered designer halides

Kwabena Bediako, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, and Jeffrey Neaton, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Biology, Texas Tech University; M.S., Microbiology, Texas Tech University; Ph.D., Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Mechanism of Candida albicans Biofilm and Virulence Inhibition by a Bacterial Secreted Factor

Danielle A. Garsin and Michael C. Lorenz, Professors of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Immune Evasion and Proliferation of Candida albicans Opaque Cells within Macrophages

Alexander D. Johnson, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco

B.S., Biology, Hampton University; Ph.D., Plant Ecophysiology, University of California, Los Angeles

The significance of the leaf surface during drought: insight into function of stomata and leaf hair

Lawrence Sack, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

Evolutionary Climate Relationships of Leaf Traits Across the California and Hawaiian Flora

Bruce Baldwin, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley and Felipe Zapata, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Latin American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Geography, Florida International University

Contested Natures, Insecurities & Territorialities: The Aerial Eradication of Coca in Colombia

Ulrich Oslender, Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University

Mythmaking and Environmental Justice Studies

Michael Mascarenhas, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Civil Engineering, Universidad de Chile; M.S., Earthquake Engineering, Universidad de Chile; M.S., Geophysics, California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology

Earthquakes and the new paradigm of diluted cores in gas giant planets

David Stevenson, Professor Emeritus of Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Structure and evolution of solar system Ocean Worlds

Jonathan Fortney, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., African & Afro-American Studies & Anthropology, (Minor, Creative Writing), Brandeis University; M.A., African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Indelibly Marked: Queer Articulations of Black femininity, Vernacular Aesthetics, & The Performance of Labor in the Dirty South

Brandi Catanese, Professor of African American/African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Embodied Citation: A Genealogy of Black feminist Performance Methodology (on stage and in the streets)

Ni’Ja Whitson, Professor of Critical Dance Studies, University of California, Riverside

B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; MTS, Philosophy of Religion, Harvard University; Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Who is the Subject of Civil Rights? Racialization, Police Power, and the Islamic Tradition

Stefania Pandolfo, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, and Charles Hirschkind, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

The Carceral Mosque: Islamic Life within Confinement

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

(former PPFP-Mellon Fellow)

B.A., Sociology, University of California, Merced; M.A., Sociology, Northern Illinois University; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Somebody Blew Up Oakland: Dispossession as a Praxis of Racial Order

Ann Hironaka, Professor of Sociology and Damien Sojoyner, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

The fight for the Right to Housing in Oakland, California as a case study to the dispossession of Black geographies.

João Costa Vargas, Professor of Anthropology, and Dylan Rodriguez, Professor of Media & Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

(former PPFP-Mellon Fellow)

B.A., International Studies, Maryville College; M.A., Arab Studies, Georgetown University; Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Los Angeles

Mapping Decolonized Futures: Indigenous Visions for Palestine and Hawaii

Adam Moore, Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles

Indigenous Mapping as Decolonial Praxis: The Algerian Counterstate

Jovan Lewis, Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Music, University of California, Davis; M.A., Ethnomusicology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Music is Here to Stay”: Hawaiian, Local, and Global in Reggae in Hawai‘i

David Paul, Professor of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara

Reggae in Hawai‘i; Native Hawaiian, local, and Black identity in Hawai‘i; Native Hawaiian worldviews; food sovereignty

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

B.S., Radio and Television Journalism, San Jose State University; M.A., Business and Economic Journalism, New York University; Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

A Feminist History of Gender, Empire and Resistance in Afghanistan

Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz and Madhavi Murty, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Afghan American Digital Humanities Archive - Resisting Regimes of Erasure

Shelly Stamp, Professor of Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz

(former UCI-ADVANCE-CPF)

B.A., Earth Systems, Environment, and Society, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.A., Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

Molecular Longing: Adopted Koreans and the Navigation of Absence through DNA

Jodi Kim, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

Navigating the Unknowable: Transnational Korean Adoption, Genetic Kinship, and the Community Archive

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

Integrated M.Sc (Hons) Physics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India; Ph.D., Physics, University of Maryland, College Park

Uncovering patterns in complex data through novel networks and machine learning

Developing mathematical and computational methods in network dynamics and generalizable machine learning applied to data-driven complex systems

Mason Porter, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Chayes, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCLA-CPF in the Bunche Center)

B.S., Anthropology, Université Lumière-Lyon-II; M.S., Anthropology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles

Deconstructing Hip Hop: Black Popular Music beyond the Politics of Ghetto Discourses

Timothy D. Taylor, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles

Reimagining Los Angeles Hip Hop: Black Musical Cultures and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Class

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

B.A., Religion and Comparative Literature, Boston University; MTS, Women, Gender, Sexuality, Religion, Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Brown University, English

Unspectacular Violence: Narrating Trans/Queer Death in Contemporary American Culture

Ralph E. Rodriguez, Professor of American Studies and English, Brown University

Developing a book manuscript on the trans and queer aesthetic strategies available to transform the politics of damage beyond carceral solutions and catastrophic reprisal. Research areas include trans literature and poetics, queer necropolitics, visual studies, critical prison studies, Asian American studies, and HIV/AIDS cultural studies.

Nigel Hatton, Professor of Literature and Philosophy, University of California, Merced

B.A., Sociology, Morehouse College; Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago

Visibility Pursuits: Black Gay and Lesbian Politics, 1987 - 1995

Cathy Cohen, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

Black Politics and The History of Sexuality

Tianna Paschel, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Women’s Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Performance Studies, New York University; Ph.D., American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Politics of Composure: Performing Asian/ American Femininities

Victor Mendoza, Professor of Women’s Studies and English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Maria Cotera, Professor of Mexican American and Latino Studies, University of Texas, Austin

Sound and media studies, critical race and ethnic studies, performance ethnography, and popular music writing

Roshanak Kheshti, Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Dance and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Performance Studies, New York University; Ph.D., Critical Dance Studies, University of California, Riverside

“Get Well Soon!” Sick Bodied Performance in Chronic Conditions

Maria Firmino-Castillo, Professor of Dance, University of California, Riverside

Centers artistic and intellectual work of 21st century chronically ill or unwell queer and trans contemporary performance artists to consider how chronic illness, sickness, and disability may enact alternative ontologies of political resistance and anti-capitalist possibility.

SanSan Kwan, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCR-CPF)

B.A., Comparative Literature, King’s College, London; M.A., Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University; Ph.D., Communication, University of Southern California

Sex Workers’ Networks of Support: Alternative Economic Practices and Kinship Structures

Manuel Castells and Cristina Visperas, Professors of Communication, University of Southern California

Sex Workers’ Networks of Care

Amalia Cabezas, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

B.S., Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University; M.A., Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Ph.D., Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

The cognitive foundations of social relationships in great apes

Martin Surbeck, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, and Erin Hecht, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

The evolution of emotion perception in great apes

Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, and Jan Engelmann, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Women’s Studies, Portland State University; M.A., Native American Studies, University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Policing, Incarceration, and Dispossession: California Indians and Carceral Statecraft

Mishuana Goeman, Professor of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Examining the interrelated histories of California Indian dispossession, gendered and racialized criminalization, and statecraft via incarceration and policing in northwestern California.

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

(former PPFP-Mellon Fellow)

B.A., Anthropology and B.A., Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Undisciplined Bodies: Race, Size and Sexuality in U.S. Media and Culture

Abigail de Kosnik, Professor of Performance Studies and JuanaMaría Rodríguez, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley

Body Talk: Race, Size and Sexuality in U.S. Media and Culture

Jennifer Tyburczy, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

(former UCSB-CPF)

B.A., Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin; M.A., Women’s and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., African and African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Queering the Archive: Re-Examining Narratives of U.S. Chattel Slavery

Daina Ramey Berry, Professor of History, and Matt Richardson, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Queering the Archive: Re-Examining Narratives of U.S. Chattel Slavery, a project that asks what types of stories it becomes possible to tell when the archive is approached without the base assumption of cisheteronormativity.

Daina Ramey Berry, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., English, University of New Orleans; M.A., Education Policy and Management, Harvard University; Ph.D., Education, Harvard University

Rewarding Equality, While Hoping for Equity: Unintended Consequences of Well- Intentioned Hiring Practices

Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell, Professor of Education, Harvard University

Labor Inequality; Gender, Race, & Diversity in Organizations; Sociology of Evaluation

Jim Antony, Professor of Education and Elizabeth Campbell, Professor of Management, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Psychology (Minor, Dance and Performance Studies), University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Social Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

Black American Experiences in Healthcare: Past, Present, and (Improving the) Future

Kerri L. Johnson and Annette L. Stanton, Professors of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

Dismantling Inequity in Healthcare: An Evidence-based Intervention to Improve Physician-Black Patient Interactions

Wendy Berry Mendes, Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

(former PPFP-Mellon Fellow)

B.A., Psychology and Spanish, Amherst College; M.A., Latin American and Latinx Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Latin American and Latinx Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Rethinking Structural Inequalities and Emotional Injuries within Oaxacan Communities

Catherine Sue Ramírez, Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Translocal Health: Imagining an Intercultural, Indigenous, and Community-Based Approach to Healing

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

(former UCSC-CPF)

B.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego; M.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies, California State University, Northridge; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

ICE on Fire: Incinerating Prison/Border Violence through Feminist Abolition Geographies

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

Chicanx/Latinx studies, critical ethnic studies, abolition feminism theory/praxis, carceral studies, feminist migrant and refugee studies, migrant detention, abolition geography, chemical warfare, embodiment

Sylvanna Falcon, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies/ University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Washington; Ph.D., Plant Biology, Cornell University

A morphological and phylogenetic comparative investigation into the evolution of reproductive branching architecture in Monocotyledons

Chelsea D. Specht, Professor of Plant Biology, Cornell University

Developmental indeterminacy as an adaptation to a heterogeneous environment: An Evolutionary and Developmental approach to the characterization of distinct life history strategies in Monkey flower

Benjamin Blackman, Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, and Yun S. Song, Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCLA-CPF in the Bunche Center)

B.A., History, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; M.S., Cultural Studies and Public Administration, Roskilde University, Denmark; M.P.P., Public Policy, Oregon State University; Ph.D., History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego

Configurations of the Human: Racializing Imperial Bodies and Natural Government in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic 1500-1800s

Cathy Gere, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

Pathologizing Difference: Race, Sexuality, and the Making Inferior Humankinds in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic

Soraya de Chadarevian, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Physics, University of California, Los Angeles; M.S., Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Astronomy and Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Characterizing Brown Dwarfs and Directly Imaged Exoplanets in the Mid-Infrared

Andrew Skemer, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Frontiers of Exoplanet Detection and Atmospheric Characterization

Stephanie Sallum, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine

(former UCLA-CPF)

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

Exploring galactic nuclei with tidal disruption events

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

Tidal disruption events & dynamical interactions as probes of supermassive black hole binaries

Smadar Naoz, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles

(former UCD-CPF)

B.A., Japanese and Linguistics (High Honors), Swarthmore College; Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Cultures with Graduate Certificate in Science and Technology Studies (With Distinction), Stanford University

The Social, Technical, and Musical Construction of Deafness in Japan

Indra Levy, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University

Material Culture of Disability, Sound, and Media in Japan

Emily Merchant, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis

(former UCLA-CPF in the Bunche Center)

B.A., Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine; M.Ed., Higher Education Student Affairs, Iowa State University; M.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Miles Before the Bell: Race, Agency, and Sporting Entitlements in Boxing Ring Entrances

Gaye Theresa Johnson, Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Performance of Resistance and Activism in Sport, Racial Capitalism, and Political Economy of Boxing

Abel Valenzuela Jr., Professor of Chicano Studies and Urban Planning, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., English, University of California, Davis; M.A., Education, University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Education, University of California, Davis

A Critical Ethnography of Hmong American Students Navigating and Transforming Their University

Julia Menard-Warwick, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Davis

Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Education, Hmong American, and Epistemology and Methodology

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

(former PPFP-Mellon Fellow)

B.A., History, Delhi University; M.A., History, Brown University; Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles

Race, Caste, and Modern Imaginaries of the Himalayas

Vinay Lal, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Conservation from the Margins: Environmental Justice and Indigenous Resistance in the Central Himalayas

David Fedman, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Biology, California State University, Fresno; Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Lipocalin-2 mediates neuronal damage and behavioral deficits in HIV-induced brain injury

Marcus Kaul, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside

Role of mGluR5 in protein aggregation-driven neurocognitive diseases

Christina Sigurdson, Professor of Medicine University of California, San Diego

(former UCD-CPF)

Integrated B.S. and M.S., Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India; Ph.D., Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Bootstrapping Scattering Amplitudes in Effective Field Theories

Henriette Elvang, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Aspects of quantum field theories, their scattering amplitudes and solutions to general relativity

Mukund Rangamani, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Davis

B.A., Black Studies and Political Science, Amherst College; M.A., Comparative Literature, Columbia University; Ph.D., African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Characterizing the Hypothetical: Black U.S. Presidents in Literary Popular Culture During the Late Jim Crow Era

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Theorizing the Black U.S. Presidency

Yogita Goyal, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Biochemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila; M.S., Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí; Ph.D., Environmental Science, Instituto Potosino de Invesitgacion Científica y Tecnológica A. C. (IPICYT)

Study of Environmental Barriers based on Electrochemically Engineered Reduced Graphene Oxide for the Protection of Carbon Steel Against Corrosion

Jose Rene Rangel Mendez, Professor of Environmental Science and Luis Felipe Chazaro Ruiz, Professor of Environmental Science, Instituto Potosino de Invesitgacion Científica y Tecnológica A. C. (IPICYT)

Exploring Anodic Redox Chemistry for Electrochemical Production of H2 from Waste Acid

Eric Hoek, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

(former PPFP-Mellon Fellow)

B.A., Latin American Studies, San Diego State University; M.F.A., Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego Ph.D., Literature, University of California, San Diego

Imagined California: emergency poetics and fronterizomatic art at the Tijuana/San Diego Borderlands

Luis Martín-Cabrera, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Emergency Poetics and Transfronterhizomatic Gnosis and Praxis at the Tijuana/San Diego Borderlands from the Chicano Movement to contemporary practices.

Amy Sara Carroll, Professor of English, University of California, San Diego and Ben Olguin Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara

(former PPFP-Mellon Fellow)

B.A., Art, University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A.T., Visual Arts, The University of the Arts; M.A., Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Painting Central America: U.S. Central American Visual Art of San Francisco

Catherine S. Ramírez, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

The politics of visibility, solidarity, and belonging in U.S. Central American visual art in and beyond San Francisco, California.

Sergio de la Mora, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Maceo Montoya, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies and English, University of California, Davis

(former UCR-CPF)

B.S., English, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Unfamiliar Waters: Representations of Resource Extraction in Filipino Cultural Production, 1970s-Present

María DeGuzmán, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Race and Environment in Filipino Visual Cultural Production

Sarita Echavez See, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

B.A., International Relations, University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Davis

Contested Care: Solidarity, Sect, and British Muslims in the Syrian War

Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis

Convoys and Counterterrorism: Islamic Care in Times of (In)Security

Charles Hirschkind, Professor Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Kinesiology, New Mexico State University; M.S., Applied Physiology, University of Miami; Ph.D., Kinesiology, Auburn University

The Effects of Exercise on LINE-I Regulation

Michael D. Roberts, Professor of Kinesiology, Auburn University

Regulation of PAX7 in Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells in Development and Disease

April D. Pyle, Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Ph.D., Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

Path-space Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for molecular simulation

Thomas F. Miller III, Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

Toward morphologically optimal disassembleable plastics with stochastic thermodynamics

David T. Limmer, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, and Eran Rabani, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

(former UCSD-CPF)

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

The Destructive Birth of Massive Stars and Massive Star Clusters

Mark Krumholz and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Professors of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Towards a Complete Understanding of Stellar Feedback in Massive Star Formation

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

B.A., Theater, and B.S., Computer Sciences, University of British Columbia; M.A., Performance Studies, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts; Ph.D., Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Is Any-body There? [Re]envisioning Liveness through Digital Performance [Re]visit

Marko Peljhan, Professor of Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Leo Cabranes-Grant, Professor of Theater and Dance, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dancing into the Web of Techno-Social Spaces: Creative Application of AI in Interrogative Interaction Design

Ricardo Dominguez, Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, and Memo Akten, Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego

(former PPFP-Mellon Fellow)

B.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota; Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota

Racial Motherhood Ecologies: Towards a Mapping of Social Life, Violence & Resistance in the Southwest Borderlands, 1980-Present

Zenzele Isoke, Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota, and Edén Torres, Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota

Critical Environmental Justice Studies / Racial Geographies / Black, Mexican immigrant, and Indigenous Communities / Women of Color Feminisms / Decolonial Ecologies / Public Policy and Planning

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

B.A., Psychology and Sociology, University of Southern California; M.S., Justice Studies, Arizona State University; Ph.D., Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Critical Latinx Foodways: Racial Formation, Regional Identity, and Placemaking in the San Gabriel Valley, 1900-1968

Genevieve Carpio, Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Developing a critical foodways lens in historical and contemporary investigations of identity, placemaking, and survival of Latinx people. My project, Critical Latinx Foodways: Food Politics, Race, and History in Southern California, 1900-2020, argues that historical and contemporary struggles of food workers are vital to our understanding of placemaking and survival of Latinx populations. I do so by focusing on food laborers and vendors that shape the places they work (labor), live in (placemaking), and their movement across regional boundaries (mobility).

Mario Sifuentez, Professor of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Merced

B.S., Behavioral Neuroscience, Lehigh University; Ph.D., Neuroscience, Brown University

Local Network Activity in Three-Dimensional Neural Microtissues

Diane Hoffman-Kim, Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University

Advancing Cortical Organoids as a Scalable Testing Platform for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Sofie Salama, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, Genomics Institute, and David Haussler, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., International Studies, Spelman College, M.Sc., Migration Studies, University of Oxford; M.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Pursuit: How Black Tech Entrepreneurs Make Headway in Times of Racial and Economic Inequality

Cristina Mora, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Black Tech Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and Atlanta

Darnell Hunt, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Asian Studies and History, Occidental College; M.A., Higher Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., Urban Education Policy in Higher Education, University of Southern California

Tempering transformative change: Whiteness and racialized emotions in graduate leaders' implementation of equity plans

Julie Posselt, Professor of Higher Education, University of Southern California

Towards racially just organizations: Higher education leaders and their disruption of whiteness

Mitchell Chang, Professor of Higher Education and Organizational Change, School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Psychology, San Diego State University; M.A., Psychology, University of Arizona; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Arizona

Relationships between cardiovascular risk factors, brain structure, and cognition in older Hispanics compared to non-Hispanic Whites

Lee Ryan, Professor of Psychology, University of Arizona

Reproductive Health and cognitive aging among Latinas

Hector González, Professor of Neurosciences University of California, San Diego

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

Women Who Leave and the Men They Leave Behind: The Gendering of Migration and Mobility from Vietnam

Raka Ray, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Vietnamese Women as Fetishized “Others”: Racial Sexualization in East Asia and the U.S.

Abigail Andrews, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, University of California, San Diego

B.S., English, The State University of New York Brockport; M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Rotisken’rakéte: Violence and the Anti-Colonial

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

The relationality of Indigeneity and Blackness as understood through land.

Candace Waid, Professor of English University of California, Santa Barbara

(former UC

B.A., Psychology, minor in English Literature, McGill University; M.A., Psychology and M.P.H., Global Health and Human Rights, University of Southern California; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Southern California

Minority Stress and Intersectionality: How are Identity, Discrimination, and Biological Stress related to Depression and Suicidality Among Multiple Minority Subgroups?

Stanley J. Huey, Jr., Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California, and Jeanne Miranda, Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles

Intersectional Connectedness: Preventing Suicidality Among Sexual Minority Latinx Youth

Anna Lau, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Anthropology, minor in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The Boundaries of Safety: The Sanctuary Movement in the Inland Empire

Sonya Atalay, Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Abolition in the Inland Empire: Adelanto & the Prison to ICE pipeline

Adrián Félix, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

B.A., Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; M.A., Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Transborder Indigenous Education: Kumeyaay/Kumiai Education Sovereignty on the U.S./Mexico Border

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

Transborder Indigenous Education on the U.S/Mexico Border

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

B.A., Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Boy Whom Hector Called Scamandrius: The Natural World and Cosmic Time in the Iliad of Homer

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

Homeric Epic and the Environment

Alex Purves, Professor of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Civil Engineering, Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez, Specialization in Analysis and Design of Structures, Universidad del Norte; M.S., Structural & Geotechnical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Ph.D., Engineering Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Ph.D., Structural Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Evaluation of the influence of shear keys on the seismic behavior of Chilean bridges; Numerical modeling of composite systems: composite CFT connections, composite beams, and mixed CFT/SRC columns

Hernán Santa Maria, Professor of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Roberto Leon, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Replaceable Seismic Coupling Beams for Skyscrapers

Chia-Ming Uang, Professor of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego

B.S., Human Biology, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Diego

Staphylococcus aureus quorum sensing and the battle for control of epidermal proteases by the skin microbiome.

Richard L. Gallo, Professor of Dermatology, University of California, San Diego

Streptococcal regulation of pediatric atopic dermatitis skin inflammation.

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

(former UCSF-CPF)

MBBS, Clinical Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; M.S., Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles

Development and Validation of pH- and Oxygen-Sensitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Metabolic Characterization of Glioma

Benjamin Ellingson, Professor of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

Characterization of Iron Dysregulation and Demyelination in Premanifest Huntington’s Disease

Janine Lupo, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco and Peder Larson, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco

B.A., English, Yonsei University (South Korea); M.A., English, Yonsei University; Ph.D., Literature (Designated Emphases: Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; Feminist Studies), University of California, Santa Cruz

Cold War Disability: The Biopolitics of U.S. Military Empire in Post-1945 Asia

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

Cold War Disability Narratives, Comparative Racialization, Disability Justice, and Grassroots Activism in Asia and Asian America

James Kyung-Jin Lee, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine

(former UCLA-CPF in the CSRC)

B.A., Art History, The University of Texas at Austin; M.A., Art History, The University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Art History, Southern Methodist University

Chicano Art is Not Dead: The Politics of Curating Chicano Art in Major U.S. Exhibitions, 2008-2012

Roberto Conduru, Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University

Advancing to Web 3.0: Chicanx and Latine/x XR Immersive Environments, NFT Decentralization, and Experiential Visions in the Metaverse

Charlene Villaseñor Black, Professor of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Biology and Chemistry, Williams College; Ph.D., Biology, University of California, San Diego

Genomic Admixture and Defensive Behavior in the Hybrid Africanized Honey Bee

Joshua R. Kohn, Professor of Ecology, Behavior, Evolution, University of California, San Diego

Elucidating the role of supergene expression and genetic architecture in the regulation of ant social organization

Jessica Purcell, Professor of Entomology, University of California, Riverside