Fellows 2025

B.A., English, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Literature, Duke University

Art in the Interregnum: The Aesthetics of Transition, 1973-Present

Michael Hardt, Professor of Literature, Duke University

Landscapes of Dispossession: Latinx Photography and the Administered World

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

B.A., Political Science and Religious Studies, California State University, Bakersfield; M.A., Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D. History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Native Outsiders: Marginalized Subjects and Communities in Modern Yemen, 1890 – 1960

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

The Nesting Margins: Identity and Belonging in Oceanic Yemen

Jennifer Derr, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Philosophy and Mathematics, Colorado College; M.S., Mathematics, Kansas State University; Ph.D., Mathematics, Kansas State University

A resolution of the diagonal for some toric D-M stacks

Gabriel Kerr, Professor of Mathematics, Kansas State University

Algebraic geometry

Jesse Wolfson, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Biology, Sonoma State University; M.S., Biology, Sonoma State University; Ph.D., Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Physiological Tolerance to Extreme Stressors in Sea Turtles: An Integrative Investigation of Reproductive Costs in Synchronized Nesting and Cellular Adaptations to Hypoxia

Jose Pablo Vazquez-Medina, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Physiological and Cellular Adaptations to Hypoxia Tolerance in Latinx Populations and its Relevance to Cardiovascular Diseases

Tatum Simonson, Professor of Respiratory Physiology, University of California, San Diego

B.S., Biology, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Xochimilco; M.S., Ecology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias; Ph.D., Entomology, University of California, Riverside

Connections Across Trophic Levels: Transmission and Variation of Bees- and Flowers-Associated Microbiomes

Quinn McFrederick, Professor of Entomology and Marko Spasojevic, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside

The impact of heat waves across biodiversity levels

Rebecca Ryals, Professor of Life and Environmental Sciences and Marilia Gaiarsa, Professor of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced

B.A., Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; M.F.A., Creative writing and writing for the performing arts, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University

Behind the Bylines: Fixing World News in Turkey and Syria

Diane Vaughan, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

The Winged Man and the Veiled Woman

Tabassum Ruhi Khan, Professor of Media & Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

B.A., Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

A Peoples' History of Middle Eastern-Americans and Race,1890-1930

Curtis Marez, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Refugee/Citizen/Migrant: Making Middle Eastern-American Race Amidst Mass Displacement, Violence, and Resistance

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., History, African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., History, Michigan State University

"An Outstanding Teacher, Civic Leader, and Author": The Education-Activism of Jane Dabney Shackelford

Pero G. Dagbovie, Professor of History, Michigan State University

The anti-racist pedagogy and education activism of local Black female teachers during the Jim Crow era

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

B.A., History, McGill University; M.A., History, Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University

Bound by the Womb: Reproduction, Kinship and Freedom in the Atlantic World

Sasha Turner, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University

Gender, Slavery, and Emancipation in the Caribbean

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

B.A., Sociology, University of California, Irvine; M.A., Educational Policy and Social Context, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Seals and Leaks in the Latine Doctoral Pipeline

Glenda M. Flores, Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, and Irene Vega, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

A Longitudinal Examination of Latine Doctoral Pathways at Hispanic Serving Institutions

Gina A. Garcia, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Mathematics, University of Michigan; M.A.S., Pure Mathematics, Durham University; M.A.S.t, Mathematics, University of Cambridge; Ph.D., Mathematics, Harvard University

Combinatorial Interpretations of Cluster Coefficients and Scattering Diagrams

Lauren Williams, Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University

Scattering Diagram Combinatorics and Cluster Algebra Positivity

Eugene Gorsky, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis

B.A., History-Social Sciences Education, Illinois State University; M.A., International Relations, University of Chicago; M.A., Sociology, University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Notre Dame

The Construction, Connection, and Communication of Latino Identities and Politics

Anna Haskins, Professor of Sociology and Ann Mische, Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

US Latinos and the Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

Efren Perez, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Economics, Florida Gulf Coast University; M.A., Political Science, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Irvine

Sister Synergy: A Framework for redefining Black women's political participation

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

Black women's political behavior

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

B.S., Chemistry, California State University, Fresno; Ph.D. Chemistry, Purdue University

Structure-Based Design and Synthesis of Biologically Active Peptidomimetic Inhibitors

Arun K Ghosh, Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University

Development of Asymmetric Fe-catalyzed Radical 1,2 dicarbofunctionalization of Alkenes

Osvaldo Gutierrez, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Chicana/o & Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Chicana/o & Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Queer Latinx Regeneration: Boyle Heights & the Geographies of Gentrification

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

Queer urban studies, human geography, barrios, gentrification

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

B.A., Chicana/o Studies, San Diego State University; M.A., History, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., History, University of California, San Diego

"It was about Self-Determination": Student Power and the Chicana/o Student Movement, 1967-1980

Luis Alvarez, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

Chicana/o and Third World student movements at San Diego State University

Lorena Marquez, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis

B.A., Communication, University at Buffalo, State University of New York; M.A., Economics, University at Buffalo, State University of New York; M.P.A., Public Administration, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, M.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Sociology, University of California Berkeley

Oops: How Corporations Anticipate, Apologize, and Forget Cybersecurity Incidents

Ann Swidler, Professor of Sociology and John Lie, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Oops: How Corporations Anticipate, Apologize, and Forget Cybersecurity Incidents

Safiya Umoja Noble, Professor of African American Studies, Gender Studies, & Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., History and Classics, Whitman College; M.A., Africana Studies, Brown University; Ph.D., Egyptology, Brown University

Mirroring the Gods: Parallel Scenes in Kushite Royal Art

Christelle Alvarez, Professor of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University

Nubians as "ethnic" colonial subjects of ancient Egyptian empires

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

B.A., Cultural Anthropology, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, México; M.A., Social Anthropology, El Colegio de Michoacán, México; M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Sovereign and Deadly Energy Transition: Communal Life against Extractivism in Mexico

Casey Walsh, Professor of Anthropology, and Barbara H. Harthorn, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Green Financing: Colonial Technologies of Dispossession in Energy Transition

Fernando I Leiva, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Art History and Global Gender Studies, The University of Buffalo; M.A., Performance Studies, New York University; Ph.D., Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Geo-corporeal Performance as a Feminist, Decolonial, and Transnational Strategy of Resistance

Angela Marino, Professor of Dance and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Geo-corporeal Performance: as a Feminist, Decolonial, and Transnational Strategy of Resistance

Patricia Lino, Professor of Poetry and Visual Arts, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Anthropology/Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Riverside

Displaced Diasporas: Narratives of Displacement, Migration, and Survival across Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the US

João Costa Vargas, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside

The Asylum-Seeking Central American Diaspora in Southern California: This research examines how asylum seekers strategically reframe their narratives to emphasize human rights violations and justify their claims by challenging anti-immigrant sentiment.

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

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

Indigenous Translocal Belonging: Sound Aesthetics and Musicking

Beth Piatote, Professor of Comparative Literature and Salar Mameni, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Indigenous Sound Studies

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

B.S., Chemistry, University of the Virgin Islands; M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Florida International University; Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Florida International University

Properties and Stability Limits of Iron Oxyhydroxides (FeOOH) up to Core-Mantle-Boundary Conditions

Jiuhua Chen, Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University

Exploring the Thermodynamic potential of sodic alkali carbonates for use in carbon mineralization

Quentin Williams, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Political Science, Grove City College; M.S., History, Yale; Ph.D., History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Voluntary Societies, Communal Identities, and the Making of Sectarianism in Modern Egypt, 1879-1939

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

Charity and Sectarianism in Modern Egypt

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

B.S., Physics, University of Michigan; M.S., Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin

Efficiently Imaging Giant Planets Around Young Accelerating Stars

Brendan Bowler, Professor of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin

Mapping the Formation and Evolution of Giant Exoplanets with Imaging and Astrometry

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

B.A., Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Putting the Body Forth: Gender, the Making of Guatemala’s Archival Capacity, and Mujeres Luchadoras

Damien M. Sojoyner, Professor of Anthropology and Valerie A. Olson, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Putting the Body Forth: Gender, the Making of Guatemala’s Archival Capacity, and Mujeres Luchadoras in Diaspora

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

B.A., Art History and Chemistry, Mount Holyoke College; M.A., History, Harvard University; Ph.D., American Studies, Harvard University

The Politics of Confinement: Indigenous Homelands, Carceral Imperialism, and the Making of the Deep North

Philip J. Deloria, Professor of History and Sven Beckert, Professor of History, Harvard University

Carceral Colonialism, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Homelands, and the Making of the Deep North

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

B.A., Secondary Education and History, Normal Superior Juana de Asbaaje; M.A., Teaching History, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo; M.A., Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Latin American and Latino Studies with an Emphasis in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Queerness and Gender Performance in Indigenous P'urhépecha Communities in Michoacán and the United States

Jeffrey Erbig, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Queer P’urhépecha Histories and Performances Beyond Borders

Jason De León, Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

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

Eugenic Spectrums: Gendered Science, Racial Defects, and the Making of Disability from Progressive Reform to the Second World War

Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

My work explores new dimensions of the eugenics movement in the United States by incorporating disability studies, Latinx studies, and the histories of science and medicine.

Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor of History and English, University of California, Los Angeles

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

"Unrecognized Citizens": Mixed-Status Families and Immigration Politics, 1970 – 1986

Rosina Lozano, Professor of History, Princeton University

Mixed-Status Families/Undocumented Mothers and Parental Rights

Paul Spickard, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., English and Political Science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

"Tiny Rebellions:" Epistemology, Settler Colonialism, and (Queer) Indigenous Decolonization in Hawaiʻi

Andrew Jolivétte, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Examining the limits of settler educational systems and the regenerative possibilities of Indigenous leadership in Hawaiʻi and the Native Hawaiian diaspora through decolonial pedagogies, with an emphasis on refusal, sovereignty, and environmental justice

Vicente Diaz, Professor of American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.F.A., Communication Design, Parsons School of Design; M.A., Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California; Ph.D., Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California

Siloed and Sensuous Bodies: Blackness and the Extractive Biomedical Imaginary

Tara McPherson, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California

LA Birth Work: Reparative and Enmeshed Care

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

B.A., Mathematics, California State University, Fullerton; M.S., Mathematics, Emory University; Ph.D., Mathematics, Emory University

Rational Points on a Family of Genus 3 Hyperelliptic Curves

David Zureick-Brown, Professor of Mathematics, Amherst College

Rational Points on Curves

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

B.A., Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University; Ph.D., Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University

Digital Archives as Relationship-Building: Reflections on Worldmaking in Community-Based Latin American and Caribbean Diasporic Memory Work in Southern California

Eve Oishi, Professor of Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University

A history of U.S.-based Latina moving image production through a feminist mujerista lens and further development of the Latina Media Recovery Project, an open-access digital platform for U.S.-based Latina media histories.

Sylvanna M. Falcón, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., Comparative Literature & Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles; M.Phil, Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles

"'Romantic Crusades': Holy Wars in Philology, Translation, and Empire, 1755-1917"

Saree Makdisi, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Aamir Mufti, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles

New Jerusalems and Modern Crusades: Holy Lands in the Imaginative Geography of Empire

Crystal Baik, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside

B.A., Political Science, Morehouse College; M.A., Education, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Education, University of California, Los Angeles

What’s Good? A Qualitative Analysis of Black Student Success

John Rogers, Professor of Education and Pedro Noguera, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

Black teacher retention and recruitment

Rita Kohli, Professor of Education, University of California, Riverside

B.S., Physics, University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Irvine

Advancing Particle Physics with Sophisticated Computational Frameworks

Tim M.P. Tait, Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Daniel O. Whiteson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine

LHC Anomaly Detection as a Catalyst for Interpretable Machine Learning

Nathaniel Craig, Professor of Physics and Katy Craig, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., Sociology, Winthrop University; M.A., Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park

Afterlives of Black Fugitive Resistance: Narratives of Colorism, Framing Blackness, and Gender in Runaway Advertisements

Kris Marsh, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park

“Rewriting the Verse: Black Women, Black Futures, and the Politics of Hip-Hop“

Darnell Hunt, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., History and Comparative Literature, Minors in Religious Studies and Political Science, University of Oregon; Ph.D., Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis

The Long Arab Student Movement: Educating the Crisis of Empire in U.S. Higher Education

Omnia El Shakry, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California Davis

Diasporic Dreaming: The Organization of Arab Students and Educating the Crisis

Keith Feldman, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

A.B., Africana Studies, Brown University; M.Div., Interdisciplinary Study, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York; M.A., Women's Studies, University of Maryland, College Park; Ph.D., Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

"Women in the Struggle": Women of Color Coalitional Relationalities in the Cold War Era

Michelle V. Rowley, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

The Organizing Theory and Praxis of U.S. Third World Women & Welfare Rights Activists

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

B.A., Mathematics and Economics, Brandeis University; M.A., Mathematics, Brandeis University; Ph.D., Mathematics, Boston College

Taut foliations, positive braids, and the L-space conjecture

Joshua Evan Greene, Department of Mathematics, Boston College

Foliations, Flows, and Floer Homology

Ian Agol, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Biology and Psychology, University of Oregon; Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley

An inhibitory brainstem input to dopamine neurons encodes nicotine aversion

Stephan Lammel, Professor of Neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley

Discovering neurobiological mechanisms for psilocybin's effects on cognitive flexibility

Vikaas Sohal, Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

B.A., English Literature, Wheaton College; M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Washington; M.A., Creative Writing, University of North Texas, Ph.D., Creative Writing and Literature, University of Southern California

Felt Encounters: Writing With a Dakota Family Archive

Susan McCabe, Professor of English, University of Southern California

The Book To Be: Poetic Interventions into Archives of Violence

Katie Ford, Professor of Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside

B.A., English Literature, Language, and Criticism, Hunter College, The City University of New York; Ph.D., Behavioral and Social Health Sciences, Brown University

Black Fat Interventions For and Against the Field of Weight Stigma Research

Madina Agénor, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University

Antiblackness, antifatness, and ableism in public health

Janet Shim, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

B.A., History, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., History, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., History, Designated Emphasis in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Shima-centric: The Political Indeterminacy of the Ryūkyū Islands/ Okinawa and the creation of the United States' archipelagic empire, 1943 — present

Alan Christy, Professor of History and Alice Yang, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz

Defining USCAR: Islands, Indigeneity, and Identity in the Ryūkyū Archipelago

Wendy Matsumura, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Sociology, Morehouse College; M.A., Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Black to Mexico: Contemporary Black American Migration, Social Mobility, and the Quest for Freedom

Fatma Müge Göçek, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Theorizing race, gender, and socioeconomic class selectivity in Black emigration to Mexico in the era of Blaxit.

Monika Gosin, Professor, Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

B.A., Global Studies and Spanish, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara

I Believe I Can, So We Did: A Test of Social Media Efficacy and Activism among Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups

Muniba Saleem, Professor of Communication and Dana Mastro, Professor of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara

The cognitive processes that translate online behaviors into offline behaviors, specifically as it relates to group social identity and political civic engagement

Stuart Soroka, Professor of Communication, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Psychology, San José State University; M.A., Anthropology, San Francisco State University; Ph.D., Mexican American Studies, The University of Arizona

Intergenerational Displacement in Aguililla-Redwood City: Migration from Michoacán and Diaspora in Northern California

Michelle Téllez, Professor of Mexican American Studies, The University of Arizona

Mexicana and Chicana Placemaking as Social Justice Activism in Northern California

Gabriela Arredondo, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.S., Biology, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Entomology, University of California, Riverside

Bee Bioindicators of Pollution: Microbiome and Pathogen Responses to Wastewater and Pesticide Exposure

Quinn McFrederick, Professor of Entomology, University of California, Riverside

Investigating Wolbachia Evolutionary Dynamics and Transmission Routes in Native Bee

Donovan German, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

A.S.T., Physics, El Camino College; B.S., Physics, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; M.S., Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology

An "InCLOSE" View of the Circumgalactic Medium of z~2 Galaxies

Chuck Steidel, Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology and Evan Kirby, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame

Looking "InCLOSE" to Connect the CGM and ISM of z~2 Star-Forming Galaxies

Alice Shapley, Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Tommaso Treu, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Utilizing Synthetic Biology to Expand Extracellular Electron Transfer for Biocatalytic Applications

Benjamin K. Keitz, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Azo bond reduction by human gut bacteria

Peter Turnbaugh, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco

B.S., Physics, The University of Arkansas at Little Rock; M.S., Astronomy, The Ohio State University; Ph.D., Astronomy, The Ohio State University

Climbing the Compositional Ladder of Gas Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs and Stars

Ji Wang, Professor of Astronomy, The Ohio State University

Aging in the Cosmos: JWST Insight into the Evolution of Brown Dwarf Atmospheres and Clouds

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

B.A., History and Theory of Art, University of Ottawa; M.A., Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia; Ph.D., Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

Nakba Ecologies: On Elemental Intifada in Colonized Palestine

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature, Brown University

Nakba Ecologies: On Elemental Intifada in Colonized Palestine deconstructs common anthropocentric assumptions that cast settler colonization and climate disaster within distinctive trajectories of study. Each chapter contends with what I am calling ‘the Palestinian elemental’—its materialities, its methodologies, its toxicities, and its transformative capacities—as a framework that disrupts the foreclosures of the horizon of Palestinian liberation and its planetary reverberations.

Sherene Razack, Professor of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Pan African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles; M.A., African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Through the Fire and All the Smoke: Abolition, Anti-Capitalism, and Intersectionality in the Era of Black Lives Matter

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

The Futures of Black Internationalism and Global South Solidarity

Benjamin Weber, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Davis

B.S., Engineering in Agroecology, Universidad Autonoma Chapingo; M.S., Conservation Ecology, University of Michigan; Ph.D., Resource Ecological Management, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Understanding the role of diverse natural enemy communities in herbivore regulation in agroecosystems

Ivette Perfecto, Professor of Environmental Justice, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Uncovering management and landscape mechanisms of bee disease transmission in urban agroecosystems

Stacy Philpott, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.S., Physics & Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Physics, Harvard University

Perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of two-dimensional string theory

Xi Yin, Professor of Physics, Harvard University

Fundamental String Theory and Quantum Gravity from 2d String Theory

Clifford V. Johnson, Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A., Psychology, University of California, Irvine; M.S., Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Stress and Racial Health Disparities in Multiracial Families: Understanding the Link Between Family Support and Stress

Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Community Mental Health Workers' Burnout: Examining the Impact of Discrimination and Stress

Jessica Borelli, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Irvine

B.S., Psychological and Brain Sciences, B.A. History, Washington University in St. Louis; M.A., Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Davis

The Symptom as a Site of Struggle: Psychiatry, Islam, and Resistance in Kashmir

Cristiana Giordano, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis

The Clinic and the Revolution: Militarized Psychiatry and Islamic Medicine in a Time of Calamity

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

B.S., Sociology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.A., Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park

A Critical Anti-Capitalist Intersectional Framework: A Theoretical, Methodological, and Analytical Intervention in Black Feminist Social Scientific Research

Kris Marsh, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park

Advancing Critical Black Feminist Perspectives in Population Health Research

Courtney Thomas Tobin, Professor of Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Florida; M.A., Anthropology, University of Michigan; Ph.D., Linguistic Anthropology, University of Michigan

Bateria Keyotai Kaman ('Til the Battery Dies): The (Im)Possible Digital Life of Shipibo-Konibos in the Peruvian Amazon.

Bruce Mannheim, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Shipibo-Konibos' (Native to the Peruvian Amazon) participation and experiences with digital media technologies

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

B.A., Environmental Studies, University of San Francisco; Ph.D., Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley

Revitalizing Stewardship: Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Land Access through Collaborative Caretaking

Lynn Huntsinger, Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Management, University of California, Berkeley

Inter-Tribal Alliances: Strategies for Sovereignty and Marine Stewardship in California

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

B.E., Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York; Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The Role of Glycoxidation on Bone Mineralization and Matrix Quality

Deepak Vashishth, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

A High-Throughput Platform to Determine the Role of Bone Matrix Composition on Matrix Material Properties

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

B.A., Psychology, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona; M.A., American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Ed.D., Educational Leadership, University of California, San Diego and California State University, San Marcos

Unconditional Love: Honoring Our Ancestors' Experience and Legacy at St. Boniface Indian Industrial School

Alan J. Daly, Professor of Education Studies, University of California, San Diego

Faith and Resistance: Indigenous Survivance in California's Catholic Mission Schools

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

B.A., Economics, National University of Singapore; M.A., Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Economics and Environmental Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

Essays on the Economics of Inequality in Hydrological Systems

Tamma Carleton, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Respiratory Health Impacts of Agricultural Water Savings in California's Central Valley

Katrina Jessoe, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis

B.S./M.S., Theoretical Computer Science, PSG College of Technology, India; M.S., Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

Tree Decompositions in Theory and Practice

Daniel Lokshtanov, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

Efficient Algorithms for Problems in Data Mining and Databases: Graph Structure meets Parallelism

Seshadhri Comandur, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., History and B.A., English, Texas Christian University; Ph.D., American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California

The Ark is Already Gone: A History of Boat Refugee Non-Arrival

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Professor of English and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California and Adrian De Leon, Professor of History, New York University

Global Migration Studies, Critical Refugee Studies, Asian American History, Southeast Asian Studies, 20th Century U.S. History, Material History

Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo, Professor of Asian Languages & Cultures and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz; M.F.A., Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley

Liberaceón

Anne Walsh, Professor of Time-based Art, University of California, Berkeley

Trans Futures in 101 Objects: Exploring Speculative Futures

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

B.S., Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Washington

Spin-Correlated Optical Properties of Ferromagnetic Nanostructures

Daniel Gamelin, Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington

Chemically Encoded Magnetic Tunability in Two-Dimensional Crystals

Kwabena Bediako, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University; Ph.D., Psychology –Clinical, University of Notre Dame

Biased Executive Control of Emotional Information in Remitted Depression: A Meta-Analytic Review

David Watson, Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame

Elucidating the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Risk for Internalizing Disorders in Ethnoracial Minorities

Lucina Uddin, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

B.A., History, Ritsumeikan University; M.A., American Studies, Doshisha University; Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles

Sounds We Saw, Visions We Heard: The History of Jazz Fandom and the Politics of Imagining the Past and Envisaging a Future through Jazz Listening

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

History of Jazz Fandom; History of Music Listening in Prisons

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

B.A., Music, Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahbad, India; M.A., Music, Wesleyan University; Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University

Bridge Overtones: Lessons from the Sarangi

Eric Charry, Professor of Music, Wesleyan University

Lineages of Listening: Oral Pedagogy, Improvisation, and the Digital Archive in Hindustani Music

Dard Neuman, Professor of Music, University of California, Santa Cruz