Current President’s Postdoctoral Fellows
2009–2010
Arts & Humanities
Michelle Armstrong-Partida
Education: B.S., Texas A&M University, Marine Biology; M.A., University of Iowa, History; Ph.D., University of Iowa, History
Dissertation: Misbehaving Clerics: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Pastoral Care in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
Thesis Advisor: Constance Berman, Professor of History, University of Iowa
Research Topic: Priests and their Concubines: Clerical Families in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
Mentor: Teofilo Ruíz, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Felice Blake
Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, English and Spanish; M.A., University of Oslo, Norway, British and American Studies; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature
Dissertation: Reading Black Intimacies: Literary Studies Beyond Representational Inclusion
Thesis Advisor: Susan Gillman, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Topic: Imagining Racial Community in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Reading Black Intimacies in Contemporary African American Literature
Mentor: Abdul JanMohamed, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Latin American Studies; M.A., University of California, Irvine, History; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, History
Dissertation: Divided Communities: Agrarian Struggles, Transnational Migration, and Families in Northern Mexico 1910-1952
Thesis Advisor: Heidi Tinsman, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Research Topic: An examination of family labor and land reform and the intersections of labor and transnational migration of Asians, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans within the context of the gendered and racial dynamics of 20th century northern Mexico.
Mentor: Eric Van Young, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of California, San Diego
Sylvia Chan-Malik
Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, English and Ethnic Studies; M.F.A., Mills College, Creative Writing; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies
Dissertation: From Bikinis to Burqas: Race-ing the Cultures of America’s Orientalisms, 1979-2008.
Thesis Advisor: Elaine Kim, Professor of Asian American and Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic: “Black Ahmadiyyat”: Global Blackness and South Asian Diaspora in a Multiracial Model of America’s Islam
Mentor: Eric Porter, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nad(è)ge Tanite Clitandre
Education: B.A., Hampton University, English Literature; M.A., University of Chicago, Humanities; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, African Diaspora Studies
Dissertation: Haiti Re-membered: Exile, Diaspora, and Transnational Imaginings in the Writings of Edwidge Danticat and Myriam Chancy.
Thesis Advisor: Abdul JanMohamed, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic: Context of Canada in Theorizing of African Diasporic Subjectivity/Black Canada and African Diasporic Epic Journeys in Visual and Textual Narratives. (African Diasporic Epic Journeys: Canada and Black Canadian Subjectivity in Visual and Textual Narratives)
Mentors: Bishnu Ghosh, Professor of English; and Claudine Michel, Professor of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas
Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Interdisciplinary Studies; M.A., University of California, San Diego, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Ethnic Studies
Dissertation: Mortifications of the Flesh: Racial Discipline in a Time of Crisis
Thesis Advisors: Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego and Yen Le Espiritu, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Research Topic: Visual Regimes of Punishment: The Racial Body, Crisis and the State
Mentor: Dylan Rodriguez, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
Education: B.A., Victoria University, Sociology and Women's Studies; M.A., Victoria University, Social Science Research; Ph.D., University of California , Santa Cruz , History of Consciousness (Feminist Studies)
Dissertation: In the Shadow of Manaia: Colonial Narratives of Violence against Maori Women, 1820-1870
Thesis Advisor: Angela Y. Davis, Professor of History of Consciousness (Feminist Studies), University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Topic: E Rua, Wahine Whakataparepare: Two Framings of Maori Women – A Narrative Picture-book, and Mihiwera: Theorizing Violence in the Pacific
Mentor: Piya Chatterjee, Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Women’s Studies, University of California, Riverside
Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Latin American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, U.S. History
Dissertation: The Evolution of a Critical Race Theater: Culture Clash and Chicana/o Performance Art, 1965-2005
Thesis Advisor: Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic: Culture Clash: Critical Race Satire for Urgent Times
Mentor: George Lipsitz , Professor of Sociology and Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Education: B.A., Loyola Marymount University, History; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Colonial Latin America- Mexico, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Colonial Latin America- Mexico
Dissertation: Urban Indians in a Colonial Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1806
Thesis Advisor: Kevin Terraciano, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic: Migrant Laborers and Slaves: Afro-Indigenous Relations in a Spanish Urban Center, Zacateacas, Mexico, 1670-1770
Mentors: Steven Topik, Professor of History; and Rachel O’Toole, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Hilda Mercedes Romero
Education: B.A., Barnard College, English; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies
Dissertation: Wonder's Collapse
Thesis Advisor: Jose David Saldivar, Professor of Ethnic Studies and English, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic: “Still Life: Black Radical Movement and Courtroom Drawings, 1971”
Mentor: Gina Dent, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Education: B.A., University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Ethnic Studies; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies; Ph.D., University of Michigan, American Culture
Dissertation: Seeing Conquest: Colliding Histories and the Cultural Politics of Hawai’i Statehood
Thesis Advisor: Vicente M. Diaz, Professor of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, University of Michigan
Research Topic: Cultural Politics at the intersections of race and indigeneity
Mentor: Dylan Rodriguez, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California Riverside
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
Education: B.A., Oberlin College, Women’s Studies and Latin American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
Dissertation: Remembering Trauma in a Time of War: The Psycho-Affective Economies of Neoliberalism and the Radical Imagination of Dissent
Thesis Advisors: Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Professor of Women’s Studies, Columbia University; and Angela Y. Davis, Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Topic: Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison, (Post)dictatorial Violence and the Globalizing Unfreedoms of the ‘Free World’
Mentor: Michael Lazzara, Professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Spanish and Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis
Daphne Taylor-García
Education: B.A. (Honors), Trent University, Indigenous Studies/Cultural Studies; B.Ed., Queen's University, Concurrent Education; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies
Dissertation: The Emergence of Racial Schemas in the Americas: Sexuality, Sociogeny and Print Capital in the Sixteenth Century Atlantic
Thesis Advisor: Laura E. Perez, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic: The Articulation of Geopolitical Difference in Early Colonial Nahuatl Print Culture
Mentor: Chela Sandoval, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Life Sciences
Jackelyn Alva
Education: B.S., University of California, Los Angeles, Cell and Molecular Biology; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Molecular Biology
Dissertation: Investigation of the contribution of the Notchl signaling pathway during vascular morphogenesis
Thesis Advisor: Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Professor of Molecular Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic: Investigating the mechanisms that cause human embryonic stem cell transformation and the use of HESCs as a tumor model system
Mentor: April Pyle, Professor of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Annette Angus
Education: B.S., California State University, Northridge, Microbiology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Microbiology
Dissertation: The Secret Life of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Opportunistic Intracellular Pathogenesis
Thesis Advisor: Susanne Fleiszig, Professor of Microbiology, Optometry, Infectious Diseases and Immunity, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic: Molecular and Genetic Analysis of Plant-Microbe Interactions: Studies of Burkholderia symbioses
Mentor: Ann M. Hirsch, Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Education: B.A., Wesleyan University, Latin American Studies; M.S., Yale University, Environmental Science; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Dissertation: Effects of Chronic Nitrogen Additions on Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in two Tropical Forests
Thesis Advisor: Whendee Silver, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management: Ecosystem Science, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic: Controls on Black Carbon Storage in the Tropics: The Paradox of Unequal Charcoal Retention Among Ecosystems
Mentor: Oliver Chadwick, Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
Education: B.S., Rice University, Biology; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Dissertation: Movement in the matrix: pollination and dispersal processes in a tropical coffee and forest landscape mosaic
Thesis Advisor: Christopher Dick, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Research Topic: The population genetics and pollination ecology of Bombus vosnesenskii across complex Californian agroecological landscapes
Mentor: Claire Kremen, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Education: B.S., University of California, San Diego, Ecology, Behavior, Evolution; Ph.D. Cornell University, Behavioral Biology
Dissertation: Organization of Work in the Honey Bee
Thesis Advisor: Thomas D. Seeley, Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
Research Topic: Role of genotypic variability in self-organizing talk allocation mechanisms in the Honey Bee
Mentor: Neil Tsutsui, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Education: B.S., University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Marine Fisheries; M.S., University of the Philippines, Diliman, Marine Biology; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Dissertation: Molecular and Physiological Innovation of Butterfly Eyes Using Functional Genomics
Thesis Advisor: Adriana Briscoe, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine
Research Topic: The Role of Microbes on the Toxicogenesis of Harmful, Bloom-Forming Algae
Mentor: Sunny Jiang, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Education: B.A., Boston College, Psychology; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Psychology
Dissertation: Empathic Forecast Confirmation: Inducing Expected Emotions in Others
Thesis Advisor: Diane M. Mackie, Professor of Psychology and Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Topic: How cultural differences in cognitive processes influence estimates of others' stress response, which in turn determine the amount and type of social support provided and others' psychological and biological stress
Mentor: Shelley E. Taylor, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Education: B.S., Andrews University, Zoology, minor Chemistry; M.S., Western Washington University, Marine and Estuarine Science; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology
Dissertation: Phylogenetics and Ecology of Pelagic Munnopsid Isopods (rustacea, Asellota)
Thesis Advisor: Roy Caldwell, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic: Evolution and Ecology of the pelagic realm with specific focus on cinnatuliform polychaetes, munnopsid isopods and forams
Mentor: Gregory W. Rouse, Professor of Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Mathematics, Engineering & Physical Sciences
Jennifer Andrew
Education: B.S., Northwestern University, Materials Science & Engineering; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Engineering
Dissertation: Ferroelectric polymer-based nanocomposites: Towards multiferroic materials
Thesis Advisor: David R. Clarke, Professor of Materials Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Topic: Nanomaterials for drug delivery: Increasing efficiency and minimizing side effects
Mentor: Michael J. Sailor, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Education: B.S., California State University, Dominquez Hills, Chemistry; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dissertation: Light-Induced Processes in Organic Chemistry: Quantum Tunneling, Decarbonylations in Crystals, and Solar Cells
Thesis Advisors: Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles and K. N. Houk, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic: Robust, Efficient, and Orthogonal Materials Platforms: From Biomedical to Energy Applications
Mentors: Craig J. Hawker, Professor of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara and Dennis O. Clegg, Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara
Education: B.A., North Carolina State University , Physics, Philosophy; M.A., Georgia Institute of Technology, Physics; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Physics, Astrophysics
Dissertation: Spectral Energy Distributions of Embedded Protostars and Dusty Galaxies
Thesis Advisor: Christopher F. McKee, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic: The Dynamical and Photometric Evolution of Galaxies
Mentor: Leo Blitz, Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Ricardo Cisneros
Education: B.S., California State University, Fresno, Environmental Health Science/Industrial Hygiene; M.PH., California State University, Fresno, Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., University of California, Merced, Environmental Systems/Air Quality
Dissertation: An Exposure Assessment of Air Quality in Southern Sierra Nevada
Thesis Advisors: Sam Traina, Professor of Natural Sciences and Engineer, University of California, Merced
Research Topic: Spatial and temporal distribution of ozone and the relationship to environmental variables in the Southern Sierra Nevada: Potential damage to public health.
Mentor: Deborah H. Bennett, Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis
Terefe Habteyes
Education: B.S., Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Physical Chemistry; M.S., Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Physical Chemistry; Ph.D., University of Arizona, Physical Chemistry
Dissertation: Electronic Structure and Photochemistry of Molecular and Cluster Anions via Tandem Time-of-Flight Mass Spectroscopy and Photoelectron Imaging
Thesis Advisor: Andrei Sanov, Professor of Chemistry, University of Arizona
Research Topic: Charge Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanomaterials
Mentor: Stephen R. Leon, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Education: B.S., Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Engineering Physics; M.S., New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Physics; Ph.D., University of Arizona, Chemistry
Dissertation: Photoinitiated Dynamics of Cluster Anions via Photoelectron Imaging and Photofragment Mass Spectrometry
Thesis Advisor: Andrei Sanov, Professor of Chemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson
Research Topic: Molecule-surface scattering with velocity controlled molecular beams
Mentor: Alec Wodtke, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
Education: B.S., University of Georgia , Athens , Mathematics; M.A., University of Georgia, Athens, Mathematics; Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Mathematics
Dissertation: Lens Space Surgeries on Tunnel Number One Knots
Thesis Advisor: Abigail Thompson, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
Research Topic: Dehn Surgery and Genus Two Heegaard Splittings
Mentor: Martin Scharlemann, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Social Sciences
Education: B.A., Pomona College, Spanish; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology
Dissertation: Barely Subsisting, Surviving, or Thriving: How Parents' Legal Status and Gender Shape the Economic and Emotional Well-Being of Salvadoran Transnational Families
Thesis Advisors: Rebecca Jean Emigh, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles and Vilma Ortiz, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic: Effects of Parents' Legal Status on Children Growing Up in Mixed-Status Families in the U.S.
Mentor: Leo Chavez, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Education: B.A., Georgia Southern University, Anthropology; M.A., Florida State University, Anthropology; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, Anthropology
Dissertation: Challenging “Commoner”: An Archaeological Examination of Social Identity and Class Formation at the Northeast Group, Chan, Belize
Thesis Advisor: Wendy Ashmore, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
Research Topic: “Queerying” Ancient Maya Archeology: The Application of Critical Social Theory to Class and Identity Formation
Mentor: Rosemary Joyce, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles , History & Afro-American Studies; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Afro-American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, History
Dissertation: Heaven's Ghetto?: African Americans and Race in Los Angeles, 1870s-1910
Thesis Advisor: Brenda E. Stevenson, Professor of History and Afro-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic: Heaven's Ghetto: Race, Class, and Revival in Turn of the Century Los Angeles
Mentors: Vincent Franklin, Distinguished Professor of History and Education, University of California, Riverside and Brenda Stevenson, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of California, Riverside
Education: B.S., Santa Clara University, Marketing; M.A., University of New Mexico, Sociology; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Sociology, Women's Studies doctoral emphasis
Dissertation: ‘Where are the Women?’ Transnational Feminist Interventions at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism
Thesis Advisors: Avery F. Gordon, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Denise Segura, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Topic: The Role of the United Nations Committee to Eliminate Racial Discrimination on Anti-Racism Efforts in the United States
Mentor: Piya Chatterjee, Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Women’s Studies, University of California, Riverside
Ricardo Guthrie
Education: B.A., Harvard University, Liberal Arts/Afro-American Studies; M.A., Boston University, Afro-American Studies; M.S., Boston University, Journalism; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Communication
Dissertation: Examining Political Narratives of the Black Press in the West:
Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett and the San Francisco Sun-Reporter (1950’s-1960’s)
Thesis Advisors: Zeinabu Irene Davis, Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego; and Jane Rhodes, Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
Research Topic: “That No Good Cause Shall Lack a Champion” – Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett and the San Francisco Sun-Reporter: Cross-Cultural Influences of the Black Press in the West
Mentor: Darnell M. Hunt, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Education: B.A., University of California, Davis, Nature and Culture; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management: Division of Society and Environment
Dissertation: “We Were Here, We Are Here, We Will Always Be Here”: A Political Ecology of Healing in Mountain Maidu Country
Thesis Advisor: Louise Fortmann, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic: “Spaces of Representation and Resistance: Mapping Maidu Land Divestiture and the Characteristics of Maidu Activism” (the parallels between hydroelectric development and setting aside lands for conservation in terms of their affects on Maidu land ownership and Maidu activism for the lands)
Mentor: Ben Orlove, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis
Education: B.S., Santa Clara University, Combined Science; M.A., Colorado State University, Anthropology; Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz, Anthropology
Dissertation: Creating Community in Spanish California: An investigation of California Plainwares
Thesis Advisor: Judith A. Habicht-Mauche, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Topic: “Indigenous Identity Construction in Colonial California”
Mentor: Jelmer Eerkens, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Gretchen Purser
Education: B.A., Smith College, Sociology; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Sociology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Sociology
Dissertation: Labor on Demand: Dispatching the Urban Poor
Thesis Advisor: Loic Wacquant, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic: Labor on Demand: Dispatching the Urban Poor (revising dissertation into book)/ Research on Tenant Evictions
Mentor: Professor Vicki Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Rema Reynolds
Education: B.A., Western Michigan University, English/Secondary Education; M.S., National University, School Counseling; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Education
Dissertation: Holla If You Hear Me; Giving Voice to Those We Have Missed: A Qualitative Examination of Black Middle Class Parent Engagement in Public Secondary Schools
Thesis Advisor: Tyrone Howard, Professor of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic: The engagement and involvement practices of Black parents
Mentor: Carolyn Murray, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
Damien Schnyder
Education: B.A., Stanford University, African and African American Studies; M.A., Stanford University, Sociology; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, Anthropology
Dissertation: First Strike: The Effect of the Prison Regime Upon Public Education and Black Masculinity in Los Angeles County, California
Thesis Advisor: João H. Costa Vargas, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin
Research Topic: The Effects of Prison Expansion Upon Black Education and Families in Los Angeles, California
Mentor: Cedric Robinson, Professor of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Education: B.A., Harvard University, Psychology; M.S., University of Pennsylvania, Education; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Education
Dissertation: From their own Voices: Understanding Youth Identity and Literacy Practices through Digital Storytelling
Thesis Advisor: Kris D. Gutierrez, Professor of Education & Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Topic: Understanding Technology Adoption at the Community Level: Youth Engagement with Digital Media in Urban Community Technology Centers
Mentor: Michael Cole, University Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Human Development, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Education: B.A., University of California, San Diego, Ethnic Studies/Latin American Studies; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies
Dissertation: Migration as a Matter of Time: Perspectives from Mexican Immigrant Adolescent Girls in California's Napa Valley
Thesis Advisors: Patricia Penn Hilden, Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley and George Lipsitz, Professor of Sociology and Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Topic: Shifting Identities of Mexican Immigrant Adolescent Girls, Time and Migration, Mexican Immigrants and Chicana/o Identities
Mentor: Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Professor of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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