President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Awards 2006-07

Arts & Humanities 

Neda Atanasoski

Education: B.S., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Political Science and French; M.A., University of California, San Diego, French; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Literature and Cultural Studies

Dissertation: Racial Orientations: U.S. Nationalism and the Production of Eastern Europe in the Mapping of the Free World, 1950-2000

Thesis Advisor: Lisa Lowe, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Research Topic: Race, Religion, and Liberalism in Contemporary Manifestations of U.S. imperialism in the Balkans and the Middle East

Mentor: Saba Mahmood, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position:  President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Dolores Inés Casillas

Education: B.A., University of California, Davis, Women and Gender Studies; M.Ed., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Curriculum Theory and Development; M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, American Culture; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, American Culture (Latino and Media Studies)

Dissertation: Sounds of Belonging: A Cultural History of Spanish-language Radio in the United States, 1922 - 2004.

Thesis Advisors: Susan J. Douglas, Professor of Communications, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Frances R. Aparicio, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Topic: Transborder/Transnational Spanish-language Radio

Mentor: Rosa Linda Fregoso, Professor of Latin American & Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Gloria Chacón

Education: B.A., Hampshire College, Literature; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature

Dissertation: Exiting Hybridity: Contemporary Maya Writers and the Making of a Millenarian Literary Tradition

Thesis Advisor: Norma Klahn, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic: The Role of Cultural Memory and Oral Transmission in Cultural Productions by Indigenous Intellectuals in El Salvador and Honduras

Mentor: Inés Hernández-Ávila, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

Current Position: CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, Charles E. Young Research Library, UC Los Angeles

Sora Han

Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies; J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Law; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness

Dissertation: Bonds of Representation: Vision, Race and Law in Post-Civil Rights America

Thesis Advisor: Angela Y. Davis, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic: “The Law” of Race & Sexuality

Mentor: Leti Volpp, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley

Roshanak Kheshti

Education: B.A., Indiana University, Cultural Anthropology; M.A., University of California, San Cruz, Cultural Anthropology; Ph.D., University of California, San Cruz, Cultural Anthropology

Dissertation: Resoundingly Different: Desire and Alterity in the World Beat Culture Industry

Thesis Advisor: Nancy Chen, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic: World Music's Economy of Desire: Third World Women, Expressive Cultural Labor, Counter-Politics, and Resistance

Mentor: Paola Bacchetta, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley

Ana Rosas

Education: B.A., University of Southern California , History and American Studies; M.A., University of Southern California, History; Ph.D., University of Southern California, History

Dissertation: Familias Flexibles (Flexible Families) Bracero Families' Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries, 1942-1964

Thesis Advisor: George J. Sanchez, Professor of History, University of Southern California

Research Topic: World War II and Post World War II Mexican Immigration and Settlement in Mexico and the United States with an emphasis on the transnational and gendered costs of Bracero Program immigration to and from the United States .

Mentor: Vicki L. Ruiz, Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC Irvine 

Stephen Sohn

Education: B.A., University of Southern California, Biological Sciences & Creative Writing; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, English; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, English

Dissertation: Lost in the City: “Productive” Disorientations in Asian American Literature

Thesis Advisor: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Topic: Rebel Queers with a Cause: Violent Acts and Homosexual Outlaws in Asian American Literature

Mentor: Glen Mimura, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Stanford University

Victor Viesca

Education: B.A., University of California , San Diego , English and American Literature; M.A., New York University, American Studies; Ph.D., New York University, American Studies

Dissertation: Chicana/o Youth Culture in Post-Industrial Los Angeles: Race, Space, and Migration in the Greater Eastside

Thesis Advisors: Arlene Davila, Professor of American Studies, New York University

Research Topic: Examination of the ways in which the popular cultural practices that emerged from the working –class barrios of Los Angeles in the 1990s served as a strategic site for the production and negotiation of contemporary Chicana/o national, racial, class and gendered identities.

Mentor: George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara