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President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Finalists 2004 -2005

Arts & Humanities

Irum Shiekh

Current Position: Graduate student

Current Institution: University of California, Berkeley

Research Area: Muslims in America before/after September 11

Contact Information:
4135 Gregory Street
Oakland, CA 94619
(510) 482.5304
irumshiekh@yahoo.com

Kenneth Vanbik

Current Position: Ph.D. candidate

Current Institution: University of California, Berkeley

Research Area: Historical-comparative Linguistics

Contact Information:
vanbik@socrates.berkeley.edu

 

Edward Wright-Rios

Current Position: Assistant Professor

Current Institution: Vanderbilt University

Research Area: Mexican History

Contact Information:
Vanderbilt University, Station B
Department of History
Nashville, TN 37285
ewrightr@ucsd.edu

 

Biological Sciences

Sandra Encalada

Current Position: Postdoctoral research associate

Current Institution: University of California, San Diego

Research Area: Prion Axonal Transport

Contact Information:
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
CMM West 336
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0683
(858) 534.9704

Nancy Grumet

Current Position: Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research Postdoctoral Scholar

Current Institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Contact Information:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Dept., MS#25
Woods Hole, MA 02543
ngrume@whoi.edu
Office: (508) 289-3798
FAX:: (508) 457-2193

Candace Y. Hsieh

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

Current Institution: University of California, Irvine

Research Area: Molecular mechanisms underlying development and plasticity in mammalian auditory system

Contact Information:
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-4550

Laura D. Mydlarz

Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher (Harvell Laboratory)

Current Institution: Cornell University

Research Area: Coral Resistance to disease

Contact Information:
Section of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
E321 Corson Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Annette Ostling

Current Position: Graduate student

Current Institution: University of California, Berkeley

Research Area: Community Ecology

Contact Information:
Energy and Resources Group
310 Barrows Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3050
(510) 643.5564
aostling@socrates.berkeley.edu

Nancy Grumet Prouty

Current Position: Ph.D. candidate

Current Institution: Stanford University

Research Area: Geological Sciences

Contact Information:
School of Earth Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 724.1535
ngrumet@stanford.edu

 

Mathematics, Engineering, Physical Sciences

Kristin M. Burgess

Current Position: Ph.D. student

Current Institution: MIT

Research Area: Astrophysics and Cosmology

Contact Information:
Postdoctoral Fellow (Summer 2004)
Princeton University
kburgess@mit.edu

Angela F. Dickens

Current Position: Graduate student

Current Institution: University of Washington

Research Area: Chemistry and Oceanography

Contact Information:
University of Washington
Oceanography
Box 355351
Seattle, WA 98195-5351
(206) 221.6747
dickensa@u.washington.edu

Melissa Summers

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

Current Institution: Stanford University

Research Area: Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Photovoltaic Cells

Contact Information:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
476 Lomita Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

 

Social Sciences

Julie Beck

Current Position: Doctoral candidate

Current Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Area: Sociology: Crime/social control; social welfare; gender/race; punishment; ethnography

Contact Information:
Sociology Department
College Eight
1156 High Street
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
(510) 548.5735
(510) 333.4512 (cell)
jbeck@ucsc.edu

Jessica R. Cattelino

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Current Institution: University of Chicago

Research Area: Citizenship and economy in Native North America

Contact Information:
The University of Chicago
Department of Anthropology
1126 E. 59 th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-7708

Jennifer Jihye Chun

Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, Sociology

Current Institution: University of California, Berkeley

Research Area: Labor, Globalization, Culture, Korean Studies

Contact Information:
436 65th Street
Oakland, CA 94609
jchun@berkeley.edu

Cynthia Cruz

Current Position: Core Faculty in Education and Human Development

Current Institution: Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, California

Research Area: The queer body, race, memory, and Chicana epistemologies; testimonial narratives and ethnography; post colonial pedagogies and urban schools.

Contact Information:
(323) 664.0313
(626) 397.1374
cruzc@ucla.edu

Jennifer Husbands

Current Position: Ph.D. candidate / researcher

Current Institution: Stanford University / University of California, San Diego

Research Area: Education

Contact Information:
jennhus@gmail.com

Amy Lonetree

Current Position: Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow

Current Institution: University of California, Berkeley

Research Area: 20 th Century American Indian history, Public history, museum studies

Contact Information:
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
103 Kroeber Hall #3712
Berkeley, CA 94720-3712
(510) 593.7729
lonetree@sfsu.edu

Yesilernis L. Peña

Current Position: Ph.D. candidate (UCLA), and Assistant Professor of Psychology (PUCMM)

Current Institution: University of California, Los Angeles and Pontifica Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Dominican Republic

Research Area: Race relations in Latin America

Contact Information:
UCLA
Department of Psychology
Box 951563
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
yesil@ucla.edu

John M. Reveles

Current Position: Team Member, Center for Equity in Mathematics and Science Education

Current Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Area: Scientific literacy; equity of access in science education

Contact Information:
John M. Reveles, A.B.D.
Center for Equity in Mathematics and Science Education
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9490
(310) 397.1069
(310) 980.7914 (cell)
jreveles@education.ucsb.edu

Mario M. Ruiz

Current Position: Ph.D. candidate

Current Institution: University of Michigan

Research Area: 19 th/20 th Century Egypt/Social History/Law

Contact Information:
4824 East 59 th Place
Maywood, CA 90270

Leslie G. Wirpsa

Current Position: Ph.D. candidate

Current Institution: School of International Relations, University of Southern California

Research Area: Oil & Conflict; Indigenous Movements; Latin America; Gender, Culture & Global Society

Contact Information:
667 Euclid Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94708
(510) 525.7678
(510) 717.3937 (cell)
wirpsa@usc.edu
wirpsa@hotmail.com