Arts & Humanities

Christine Balance

Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; M.A., New York University, Performance Studies; Ph.D., New York University, Performance Studies

Dissertation: Intimate Acts, Martial Cultures: Performance and Belonging in Filipino America

Thesis Advisor: José Esteban Munoz, Professor and Chair of Performing Arts, New York University

Research Topic: Intimacy, Deviance, and Belonging in Filipino/Filipino American Performance and Culture; Asian Americans and War; Race, Gender, and American Popular Culture

Mentor: Deborah Wong, Professor of Music, University of California, Riverside

Web Site: http://www.music.ucr.edu/people/faculty/balance/index.html

Aisha Finch

Education: B.A., Brown University, English and Afro-American Studies; M.A., New York University, History; Ph.D., New York University, History

Dissertation: Insurgency at the Crossroads: Cuban Slaves and the Conspiracy of La Escalera, 1841-44

Thesis Advisor: Ada Ferrer, Professor of History, New York University

Research Topic: Slave Resistance and Freedom, Race and Identity in the African Diaspora, Women and Gender, Slavery in Cuba

Mentor: Brenda Stevenson, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Lachelle Hannickel

 Education: B.A., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Liberal Studies; M.A., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Education; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, French; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, French

Dissertation: From Cultural Transgressions to Literary Transformations: Recasting Feminine
Archetypes in French Caribbean Women's Autobiography

Thesis Advisor: Eric Prieto, Professor of French and Italian, University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Topic: Daring Domestics: Serving and Renegotiating National Identity in France and the United States

Mentor: Jacqueline Bobo, Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Brian Klopotek

Education: B.A., Yale University, Anthropology; Ph.D, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, American Studies

Dissertation: The Long Outwaiting: Federal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities

Thesis Advisor: Brenda Child, Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Research Topic: Recognition Odysseys: Race, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Federal Recognition of American Indian Tribes

Mentor: Tom Biolsi, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Karina Oliva Alvarado

Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, English; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies

Dissertation: Transnational Lives and Texts: Writing and Theorizing U.S. / Central American Subjectivities

Thesis Advisor: José David Saldivar, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: A Literary and Historical Analysis of Novels, Testimonio and Poetry produced by First and Second Generation of Central American Born and/or Raised in the U.S. that Explores Emergent Issues of Subjectivity as New American “Border” and “Transnational” Identities.

Mentor: Rafael Perez-Torres, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles 

Juan L. Sánchez

Education: B.A., Biola University, English; M.A., California State University, Long Beach, English; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, English

Dissertation: Spain and the British Romantic Imagination

Thesis Advisor: Greg Kucich, Professor of English, University of Notre Dame

Research Topic: Latin America and the British Romantic Imagination: Reconciling Empire and the Modern Liberal State

Mentor: Ian Duncan, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley