President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards 2005– 2006

Humanities

William J. Bauer, Jr.

Education: B.A., University of Notre Dame, American Studies and History; M.A., University of Oklahoma, History; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, History

Dissertation: Agricultural Labor, Race and Indian Policy on the Round Valley Reservation, 1850 – 1941

Thesis Advisor: Alberto Hurtado, Professor of History, University of Oklahoma

Research Topic: We Were All Migrant Workers: Indian Labor, Race and Policy in Northern California, 1850 – 1941.

Mentor: Steve Crum, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wyoming

Dennis R. Childs

Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, English; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, African American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, English

Dissertation: Formations of Neoslavery: The Cultures and Politics of the American Carceral State

Thesis Advisor: Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic:A cultural history of the intersections of antebellum slavery and postbellum imprisonment ranging from the early Jim Crow period through the Black Power Movement and prison industrial complex.

Mentor: Cheryl Harris, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, UC San Diego

Julia H. Lee

Education: B.A., Amherst College, English and Religious Studies; M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, English; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, English

Dissertation: Almost American: Narratives of Inclusion in Asian American and African American Literatures, 1896-1937

Thesis Advisor: King-kok Cheung, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Cross-Racial Representations in Asian American and African American Literatures in the early Twentieth Century

Mentor: Brook Thomas, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin

Esther M. Lezra

Education: B.A., New Mexico State University, Foreign Languages (Spanish and French), M.A., New Mexico State University, English Literature; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Comparative Literature

Dissertation: Looking for Monsters: Narrative, History and Power

Thesis Advisors: Nicole King, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego and Page du Bois, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Research Topic: Comparative study of cultures of resistance in the multi-lingual Caribbean and Americas, 18th, 19th & 20th Century

Mentors: Susan Gillman, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz and George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Global and International Studies Program, UC Santa Barbara

Erin Khuê Ninh

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

Dissertation: Ingratitude: a cultural theory of power in Asian American Women’s Literature

Thesis Advisor: Abdul JanMohamed, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: Power as intergenerational conflict in the Asian American immigrant nuclear family

Mentor: Rachel Lee, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Mattie Richardson

Education: B.S., Dartmouth College, Psychology; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, African Diaspora Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, African Diaspora Studies

Dissertation: Critical Reconstructions of History: Black Lesbian Literature and Film

Thesis Advisor: Ula Taylor, Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: WildFire: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Invention of the American West

Mentor: Leila Rupp, Professor of Women’s Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin

Setsu Shigematsu

Education: B.S., McGill University, East Asian Studies; M.A., Cornell University, Asian Studies; Ph.D., Cornell University, Asian Studies/Women's Studies/Asian American Studies

Dissertation: Tanaka Mitsu and the Women's Liberation Movement in Japan

Thesis Advisor: Naoki Sakai, Professor of Asian Studies, Cornell University

Research Topic: Feminism, Militarism, and Colonialism in the Asia-Pacific: An analysis of the processes of militarization that traverses Asian/Asian American Studies, gender, media and cultural studies.

Mentor: Lisa Yoneyama, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, UC Riverside

Grace Wang

Education: B.A., Pomona College, American Studies; M.A., University of Michigan, American Culture; Ph.D., University of Michigan, American Culture

Dissertation: Soundtracks of Asian American Identity: Music, Race, and National Belonging

Thesis Advisors: June Howard, Professor of American Studies, University of Michigan; Sarita See, Professor of American Studies, University of Michigan

Research Topic: Soundtracks of Asian American Identity: Music, Race, and National Belonging

Mentor: Sunaina Maira, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, UC Davis

Lisa Ze

Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, African American Studies; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, African American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, African American Studies

Dissertation: Specter, Spectacle and the Imaginative Space: Unfixing the Tragic Mulatta

Thesis Advisor: VeVe Clark, Associate Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: Transatlantic Currencies: Negotiating Fantasy, Power, and Blackness through the Visible Mulatta

Mentor: Lindon Barrett, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Africana Studies, Wayne State University

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