President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards 2005– 2006

Social Sciences

David Manuel Hernández

Education: B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Business Economics; M.A., University of New Mexico, American Studies and Cultural Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies

Dissertation: Undue Process: Immigrant Detention, Due Process, and Lesser Citizenship

Thesis Advisor: Michael Omi, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: Undue Process: Immigrant Detention, Due Process, and Lesser Citizenship

Mentor: Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Professor of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UC Los Angeles

Jong Bum Kwon

Education: B.A., Macalester College, English Literature and Cultural Anthropology, M.A., New York University, Cultural Anthropology; Ph.D., New York University, Cultural Anthropology

Dissertation: In the Crucible of Restructuration: Violence, “Workers of Iron”, and the Forging of a Neoliberal Democracy in South Korea

Thesis Advisor: Owen Lynch, Professor of Anthropology, New York University

Research Topic: “I, too, am Korean”: Migrant Labor and the Politics of Class and Belonging in South Korea

Mentor: Namhee Lee, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, UC Los Angeles

Jason Francis MacCannell

Education: B.A., University of California, Irvine, Classics; M.A., University of Texas, Austin, English; Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Geography

Dissertation: Homelessness in Sacramento: An Urban Landscape Geography

Thesis Advisor: Charles Walker, Professor of History, University of California, Davis

Research Topic: The homeless landscape(s) of Oakland, California – developing practices in design and planning to mitigate homelessness

Mentor: Walter Hood, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Independent Researcher

Anne-Marie Nuñez

Education: A.B., Harvard University, Social Studies; M.A., Stanford University, Education-Administration, Policy Analysis, and Evaluation; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Education-Higher Education and Organizational Change; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Education-Higher Education and Organizational Change

Dissertation: Modeling College Transitions of Latino Students

Thesis Advisors: Patricia McDonough, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles and Sylvia Hurtado, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Expanding Postsecondary Opportunities for Migrant Students

Mentors: Kenji Hakuta, Professor and Dean, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, University of California, Merced and Sylvia Hurtado, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, UC Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio

Kysa Nygreen

Education: B.A., Barnard College, Political Science; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Education; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Education

Dissertation: From Theory to Practice: Limits and Possibilities of Critical Pedagogy in a High Poverty Urban High School

Thesis Advisor: Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: Youth Participatory Research and Democratic Education at a High Poverty Urban High School

Mentors: Pamela Berry, Professor of Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz and Margaret A. Gibson, Professor, Department of Education, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Education, UC Santa Cruz

Todd Ramón Ochoa

Education: B.A., University of Michigan, Political Science; Ph.D., Columbia University, Anthropology

Dissertation: The Living and the Dead in a Cuban-Kongo Sacred Society

Thesis Advisor: Michael L. Taussig, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

Research Topic: Central Cuban Bembé Manuscript

Mentor: William Hanks, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Laura O’Rourke

Education: B.A., Barnard College, Ancient Studies; M.A., Harvard University, Anthropology; Ph.D., Harvard University, Anthropology

Dissertation: Las Galeras and San Lorenzo: A Comparative Study of Two Early Formative Communities in Southern Veracruz, Mexico

Thesis Advisor: William L. Fash, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

Research Topic: Analysis of social complexity and change in the region of San Lorenzo, Veracruz, Mexico, from the Early Formative to the Postclassical periods

Mentor: Rosemary Joyce, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

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

Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky

Education: B.A., Columbia University, Sociology; M.A., CUNY Queens College, Sociology; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, Sociology

Dissertation: Doing the Corner: A Study of Immigrant Day Laborers in Brooklyn, New York

Thesis Advisor: Philip Kasinitz, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center

Research Topic: Day Labor and Marketing Identity a la parada. An ethnography about day laborers examining social processes and practices of identity construction and management, in particular race and ethnicity and the impact on labor exchanges in the workplace.

Mentor: Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

K. Wayne Yang

Education:   B.A., Harvard University, Physics; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Education; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Education

Dissertation:  Discourses of reform and agency:  The construction of an urban school reform movement

Thesis Advisor:   Anne Haas Dyson, Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University

Research Topic:  Graduating from the Oakland small schools movement:  Does critical literacy translate into academic success?

Mentor:  Jeannie Oakes, Professor of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

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