President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients 1999 - 2000

Humanities

Thomas Desch-Obi

Education: B.A. Harvard University, Religion; M.S. University of California, Los Angeles, African Studies; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, History

Dissertation: The N'golo (zebra dance) of West Central African During the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Thesis Advisor: Edward Alpers, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: African Martial Arts: Origins, Development, and Diaspora to the New World

Mentor: Christopher Ehret, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, City University of New York

Gema R. Guevara

Education: B.S. University of Southern California, Liberal Arts; M.A. University of Southern California, Education: Teaching English as a Second Language; M.A. California State University, Long Beach, Spanish Literature; Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, Literature

Dissertation: Founding Discourses of Cuban Nationalism: The Re-Working of Gender and Race

Thesis Advisor: Jorge Mariscal, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Research Topic: The Role of Literary and Cultural Texts, Popular Music and Music Videos in Forming the Cultural Identity of the Contemporary Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican Communities in the United States

Mentor: Rau'l Fernandez, Professor of Social Science, University of California, Irvine

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Utah

David Luis-Brown

Education: B.A. Amherst College, English; M.A. University of California, Irvine, Comparative Culture; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature

Dissertation: Waves of Decolonization: Towards An Inter-Americas Cultural Studies

Thesis Advisor: Susan Gillman, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic: Hemispheric Cultures of Rebellion in Cuba, Mexico and the U.S.

Mentor: Francine Masiello, Professor Spanish and Portuguese Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

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

Susette Min

Education: B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, History/ Art History; M.A. Brown University, American Civilization; Ph.D. Brown University, American Civilization

Dissertation: Creative License Walking Through Asian American Cultural Productions

Thesis Advisor: Robert Lee, Professor of American Civilization, Brown University

Research Topic: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Archive Housed at the Pacific Film Archives

Mentor: Elaine Kim, professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis

Dorothy Wang

Education: B.A. Duke University, Public Policy Studies; M.P.A. Princeton University, International Affairs; M.A. Johns Hopkins University, Writing; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, English Literature

Dissertation: Necessary figures: Metaphor Irony and Parody in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, and John Yau

Thesis Advisor: David Lloyd, Professor of Humanities, Scripps College

Research Topic: The Poetics of Race: A Study of Minority Experimental Poetry

Mentor: Michael Davidson, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University

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