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President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients 1998 - 1999

Humanities


S. Patricia Baquedano-Lopez

Education: B.A. Inter American University of Puerto Rico, English; M.A., Arizona State University, Teaching English as a Second Language; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Applied Linguistics

Dissertation: Language Socialization Religious Education Classes

Dissertation Advisor: Elinor Ochs, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of California Los Angeles, CA

Research Topic: Language Choice and Language Use: Linguistics Hybridity as a resource for Learning.

Mentor: Kris Gutierrrez, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California,
Los Angeles

Current Position: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley


Miroslava Chávez-García

Education: B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, History; M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, History; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, History

Dissertation: Mexican Women and the American conquest in Los Angeles, 1821-1870.

Dissertation Advisor: Norris Hundley, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Mexican Women, Catholicism, and Gender Relations in Los Angeles, 1821-1870.

Mentor: Rosaura Sanchez, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

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


Gina Dent

Education: B. A., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature; M.A. Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature; Ph.D. Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature

Dissertation: Flowers and Colored Bottles: The Anthropology of Culture in twentieth-Century African American Writing.

Dissertation Advisor: Robert Ferguson, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Research Topic: Flowers and Colored Bottles: The Anthropology and Culture in Twentieth-Century African American Writing.

Mentor: Angela Y. Davis, Professor, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz


Ellen Fernandez-Sacco

Education: B. A. cum laude, Hunter College, CUNY, Anthropology; M.A. Hunter College, CUNY, Art History; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Art History

Dissertation: Spectacular Masculinities: The Museum of Peale Baker & Bowen in the Early Republic

Dissertation Advisor: Donald Preziosi, Professor of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Spectacular Masculinities: Gender, Race & National Identify in Early U.S. Museums.

Mentor: Dell Upton, Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, UC Berkeley


Gayatri Gopinath

Education: B. A. Wesleyan University, Latin American Studies; M. A. Columbia University, English & Comparative Literature; Ph.D. Columbia University, English & Comparative Literature

Dissertation: Queer Diaspora: Sexuality & Migration in Contemporary South Asian Literature & Cultural Production

Dissertation Advisor: Rob Nixon, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Research Topic: Race, Sexuality and the Cultural Politics of Migration

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

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Women and Gender Studies, UC Davis


Eric C. Porter

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

Dissertation: Out of the Blue: Black Creative Musicians and the Challenge of Jazz, 1940-1995.

Dissertation Advisor: Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of History, New York University

Research Topic: To conduct additional research and revise the Dissertation for publication.

Mentor: Waldo Martin, Professor of History, University of California Berkeley

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, UC Santa Cruz

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