President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients 1997 - 1998

Humanities

Peter Bloom

Education: B.A. The American University, International Studies; M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, Critical Studies; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Critical Studies

Dissertation: Networks of Empire: The French Colonial Archive, 1889-1933

Dissertation Advisor: Teshome H. Gabriel, Professor of Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Networks of Empire: The French Colonial Empire, 1889-1933

Mentor: Dean MacCannell, Professor of Environmental Design, University of California, Davis

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

Daphne Brooks

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

Dissertation: 19th Century Trans-Atlantic performance culture, constructions of race, gender and the body in popular theatre.

Dissertation Advisor: Valerie Smith, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Revising the dissertation into a book-length manuscript.

Mentor: Barbara T. Christian, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

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

Monique Guillory

Education: B.A. Tulane University, English and Communications; M.A. New York University, Comparative Literature; Ph.D. New York University, Comparative Literature

Dissertation: The Cultural legacy of the New Orleans Quadroon Balls. I examine questions of race and identity as they apply to this unique, 19th century social practice.

Dissertation Advisor: Jennifer Wicke, Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University

Research Topic: Some Enchanted Evening on the Auction Block: The Literacy Legacy of the New Orleans Quadroon Balls.

Mentor: Patricia Cline Cohen, Professor of History and Chair, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, and Chief of Staff, Office of the President, Jackson State University

Michelle Habell-Pallan

Education: B.A. San Diego State University, English; M.A. University of California, San Diego, Literature; M.A. University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature

Dissertation: Cutting the Label Out - Performing Identities: Cultural Politics and Transnational Subjects in twentieth-Century Latin Cultural Production

Dissertation Advisor: Jose D. Saldivar, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: Performing Identifies: borders, Diaspora and Transnational Subjects.

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

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington

J. Richard Olivas

Education: A.B., Stanford University, English; M. Div. Talbot Theological Seminary, Theology; Th. M., Talbot Theological Seminary, Theology; M. A. University of California, Los Angeles, History; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, History

Dissertation: Great Awakenings: Time, Space, and the Varieties of Religious Revivalism in Massachusetts and Northern New England, 1740-1748

Dissertation Advisor: Gary B. Nash, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Honoring the Poor: Rev. Andrew Croswell and the Creation of Egalitarian Congregationalism in Boston, Massachusetts, 1748-1785

Mentor: Sharon V. Salinger, Professor of History, University of California, Riverside

Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Stephen Pitti

Education: B.A., Yale College, History; M.A. Stanford University, History; Ph.D. Stanford University, History

Dissertation: Mexicans and Mexican Americans in San Jose, California

Dissertation Advisor: Albert Camaarillo, Professor of History, Stanford University

Research Topic: History of Chicano Politics in California, 1930-1970

Mentor: David Gutierrez, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of History, Yale University

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