President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards 2003 – 2004

Humanities

Education: B.A., Sonoma State University, English; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, English

Dissertation: Community Acts: Locating Pilipino American Theater and Performance

Thesis Advisor: Roberta Uno, Arts, Media and Culture, Ford Foundation

Research Topic: Pilipino American Theater and Performance, community-based cultural projects, critical race and performance studies

Mentor: Neferti Tadiar, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Asian American Studies & World Art & Culture, University of California, Los Angeles

Sohail Daulatzai

Education:  B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Psychology and Economics; M.A., University of Southern California, Communications; Ph.D., University of Southern California, Critical Studies

Dissertation:   Thesis explores the relationship between race, Islam, national belonging and disaporic consciousness through hip-hop culture, film and other media in the United States, Britian and France.

Thesis Advisor:   Todd Boyd, Professor of Critical Studies, University of Southern California

Research Topic:   To explore in more detail the relationship between race and Islam in the development of European and American Enlightenment traditions and modernity vis-à-vis colonialism and postcolonialism.

Mentor:   Aamir Mufti, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, University of California , Irvine

Jason Ferreira

Education: B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, History and Political Science; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies

Dissertation: All Power to the People: A Comparative History of Third World Radicalism in San Francisco, 1968-1974

Thesis Advisor: Ronald Takaki, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: All Power to the People: A Comparative History of Third World Radicalism in San Francisco, 1965-1980

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

Current Position: Assistant Professor, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University

Mishuana Goeman

Education: B.A., Dartmouth College, English and Native American Studies; M.A., Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature; Ph.D., Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature

Dissertation: Native American Literature, Women and Gender in Native American Studies, Concepts of Space in Literature

Thesis Advisor: Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University

Research Topic: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Cultural Production and Concepts of Space

Mentor: Patricia Penn Hilden, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Dartmouth College

Adria L. Imada

Education: B.A., Yale University, American Studies; M.A., New York University, American Studies; Ph.D., New York University, American Studies

Dissertation: Aloha American: Hawai’i on Stage in the Imperial U.S.

Thesis Advisor: Andrew Ross, Professor of American Studies, New York University

Research Topic: Hawaiian Hula Performance circuits

Mentor: Henry Yu, Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

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

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Education: B.A., Harvard University, M.F.A., University of Memphis, Creative Writing; Ph.D., George Washington University, American Literature

Dissertation: “Mob Stories: Race, Nation, and Narratives of Racial Violence”

Thesis Advisor: James A. Miller, Professor of English, George Washington University

Research Topic: “Mob Stories: Race, Nation, and Narratives of Racial Violence”

Mentor: Richard Yarborough, Professor of English and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Puget Sound

Myisha Priest

Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, African American Studies and English; M.A., Cornell University, Africana Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, African American and American Literature

Dissertation: The Impact of Children’s Literature on African American Writing

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

Research Topic: African American Literature, Children’s Literature

Mentor: Harryette Mullen, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Visiting Scholar, Institute of African-American Studies, Columbia University

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel

Education: B.A., San Diego State University, English and Creative Writing; M.A., University of Arizona, Latin American Studies and Women’s Studies; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, American Studies and Feminist Studies

Dissertation: Cyber-brides between the U.S. and Mexico: Transnational Imaginaries,
Marriage and Migration

Thesis Advisor: Jennifer Pierce, Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota

Research Topic: A comparative study of how cosmopolitan women from Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Japan and Russia utilize the growing Cyber-bride industry to maintain and improve their lifestyles through the circulation of western media, marriage to foreign men, and migration to the U.S.

Mentor: Rosa Linda Fregoso, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Karen Tongson

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

Dissertation: Ethical Excess: Stylizing Difference in Victorian Critical Prose from Carlyle to Wilde

Thesis Advisor: Catherine Gallagher, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: Fan Obsession, Imitation and Expertise in Literature and Culture

Mentor: Judith Halberstam, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Southern California

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