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President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients 2003 – 2004
Education: B.A., University of Michigan, Anthropology and Classical Archaeology; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology Dissertation: ‘Domesticating Clay: Engaging with 'They': The Social Life of Clay Balls from Çatalhöyük, Turkey and Public Archaeology for Indigenous and local Communities’. Explores the role of clay in daily cooking practices at an early agricultural site in Turkey utilizing an Indigenous archaeology methodology concerned with heritage, ethics, and the socio-politics of archaeological knowledge. Thesis Advisor: Ruth Tringham, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley Research Topics: Analysis of clay, its use and meaning in early agricultural societies, particularly as related to food and cooking methods -- current field research is being expanded beyond the ‘Old World’ and Near East to include early food producing sites in North America. Current work also includes initial research for a book length project entitled: ‘Indigenous Archaeology Movements Globally: history, ethics, method and theory’. Mentor: Meg Conkey, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley Current Position: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Stanford University
María Bianet Castellanos Education: A.B., Stanford University, Anthropology; M.A., University of Michigan, Anthropology; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Anthropology Dissertation: Gustos and Gender: Yucatec Maya Migration in the Maya Riviera of Mexico Thesis Advisor: Ruth Behar, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan Research Topic: Reconceptualizing Remittance among Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States Mentor: Robert Alvarez, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Cynthia Feliciano Education: B.A., Boston University, Political Science and Sociology; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology Dissertation: Selective Immigration and National-Origin Group Characteristics: Explaining Variation in Educational Success among Children of U.S. Immigrants Thesis Advisor: Vilma Ortiz, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles Research Topic: Explaining Ethnic Educational Disparities: The Neighborhood Contexts of Contemporary Immigrants’ Children Mentor: Rubén G. Rumbaut, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology; M.A., University of California, Irvine, Social Sciences; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Anthropology Dissertation: Saints as Sinners: Healing and Hegemony in southern California botanicas Thesis Advisor: Leo R. Chavez, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine Research Topic: Uso mi energia femenina: Latina healing identities and practices in southern California Mentor: Carole H. Browner, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles Current Position: US Psychiatric Genetics Research Training Postdoctoral Fellow and Consultant to LA Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor UCLA Current Institution: Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA)
James R. Marston Education: B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, Sociology; M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, Environmental and Urban Geography; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Geography Dissertation: Towards an Accessible City: Empirical Measurement and Modeling of Access to Urban Opportunities for those with Vision Impairments, Using Remote Infrared Audible Signage Thesis Advisor: Reginald Golledge, Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara Research Topic: Identification and Mitigation of Physical Barriers that Limit Access to Education for People with Various Mobility Limitations: Increasing Environmental Access through Improved Methods of Information Delivery. Mentor: Richard Church, Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chavella Pittman Education: B.Ph., Miami University, Interdisciplinary Studies; M.A., University of Michigan, Sociology; Ph.D., University of Michigan (2003), Sociology Dissertation: “Do We Act the Way We Think? Multicultural Education and the Disconnect Between Racial Attitudes and Behaviors in College Students”-- This dissertation engages the critique that racism theories, which singly attribute discriminatory behavior to attitudes, do not adequately conceptualize racism. The dissertation explicitly focuses on racial behavior and examines 1) the racial attitude and racial behavior link, 2) the impact of multicultural education courses on racial behavior, and 3) social and normative influences on racial behavior. Thesis Advisor: Mark Chesler, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan Research Topic: “But I Didn’t Say Anything: Students’ Experiences Observing Racial Discrimination”--The focus of this project is the race-related intervention behaviors of liberal white individuals when they have witnessed a racially discriminatory situation. This project intends to explore how individuals explain and understand their own intervention behavior in racially discriminatory situations, and how normative and social influence affects that behavior. Mentor: Walter Allen, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, New College of Florida
Robert Chao Romero Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, History; J.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, History; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, History Dissertation: The Dragon in Big Lusong: Chinese Immigration and Settlement in Mexico, 1882-1940. Thesis Advisor: Jose Moya, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles Research Topic: Chinese immigration and settlement in Mexico, 1882-1940; social history of Chinese in Mexico during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; transnational/diasporic studies, legal studies. Mentors: Laura Gomez, Professor of Law
and Sociology, University of California, Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Julie Sze Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, English; M.A., New York University, American Studies; Ph.D., New York University, American Studies Dissertation: Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice Thesis Advisor: Andrew Ross, Professor of American Studies, New York University Research Topic: Race, environmental health and environmental justice with a special emphasis on the politics of race, air pollution and asthma Mentor: David Pellow, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, University of California, Davis Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, University of California, Davis Education: B.S., Cornell University, Africana Studies, Government, College Scholar Program; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Political Science; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Political Science Dissertation: “ Waste of a White Skin” or Civilizing White Primitives: The Carnegie Commission Study of Poor Whites in South Africa, 1927-1932 Thesis Advisor: Cedric Robinson, Professor of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Research Topic: Politics of Post-Apartheid Race Relations: Race, Gender and Nation in Global South Africa Mentor : Denise Silva, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, San Francisco State University
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