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President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients 2002 – 2003
Elizabeth (Beth) Castle Education: B.A. George Washington University, Race and Gender in Electronic Media – self-designed; M.Phil. University of Cambridge, History; Ph.D. University of Cambridge, History Dissertation: Black and Native American Women's Activism in the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Thesis Advisor: A. J. Badger, Professor of History, University of Cambridge Research Topic: Native American Women's Activism in the Red Power Movement Mentors: Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Women’s Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz and Angela Y. Davis, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of American Indian Studies, University of South Dakota Andrew Fisher Education: B.A. Stanford University, History and Latin American Studies; M.A. University of California, San Diego, History; Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, History Dissertation: Interethnic Relations and the Evolution of Indian Identity in the Tierra Caliente of Western Guerrero, Mexico (1521-1821) Thesis Advisor: Eric Van Young, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego Research Topic: Expansion/refinement of dissertation topic, particularly, regional economy, settlement patterns and Indian-casta relations Mentor: Kevin Terraciano, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carelton College
Juan Mah y Busch Education: B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, American Literature and Chicana/o Studies; M.A. Cornell University, English Language and Literature; Ph.D. Cornell University, English Language and Literature Dissertation: Valuing Concientizacion: The Cultivation of a Materialist Moral Epistemology in Chicana/o Narrative Thesis Advisor: Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of English, Cornell University Research Topic: I use an understanding of narrative in order to illuminate the ethics within political activism. Mentor: Maria Herrera-Sobek, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Loyola Marymount University Vu Pham Education: B.A. University of California, Irvine, History; M.A. Cornell University, History; Ph.D. Cornell University, History Dissertation: Vietnamese American History before 1975 Thesis Advisor: Gary Okihiro, Professor of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University Research Topic: Gender issues among pre-1975 Vietnamese Americans, additional archival and oral research on pre-1975 Vietnamese Americans Mentor: George Lipsitz, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine
Education: B.A. University of New Hampshire, History and Economics; M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies Dissertation: Interracial Sexuality and Multiracial Identity in the Post-Civil Rights Era U.S. Thesis Advisor: Stephen Small, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley Research Topic: Multiraciality as the Cultural Logic of Globalization: a study of the ways that conceptions and images of “race,” “race mixture,” and “interracial sexuality” figure in discourses of globalization, both popular and academic. Mentor: Norma Alarcon, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Current Position: Assistant Professor, African American Studies and Film/Media Studies, UC Irvine
Jeffrey Yoshimi Education: B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy; M.A. University of California, Irvine, Philosophy; Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, Philosophy Dissertation: Dynamics of Consciousness: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and Dynamical Systems Theory Thesis Advisor: David Woodruff Smith, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine Research Topic: Time consciousness and its neural bases. An application of my dissertation research to the specific case of temporal awareness Mentor: Wayne Martin, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego Current Position: Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, Humanties, and Arts, University of California, Merced |
