President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients 2002 – 2003

Social Sciences

Lucila Ek

Education: B.A., Stanford University, American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Education

Dissertation: Language, literacy, identity and morality in an immigrant Latino Pentecostal Church

Thesis Advisor: Kris Gutierrez, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Explores how bilingual Latino/a immigrant youth are socialized to morality and identity in their school and Pentecostal church with a focus on how the youth negotiate possible competing and conflicting practices across contexts.

Mentor: Ana Celia Zentella, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Bicultural and Bilingual Studies, University of Texas, San Antonio

Kathleen (Kelly) Lytle Hernández

Education: B.A., University of California, San Diego, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, History

Dissertation: Entangling Bodies and Borders: Racial Profiling and the History of the U.S. Border Patrol, 1924 – 1955

Thesis Advisor: Eric Monkkonen, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Cops and Cotton: Integrating Black and Mexicano Historical narratives within the U.S.

Mentor: George Lipsitz, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Luz Mena

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

Dissertation: The Role of Free Blacks in the Modernization of Havana

Thesis Advisor: Michael Johns, Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: The Survival Strategies of Free Black Women in Early Modern Havana

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

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

Lily Owusu-Darkwa

Education: B.A., Oxford University, Experimental Psychology; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco, Medical Anthropology

Dissertation: Wild Hunger: Crack Cocaine and Heroin Dependency in Post-Colonial Ghana

Thesis Advisor: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: Invisible Women: Suffering, Drug Addiction and HIV/AIDS among African American Women in US Urban Centers and Ghanaian Women in Accra

Mentor: Philippe Bourgois, Professor of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Deborah Vargas

Education: B.S., University of Texas at Austin, Communications; B.A., University of Texas at Austin, Ethnic Studies; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, Sociology; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, Sociology

Dissertation: “Las Tracaleras: Texas-Mexican Women, Music, and Place” explores the life histories and cultural work of Texas-Mexican women singers throughout the twentieth century.

Thesis Advisor: Herman Gray, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic: “Transmissiónes Latinos: Gender and Cultural Citizenship in Spanish Language Radio” explores cultural citizenship formations in Mexican-origin communities in the U.S. with particular attention to the development of Spanish language radio in the Américas.

Mentor: Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, Professor of Chicana/o Studies Program, University of California, Davis

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies Program, UC Irvine

Kathleen S. Yep

Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies

Dissertation: They Got Game: the Racial and Gender Politics of Basketball in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1932-1949

Thesis Advisor: Michael Omi, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: “We were rough and tough”: the embodied, feminist politics of Chinese American women hoopsters in the 1930s

Mentor: Alice Yang Murray, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Pitzer College and Department of Asian American Studies, The Claremont Colleges

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