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President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients 2009-2010
Arts & Humanities
Felice BlakeEducation: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, English and Spanish; M.A., University of Oslo, Norway, British and American Studies; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature Dissertation: Reading Black Intimacies: Literary Studies Beyond Representational Inclusion Thesis Advisor: Susan Gillman, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz Research Topic: Imagining Racial Community in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Reading Black Intimacies in Contemporary African American Literature Mentor: Abdul JanMohamed, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Veronica Castillo-MuñozEducation: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Latin American Studies; M.A., University of California, Irvine, History; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, History Dissertation: Divided Communities: Agrarian Struggles, Transnational Migration, and Families in Northern Mexico 1910-1952 Thesis Advisor: Heidi Tinsman, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine Research Topic: An examination of family labor and land reform and the intersections of labor and transnational migration of Asians, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans within the context of the gendered and racial dynamics of 20th century northern Mexico. Mentor: Eric Van Young, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
Sylvia Chan-MalikEducation: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, English and Ethnic Studies; M.F.A., Mills College, Creative Writing; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Dissertation: From Bikinis to Burqas: Race-ing the Cultures of America’s Orientalisms, 1979-2008. Thesis Advisor: Elaine Kim, Professor of Asian American and Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Research Topic: “Black Ahmadiyyat”: Global Blackness and South Asian Diaspora in a Multiracial Model of America’s Islam Mentor: Eric Porter, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nad(è)ge Tanite ClitandreEducation: B.A., Hampton University, English Literature; M.A., University of Chicago, Humanities; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, African Diaspora Studies Dissertation: Haiti Re-membered: Exile, Diaspora, and Transnational Imaginings in the Writings of Edwidge Danticat and Myriam Chancy. Thesis Advisor: Abdul JanMohamed, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley Research Topic: Context of Canada in Theorizing of African Diasporic Subjectivity/Black Canada and African Diasporic Epic Journeys in Visual and Textual Narratives. (African Diasporic Epic Journeys: Canada and Black Canadian Subjectivity in Visual and Textual Narratives) Mentors: Bishnu Ghosh, Professor of English; and Claudine Michel, Professor of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Dana Velasco MurilloEducation: B.A., Loyola Marymount University, History; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Colonial Latin America- Mexico, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Colonial Latin America- Mexico Dissertation: Urban Indians in a Colonial Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1806 Thesis Advisor: Kevin Terraciano, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles Research Topic: Migrant Laborers and Slaves: Afro-Indigenous Relations in a Spanish Urban Center, Zacateacas, Mexico, 1670-1770 Mentors: Steven Topik, Professor of History; and Rachel O’Toole, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Dean Itsuji SaranillioEducation: B.A., University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Ethnic Studies; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies; Ph.D., University of Michigan, American Culture Dissertation: Seeing Conquest: Colliding Histories and the Cultural Politics of Hawai’i Statehood Thesis Advisor: Vicente M. Diaz, Professor of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, University of Michigan Research Topic: Cultural Politics at the intersections of race and indigeneity Mentor: Dylan Rodriguez, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California Riverside
Tamara Lea SpiraEducation: B.A., Oberlin College, Women’s Studies and Latin American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Dissertation: Remembering Trauma in a Time of War: The Psycho-Affective Economies of Neoliberalism and the Radical Imagination of Dissent Thesis Advisors: Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Professor of Women’s Studies, Columbia University; and Angela Y. Davis, Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz Research Topic: Neoliberal Captivities: Pisagua Prison, (Post)dictatorial Violence and the Globalizing Unfreedoms of the ‘Free World’ Mentor: Michael Lazzara, Professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis
Life SciencesAnnette AngusEducation: B.S., California State University, Northridge, Microbiology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Microbiology Dissertation: The Secret Life of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Opportunistic Intracellular Pathogenesis Thesis Advisor: Susanne Fleiszig, Professor of Microbiology, Optometry, Infectious Diseases and Immunity, University of California, Berkeley Research Topic: Molecular and Genetic Analysis of Plant-Microbe Interactions: Studies of Burkholderia symbioses Mentor: Ann M. Hirsch, Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniela CusackEducation: B.A., Wesleyan University, Latin American Studies; M.S., Yale University, Environmental Science; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy and Management Dissertation: Effects of Chronic Nitrogen Additions on Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in two Tropical Forests Thesis Advisor: Whendee Silver, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management: Ecosystem Science, University of California, Berkeley Research Topic: Controls on Black Carbon Storage in the Tropics: The Paradox of Unequal Charcoal Retention Among Ecosystems Mentor: Oliver Chadwick, Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
Corey HarwellEducation: B.S., Tennessee State University, Chemistry; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Neuroscience Dissertation: Regulation of cpg15 Expression during Single Whisker Experience in the Barrel Cortex of Adult Mice Thesis Advisor: Elly Nedivi, Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Topic: Identifying the Source and Function of Sonic Hedgehog Ligand in the Adult Neurogenic Niche Mentor: Arnold Kriegstein, Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco Shalene JhaEducation: B.S., Rice University, Biology; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dissertation: Movement in the matrix: pollination and dispersal processes in a tropical coffee and forest landscape mosaic Thesis Advisor: Christopher Dick, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan Research Topic: The population genetics and pollination ecology of Bombus vosnesenskii across complex Californian agroecological landscapes Mentor: Claire Kremen, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Brian R. JohnsonEducation: B.S., University of California, San Diego, Ecology, Behavior, Evolution; Ph.D. Cornell University, Behavioral Biology Dissertation: Organization of Work in the Honey Bee Thesis Advisor: Thomas D. Seeley, Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University Research Topic: Role of genotypic variability in self-organizing talk allocation mechanisms in the Honey Bee Mentor: Neil Tsutsui, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Marilou Sison-MangusEducation: B.S., University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Marine Fisheries; M.S., University of the Philippines, Diliman, Marine Biology; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dissertation: Molecular and Physiological Innovation of Butterfly Eyes Using Functional Genomics Thesis Advisor: Adriana Briscoe, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine Research Topic: The Role of Microbes on the Toxicogenesis of Harmful, Bloom-Forming Algae Mentor: Sunny Jiang, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Mathematics, Engineering & Physical Sciences
Jennifer AndrewEducation: B.S., Northwestern University, Materials Science & Engineering; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Engineering Dissertation: Ferroelectric polymer-based nanocomposites: Towards multiferroic materials Thesis Advisor: David R. Clarke, Professor of Materials Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara Research Topic: Nanomaterials for drug delivery: Increasing efficiency and minimizing side effects Mentor: Michael J. Sailor, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Ricardo CisnerosEducation: B.S., California State University, Fresno, Environmental Health Science/Industrial Hygiene; M.PH., California State University, Fresno, Environmental and Occupational Health; Ph.D., University of California, Merced, Environmental Systems/Air Quality Dissertation: An Exposure Assessment of Air Quality in Southern Sierra Nevada Thesis Advisors: Sam Traina, Professor of Natural Sciences and Engineer, University of California, Merced Research Topic: Spatial and temporal distribution of ozone and the relationship to environmental variables in the Southern Sierra Nevada: Potential damage to public health. Mentor: Deborah H. Bennett, Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis
Terefe HabteyesEducation: B.S., Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Physical Chemistry; M.S., Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Physical Chemistry; Ph.D., University of Arizona, Physical Chemistry Dissertation: Electronic Structure and Photochemistry of Molecular and Cluster Anions via Tandem Time-of-Flight Mass Spectroscopy and Photoelectron Imaging Thesis Advisor: Andrei Sanov, Professor of Chemistry, University of Arizona Research Topic: Charge Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanomaterials Mentor: Stephen R. Leon, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
David UminskyEducation: B.S., Harvey Mudd College, Mathematics; Ph.D., Boston University, Mathematics Dissertation: The viscous N vortex problem: A generalized Helmholtz/Kirchhoff approach Thesis Advisor: C. Eugene Wayne, Ph.D Mathematics, Boston University Research Topic: Multi-dimensional particle interaction models: Incompressible and potential motion Mentor: Andrea L. Bertozzi, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Social Sciences
Ricardo GuthrieEducation: B.A., Harvard University, Liberal Arts/Afro-American Studies; M.A., Boston University, Afro-American Studies; M.S., Boston University, Journalism; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Communication Dissertation: Examining Political Narratives of the Black Press in the West: Thesis Advisors: Zeinabu Irene Davis, Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego; and Jane Rhodes, Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego Research Topic: “That No Good Cause Shall Lack a Champion” – Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett and the San Francisco Sun-Reporter: Cross-Cultural Influences of the Black Press in the West Mentor: Darnell M. Hunt, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Lucrezia MirandaEducation: B.A., Universidad de Buenos Aires, Architecture; M.A., Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Urban Management; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, City and Regional Planning Dissertation: Urban Restructuring and International Mega-Events: The Rise and Fall of the Barcelona Model Thesis Advisor: Manuel Castells, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley Research Topic: Urban Design, Public Space and Citizenship in Latino Communities in California Mentor: Michael Rios, Professor of Environmental Design, University of California, Davis
Sarah PeeloEducation: B.S., Santa Clara University, Combined Science; M.A., Colorado State University, Anthropology; Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz Dissertation: Creating Community in Spanish California: An investigation of California Plainwares Thesis Advisor: Judith A. Habicht-Mauche, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz Research Topic: “Indigenous Identity Construction in Colonial California” Mentor: Jelmer Eerkens, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis Gretchen PurserEducation: B.A., Smith College, Sociology; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Sociology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Sociology Dissertation: Labor on Demand: Dispatching the Urban Poor Thesis Advisor: Loic Wacquant, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley Research Topic: Labor on Demand: Dispatching the Urban Poor (revising dissertation into book)/ Research on Tenant Evictions Mentor: Professor Vicki Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Rema ReynoldsEducation: B.A., Western Michigan University, English/Secondary Education; M.S., National University, School Counseling; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Education Dissertation: Holla If You Hear Me; Giving Voice to Those We Have Missed: A Qualitative Examination of Black Middle Class Parent Engagement in Public Secondary Schools Thesis Advisor: Tyrone Howard, Professor of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Research Topic: The engagement and involvement practices of Black parents Mentor: Carolyn Murray, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Riverside Damien SchnyderEducation: B.A., Stanford University, African and African American Studies; M.A., Stanford University, Sociology; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, Anthropology Dissertation: First Strike: The Effect of the Prison Regime Upon Public Education and Black Masculinity in Los Angeles County, California Thesis Advisor: João H. Costa Vargas, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin Research Topic: The Effects of Prison Expansion Upon Black Education and Families in Los Angeles, California Mentor: Cedric Robinson, Professor of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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