President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards 2004– 2005

Humanities

Kevin Fellezs

Education: B.A., San Francisco State University, Creative Arts; M.A., San Francisco State University, Humanities; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness

Dissertation: Between Rock and A Jazz Place: Intercultural Interchange in Fusion Musicking

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

Research Topic: Fusion Music: Intercultural Exchange and Crosscultural Flows

Mentors: Jocelyne Guilbault, Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Columbia University

Mireille Miller-Young

Education: B.A., Emory University, History and African American Studies; M.A., New York University, History; Ph.D., New York University, History – 20 th Century U.S. and African Diaspora

Dissertation: “A Taste for Brown Sugar: The History of Black Women in Pornography, 1880s to the Present”

Thesis Advisor: Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

Research Topic: “Brown Sugar: Black Women Negotiate Representation and Work in the American Pornography Industry”

Mentors: Anna Everett, Professor of Film and Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Tania Triana

Education: B.A., State University of New York, Buffalo, English and Women's Studies; M.A., University of California, San Diego, Literature; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Literature

Dissertation: Caña Quemá: Narrating Race, Gender and Nation(s) in Cuba

Thesis Advisor: Rosaura Sánchez, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Research Topic: Race and Latinidad in the Americas, Nationalism, Race Theory, Transnationalism, Migration, Mestizaje, Afro-Latinidad, Marxism

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

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon

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