President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards 2001-2002

Arts & Humanities

Marisol Berríos-Miranda

Education: B.A., University of Puerto Rico, Music and English Literature; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnomusicology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnomusicology

Dissertation: The Significance of Salsa Music to National and Pan-Latino Identity

Thesis Advisor: Olly Wilson, Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: Salsa Music and Dancing: Shaping and Experiencing Community

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

Current Position: Assistant Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, University of Washington

Kevin A. Connelly

Education: B.S., Cornell University, Agronomy/Soil Science, M.S., Cornell University, Linguistics; Ph.D., Cornell University, Linguistics

Dissertation: The textual function of Onondaga aspect, mood, and tense: A journey into Onondaga conceptual space

Thesis Advisor: Linda R. Waugh, Professor of English, University of Arizona

Research Topic: American Indian Language Revitalization: Aspect, Space, and Pedagogy

Mentor: Leanne Hinton, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Independent Research

Roderick A. Hernandez

Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, English; M.A., Stanford University, English; Ph.D., Stanford University, English and American Literature

Dissertation: Pocho-Che and the Tropicalization of American Poetics

Thesis Advisor: Ramon Saldivar, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Research Topic: Pocho-Che and the Tropicalization of American Poetics

Mentor: Rafael Perez-Torres, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Kyungwon Grace Hong

Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, English; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Literature

Dissertation: The Histories of the Propertyless: The Literature of Women of Color

Thesis Advisor: Lisa Lowe, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Research Topic: The Histories of the Propertyless: The Literature of Women of Color

Mentor: Emory Elliott, University Professor of English, University of California, Riverside

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, UC Los Angeles

Sara Johnson-La O

Education: B.A., Yale University, Comparative Literature and African American Studies; M.A., Stanford University, Comparative Literature; Ph.D., Stanford University, Comparative Literature

Dissertation: Migrant Recitals: Pan-Caribbean Interchanges in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution

Thesis Advisor: Mary Louise Pratt, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University

Research Topic: Cultural Production in the Caribbean: The Formation of An Inter-Island Aesthetic

Mentor: VéVé Clark, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Jerry Miller

Education: B.A., Yale University, Psychology and Film Studies; M.A., University of Iowa, Communications; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness

Dissertation: Ethics Without Morality

Thesis Advisor: Teresa de Lauretis, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic: Race and the Making of the Ethical Subject

Mentor: Teresa de Lauretis, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California,
Santa Cruz

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Haverford College

Darieck Scott

Education: B.S., Stanford University, Human Biology; M.A., Yale University, Afro-American Studies; Ph.D., Sanford University, Modern Thought and Literature

Dissertation: Closet Case: Readings of the Black Male Figure in 20th Century African American Literature

Thesis Advisor: Ramón Saldivar, Professor of English, Stanford University

Research Topic: Examination of African American literary text that attempt to represent (and define) "blackness" as male/masculinist by using narrative tropological strategies to repudiate and/or redeem "queer" sexuality - a "queer" sexuality that refers to the trauma of the "queer" sexual history of African Americans in slavery.

Mentor: Ian Duncan, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

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