President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients 2001-2002

Social Sciences

Luis Alvarez

Education: B.A., University of California, San Diego, History; M.A., University of Texas at Austin, History; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, History

Dissertation: The Power of the Zoot: Race, Community, and Resistance in American Youth Culture, 1940-1945

Thesis Advisor: David Montejano, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin

Research Topic: From the Zoot Suit to Hip Hop: Race, Community, and Resistance in American Youth Culture since World War II

Mentor: David Gutiérrez, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC San Diego

Victoria Bomberry

Education: B.A., Sonoma State University, Biology; M.A., Sonoma State University, English; Ph.D., Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature

Dissertation: Indigenous Memory and Imagination: Thinking Beyond the Nation

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

Research Topic: Looking Within: Indigenous Radio and the Construction of the Ideal Woman

Mentor: Inés Hernández-Ávila, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies: Native American Studies Program, UC Riverside

Iliana Reyes

Education: B.A., University of California, San Diego, Psychology; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Psychology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Developmental Psychology

Dissertation: The Development of Grammatical and Bilingual Competence in Spanish Speaking Children

Thesis Advisor: Susan Ervin-Tripp, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, and Arturo Hernandez, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Topic: The Development of Spanish and English Literacy in the context of Natural Sciences in Elementary Students.

Mentor: Eugene Garcia, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies, University of Arizona

Horacio Roque Ramírez

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

Dissertation: Communities of Desire: Queer Latina/Latino History and Memory, the San Francisco Bay Area, 1960s - 1990s

Thesis Advisor: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies

Research Topic: Transnational Salvadoran Gay Identities: Intersections of Cultural, Racial, and Sexual Membership in Migration

Mentor: Karen Brodkin, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Lynn Sacco

Education: B.A., Marquette University, Journalism and English; M.A., State University of New York, Buffalo, Women's Studies; Ph.D., University of Southern California, History

Dissertation: Not Talking About "It": A History of Incest in the United States, 1890-1940

Thesis Advisor: Lois W. Banner, Professor of History, University of Southern California

Research Topic: "Taboo": Uncovering Incest in the Courts and the Media, 1890-1940

Mentor: Patricia Cline Cohen, Professor of History and Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Education: B.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills, Communication, History and French; M.A., University of California, San Diego, Latin American History; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, History of Latin America

Dissertation: Root of Discord: Steroid Hormones, A Wild Yam, Mexican Peasants and State Formation (Mexico, 1941-1986)

Thesis Advisor: Eric Van Young, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

Research Topic: Becoming 'Modern' by Turning to the Past: Medicine, Traditional Healers and the Mexican State

Mentor: Vincanne Adams, Professor of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Warwick Anderson, Professor of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

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