President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients 1997 - 1998Social Sciences
Education: B.A. Concordia University, Political Science; M.A. New School for Social Research, Anthropology; Ph.D. University of California, San Cruz, Anthropology Dissertation: Genealogies of Reclaimed Nobility: The Geotemporality of Yoruba Belonging Dissertation Advisor: Carolyn Martin Shaw, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz Research Topic: Divination and Slave Narratives: The production of History Mentor: Stephen Small, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley Current Position: Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Education: B.S., Kansas State University, Business Administration; M.P.A. University of Missouri, Kansas City, Public Administration; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Education Dissertation: Chicana School Resistance and Grassroots Leadership: Providing An Alternative History of the 1968 East Los Angeles Blowouts Dissertation Advisor: Amy Stuart Wells, Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles Research Topic: Transformational Resistance: A Historical and Contemporary Examination of Chicano Student Activism Mentor: Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell, Senior Lecturer, Chicana & Chicano Studies Program, University of California, Davis Current Position: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Utah
Education: B.A. Yale University, American Studies; M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies; Ph.D. University of Michigan, American Culture Dissertation: Greater Americans in a Greater America? Japanese American Education, Occupation and Income, 1940-1960 Dissertation Advisor: Gail M. Nomura, Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan Research Topic: Boundaries, Bodies, and Meaning: Controlling Physical and Social Boundaries in the West, 1848-1995 Mentor: Takashi Fujitani, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego Current Position: Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Education: B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Development Studies; M.P.H. University of California, Berkeley, Epidemiology Biostatistics; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Public Health Dissertation: Assessing Environmental Justice: The Distribution of Ambient Air Pollution Among Diverse Communities in California Dissertation Advisor: James Robinson, Professor of Health Policy and Administration, University of California, Berkeley Research Project: Science, Environmental Justice and Contesting the Rationalism of Risk: The Implications of Anti-Toxic Struggles for Research and Policy in Public Health Mentor: Andrew Szasz, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
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