Recent Student Awards
Degree Accomplishments
Ph.D. Completion
Year | Student Name | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title |
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2019 | Maya Costa-Pinto | Srinivas, S. | The City in Flux: Navigating Urbanism(s) through Waterways in Goa, India |
2019 | Christian Doll | Smith, J. H. | The Post-State State: Sovereignity, Futurity and Urban Life in Independent South Sudan |
2019 | Laura Meek | Smith, J. H. & Giordano, C. | Pharmaceuticals in Divergence: Embodied Experiments and World-Making Tastes in Tanzania |
2019 | Jane Saffitz | Smith, J. H. | Lightness and Visibility: Violence, the Unseen and Albinism Rights in Tanzania |
2018 | Meghan Donnelly | de la Cadena, M. & Dumit, J. | Practices of Perserverance: Violence, Impossible Information, and Critical Journalism in Mexico |
2018 | Adam Liebman | Zhang, L. | Turning Trash into Treasure: Shadow Economies and Toxic Ecologies in Kunming, China |
Advancement to Doctoral Candidacy
Year | Student Name | Advisor(s) |
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2019 | Benjamin Bean | Klima, A. M. |
2019 | Adam Kersch | de la Cadena, M. & Giordano, C. |
2019 | Eveleen Sidana | Srinivas, S. |
2019 | Mercedes Villalba | Choy, T. |
2019 | Nathan Lane | Sawyer, S. |
2019 | Alexander Robins | Donham, D. & Smith, J. H. |
External Fellowship, Grants, and Awards
2019
Year | Student Name | Advisor(s) | Fellowship/Grant/Award |
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2019 |
Taylor Bell |
Giordano, C. |
NSF - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) |
2019 |
Justin Malachowski |
Joseph, S. |
US Embassy Tunis Cultural Affairs Office – Project: SEE DJERBA: Media Arts Project |
2019 |
Justin Malachowski |
Joseph, S. |
European Mediterranean Foundation for Human Rights – Project: EL Warcha: Collaborative Design Studio |
2019 |
Justin Malachowski | Joseph, S. |
Blum Center Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Development (PASS) Research Grant |
2018
Year | Student Name | Advisor(s) | Fellowship/Grant/Award |
---|---|---|---|
2018 |
Justin Haruyama |
Smith, J. H. |
Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant |
2018 |
Meichun Lee |
Zhang, L. |
Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation |
2018 |
Justin Malachowski |
Joseph, S. |
Countering Violent Extremism Fund – Project: El Warcha: Collaborative Design Studio |
2018 |
Justin Malachowski |
Joseph, S. |
US Embassy Tunis Cultural Affairs Office - Project: INTERFERENCE: International Light Art Project |
2018 |
Justin Malachowski |
Joseph, S. |
UNESCO Networks of Mediterranean Youth Grant – Project: INTERFERENCE: International Light Art Project |
2018 |
Sofia Rivera |
de la Cadena, M. |
Miguel Velez Fellowship |
2018 |
Muneeza Rizvi |
Joseph, S. |
Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) |
Department and Campus Awards
Crook Research Award
Year | Student Name | Advisor(s) |
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2018 | Morganne Blais-McPherson | Giordano, C. |
2018 | Kristi Onzik | Sawyer, S. |
Kautz Family Award
Year | Student Name | Advisor(s) |
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2019 | Ayanda Manqoyi | Donham, D. L. & Smith, J. H. |
2019 | Yuting Yin | Zhang, L. & de la Cadena, M. |
Sociocultural Wing Summer Fellowship
Year | Student Name | Advisor(s) |
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2019 | Onur Arslan | de la Cadena, M. |
2019 | Morganne Blais-McPherson | Giordano, C. |
2019 | Thiago de Oliveira Braga | Zhang, L. |
2019 | Rebecca Jones | Choy, T. K. |
2019 | Ayanda Manqoyi | Donham, D. L. & Smith, J. H. |
2019 | Ivan Montenegro Perini | de la Cadena, M. |
2019 | Yuting Yin | Zhang, L. & de la Cadena, M. |
UC Davis Provost's Dissertation Year Fellowship
Year | Student Name | Advisor(s) |
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2018 | Meichun Lee | Zhang, L. |
UC Davis Graduate Studies Travel Award
Year | Student Name | Advisor(s) |
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2019 | Sofia Rivera | de la Cadena, M. |
UC Davis Other Campus Awards
Year | Student Name | Advisor(s) | Fellowship/Grant/Award |
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2019 | Ivan Montenegro Perini | de la Cadena, M. | Racial Capitalism Grant (Mellon Research Initiative) |
2019 | Onur Arslan | de la Cadena, M. | Suad Joseph Graduate Student Research Award for Middle East and/or South Asia Studies |
2019 | Tory Brykalski | Joseph, S. | Feminist Research Institute (FRI) Graduate Collaboratory Fellowship |
2019 | Ayanda Manqoyi | Donham, D. L. & Smith, J. H. | Racial Capitalism Grant (Mellon Research Initiative) |
2019 | Anne O'Connor | de la Cadena, M. & Biagioli, M. | Graduate Fellowship: Cornell Summer School of Criticism and Theory |
2019 | Eveleen Sidana | Srinivas, S. | Indian Ocean Worlds Grant (Mellon Research Initiative) |
2019 | Mercedes Villalba | Choy, T. | HATCH Summer Research Grant |
2018 | Rebecca Jones | Choy, T. K. | 2018-19 DHI Reading & Writing Group Award |
Publications
- (2018). Planning amidst precarity: utopian imaginings in South Sudan, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 12:2, 367-385, DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2018.1408305
- Uccelli, F. & Garcia-Llorens, M. (2018). “Tránsitos en zapatillas de marca: Jóvenes limeños en contextos de crecimiento económico” [Journeys in brand-name sneakers: young limeños and economic growth] Bolivian Research Review,13:1, 117-132.
- Villalba, M. (2019). Fervent Manifesto. https://nolibros.org/fervent-manifesto
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