2011-12 UC California Studies Consortium Project Awards
2011-12 Graduate Student Research Travel Grants
Yalda Asmatey, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
"In the Shadow of the Valley: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Toxic Waste in California's San Joaquin Valley"
Bianca Brigidi, History, UC Santa Barbara
"Being Native American: Race, Ethnicity and Mission in Spanish, Mexican and U.S. California (1769-1852)"
Christopher Clayton Childress, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
"Lit Quake and California Publishing: Northern California as a Satellite or Alternative Core in the U.S. Literary Field?"
Mark Davidson, Cross-Cultural Musicology, UC Santa Cruz
"The Politics of Identity in the Recording of Folk Music in 1930s California"
Joseph Duong, History, UC Berkeley
"American Hard Core: Pornographic Film Since 1970"
Mikael Fauvelle, Anthropology, UC San Diego
"Regional Trade Systems in Prehistoric Southern California: Feasting, Power and Lithic Procurement"
Melissa Guzman, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
"Spiritual Citizenship among Latina/o Pentecostal Immigrants in Fresno"
Elizabeth Hemphill, Visual Studies, UC Irvine
"Boom and Bust: Ruins of the California Dream"
Patrick Lopez-Aguado, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
"The Collateral Consequences of Mass Incarceration on Urban Youth Cultures"
Sarah McCullough, Cultural Studies, UC Davis
"Mechanical Intuitions: Innovating Bicycling and Spaces of Nature"
David Palter, History, UC Santa Cruz
"Testing for Race: Lewis Terman, Psychometric Testing, and Asian Americans in Early Twentieth-Century California"
Israel Pastrana, History, UC San Diego
"Brazos de Oro: Mexican Contract Labor Migration and the Political Economy of the American Southwest, 1917-1973"
Danielle Peltakian, History of Art, UC Riverside
"'Homes of Their Own': A Case Study of Richard Neutra's Early Career"
Gabriela Rodriguez, History of Art, UC Riverside
"Diego Rivera: History of Medicine in Mexico: Peoples Demand For Better Health"
Chelsea K. Vaughn, History, UC Riverside
"Performing Conquest: California History on Stage"
Kaitlin Walker, English, UC Davis
"Making Place with Displacement: Helen Hunt Jackson's "Ramona" and California Promotional Literature"
Kyle Wanberg, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
"Title of Proposal: Imperial Drag: Spectres of Ishi through visual and ethnographic materials house in special collections at Bancroft"
Angelica M. Yanez, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
"Dance and Destruction: The Transnational Movement of Aztec Dance"
2011-12 Systemwide Workshop Grants
Catherine Cole, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley, and
Ann Bermingham, History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara
"The Uses of the University in 2050: Scenarios for the Multiversity's Future"
Gary Dymski, Economics, UC Riverside
"Measuring, Representing, and Healing an Invisible Crisis: California Foreclosure Dialogues"
2011-12 Regional Seminars and Research Workgroups
Jonathan Alexander, English, UC Irvine
"Science Fiction in/and California"
2011-12 Community Outreach and Teaching Grants
Kelly Lytle-Hernandez, History, UC Los Angeles
"Remembering a Divided Los Angeles: A Legacy of Segregation
2010-2011 UC California Studies Consortium Project Awards
Lisa Parks, Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Signal Traffic: Art, Infrastructure and Geography in California
Cole Akers, Visual Studies, UC Irvine
Total Design: The Architecture & Regional Planning of William L. Pereira
Bridgette Auger, Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz
Documentary of Resettled Iraqi Refugees living in El Cajon, California
Judy Baca, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
The RFK Learning Center Project
Joshua Brahinsky, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Pentecostal Pedagogies: Making A Modern Missionary
Liane Brouillette, Education, UC Irvine
Surfing Safari: California Surf Music and the Rise of Suburban Youth CultureKristen Day, Planning, Policy & Design, UC Irvine
Advancing Service-Learning in California Studies
Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Deviant Criminals or Devout Religious Practitioners: The “I AM” Activity and the Limits of Religious Tolerance in California
Gloria Kim, History, UC San Diego
A Community in Conflict: Multiracial Debates over the Racial Integration of San Diego Public Schools, 1954-1985
Elisabeth Le Guin, Musicology, UCLA
Son jarocho and border crossingsFlora Lu, Latino and Latin American Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Promoting Environmental Justice through Campus-Community Collaboration
Sarah McCullough, Cultural Studies, UC Davis
Negotiating Appropriate Technologies in Northern California through the Bicycle
Setsu Shigematsu, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
Critical Prison Studies and Abolitionist Theory and Practice
Nicole Starosielski, Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Signal Traffic: Art, Infrastructure and Geography in California
Krystal Tribbett, History, UC San Diego
RECLAIMing Air, Redefining Democracy: A History of California's Regional Clean Air Incentive Market, Emission Trading and Environmental Justice 1970-Present
Kate Trumbull, Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz
San Diego Somali Refugee Documentary Project
2009-2010 UC California Studies Consortium Project Awards
Ann Bermingham, Humanities Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara
Oil and Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California
Robert Borneman, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara
"The Apparition and Transmigration of the Virgin of Guadalupe: Or, How the Virgin of Guadalupe came to California"
Travis Bradley, Second Language Acquisition Institute, UC Davis
The California Gold: Community Involvement in Heritage Language Learning of Indigenous and Immigrant Languages
Lucy Burns, Asian American Studies, UCLA
California Dreaming: Production and Aesthetics in Asian American Art
Jordan Camp, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
"The Sound before the Fury: Towards a Genealogy of Neoliberal Racial Regimes of Security" Alan Christy, History, UC Santa Cruz
Cultivating Trust: Old-timers, New Immigrants and the Building of a Transnational Japanese American Community in Postwar Watsonville, CABenjamin D'harlingue, Cultural Studies, UC Davis
These Same Thoughts People This World: Cultural Geographies of United States Ghost TourismsColleen Hiner, Geography Graduate Group, UC Davis
Changing Landscapes, Shifting Values: Negotiating the Rural-Urban Interface in Calaveras County, California
Alexander Johnston, Community Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Remember the Work: California's 'Blue Collar Preservation' Movement
Cathleen Kozen, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
Never Again!: Tracing Japanese American Redress and a Politics of Racial Reconciliation
Mona Lynch, Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine
"Visualizing Governing through Crime in California"
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, History, UCLA
Incarcerations in California, 1850-Present
Carlos Morton, Theater and Dance, UC Santa Barbara
Teatro TourKara O'Keefe, History, UC Irvine
Remembered Neither in Life nor Death: Violence, Gender, Race and Memory in the U.S. West, 1851-1906
L. Chase Smith, Literature, UC San Diego
Bawdy Amusements of Progress in the Transpacific Borderlands
Nicole Starosielski, Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Mapping California Cables: Cultural Dimensions of Undersea Communication Infrastructure
Michelle Stuckey, Literature, UC San Diego
Weeding the National Garden: Gender, Race, and the Biopolitics of Reproduction in American Literature, 1870-193
0Robert Summers, Art History, UCLA
Queering California: The Creation of Itinerate Queer Spaces
Tanis Thorne, History, UC Irvine
Placemaking: Mapping Kumeyaay Placenames
Louis Warren, History, UC Davis
California as America's Avante Garde
Karen Wilson, History, UCLA
On a Cosmopolitan Frontier: Jews in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles
