Recipients by year
2021-2022
Cycle canceled due to Covid-19.
2020-2021 Academic Year (Meylan)
Maria Barreiros Almeida-Reis, Backwaters of the Atlantic World: Slavery, Governance and the Scramble for the Amazonian Borderlands. 1580-1700
2019-2020 Academic Year (Hill)
Alexander Scott Arroyo, Designing an Ocean: Oceanic Imaginaries of American Empire in the New Artic
2019 Summer
Juan Pablo Morales Garza, Politics, Religious Hierarchy and Land Property in Indigenous Villages in the Valley of Mexico, 1853-1862
Anthony Joshua Meyer, Attending to the Sacred: Tlamacazque and Their Complex Roles in Mexica and Christian Spaces
Alice Regina LaPoint, Spiritual Forces Compel [Miwok and Tlingit Beliefs]
Alessia Cecchet, Monarch: The Last California Grizzly Bear
Sarah Elizabeth Biscarra Dilley, Where are You From and Where are You Going?: Patterns, Parcels, and Place
Nitoshia Lashawn Ford, A Consideration of Presence: Black Women LIS Professionals and the Historical Record
Janice Yu, Strange Selves: Representations of the Othered Body
2018-2019 Academic Year (Meylan)
Amrit Deol, Ghadri and Sikh Poetry: Interrogations of Subjugated Knowledges in History
2018 Summer
Carrie Alexander, Rush: Time, Haste, and Negotiations of Power in Mid-Nineteenth Century California
Sarah Bane, Join the Club: Regional Print Clubs in America During the Interwar Period
Kristina Borrman, The Architecture of Belonging: 'Livable Places' in California since 1945
Sarah Quincy, 'Loans for the Little Fellow': Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression
Michelle Ripplinger, Chaucer's Women from Script to Print: John Stow's and Thomas Specht's Collected Works
Andrew Shaler, Mariposa: Violence, Colonia and Indigenous Histories of the California Gold Rush
Claire Urbanski, Emergent Bones and Sacred Formations: The Accumulation of Ohlone Remains in the Construction of the San Francisco Bay Area
Desirée Valadares, Race, Rights and Reparations: The Material Culture of World War II Confinement Camps in Canada and the United States
Tara Keegan, The Endurance of the Upriver People: A Karuk Story of Sport and Survival, 1877–1920
2017-2018 Academic Year
Alexandra Havrylyshyn, Free Under the Laws of France: How Enslaved Women and Girls Accessed Justice in Antebellum Louisiana, 1837-1957
2017 Summer
Christina Bush, Fashioning the Black Masculine
Kelly Easterday, Uniting a Century of Forest Survey Collection to Determine Drivers of Change in California Forests
Kimberly Killion, From Farms to Kitchens to the “Body Laboratory”: Nutritional Science and the Politics of Food in the United States, 1885-1930
Savannah Kilner, Pride and Property: Queer Settler Colonialism and the Landed Politics of Solidarity in Oakland, CA, 1979-present
Christopher Miller, Public Enemies: Transience and Lyric in American Poetry
Carlos Rivas, Urban Utopia? The Reducción General de los Indios and Coloniality of Space at Nahuizalco, El Salvador after 1520
Joanne Tien, Educating for Freedom: A Study of the Berkeley Experimental Schools Project, 1968-1976
2016-2017 Academic Year
John Elrick, Model City: Technologies of Government in the San Francisco Bay Area
2016 Summer
Xan Chacko, Moving, Making, Saving: Experimental Agriculture in California
Nancy Gallman, American Constitutions: Life Liberty, and Property in Colonial East Florida
Theodora Dryer, Designing Certainty: A History of Model-Based Thinking in the Era of Scientific Planning, 1929-1970
Maggie Elmore, Building Community through Politics: The Catholic Church, the State, and Ethnic Mexicans in the US Southwest, 1923-1986
Gary Fox, Aesthetic Futures, On Air: Donald Appleyard, Kenneth Craik, and Berkeley’s Environmental Simulation Laboratory
Camilo Lund-Montano, Out of Order: Radical Lawyers and Revolutionary Movements in the Global Sixities
Amani Morrison, Black Chicago through the Pen of Gwendolyn Brooks
Alexander Werth, Culture Wars: Race, Citizenship, and Violence in Oakland, California’s Urban/Colonial Frontier
2015-2016 Academic Year
Nancy Gallman, American Constitutions: Life, Liberty, and Property in Colonial East Florida
2015 Summer
Spencer Strub, Robert Doughtie and the Readers of the Print Piers Plowman
Jennifer Terry, Shifting Conceptions of Juvenile Labor and Employment in California, 1930-1980
Jessica Stair, Textual-Pictorial Literacies in the Techialoyan Manuscripts of New Spain
Cori Knudten, Constructing Gender in California's East Bay, 1920-1941
Dexter Hough-Snee, Mining Anxiety while Mocking the Marketplace: Economic Thought in the Latin American Satirical Archvie, 1598–1880
2014-2015 Academic Year
Peter Eckman, Suburbs of Lost Resort: Order and Ruin on the Edge of San Francisco Bay
Simon Abramowitsch, The Production of Multi-Ethnic American Literature in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1966-1996: From the Black Panther Party to the Institutionalization of “Diversity”
2014 Summer
Natalie Mendoza, Domesticating Foreign Policy: Inter-Americanism and Mexican Americans in the US Southwest, 1930s-1950s
Jeffrey Yamashita, Manufacturing Japanese American War Heroes: Incarceration, a "Suicide Battalion," and Ben Kuroki
Elizabeth Miller, The American Expeditionary Tradition, Pre-Columbian Architectures and the Indigenous Specter in American Art since 1960
Robert Lee, Louisiana Purchases: The US-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley
Katherine Kadue, "The Living Labours of Publick Men": Intellectual Labor as Domestic Practice from Erasmus to Milton
Daniel Benjamin, Excavating Excluded Affects in the Poems of Jack Spicer
Griselda Jarquin, The Transnational Politics of Remembering: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nicaragua and the US
Yve Chavez, Indigenous Agency and Artistic Production at California’s Missions
Ziza Delgado, The Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley: An Anti-Hegemonic Movement for Radical Pedagogy and Revolutionary Curriculum
2013-2014 Academic Year
Adam Romero, The Afterlives of Industrial Byproducts: The Necessity of Industrial Byproducts in the Industrialization of California Agriculture
Emily Cole, Translation Ideology in Græco-Roman Egypt
2013 Summer
Robert Kett, Stones, Feathers, Crude: Art and Science in Twentieth Century Southern Mexico
Robert Przeklasa, The Mission Indian Federation: American Indian Rights on the Right
Susan Wood, Gathering the "Other": Salvage Ethnography and the Construction of Culture in Southern California, 1897-1909
Marilola Perez, Pacific Exceptionalism? A Sociolinguistic Examination of Cavite Chabacano
Amy Lee, Coolies and Opium: Comparative Anglo-American Empires, Chinese Globalism, and Literary Modes of Uneven Development
Samia Rahimtoola, Open Form: The Ethos of the Given in Robert Duncan's Life-Work
2012-2013 Academic Year
Adrianne Francisco, Colonial Subjects: American Colonial Education and Philippine Nation-Making, 1900-1934
2012 Summer
Marcel Brousseau, Imaginary Lines: Data, Narration, Cartography, and the Speculation and Historicization of the U.S. Mexican Indigenous American Borderlands
Kevin Whalen, Beyond School Walls: Indian Education in Southern California
Alicia Cowart, Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Fire Regimes and Vegetation Change in Central California
Di Hu, The Transformation of Identity, Daily Life and Resistance in the Colonial Obraje of Pomacocha, Vilcashuaman, Peru
Sara Jensen, The Topography of Wellness: Mechanisms, Models and Metrics of Health in the Urban Landscape
Jacob Lee, Imaginary Empires: Kinship, Power and Alliance in the Illinois Country, 1550-1840
Alexander Tarr, Have Your City and Eat It Too: Los Angeles and the Renaissance in Urban Agriculture
Travis Wilds, Assembling the Science of the Future: Epistemic Virtues in the Exact Sciences, Physiology and Literature of Post-Enlightenment France, 1780-1840
2011-2012 Academic Year
Diana Negrín, Changing Wixárika Lives and Livelihoods in Mexico's Cities
Israel Pastrana, Brazos de Oro: Mexican Contract Labor Migration and the Political Economy of the American Southwest, 1917-1973
2011 Summer
Javier Arbona, Racialized Homefronts: Reclaiming the Port Chicago Explosion
Erin Collins, Recombinant Social(ist) Networks on the Landscape of the Lower Mekong Delta
Emily Colbert Cairns, The Other Carvajal: Reading Crypto-Jewish Feminine Space
Anita Huizar-Hernández, Histories of Contact: Arizona's Multi-Ethnic Heritage
Bianca Brigidi, Being Native American: Race, Ethnicity and Mission in Spanish, Mexican and U.S. California, 1769-1852
JoAnna Wall, Virgin Territory: Women in the Monjeríos of Alta and Baja California, 1697-1834
Elizabeth Sine, Movements on the Margins: An Archaeology of Struggles for Survival and Dignity in Depression-Era California
Leece Lee, Modernity and the "Death Ethic": Western Expansion as War in the Northern Plains, 1820-1880
María Covadonga Lamar Prieto, Spanish Language in XIX California
2010-2011 Academic Year
Tara McDowell, Jess and the Language of Pictures, 1951-1991
Hannah Haynie, The Linguistic Geography of the Sierra Nevada and Central California Indian Languages
2010 Summer
Natalia Cecire, The Girl Modest Witness and the Poetics of Knowledge
Funie Hsu, Blackboard Frontiers: American Expansion and U.S. Colonial Education Policy, 1887-1914
Diana Greenwold, Skins and Carcasses: Stereoscopic Vision and the Native American in Nineteenth-Century Utah
Nicole Pacino, Prescription for a Nation: Public Health in Post-Revolutionary Bolivia
Swati Rana, Who You Calling Immigrant?: Alienage and Nativity in the Literature of Brown America, 1900-1965
Clare Robinson, The California Memorial Union
Barbara Zimbalist, The Devil in Disguise: Incarnational Politics in Medieval Miracles of the Virgin
2009-2010 Academic Year
Colin Dingler, Lyric Impurity: Genre, Serial Poems, and the Form of History in Mid-Century and Contemporary American Poetry
Sarah Lopez, Migrating Mexico: A Material History of Remittance Space in Sur de Jalisco and Los Angeles
2009 Summer
Kathleen Adams, Kindergarten and Community: The Silver Street Kindergarten Society of San Francisco
Rachel Brahinsky, The End of Gentrification: Development, Politics and Race in San Francisco
Allison Ferrell, Collaborated Lives: Individualism and Collectivity in the Avant-Garde of Jay DeFeo
Cheryl Holzmeyer, Toward Interactivity: Transformations of the U.S. Science Museum Field, 1830-Present
Adam Lewis, Liberal Citizenship and National Sovereignty in the Antebellum Empire
Rebecca Munson, "The Text Is Foolish": The Telling Choices of Shakespeare’s First Editions
Marques Redd, Imaginal Mapping, Psychospirituality, and the Multidimensional Complexities of British and American Romanticism
Lauren Chase Smith, Bawdy Amusements of Progress in the Transpacific Borderlands
Christina Zanfagna, Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels
2008-2009 Academic Year
Audrey Wu Clark, The Asian American Avant-Garde: Internationalist Aspirations in Early Asian American Literature, 1882-1945
William Wagner, Reading, Writing, and Rambling: The Literary Culture of Travel in Antebellum America
2007-2008 Academic Year
Seth Roger Lunine, Private City, Public Threat: Entertainment, Industry and Illusion in Emeryville, California 1880-1950
Maria Belen Bistue, Collaborative Writing: Translation Strategies in Early Modern Multilingual Texts
2007 Summer
Ricardo Fagoaga Henandez, Regions, Markets and Indigenous Economic Participation: Chiapas and Guatemala
Brian Grossman, Investigating the Influence of Social Science Measurement on the Development of the Disability Rights/Independent Movement
Heidi Hoechst, Refusable Pasts: Spatial Economics and the Politics of the U.S. Tradition
Christine Hong, Captivity in Translation: Huckleberry Finn as Intertext in Ralph Ellison's and Ôe Kenzaburo's Mid-century Prisoner-of-War Narratives
Andrea King, Forbidden Pleasures, Damnable Sin, and Municipal Corruption: Race, Gender, and Respectability in San Francisco’s Vice District, 1900-1940
Emily Moore, Aesthetic Confrontations: Chilkat Tunics and the Evolution of Northwest Coast Designs
Joseph Ring, Transported by the Mode: Milton's Sublime Aesthetics and the Politics of Astonishment
Citlali Sosa-Riddell, The Culture of Commemoration among the Californios: Changing Cultural Practices, Honor, and Race Ideology, 1850-1900
Warren Wood, City Fathers: The Influence of Social and Economic Changes on the Meaning and Practice of Fatherhood in San Francisco, 1849-1915
2006-2007 Academic Year
Sean Burns, Working Class Hero: The Intellectual and Activist Legacy of Archie Green
Nat Zappia, The Autonomous Interior: Trading, Raiding, and Freedom in Native California, 1700-1857
2006 Summer
Peter Allen, A Space for Living: Regionalism and the Rise of Environmental Planning in the Bay Area, 1939-1969
Amy Lippert, Consuming Identities: Visual Culture and Celebrity in Nineteenth-century San Francisco
Timothy Pepper, Economic and Social Interaction in the Papyri from Ptolemaic Tebtunis
Maria Ramnath, Haj to Utopia: Anti-systemic Ideologies in the South Asian Diaspora, 1905-1930
Lilia Soto, Migration as a Matter of Time: Perspectives from Mexican Immigrant Girls in the Napa Valley
Sarah Thomas, The Politics of Growth: Land-Use in Postwar America, 1950-1975
Zeb Tortorici, The Appearance of Colonial Order: Sexuality in Colonial Mexico, 1600-1800
Richard Welker, The Roots of Agribusiness: Economic Behavior and Culture among Early American Farmers in California's Central Valley
2005-2006 Academic Year
Ruben Flores, States of Culture: The Central Government and Ethnoracial Consolidation in Mexico and the US, 1920-1950
Francisco Casique, Race of Space in the San Francisco Mission District
2004-2005 Academic Year
Rachel A. Chico, Navigating Nation: Communication and Orientation in the Veracruz-Mexico City Corridor, 1812-1867
Anil K. Mukerjee, An Examination of the Engel Sluiter Historical Documents Collection
Hellen Lee, Never Done: Women's Work and Culture in the United States, 1870-1910
2004 Summer
Penelope Anderson, The Rhetoric and Politics of Audience: Lucy Hutchinson, John Milton, and Katherine Philips
Steven Fountain, Big Dogs and Scorched Streams: Horses, Beavers, and Ethnocultural Change, 1769-1849
Jean V. Gier, Writing Communities and Constituencies: Literature of the U.S. Filipino Press During the Early Twentieth Century
Ki Won Han, The Rise of Oceanography in the United States, 1900-1940
Stacy Kozakavich, The Archaeology of the Kaweah Co-operative Commonwealth's Advance Townsite
Michael Kunichika, Vision for Verbal Art in the Russian Symbolist Journal, 1899-1917
Marissa López, Nationalism, Narrative, and History: The Formal Case for Chicana/o Literature
Elisabeth O'Connell, Recontextualizing the Tebtunis Papyri
Julie Tanaka, German Fiat: German Historiography and Identity in the Holy Roman Empire
2003-2004 Academic Year
Kimberly Bird, Unsettled Frontier: Poetic Radicalism and the Question of Nationalism in California, 1930-1940
Lisa Conathan, Language Contact and Linguistic Change in Northern California
Karen McNeill, Building the California Women's Movement: Architecture, Space and Gender in the Life and Work of Julia Morgan
2003 Summer
Nicole Caso, Practicing Memory in Central American Literature: Reflections on Histories, Space and Language
Alison Fraunhar, Revisioning the Mulata in Cuban Visual Culture, 1880-1980
Haden Guest, The Police Procedural Film and the Organization of Postwar America, 1930-1960
Joyce Mao, China-town: Cultural Politics and Racial Space in San Francisco, 1850-1910
Nadia Nurhussein, Verbal Topiary Work: Reading Dialect in American Poetry, 1870-2001
Jose Pastrano, Immigration Policies and Low-cost Labor: The 1920s Political Debates over Mexican Labor
Evelyn Rodriguez, Coming of Age: Identities and Transformations in Filipina Debutantes and Mexicana Quinceañeras
2002-2003 Academic Year
Yu-fang Cho, Visions of Pacific Destiny: Culture of Western Expansion and American Women's Work of Benevolence, 1880s-1900s
Dulcinea Michelle Lara, Historical Evolution of Education and Its Detrimental Ideological and Identity Forming Consequences on New Mexico
Jeffrey Alan Ow, Contested Isles: The History and Representation of Ellis Island and Angel Island
2002 Summer
Samantha Holtkamp Gervase, Life and Law in the Lower Mississippi River Valley: Categories and the Expansion of America, 1800-1860
Rudy Poscallo Guevarra, On Common Ground: Mexican and Filipinos in San Diego Agriculture, 1920-1965
Chantelle Nicole Warner, Literacy Identity Construction in Works of Dutch Clandestine Literature Written During the Second World War
2001-2002 Academic Year
Isabel Breskin, Above the City upon a Hill: Lithographic City Views of San Francisco, 1848-1914
Andrew Johnson, Quicksilver Mining Landscapes of California and the West, 1840-1920
Michelle Morton, Utopian and Dystopian Visions of California in the Literary Imagination
Allison Varzally, Ethnic Crossings in California, 1930-1950
Adrienne Williams, UCB 92 and the Re-Vision of Miracles of the Virgin
2001 Summer
Jessica Delgado, The Inquisition and Women’s Voices: Female Accusers as Witnesses in the Mexican Inquisition
Yolanda James, California Malinches in the Project to Recover a Chicana
Anna More, Colonial Baroque: Siguenza y Góngoro and the Politics of 17th-Century New Spain
Anna Naruta, Creating Whiteness in California: An Examination of White and Chinese Relations from 1865-1910
Delberto Ruiz, Cut Tongues from the Heart
Suzette Spencer, Sounding Freedom: Maroonist Poetics, Signifyin' Language, and the Black Vernacular
2000-2001 Academic Year
Donald Michael Bottoms, Race, Politics, and the Law in 19th Century California
Anne Burnett Keary, Christian Missionaries, Colonial Knowledges, Contested Geographies: The Missionary Translation of Indigenous Language and Culture in New South Wales and Oregon Territory in the Nineteenth Century