Fall 2019
Graduate
Omi Salas-SantaCruz
Doctoral Candidate, Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender in Education
Learning to Be: A Critical Phenomenology of Institutional Transphobia as Recounted by Trans Latinx Students Navigating College Life
Nallely Mejia
Sociology
The Social and Cultural Tensions in Mexican Immigrant Families’ Acquisition, Use, and Understandings of Wealth and Household Finances
Alicia Sheares
Sociology
Navigating Inequality: Black Tech Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and Atlanta
Melanie Plasencia
Ethnic Studies conc. Latina/o/x Studies
How Older Latinas Collectively Care for “Chosen Family”
Isabel García Valdivia
Sociology
Unequal Aging: The Effects of Legal Status Trajectories on Older Mexican Immigrants’ Strategies in Later Life
Undergraduate
Clara Jimenez
English with Creating Writing Minor
Transforming Melancholia: Depression and Female Coping in Morrison's Beloved, Jones' Corregidora, and Walker's The Color Purple
Gitika Nalwa
Economics and English
Strange Fruit: Male Racial Identity and the American Wilderness, 1830-1950
Sydney Belen Garcia
Psychology and Gender & Women Studies
Not Just Words?: Relationship between news consumption, daily emotions, and stress for farmworkers
Spring 2019
Graduate
Alice Taylor
Education
The Youth Turn: Brazilian Youth Movements for Social Justice and Higher Education
Jaleel M. Plummer
Anthropology
Mental Health and the Everyday Life of Afro-Caribbeans Living in the UK
Sarah Whitt
Ethnic Studies (Native American Studies), designated emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
False Promises: Race, Power, and the Chimera of Indian Assimilation 1879-1934
Jarre Hamilton
Anthropology
Race, Place, and Other Things for the Taking: Archaeological Examinations of the Buffalo Soldiers and Allensworth, California, 1890-1920
Krista Cortes
Education
Designing New Scripts: Exploring the Everyday Practices of Blackness Amongst Afro- Puerto Rican Families in California
Undergraduate
Kristina Echevarria
Social Welfare and Education
Investigating the Social Influence of Dystopian Literature
Fallon Burner
History
Healing Through Language: The History of the Weⁿdat Language and Waⁿdat Dialect
Maria Lúa Cázares
History
The Forgotten Afro-Mexicans: Independence and the Role of Women (1800-1830)
Yujane Chen
Ethnic Studies
Fluid Futurities: Fish and Aquatic Creatures as Representations of Queer Migrancy in 21st Century US Poetry
Fall 2018
Graduate
T(h)eresa Burruel Stone
Graduate School of Education
Pláticas y Acción Beyond the Classroom: Xicana/Latina Youth’s Navigations of Pathways to Success
Victoria M. Massie
Sociocultural Anthropology
Assembling Genetic Ancestry: Race, Return, and the Materiality of Home in Cameroon
Mindy J. Price
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Examining the Feminist Political Economy of Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Sophie Clara Major
Energy and Resources Group
Indigenous Political Thought: Sechelt and Haida Theories of Sovereignty
Bernadette Lim
UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Woke WOC Docs: A Creative Multimedia Storytelling Project by and for WOC in Medicine
Undergraduate
Lee-Or Scarlat
Gender and Women's Studies, Public Health
Access to Fertility Preservation for Low-Income Transgender Youth in the Bay Area: Barriers, Narratives, and Looking Forward
Cheyenne Seneca
Sociology (Major), Native American Studies (Minor)
Decolonizing Our Minds and Actions: Building Relationships and Mapping Community Across the American Indian Urban and Reserve Divide
Pan Narez-Mendez
Gender and Women's Studies & Comparative Ethnic Studies
Examining Hegemonic Visions of Futures in Outer Space: A Discourse Analysis of NewSpace
Giovanni D'Ambrosio
Sociology
The Political Construction of Survivor Support: Imagining Need and Visioning Strategy Within the Bay Area’s Anti-Sexual Violence Movement
Spring 2018
Graduate
Fantasia Painter
Ethnic Studies
Bordering the Tohono O'odham: Enforcing the Boundaries of Race, Gender, Indigeneity, and Land at the US-Mexico Border, 1870-1930
Laura Belik
Architecture – History, Theory and Society
Racial and spatial exclusions in Brazil: Concentration Camps and the Nordestinos’ migratory histories
Salvador Gutiérrez Peraza
Ethnic Studies
San Pasqual Battlefield Volunteer Association: An Oral History
Jenni(f)fer Tamayo
Performance Studies
Writing (Our) Voices into the Archive: Poets of Color Writing on Radical Vocal Performance
Hector (Tito) Callejas
Ethnic Studies
Multicultural State Reforms and Indigenous Land Rights in El Salvador
Michaela Simmons
Sociology
Producing Delinquency: The Struggle for Racial Integration in the Foster Care System, 1920s-1950s
Elizabeth Löwe Hunter
African American Studies
Race, Gender and Belonging - The African Diaspora in Denmark
Caroline Tracey
Geography
Inside the Space of Exception: Life, Death, and Land in the South Texas Borderlands
Olivia K. Young
African American Studies
How the Black Body Bends: Sensorial Distortions of the Black Female Body in Contemporary Art, 1960-2016
Ashton Wesner
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Cultures of Settler Militarism: Race, Environmental Masulinity, and the Ecologization of Drone Warfare
Undergraduate
Shelby Mack
American Studies
#BlackGirlsMatterToo: Understanding the Development of Black Female Enrichment Programs in Oakland CA
Anthony R. Carrasco
Political Science, Legal Studies, Public Policy
Towards a Critical Race Theory of Homelessness and Education: Racial Mircoaggressions among Homeless Youth of Color
Fall 2017
Graduate
Johanna Figueroa
School of Public Health
Getting to the Root of It: Deconstructing Alcoholism in the Salvadoran Diaspora Community
Kenly Brown
African American Studies
“The Disciplinary Dumping Ground”: The Construction of Black Girlhood in an Alternative School
Bayley Marquez
School of Education
Settler Pedagogy: Schooling in Indian Country, the Black South, and Colonial Hawaii, 1840-1923
Desiree Valadares
Architecture
Race, Rights, and Reparations: The Material Culture of World War II Confinement Camps in Canada and the United States
Malika Imhotep & Miyuki Baker
African American Studies, Performance Studies
The Church of Black Feminist Thought: Visual Theory-Telling Maps and Gatherings
Kelly Johnson
Public Health
A Qualitative Exploration of Minority Stress and Psychosocial Resources among Trans, Genderqueer and Non-binary Adolescents of Color
Anthony Wright
Medical Anthropology
Therapeutic Artifacts: Race, Gender, and Cultural Production in the Context of Adolescent Cancer Treatment
Undergraduate
Sailakshmi Senthil Kumar
Anthropology
Lingual Choices: The Taboo of Sexual, Reproductive, and Women's Health in India
Betsy Rohney
Interdisciplinary Studies
My Language is Awakening: Exploring Motivations and Barriers of Heritage Language Learning within Urban Māori Millennials
Caitlin Hoover
Legal Studies
Gendering the Death Penalty: Intersectionality and Incarceration in India’s Criminal Justice System
Spring 2017
Graduate
Zainab Ramahi
School of Law
Towards an environmentally-conservative, gender-equitable, economically just property law system in Indian-administered Kashmir
Michael Singh
School of Education
The cultural production of the Latino male role model: Male mentorship programs and the discursive and embodied Latino male educator
toshi pau
Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
Sexual Asiancies: Queer Asian Males and Sexual Labor
Kelechi Uwaezuoke
School of Public Health
The Case of the Leaky Pipeline: Exploring the Premed Experiences of Under-Represented Minority Students in the UC System
Undergraduate
Dylan Bush
Latin American Studies
Buscando Y’ol: Comparing Perceptions of Access to Healthcare Between Maya and Latina Women in East Oakland
Elizabeth Gonzalez
Sociology
San Joaquin Valley Women's Experiences Accessing Abortion Services in California
Celine Liao
Sociology, Gender & Women's Studies
From Canton Maids to Filipino Domestic Helpers: Migrant Labor Transition in Hong Kong Domestic Service Market
Nicole Andrea Prucha
Mathematics, English
Queer(ing) Interracial Relationships: Seeking Liberation at Intersections of Difference
Fall 2016
Graduate
Alexandra Havrylyshyn
Jurisprudence & Social Policy
Property as Power: How Enslaved Women and Girls Gained Access to Justice in Antebellum Louisiana
Amani Morrison
African American Studies
Domestic Architecture and Spatial Performance in Great Migration Chicago
Joanne Tien
School of Education
Educating for Freedom: A study of the Berkeley Experimental Schools Project, 1968-1975
Jen Smith
Ethnic Studies
Ordering Space, Spatializing Order: Land and Race in Edward Curtis’ Photography of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition
Aaron Gregory Young
Department of City and Regional Planning
The Landscape of Urban Restitution in South Africa
Natalee Natalee Kēhaulani Bauer Bauer
Graduate School of Education
(En)gendering Whiteness: A Historical Analysis of White Womanhood, Colonial Anxieties, and “Tender Violence” in US Schools
Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
The Tree of Life: The Politics of Kinship in Meiji Japan and Victorian Britain
Undergraduate
Julia Fatima Malakiman
Peace and Conflict Studies
Islamophobia Rising: The Nicois en Nour Mosque and 2016 Terrorist Attack in Nice, France
Spring 2016
Graduate
Kirsten M.G. Vacca
Archaeological Research Facility, Department of Anthropology
Reconstructing Daily Life in Early Hawaiian Communities
Nicole D. Ramsey
African American & African Diaspora Studies
Unpacking Blackness: Cultural Exchange and Identity Formations in Afro-Costa Rica
John Mundell
African American and African Diaspora Studies, with a designated emphasis in Gender & Women’s Studies
Black Navy, Queer Navy
Kavitha Iyengar
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Litigating Unwritten Law: reading Sam Hose's brutal murder, white newspaper opinion, and Ida Wells' anti-lynching campaign as legal discourse and recourse
Derrika Hunt
Graduate School of Education
Windows of Possibility: Giving Voice to the experiences of Black girls
Kathleen Gutierrez
South & Southeast Asian Studies
Rendering the Native through the Language of Philippine Plants, 1871 - 1898
Jennifer Duque
Ethnic Studies
Revisiting the Philippine Reservation: The Missouri History Museum and the Re-exhibition of the 1904 World's Fair
Undergraduate
amy huỳnh
Geography
Intersectional Analysis of Food Security in Nepal's Mid-Hills: Gender, Remittances and Caste
Bonnie Cherry
Interdisciplinary Studies: Statelessness and Forced Migration
Queering Sovereignty: Conflict and Human Rights in the Tohono O’Odham Nation
Laura Cahier
Sociology
From discriminatory immigration policies toward the development of racialized feminist movements in France: the example of Maghrebin women immigrant
Fall 2015
Graduate
Fithawee Tzeggai
Sociology
Race, Inequality, and the Strategic Limits of Desegregation: Symbolic Struggles over School Reform in the Wake of Chicago’s Civil Rights Movement
Jiselle Warner Rouet
Music (Ethnomusicology)
Sounding the Transnational: Caribbean Jazz in Trinidad and Tobago
Evyn Lê Espiritu
Rhetoric
Troubling Humanitarian Discourses: Vietnamese Refugee Diaspora in Guam and Israel
Arathi Govind
Department of Music
Locating Multiplicity: Rethinking U.S. Popular Music Through Indian American Practices
Kankan Xie
South & Southeast Asian Studies
Estranged Comrades: Communism, Identity Politics, and Interwoven Networks of the Late Colonial Malay World, 1927-1942
Christina Bush
African American Studies
Black Soled: Sneakers, Masculine Mis-embodiment, and the Racial Life of Things
Undergraduate
Eiman Kazi
Public Health
Understanding Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening in Female Pakistani Americans
Irving Salas Barrios
Sociology
Gender & Technology: The Gender Disparity in Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Spring 2015
Graduate
Hannah Waits
History
Missionary Positions: American Evangelicals and the Transnational History of the Culture Wars, 1945-2000
Undergraduate
Crisis Journal Team
Rodrigo Ochigame (Interdisciplinary Studies), Meg Perret (Gender and Women’s Studies), Taliah Mirmalek (Rhetoric), Julia Roma (History), Steven Yi (History), Nihil Shah (Mathematics)
Crisis Journal
Fall 2014
Graduate
Katrina C. L. Eichner
Anthropology
Queer Perspectives on Racialized Sexuality in 19th Century Fort Davis, Texas: Navigating Nervous Landscapes
Melina M. Packer
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
The Politics of Pop: Soda Tax Policies and Social Anxieties
Jennifer Tucker
Department of City and Regional Planning
On the frontiers of governance: Affect, race and illicit trade in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Charisse Burden-Stelly
African Diaspora Studies
What’s Left of African Diaspora Theory?: (Re)Turning to Political Economy and Articulating Culturalism to Economic Realities
Sarah Cowan
History of Art
Harlem Dwelling: Roy DeCarava's Fine Art Photographs, New York City, 1948-1996
Bianca Ayanna Suarez
Social and Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Education
Educational Ideas in the Movement Era: A Narrative History of the Politics of Race, Class and Knowledge in the Detroit Public Schools, 1954-1976
Jocyl Sacramento
Education
Critical Race Dialogue and Curriculum: Teacher Collaboration and the Implementation of Ethnic Studies in High School Classrooms
Kathryn Benjamin
African Diaspora Studies
The Impact of Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp In History and Memory
Munira Lokhandwala
Department of Film and Media
Afterimages of History: Encountering the Archive in Contemporary Global Film and Video
Undergraduate
Naphtalie Jeanty
Anthropology
Queerness is for White People: The Effects of the Idea of African American Sexual Deviancy among 19th Century Buffalo Soldiers
Jinoh Ryu
Gender and Women’s Studies & Interdisciplinary Studies
Transnational Feminist Approaches to the Identities and Experiences of Asian TCK Women at Cal
Spring 2014
Graduate
Ianna Hawkins Owen
African Diaspora Studies
Diasporan Recitations of Black Failure and Ethical Possibility
Mina Barahimi
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Race, Returns, and the Politics of Immigration Control: A Study of the Role of Voluntary Departure in U.S. Immigration Enforcement
Tria Andrews
Ethnic Studies Department
Education on the Reservation: Extracurricular and Culturally-Relevant Programming
Undergraduate
Wendy Melissa Hernandez
American Studies
A Qualitative Study on the Intersection of Higher Education and Incarceration in African-American and Latino/a Households
Skye Niles
Gender and Women's Studies
Early U.S. Drug Policy as a Method of Racial, Gender, and Sexual Control
Ariana DeNevi Weckstein
Interdisciplinary Studies
The Conditions of Power in Community Health: Gender, Race, and Harm Reduction at the Berkeley Free Clinic
Fall 2013
Graduate
Louise Ly
Sociology
Racialized Intimacy: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender within Interracial Marital Relationships Among Asians Americans and Whites
Ilaria Giglioli
Geography
From Colonial Cosmopolitanism to Mediterraneanism. Shifting Socio-Spatial Borders between Italy and Tunisia
Hossein Ayazi
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Unsettling the Agrarian Imaginary: Race, Agrarianism, and the Domestic
Manuel R. Cuellar
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Los mecos de Veracruz: The Performance of Indigenous Kinesthetic Epistemologies
Undergraduate
Tali Gires
Interdisciplinary Studies
Gender and Cultural Sensitivity Surrounding Development Initiatives: Examining the Connection between Gender Relations and Ethnicity in the San Martin Region of Peru
Dee Mauricio
Ethnic Studies
Entendiendo Nuestros Pasados, Sexos y Generos: Testimonios y historias orales of Guatemalan Survivors during the Civil War and Genocide
Zully Juarez
Gender & Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies
From the Highlands to the City; Maya Women’s Ways of Healing in South Central Los Angeles
Spring 2013
Graduate
Natalie Mendoza
History
Mexican American Historical Thinking in the American Southwest in the Pre-Chicano Period
Kimberly McNair
African American Studies
Cotton Framed Revolutionaries: T-Shirt Culture and Black Power Iconography
Veena Dubal
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
The Last Cowboy: Freedom, Flexibility, and Myths of Legal Identity in the San Francisco Taxi Industry
Naomi Bragin
Performance Studies
Hip-Hop Dance Is Black Power: Kinesthetic Politics and Black Performance
Ina Marie Kelleher
Comparative Ethnic Studies
The Derrion Albert Beating: Visual Representations of Racialized Violence
Undergraduate
Hector Miguel Callejas
Ethnic Studies
Cultural Revitalization Efforts and Indigenous Rights in Nahuizalco, El Salvador
Alli Yates
Interdisciplinary Studies
Pure Bodies – Probiotics and the Re-culturing of Colonial Hygiene in the United States
Haebitchan Jung
English
Electronic Dance Mu$ic: The Theoretical Discourse on the Promulgation of Western Ideology in the Non-West
Steven Hanyun Cong
Ethnic Studies (Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies)
Expression Through the Small Screen: How Asian American Students in UC Berkeley Respond to Asian American Cultural Productions on YouTube
Fall 2012
Graduate
Caitlin Keliiaa
Ethnic Studies
Modes of Domesticity: The Intersections of Indian Domestic Service and WWII Politics in the San Francisco Bay Area
Connie Wun
Education
Where Violence and Discipline Intersect: School Discipline Policies, Prisons, Race & Gender
Christina S. Carbone
Jurisprudence & Social Policy
The Promise of Accountability: Countering Bias in Decision Making
Giuliana Perrone
History
Unfinished Freedom: Slavery and Citizenship in Post-Emancipation Southern Courts, 1865-1896
John J. Dougherty
Ethnic Studies
Appraisals of Competency: Race, Gender, and the Rhetoric of Federal Indian Law, 1945-1960
Michael McGee
African American Studies
The Practice of Freedom: Reconsidering Freedom in African American Literature
Undergraduate
Salvador Gutiérrez Peraza
History
Erasing Arizona: The Purging of Mexican-American Educational Rights
Mai Nhia Vang
Social Welfare
A Critical Look at Domestic Violence through the Lens of Elder Hmong Women
Spring 2012
Graduate
Reginold Royston
African American Studies
Trending Ghana: Homeland, Diaspora and Digital Nationalism
Ziza Delgado
Ethnic Studies
Third World Bodies vs. First World Ideologies: The Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley, 1969
Sunny Xiang
Comparative Literature
Asia's Unreliability: Literary and Historical Positings of the Asian Human, 1945-Present
Ariko Ikehara
Ethnic Studies
Black-Okinawa: Mixed-Cultural Formation of African-Americans and Okinawans in Post-War Okinawa
Natalee Bauer
Education
(Re)Interpreting Pygmalion: Understanding the Disciplinary Race/Gender Gap in US Middle Schools
Undergraduate
Cameron McKee
History and History of Art
Visible Anxiety and the Dreyfus Affair: Exploring Jewishness and Homosexuality as Deviant Identities in fin-de siècle France
Fall 2011
Graduate
Emine Fidan Elcioglu
Sociology
The Struggle for Home and Belonging: The Politics of Immigration in Arizona
Brendan Shanahan
History
"Unalienable" Rights? Race, Gender and the Loss of American Citizenship Among US-Born Women, 1907-1931
Megan Adams
History
Public Servants, Public Employees, Public Enemies, Organizing the Chicago Police, 1952-1984
April Sizemore-Barber
Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies
Over the Rainbow? Constituting Queerness and Performing Nation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Undergraduate
Reginald James
Political Science & African American Studies
Resighted: Black Women Photographers of the Bay Area
Sarah Leadem
Ethnic Studies, Public Policy
The Changing Face of Labor: Immigrant Women, Domestic Work and Labor Unions in California in the 21st Century
Jazmin Ontiveros
Society & Environment; Geography; Ethnic Studies
Black and Brown in the Bay: Solidarity Through the Lens of Black-N-Brown Entertainment
Sophia Wang
Sociology, Political Science
Political and Civic Engagement of Chinese Americans in Ethnic Suburbs
Maia Wolins
Middle Eastern Studies; Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Narratives of the 2003 War: Iraqi Refugees and the US Veterans (the NOW Project)
Spring 2011
Graduate
Tria Andrews
Ethnic Studies
Rehabilitation for Native American Girls at a Facility Located on Tribal Grounds
Tadashi Dozono
Education
Converging Epistemologies: The Racialized and Gendered Knowledged Spaces of Test Preparation
Nilofar Gardezi
English
"There Was A Vividness Of Life, An Intensity Of Being...": Recovering 'The Lost Years' of the 1940s-1960s in African American Literature & Culture
Undergraduate
Melissa M. Barker
Interdisciplinary Studies
The Social Impact of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 on Single Mother Students Pursuing Higher Education
Lan Ngo
Environmental Sciences & South & Southeast Asian Studies
Vietnamese Low-Wage Worker-Needs Assessment
Nevin Rao
Environmental Econ and Policy
South-Asian Masculinity in the 21st Century: Exploring the Strategies Employed in Negotiating its Influence
Son Trung Chau
Ethnic Studies & American Studies
"AzNpRyDE": Pan-Asianism and Youth Culture in an Age of Cyberspace
Fall 2010
Graduate
Jade Sasser
Environmental Science
Empowering Women, Save the Planet? Mobilizing Science and Strategy for Population-Environment Advocacy.
Joshua Williams
Performance Studies
"I am the Masses of My People": Teatro Campesino's Mythic Latinidad, 1973-1976
Elaine Yau
History of Art
Painted Words: The Art, Speech, and Performance of Sister Gertrude Morgan in New Orleans 1960-1980
Undergraduate
Lauren Herman
Interdisciplinary Studies
Beyond the Market: The Rise of Microcredit Plus in Informal Sector Employment for Kenyan Women
Nisha Balaram
Sociology and Interdisciplinary Field Studies, with a focus on Migration Theory
Marginalization and the Media: Framing Immigration in a Post-9-11 Framework
Aaron Benavidez
Geography
The Rhetoric of Racialized Monumental Material Culture and the (Re)Production of Nation-State Identity in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg
Spring 2010
Graduate
Kevin Escudero
Ethnic Studies
Overshadowed and Unafraid: Undocumented API Students & the Struggle for Higher Education
Abigail Andrews
Sociology
The Upshot of El Otro Lado: How Mixtec and Zopotec Migration Patterns Shape Gender, Community & the Tradeoffs of Neoliberalism
Undergraduate
Clarissa Arafiles
Anthroplogy, GWS
Gendered Reflections & Unmarked Identities in Gender and Women's Studies
Hector Gutierrez
Ethnic Studies
Beyond Machismo: Perceptions of Manhood & Masculinity in the Bay Area Day Labor Market
Fall 2009
Graduate
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
Geography
Mexican Women's Contributions to California Agriculture: Agricultural Knowledge and Social Networks Across Borders
Jacqui Shine
History
A Most Extraordinary Noise: Race, Gender & Public Space in 19th Century New Orleans
Amy Shen
Sociology/Gender & Women's Studies
A Route of One's Own: Taiwanese Women's Mobility in Transnational Trajectories of Education
Lowry Martin
French
Creating Lesbos-sur-Seine: Fantasy, Desire & the (Re)imagining of Sappho and her Sisters during the French Third Republic
Undergraduate
Sandra Nakagawa
Sociology
A Look at Race and Femininity in Overcompensating Responses to Gender Identity Threats
Kurt Eulau
Sociology
Gateway Employment or Exploited Labor: Jornaleros & Social Mobility in the San Francisco Bay Area
Spring 2009
Graduate
Alejandra Dubcovsky
History
Slavery, 'Nuevas', and Power, the Stono Rebellion and Communication Exchange in the Colonial Southea
Gabriela Rico
Ethnic Studies
Performance and Performativity of Indigeneity in Mexico: P'urhepecha Spiritual/Cultural Performances in Michoacan