Center for Ideas & Society Resident Fellows
2025-26
History of Art
English
Philosophy
Society, Environment, and Health Equity
CIS Quarterly Fellowship
A People’s History of the I.E.: Structural Racism in Riverside
Theatre Film and Digital Production
CIS Quarterly Fellowship
Diasporic practices during genocide: Glitch as anti-imperial boomerang
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Creative WritingCIS Quarterly Fellowship
What Good is Writing in the Age of AI? Powerwriting as a Tool for Inquiry
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HistoryCIS Quarterly Fellowship
Freedom on Three Coasts: Slavery, Law, and Belonging in the South Atlantic World
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Black Study/Political Science
CIS Quarterly Fellowship
The Spatiality of June Jordan’s World-Making
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Political Science
CIS Quarterly Fellowship
Inflation and Populism: How Rising Prices Shape Political Perceptions and Institutional Trust in Democracies
2024-25
Study of ReligionCIS Quarterly Fellowship
IMAGINING UNBELIEVER (KAFIR) IN MULTIRELIGIOUS INDONESIA
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English
Philosophy
MusicCIS Quarterly Fellowship
Growing Sound Culture: Gender Equity in the Music Industry
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EnglishCIS Quarterly Fellowship
The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latino Male Sexuality and Labor
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HistoryCIS Quarterly Fellowship
Constantius II and the Bishops: Contested Power and the Formation of the Christian Church in the Fourth Century
AnthropologyCIS Quarterly Fellowship
The Maya at the Plaza of the Columns Complex, Teotihuacan: A Dialogue with the Murals
2023-24
Theatre, Film, and Digital ProductionMellon Second Project Fellowship
Getting Away with Yellowface: Affect, Asian Americans, and American Musical Theatre
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Philosophy
HistoryMellon Quarterly Fellowship
The City as Archive: Street Names as a Pathway to Nineteenth-Century Lagos History
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Religious StudiesMellon Quarterly Fellowship
A Living Archive: Embodying a Blackqueer Ethics
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DanceMellon Quarterly Fellowship
Placing the Three Stones: Insurgent Acts of Ixil Worldmaking
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Anthropology
Mellon Quarterly Fellowship
Recipes for Recognition: An Anthropological Cookbook
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Political Science
Mellon Quarterly Fellowship
East of the 15: Environmental War Crimes, Frontline Pedagogies, and Transformative Landscapes of
Memory
Theatre, Film, and Digital Production
Mellon Quarterly Fellowship
Embodied Performance: A Humanities-Based Approach to Public Speaking
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Gender and Sexuality Studies
Mellon Quarterly Fellowship
Radioactive Speak: The Science and Politics of Radiation Exposure in Fukushima
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History
Mellon Quarterly Fellowship
Warfare and Cross-Cultural Trade on the Silk Roads between Iran and the Ottoman Empire
2022-23
History
Mellon Second Book Fellowship
Elephantasmagoria: Elephants in British and American Imperialism
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History of Art
Mellon Second Book Fellowship
Inventing the Americas: Art, Archaeology, and the Modern Making of a Pre-Columbian Past
History 
Creative Writing
Political Science
Dance
Mellon Dean’s Professorship
Ongoing Research Projects
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2021-22
History
Mellon Second Project Fellowship
Data Migration: Global Climates Between Africa and Europe
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Anthropology
Mellon Second Project Fellowship
Imaginative counter-geographies of the opioid crisis in the Inland Empire
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Music
English
Ethnic Studies2020-21
Gender and Sexuality StudiesMellon Second Project Fellowship
Reparative Horizons: On Korean American Activisms
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History
Mellon Term Professorship
The Murder of the Duke of Buckingham and the Transformation of English Political Culture
Media & Cultural Studies
UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship
The Microbial Resolve: Visualization, Speculation, Security
English
Mellon Second Project Fellowship
Thug Life: The British Empire and the Birth of Terrorism
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Philosophy
English2019-20
HistoryNEH Fellowship
The Texture of Change: Cloth, Commerce and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850
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History
Mellon Term Professorship
Pacific Gyres and the Base Archipelago: An Environmental History of Militarized Circulations in the Pacific, 1945-Present
Political ScienceMellon Second Project Fellowship
Bringing Labor Back In: How Histories of Conflict Tame Corporate Power Over Time
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Religious Studies
Gender & Sexuality StudiesMellon Dean’s Professorship
Many Cooks in the Kitchen: Stoves, Fuels, and Women’s Agency in the Global South
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English
Mellon Term Professorship
War Everlasting: The Militarized Technogeometries of Korean American Literature
2018-19
Religious Studies
Second Project Fellowship
Transformational Festivals, Spirituality, and American Yoga
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Philosophy
Hispanic Studies2017
Political Science
Senior Fellowship (2017-20)
Prison Yoga and Meditation: South Asian Text and Practice in U.S.
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George Haggerty
English
AnthropologySecond Project Fellowship (2017-18)
The Racialization of Space and Youth Citizenship in the Southwest United States
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EnglishSenior Fellowship (2017-20)
Recalculating Combat: The Militarized Technogeometries of Korean American Literatures
Psychology2016
MusicSenior Fellowship (2016-19)
Sonic Imaginations: Sound Studies, Sound Practices and Sound Creativity
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Anthropology
Senior Fellowship (2016-19)
The Afterlife of Solidarity: Vietnamese Reanimation of Urban ‘Ruins’ in Eastern Germany
Ajay Verghese
Political ScienceSecond Project Fellowship (2016-17)
The Last Days of Magic: Religiosity in Modern India
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History of Art
Senior Fellowship (2016-19)
Inventing the Americas: Art, Archaeology, and the Modern Making of a Pre-Columbian Past