Dissertation Grants
UC MEXUS awards Dissertation Grants to UC graduate students for research toward the completion of their dissertations. Grant recipients are presented by year below, along with their departments, home campuses, faculty advisors, and project titles. “SCR 43” refers to California Senate Concurrent Resolution 43, which inspired funding made available by the Office of the President of the University through the UC Committee on Latina/Latino Research (UCCLR) for research, proposal development, creative activity, and dissertation research in the area of Latino Studies.
By Year
2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998
April A. Anderson, History, UC Irvine (Advisor: Jaime Rodriguez)
Scandalous impiety: Religious practice, gender, generation, and the politics of religion in Nineteenth Century Mexico
Molly Harbour Bassett, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara (Advisor: Rudy Busto)
De(i)fying classification: The proliferation of Aztec Teteo and the challenges they pose to deity taxonomies
Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez, Economics, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Emmanuel Saez)
Inequality in Mexico
Michael K. DeSalvo, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced (Advisor: Monica Medina)
A genomic and physiological approach to the study of coral bleaching resistance
Ricardo A. Fagoaga Hernández, History, UC San Diego (Advisor: Eric Van Young)
"En medio de una y otra América": Regions, markets and indigenous economic participation in Guatemala and Chiapas, 1750-1850
Lisa A. Goldman, Environmental Health Science, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Brenda Eskenazi)
The effects of U.S.-Mexico migration on childhood obesity: A binational approach
(SCR-43)
Omar G. Gudiño, Psychology, UC Los Angeles (Advisor: Anna S. Lau)
Exposure to violence and adjustment in immigrant and non-immigrant Latino youth
(SCR-43)
Salomé Guitérrez Morales, Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara (Advisor: Marianne Mithun)
Grammatical change in Sierra Popoluca: The effects of Spanish and Náhuatl
Niles J. Hasselquist, Center for Conservation Biology, UC Riverside (Advisor: Michael F. Allen)
The importance of water for seedling establishment and tree growth in a seasonally dry tropical forest in Quintana Roo, Mexico
Matthew B. Hufford, Plant Sciences, UC Davis (Advisor: Paul Gepts)
Laying the foundation for in situ conservation of teosinte (Zea mays) ssp. Parviglumis Iltis & Doebley), the wild progenitor of maize
Chelsey A. Juarez, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz (Advisor: Alison Galloway)
Geolocation: A pathway to identification for deceased undocumented border crossers
Julio C. Leal, Literature, UC Santa Cruz (Advisor: Norma Klahn)
Reclaiming Chicano/a poetics and spatiality: Central California geographies and the literary and cultural imagination
(SCR-43)
Hsiu-Chin Lin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego (Advisor: Philip A. Hastings)
Intra-specific biodiversity of blennioid fishes within the Gulf of California: Implications for conservation
Sarah L. Lopez, Architecture, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Paul Groth)
Migrating Mexico: A material history of remittance space in Los Altos de Jalisco, Mexico and the Bay Area, California, U.S.A.
Victoria I. Lyall, Art History, UC Los Angeles (Advisor: Cecelia Klein)
Place and landscape in terminal Classic Maya mural painting of the northern lowlands
Michael D. Mathiowetz, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Advisor: Karl Taube)
Macaws, plumed serpents and the diurnal path of the sun: An ideological complex in Mesoamerica and the Greater Southwest
Anita D. Milman, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Isha Ray)
Bordering on cooperation-water use and recharge in Arizona and Sonora
Jessica L. Petersen, Animal Science, UC Davis (Advisor: Bernie May)
Does scallop aquaculture influence the genetic structure of proximate natural populations?
Lisa Marie Pfeiffer, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis (Advisor: J. Edward Taylor)
Sustainability, equity and growth: The role of water markets in Mexico
Lesliam Quirós, Environmental Health Science, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Brenda Eskenazi)
Characterization of exposure to organophosphate pesticides in Mexican migrant farmworker and low-income urban children
(SCR-43)
Paul F. Ramirez, History, UC Berkeley (Advisor: William B. Taylor)
Science, medicine and miracles: Contexts of epidemic disease in the Valleys of Mexico and Oaxaca, 1736-1833
Laurel K. Salzman, Center for Conservation Biology, UC Riverside (Advisor: Michael F. Allen)
Ecophysiology of epiphyte establishment in the Yucatan Peninsula
Esperanza Sánchez, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Kurt C. Organista)
Food sovereignty among Mexican campesinos: Food choice in the context of migration and remittances
Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada, Sociology, UC Irvine (Advisor: Frank D. Bean)
Gendered educational incorporation experiences for third and fourth generation Mexican-Americans
(SCR-43)
Karen E. Thome, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis (Advisor: Richard Sexton)
Contracts and crop choice: Impacts of agroindustry and changing supply chains in rural Mexico
Zeb J. Tortorici, History, UC Los Angeles (Advisor: Kevin Terraciano)
Contra Natura: Sin, crime, and the regulation of 'unnatural' sexuality in Colonial Mexico, 1600-1800
Mariana Razo Wardwell, Visual Studies, UC Irvine (Advisor: Fatimah Tobing Rony)
The enigma of Ichcateopan: A Messianic archive of the nation
María Barbara Zepeda Cortés, History, UC San Diego (Advisor: Eric Van Young)
Empire, reform and corruption: José de Balvez and political culture in Bourbon, Mexico, 1759-1787
Jody A. Agius, Sociology, UC Irvine (Advisor: Jennifer Lee). Brown picket fences: The Mexican-origin middle class. (SCR 43)
Ana R. Alonso Minutti, Music, UC Davis (Advisor: Beth Levy). Internationalism in Mario Lavista's bridging of the past and future of Mexican concert music.
Christopher N. Anderson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles (Advisor: Gregory F. Grether). Competitor recognition and the evolution of coloration in Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerina spp.).
Zachary A. Brittsan, History, UC San Diego (Advisor: Eric Van Young). In faith or fear: Fighting with Lozada.
Gabriela Caballero-Hernández, Linguistics, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Andrew Garrett). Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) documentation and description.
José Castillo-Garza, Physics, UC Riverside (Advisor: Umar Mohideen). Precision measurements of the Casimir force at low temperature.
Veronica Castillo-Muñoz, History, UC Irvine (Advisor: Heidi Tinsman). Divisive communities: Agrarian struggles, transnational migration and families in Northern Mexico 1917-1952.
Virginia Chaidez, Nutrition, UC Davis (Advisor: Lucia Kaiser). Child-feeding practices in Latinos: An early start in obesity prevention. (SCR 43)
Roberto G. Gonzalez, Sociology, UC Irvine (Advisor: Ruben G. Rumbaut). The children of post-industrial America: How the sons and daughters of unauthorized migrants make ends meet. (SCR 43)
Rebecca Hester, Politics, UC Santa Cruz (Advisor: Patricia Zavella). Public health promoters: Changing practices of everyday life. (SCR 43)
Kraig H. Kraft, Plant Sciences, UC Davis (Advisor: Paul Gepts). Early and contemporary effects of humans shaping the genetic diversity of chile pepper (Capsicum annuum): Inferring historical processes from genetic patterns.
Stephen A. Nuño, Political Science, UC Irvine (Advisor: Louis DeSipio). California Statewide Election Exit Poll 2006. (SCR 43)
Tracey N. Osborne, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Daniel Kammen). Fixing carbon, losing ground: Carbon markets and land politics in Chiapas, Mexico.
Lee M. Panich, Anthropology, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Kent G. Lightfoot). Cultural persistence at Mission Santa Catalina, Baja California, Mexico.
S. Hoyt Peckham, Center for Ocean Health, UC Santa Cruz (Advisor: Donald Croll). Foraging ecology and conservation of the critically endangered North Pacific loggerhead turtle.
Alexis E. Racelis, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz (Advisor: Deborah Letourneau). Plant population dynamics along a tropical forest chronosequence: Implications for the harvest of polewood in central Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Sara K. Sanders, History, UC San Diego (Advisor: Michael Monteon). Cocineras y compañeras: Men, women and the Mexican student movement of 1968.
Hugo Santos-Gomez, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara (Advisor: Juan-Vicente Palerm). California rural communities, farmworker settlement and citizenship practices. (SCR 43)
Kevin D. Schwartz, Plant Sciences, UC Davis (Advisor: Alison Berry). Nitrogen utilization in traditional maize varieties.
Elizabeth N. Shapiro, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Lynn Huntsinger). The Mexican National Payment for Environmental Service Programs: Impacts on forest management practices and rural livelihoods.
Kevin P. Smith, History, UC Santa Barbara (Advisor: Sarah Cline). Ecological conquest: The death of the Aztec lake system and the drying up of indigenous space in the Basin of Mexico.
Stella Villegas Amtmann, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz (Advisor: Daniel P. Costa). How do California and Galapagos sea lions cope with a changing environment? Implications for diving behavior, physiology, thermoregulation and conservation.
Kenneth C. Welch, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara (Advisor: Raul K. Suarez). Metabolic fuel use in a hovering nectarivorous bat.
Angélica J. Afanador, Art History, UC Los Angeles (Advisor: Cecelia F. Klein). The politics of ethnicity: Reimagining indigenous identities in sixteenth-century Michoacán, México.
James Barsimantov, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz (Advisor: Alan Richards). Examining the role of community forestry in conserving Mexico's pine-oak forests.
Martha Bonilla-Moheno, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz (Advisor: Karen D. Holl). Vegetation succession in swidden agriculture in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
Virginia Chaidez, Graduate Group in Nutrition, UC Davis (Advisor: Lucia L. Kaiser). Child-feeding practices in Mexican-Americans with a history of gestational diabetes: An early starting point in obesity prevention. (SCR 43)
Francisco J. Dóñez, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Ann Keller). Air quality and development in the Big Bend: The politics of knowledge. (SCR 43)
Oscar F. Gil, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara (Advisor: Denise Segura). Deconstructing gender relations in forced migrant communities. (SCR 43)
Gloria Gonzalez, Sociology, UC Los Angeles (Advisor: Vilma Ortiz). Body image and Mexican origin girls. (SCR 43)
Tina R. Green, Economics, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Edward Miguel). The political economy of a poverty alleviation program: the case of PROGRESA in Mexico.
Xiaohui Hou, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Paul Gertler). Can conditional cash transfers mitigate the impact of natural shocks on food consumption? Evidence from rural Mexico.
Michelle A. Johnson, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Julian Chow). Perinatal health and the context of immigrant reception: does place matter? (SCR 43)
Mark A. Leach, Sociology, UC Irvine (Advisor: Frank D. Bean). The incorporation of Mexican immigrants in new destinations within the United States. (SCR 43)
Aubrey N. Manack, Environmental Health Science and Policy, UC Irvine (Advisor: Chad Garner). Comparison study: Can targeting antibiotic resistance education within Latino and multiethnic elementary school student-parent populations overcome cultural bias about antibiotics? (SCR 43)
John E. McCormack, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles (Advisor: Thomas B. Smith). The Sky Islands of Northern Mexico as generators of diversity in a bird species.
Rani F. McLean, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara (Advisor: Juan-Vicente Palerm). Wine country: Mexican livelihoods in a highly stratified society. (SCR 43)
Imelda Nava, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles (Advisor: Robert K. Wayne). Systematics of Porichthys and speciation in the New World.
Alejandro Nettel-Hernanz, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Richard S. Dodd). Mating at the extreme, comparison of black mangrove mating system between Pacific Ocean's northern range-limit and Central American populations.
Gabriela Nuñez, Literature, UC San Diego (Advisor: Rosaura Sánchez). Crossing borders and investigating spaces: Contemporary Chicana/o and Mexican detective fiction. (SCR 43)
Christopher Osovitz, Biological Sciences, UC Santa Barbara (Advisor: Gretchen E. Hofmann). Investigating the role of physiological tolerances in setting marine species' biogeographic boundaries.
Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles (Advisor: Sondra Hale). Arab migrants to Mexico: Making/marking status in global postcoloniality.
Analola Santana, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Irvine (Advisor: Juan Bruce-Novoa). Mass culture in current Mexican theatrical trends.
Hirokazu Sasabu, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Advisor: Scott L. Fedick). Ancient Maya wetlands manipulation in the Yalahau region of Quintana Roo: A functional analysis of constructed rock-alignment features.
Amara L. Solari, History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara (Advisor: Jeanette F. Peterson). Processing the ancestral past: intercultural Maya identity and Catholic ritual at early colonial Izamal, Yucatan.
Kathryn Ann Sorenson, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Advisor: Scott L. Fedick). Ancient Maya site planning principles: A case study for the preclassic/classic transition.
Jun U. Sunseri, Anthropology, UC San Diego (Advisor: Judith Habicht-Mauche). Ethnic scales of practice-historic archaeology of an Indo-Hispano buffer settlement in Colonial Northern New Mexico.
Molly A. Talcott, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara (Advisor: Kum-Kum Bhavnani). Plan Puebla Panama and its alternatives: Transnational movements for sustainable development.
Hector Valdes-Conroy, Economics, UC Los Angeles (Advisor: Duncan Thomas). The role of attitudes toward risk in the decision to migrate.
Rodrigo Vargas, Center for Conservation Biology, UC Riverside (Advisor: Michael F. Allen). Soil carbon dynamics in a tropical seasonal forest: From natural succession to ecological restoration.
Lance K. Wollwage, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Advisor: Scott L. Fedick). Water level fluctuations and Maya wetland agriculture in the Northeastern Yucatan, Mexico.
John N. Williams, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis (Advisor: Mark Schwartz). Tree diversity in Mexican dry forests: Do local patterns predict global ones?
Natale A. Zappia, History, UC Santa Cruz (Advisor: Lisbeth Haas). The Old Spanish Trail: Indigenous trails, Mexican caravans and American commemoration.
Araceli Aguilar Melendez, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside (Mikeal L. Roose and Seung-Chul Kim). Evolutionary relationships between wild and cultivated chili peppers (Capsicum annuum L.) in Mexico using a DNA sequence of low copy nuclear gene and microsatellite data.
Tania C. J. Barham, Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (Elisabeth Sadoulet). The impact of conditional cash transfers on infant and neonatal mortality: the case of Mexico.
Matthew A. Barreto, Political Science, UC Irvine (Bernard Grofman). Ethnic cues: the role of shared ethnicity in Latino political participation. (SCR 43)
Mauricio Benitez-Iturbe, Political Science, UC Berkeley (David Collier). Federalism and interest intermediation in Mexico.
Joan M. Brunkard, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz (Brent M. Haddad). Dengue fever and binational cooperation for public health on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Michele L. Buckhorn, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis (Steven G. Morgan). Enhancing fishery management of leopard grouper (Mycteroperca rosacea) using life history characteristics as a basis for no-take Marine Protected Area (MPA) design in the Gulf of California.
Kimberlee J. Chambers, Geography Grad. Group, Environmental Design, UC Davis (Stephen Brush). Conservation of traditional varieties of maize (Zea mays L.) in the Bajío of Mexico: the role of human seed exchange networks.
Jonathan Chevrier, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley (Brenda Eskenazi). Prenatal exposure to thyroid hormones disrupters, maternal thyroid hormones levels during pregnancy and children's neurodevelopment in a predominantly Latino farmworker community. (SCR 43)
Guadalupe Adriana Cruz Manjarrez, World Arts and Cultures, UC Los Angeles (Colin Quigley). Transnational identities and the performance of culture. (SCR 43)
David G. Garcia, History, UC Los Angeles (Juan Gómez-Quiñones). The evolution of a critical race theater: Culture Clash and Chicana/o performance art, 1965-2004. (SCR 43)
Claudia García-Des Lauriers, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Karl A. Taube). Proyecto arqueológico Los Horcones.
Victor M. Gonzalez, School of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine (Gloria Mark). A software framework to integrate high and low level perspectives in the management of multiple activities.
Natividad D. Herrera-Castro, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Maria L. Cruz-Torres). Gender and social change in the coffee groves of Totonacs of Veracruz, Mexico: a political ecology approach.
Seth M. Holmes, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UC San Francisco (Philippe Bourgois). The violence continuum in transnational context: structure, symbol and health among diasporic Triqui laborers.
Owen H. Jones, History, UC Riverside (Robert W. Patch). The colonial Maya region, a comparative ethnohistory, 1521-1825.
Edward S. Levine, Economics, UC Riverside (David H. Fairris). Explaining the decline in union density in Mexico: neoliberal policy reform and the stocks and flows of union density change.
Marissa K. López, English, UC Berkeley (Marcial Gonzalez). Nationalism, narrative, and history: the formal case for Chicana/o literature. (SCR 43)
Alejandro J. Lopez-Feldman, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis (J. Edward Taylor). Extraction, conservation and Development: a bioeconomic analysis of Xate palm.
Pesach Lubinsky, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside (Arturo Gómez-Pompa). Natural history and economic botany of vanilla (Vanilla planifolia Jacks. Ex Andrews) in Mexico.
Sebastian W. Martinez, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley (Paul J. Gertler). The effect of government cash transfers on productive investments in rural Mexico.
Susan M. Materer, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis (Stephen R. Boucher). Disentangling the multiple motivations of migration: rural Mexican migration as a credit and income substitute.
Dolores D. Mena, Psychology, UC Santa Cruz (Catherine R. Cooper). Beyond cultural deficit view of low-income Mexican-descent families: exploring variations in high school students' and parents' aspirations and expectations, educational involvement and "college knowledge." (SCR 43)
Jennifer C. Miller, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez). The transnational political ecology of health at the U.S.-Mexican border.
Roberto E. Montenegro, Sociology, UC Los Angeles (John Heritage). Parent expectations, Spanish-speaking doctor-parent communication, and pediatrician antibiotic over-prescribing for upper respiratory infections. (SCR 43)
Mitchell C. Provance, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside (Giles Waines). Studies on the native persimmons of West Central Mexico: towards a revision of the genus Diospyros (Ebenaceae) in Mexico.
John E. Richert, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, UC Davis (A. Peter Klimley). Trophic ecology of pelagic fishes in the Gulf of California: implications for marine resource.
Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles (Russell Thornton). Captivity and adoption among the Comanche Indians, 1700-1875. Archival research in Mexican repositories.
Ruby E. Rodriguez, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz (Lisa Rofel). Religious institutions, social services and borders: migrant and immigrant experiences in the American Midwest.
Laura F. Rodriguez, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis (Susan Williams). Ecological impacts of an invasive marine invertebrate in an economically important system. (SCR 43)
Erika M. Sánchez-Killian, Sociology, UC Irvine (Rubén Rumbaut). Mexican mothers in higher education: negotiating family, gender ideology and ethnicity. (SCR 43)
Lia T. Schraeder, History, UC Davis (Andrés Reséndez). Controversial devotion in modernizing Mexico City.
Manisha B. Shah, Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (Ethan Ligon). Regulating sex work: evidence from Mexico.
Christina A. Sue, Sociology, UC Los Angeles (Edward Telles). Race and national ideology in Mexico.
Jessica M. Vasquez, Sociology, UC Berkeley (Ann Swidler). Being Mexican-American from generation to generation. (SCR 43)
Guadalupe T. Vidales, Social Ecology, UC Irvine (John Dombrink). A comparative trans-national ecological study of Latina domestic violence: barriers to seeking services in Mexico City and Orange County, California.
Robert G. Weis, History, UC Davis (Andrés Reséndez). "Las Chusmas Reaccionarias": popular conservatism in nineteenth-century Mexico, 1857-1867.
Pamela A. Cantine, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Juan-Vicente Palerm). Balancing Life: Women, Family and Work in California Agribusiness. (SCR 43)
Socorro Castañeda, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara (Denise A. Segura). Another Book on La Virgen?: Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Cultural Politics of Interpretation. (SCR 43)
Gloria E. Chacón, Literature, UC Santa Cruz (Norma Klahn). Entering and Exiting Hybridity: Mesoamerican Writers and the Making of an Indigenous Literary Tradition.
Gabriela Chavira, Psychology, UC Santa Cruz (Catherine R. Cooper). Latino Adolescents' Academic Achievement: The Roles of Family Involvement. (SCR 43)
Jose Refugio De la Torre, History, UC Berkeley (William B. Taylor). Conquering the Frontier. Contests for Religion, Survival, and Profits in Northwestern Mexico, 1768-1835.
Luis M. Estrada, Political Science, UC San Diego (Samuel L. Popkin). Party Identification in Mexico: Meaning, Developments and Findings from a Comparative Perspective.
Sylvanna M. Falcón, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara (Denise Segura). Transnational Feminist Social Movements at the United Nations World Conferences.
David S. Fitzgerald, Sociology, UC Los Angeles (Roger Waldinger). A Nation of Emigrants? Nation-State Building in Mexican Migrant Sending Communities.
Jeffrey B. Glover, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Scott L. Fedick). Ancient Maya Settlement Patterns in the Yalahau Region, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., History, UC Santa Barbara (Zaragosa Vargas). "Mexipino": Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965. (SCR 43)
Rufina Hernandez-Martinez, Plant Pathology, UC Riverside (Donald A. Cooksey). Gene Expression Profile of Putative Pathogenicity and Virulence Factors in Xylella fastidiosa Causing Pierce's Disease.
Jason L. Hlebakos, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside (Arturo Gómez-Pompa). An Ethno-Ecological Investigation of the Sacred Sinkholes of the Maya.
Pablo Ibarrarán, Economics, UC Berkeley (David Card). The Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico.
Brian M. Kemp, Anthropology, UC Davis (David Glenn Smith). Mitochondrial DNA Variation of Mexican Populations: Investigation of Human Interactions between Mesoamerica and the Southwest.
Alison E. Lee, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Thomas C. Patterson). Transnational Migration and Ecological Transformation: The impact of rapid social change on natural resource management in rural sending communities, Puebla, Mexico.
David E. Machledt, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz (Olga Nájera-Ramirez). Moving Risk: Binational Bureaucracies, Tuberculosis, and the "Foreign Born" at the United States/Mexico Border. (SCR 43)
Borja Mila, Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, UC Los Angeles (Thomas B. Smith). Evolution of Songbird Migration in the Mexican Highlands: Implications for speciation, Taxonomy and Biodiversity Conservation. (Mildred Mathias Award Winner)
Melissa H. Morris, Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis (Caroline S. Bledsoe). Ecology and Diversity of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Oak Forests in Mexico.
Andrew J. Olaharski, Graduate Group of Environmental Toxicology, UC Riverside (David A. Eastmond). Elucidating the Mechanism of Micronuclei Formation During Cervical Carcinogenesis.
Fernando Purcell, History, UC Davis (Louis S. Warren). "Too Many Foreigners For My Taste." Mexicans, Chileans and Irish in Northern California, 1848-1880. (SCR 43)
Julie Rodgers, Psychology, Institute for Personality and Social Research, UC Berkeley (Kaiping Peng). Risk and Resilience: The Dual Effects of Minority Status among Mexican-Americans. (SCR 43)
Gabriela Toledo-Ortiz, Plant and Microbial Biology and Plant Gene Expression Center, UC Berkeley (Peter H. Quail). Dissecting the Role of the PIF3-like Basic-Helix-Loop_Helix (bHLH) T61 and HLH Proteins in Phytochrome Signal Transduction in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, Literature, UC San Diego (Rosaura Sanchez). The Figure of the Peladita/Peladito and the Pachuca/Pachuco in Chicana/o and Mexican Cultural Production from 1920-1980. (SCR 43)
Rachel S.Washburn, Social and Behavioral Sciences, UC San Francisco (Adele E. Clarke). Managing Transboundary Air Pollution: An Examination of Power Plant Development Along the United States-Mexico Border. (SCR 43)
John M. Ackerman, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz (Walter Goldfrank). The struggle for accountability in Mexico: Explaining uneven political development.
Heriberto Avelino, Linguistics, UC Los Angeles (Pamela Munro). Topics in Yalálag Zapotec grammar, dictionary and texts.
Friederike D. Baumann, History, UC Davis (Arnold J. Bauer, Andrés Resendez). At what price progress: The formation of a capitalist coffee economy in Soconusco, Chiapas, 1870-1950.
Karen D. Blair, Geological Sciences, UC Santa Barbara (Phillip Gans). Neogene sedimentary basin development in east-central Sonora, Mexico.
Christopher B. Busch, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (Michael Hanemann). Technological change in agriculture in the Southern Yucatán Peninsula region of Mexico: Implications for land use, deforestation and climate change policy.
David M. Carballo, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles (Richard G. Lesure). Labor, ideology and the state at Teotihuacan, Mexico: A view from the Moon Pyramid.
Mathew C. Coleman, Geography, UC Los Angeles (John Agnew). Free trade debordering or national security rebordering? Interrogating post-September 11 U.S. foreign policy border geographies in the US-Mexico border region.
Julia A. Cottle, Anthropology, UC Davis (Roger Rouse). Canning workers: Mexicanos' experiences of restructuring in California's agro-industrial sector. (SCR 43)
Matthew T. Craig, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego (Philip A. Hastings). Intra-specific biodiversity in fisheries important species: Implications for management and conservation.
Matthew R. Des Lauriers, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Philip J. Wilke). Broadening Horizons: A comparative archaeological study of Isla Cedros, Baja California and the Channel Islands of Alta California.
Fredrick J. Fodrie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego (Lisa A.Levin). Application and validation of a trace element approach for investigating nursery habitat utilization by the California halibut.
Shannon L. Fowler, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz (Daniel P. Costa). Ontogeny of diving physiology and behavior in the California sea lion.
Rita A. Gonzalez, Film, Television and Digital Media, UC Los Angeles (Chon Noriega). In transito: Journey, itineraries and historical turns in contemporary Mexican and Latino media art. (SCR 43)
Joseph H. Green, History, UC Riverside (Robert Patch). Obreros, campesinos and politics during the institutional phase of the Mexican revolution: The case of Jalisco, 1929-1940.
Todd A. Haney, Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, UC Los Angeles (David K. Jacobs). Systematics and ecology of leptostracan Crustacea from the Pacific Coast of Mexico.
Sharon F. Lean, Political Science, UC Irvine (Alison Brysk). The transnational politics of democracy promotion: Election monitoring in Mexico.
Mark J. Mairot, History, UC Los Angeles (Jose C. Moya). Mexican provincial society during the age of revolution: A social and economic history of Toluca, 1770-1840.
Maher Memarzadeh, History, UC Los Angeles (Kevin Terraciano). Medical practitioners in early colonial Mexico: The influence of Mediterranean scientific traditions on medicine in New Spain.
Guillermina Gina Nuñez, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez & María Crúz-Torres). The political ecology of households and communities on the U.S.-Mexico border: A case-study of colonias in Southern New Mexico. (SCR 43)
Francisca A. Olaiz, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles (Carole Browner). How Latinas' social and economic experiences and their social networks influence their constructions of sexuality and preventative health behaviors. (SCR 43)
Rodolfo A. Otero, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Michael Kearney). Espiritualismo on the U.S.-Mexican Border. (SCR 43)
Christopher M. Rodriguez, History, UC Davis (Andres Resendez). Fashioning Mexico's soul: Identity, festival and tourism in Southern Mexico.
David S. Torres-Rouff, History, UC Santa Barbara (Paul Spickard). Race and the making of Los Angeles, 1840-1930. (SCR 43)
Joseph A. Turner, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara (Tania Israel). Cultural factors that influence Latino siblings' anticipated support of a gay male brother. (SCR 43)
Eric A. Verhoogen, Economics, UC Berkeley (David Card). Trade liberalization, product market structure and employment practices in the Mexican manufacturing sector.
Helen A. Violi, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside, (Carol J. Lovatt). Identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for the restoration of Persea spp. to montane cloud forests in Mexico.
Martin S. Wong, Geological Sciences, UC Santa Barbara (Phillip Gans). Timing and magnitude of extensional deformation in the Sierra Mazatlan metamorphic core complex: Results from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology.
Maria F. Zermoglio, Environmental Design-Geography, UC Davis (Stephen Brush). The impact of climate change on maize (Zea mays) genetic resources in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
Miriam A. Anaya, Nutrition, UC Davis (Lyndsay H. Allen). Prevalence, Causes, Consequences and Treatments of Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Mexican Elderly.
Juan A. Avila, Native American Studies, UC Davis (Stefano Varese). "Tu'I Voo'ota Weiya/Follow the Good Road": Yoeme (Yaqui) Transationalism during the Modernization of Mexico (1876-1910) and the Formation of Contemporary Yoeme Societies.
Nielman M. Barnes, Sociology, UC San Diego (Steven Epstein). Binational Collaboration between the US and Mexican HIV/AIDS Sectors: An Exploration of the (re)Construction of National, Organizational and Epistemological Boundaries.
Jennifer K. Browder, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Karl Taube). Painting Teotihuacan Ritual and Worldview: Creating Fineline Drawings from Multispectral Images of the Portico 2 Murals at Teotihuacan, Mexico.
Jose Luis Cardenas, Food Science and Technology, UC Davis (Norman F. Haard). Purification and characterization of cysteine cathepsins from Jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) mantle muscle.
Guadalupe Chapa, Environmental Health Sciences, UC Los Angeles (John R. Froines). Quantification of Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides in a Mexican Agricultural Community.
Bonnie J. Clark, Anthropology, UC Berkeley (Laurie A. Wilkie). The Archaeology of Abandoned Settlement in Mexicano Colorado.
Jill L. Deppe, Biology, UC Riverside (John T. Rotenberry). Ecology of Trans-Gulf Neotropical Migrant Landbirds in Yucatan, Mexico During the Fall Migration.
Sheila E. Desai, Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Davis (J. Edward Taylor & Scott Rozelle). Integrating the environment, population and migration: modeling interactive relationships.
Travis A. Du Bry, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Juan-Vicente Palerm). Socioeconomic Change in a Desert Farm Laborer Community. (SCR 43)
Subhadra Ganguli, Economics, UC Riverside (Prasanta Pattanaik). "Pollution Havens" in Mexico: An Econometric Analysis of Industrial Relocation Before and After NAFTA.
Blanca E. Gordo, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley (Manuel Castells, Karen Christensen, & AnnaLee Saxeni). Community Economic Development in the Information Age: The Potential Role of the Community Technology Access Center in Addressing the Digital Divide. (SCR 43)
Christopher D. Hulsey, Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis (Peter C. Wainwright). Functional evolutionary ecology of Cichlasoma minckleyi, a trophically polymorphic fish.
Juliette Levy, History, UC Los Angeles (William Summerhill, UCLA & Eric Van Young, UCSD). Arrested Development: Credit Markets, Networks and Economic Growth; Merida, Yucatan 1850-1895.
Kristina D. Louie, Organismic Biology, UC Los Angeles (David K. Jacobs). The Effect of Different Reproductive Strategies on the Genetic Variation of Three Eastern Pacific Eelgrass Dependent Species.
Nicole D. Peterson, Anthropology, UC San Diego (Roy D'Andrade & Joel Robbins). Information exchange in collaborative conservation efforts in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Alexandra M. Puerto, History, UC Davis (Andrés Reséndez). The Maya, Medicine, and Modernization in Yucatan, Mexico.
Andrea H. Reyes, Chicano Studies, UC Los Angeles (Guillermo Hernandez). Los Ensayos de la extraordinaria Rosario Castellanos.
Russell C. Rodriguez, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz (Olga Nájera Ramírez) The Political Aesthetics of Mariachi Transmission and Performance. (SCR 43)
Mario L. Tinoco-Herrera, Education, UC Davis (Patricia Gandara). Skilled Transnational Migration: The Circuit of Mexican Researchers in the Agricultural Sciences between Mexico and the United States. (SCR 43)
Olivia Treviño, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Los Angeles (Adriana Bergero). From "Cardenismo" to "Alemanismo": Modernization and Marginalization in the Mexican Short Story and Photography, 1930-1960.
Edward N. Wright-Rios, History, UC San Diego (Eric Van Young). Piety and Progress: Catholic Activism, Local Politics, and Religious Practice in Oaxaca, 1870-1930.
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Narda Alcantara-Valverde, School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine (Douglas R. White). Kinship and Friendship Networks in Mexican Politics: Between Elite Interlocking and Faction Formation.
Arthur L. Corea-Mason, Anthropology, UC Berkeley (Nelson Graburn). "Eski-Mex" Identities in Transition.
Rebecca E. Dolhinow, Geography, UC Berkeley (Allan Pred). Borderlands Justice: Women's Leadership in the Colonias of Dona Ana County, New Mexico.
Kenneth F. Greene, Political Science, UC Berkeley (Ruth Berins Collier). Shaping Democracy: Party Strategy and Political Representation in Mexico.
Karen V. Holliday, Anthropology, UC Irvine (Leo R. Chávez). Botanicas in Orange County: A Therapeutic or Risky Healthcare Alternative for the Latino. (SCR 43)
Kathleen A. Lytle, History, UC Los Angeles (Eric Monkkonen). Cowboys and Mexicans: the U.S. Border Patrol and the Evolution of a 20th Century Indian War, 1924-1954. (SCR 43)
Ernesto Salazar Martínez, Film and Television, UC Los Angeles (Chon Noriega). Latina/o film festivals and Latina/o independent film practices: An Alter-Native mode of cultural production. (SCR 43)
Konane M. Martínez, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Michael Kearney). Health Beyond Borders: Mixtec Utilization of Clinical Health Care. (SCR 43)
Margarita Mauro Herrera, Agronomy and Range Science, UC Davis (Paul Gepts). Wild Bean Populations as a Source of Genes to Improve the Yield of Cultivated Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).
Gabriel R. Nemogá, Human and Community Development, UC Davis (Stephen B. Brush). Variation of Pharmacopoeias of Immigrant People in the Tropical Forest of Calakmul.
Lina Y. Newton, Political Science, UC Irvine (Helen Ingram). The Success of Laws that Fail: U.S. Immigration Policy and the Social Construction of Mexican Immigration. (SCR 43)
Matthew D. O'Hara, History, UC San Diego (Eric Van Young). Dividing the Flock: Race and Religious Symbolism in Mexico, 1740-1867.
Catha Paquette, History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara (Ramon Favela). Mexican Art at New York's Museum of Modern Art, 1935-1954.
Haley M. Seif, Anthropology, UC Davis (Roger Rouse). A "New Beginning"? The Incorporation of Mexican (Im)migrant Labor, Trade and Foreign Capital in California Legislative Politics.
Gabriela M. Soto Laveaga, History, UC San Diego (Eric Van Young). Root of Discord: Commoditization of Barbasco and the Mexican People, 1968-1998.
Debora R. Vargas, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz (Herman S. Gray). Las Tracaleras: Tejanas, Tex-Mex Music, and the (En)Gendering of Tejano Cultural Production. (SCR 43)
Jennifer L. Watts, Animal Science, UC Davis (Douglas E. Conklin). Measuring the Flux of Nitrogen Uptake in Natural Phytoplankton Assemblages in a Subtropical Estuary near La Paz, Baja California Sur.
Randall J. Williams, Literature, UC San Diego (Rosaura Sánchez). Immigration Prisons: Detention and Resistance in the Borderlands. (SCR 43)
Manuel Barajas, Sociology, UC Riverside (Alfredo Mirande). Xaripus in Northern California in the Late 20th Century: A Bi-national Case Study of Migration/Immigration, Labor, Community, and Family.
Ernest Bustillos, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz (Walter Goldfrank). Labor Market Strategies and the Stage Migration of Mexican Migrants.
Megan R. Crowley, Anthropology, UC Irvine (Arthur J. Rubel). Culture, Class and Bodily Meaning: An Ethnographic Study of Organ Transplantation in Mexico.
George A. Dyer, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis (J. Edward Taylor). The role of markets in the management and conservation of maize land-races in Central Mexico.
Sherry Fields, History, UC Davis (Arnold J. Bauer). Ailing Bodies: Towards a History of Sufferers in Mexico.
Ann Aurelia López, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz (Patricia Zavella). From the Farms of West Central Mexico to California’s Corporate Agribusiness: The Social Transformation of Two Binational Farming Regions.
Martha Lopez-Forment, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley (Jere Lipps). DNA phylogeny and biogeography of the corals Porites and Pocillopora in the Gulf of California.
Karl James Lorenzen, Anthropology, UC Riverside (Karl Andreas Taube). Recycling the Sacred Landscape: The Ritual Re-use of Cultural Geography among the Late Postclassic Maya.
Kara L. Nelson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis (Jeannie Darby). The Detection, Degradation, and Inactivation of Ascaris eggs in Mexican Wastewater Stabilization Ponds.
Loretta M. O’Connor, Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara (John W. Du Bois). Images of figure and ground in Chontal expressions of motion and transformation.
Tanalís Padilla, History, UC San Diego (Michael Monteón). Continuing the Revolutionary Tradition: Campesino Struggles in Morelos, 1940-1970.
Antonio Polo, Psychology, UC Los Angeles (Steven R. Lopez). Mental Health Outcomes of Mexican American Youth: Socio-Cultural/Family Correlates.
Horacio N. Roque, Comparative Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley (Evelyn Nakano Glenn). Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Latino Community Formations in San Francisco, 1975-1995.
Robert Ketner Ream, Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara (Russell W. Rumberger). On the move: Student mobility as a contributing factor in achievement stratification between Mexican-Americans and non-Latino White Americans.
Tara J. Yosso, Graduate School of Education, UC Los Angeles (Daniel G. Solorzano). Critical Race Theory and Visual Microaggressions: The Influence of a Critical Media Literacy Curriculum on Chicana and Chicano Community College Students.
Susan Algert, Social Sciences, UC Irvine (Leo R. Chavez). Adolescent Mexican American Females’ Perceptions of Pregnancy, Sexuality and Early Motherhood.
Maylei Blackwell, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz (Sonia E. Alvarez). Geographies of Difference: Mapping Multiple Feminist Insurgencies and Transnational Public Culture in the Americas.
Lesley Blancas, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside (Norman C. Ellstrand). Characterization of Naturally Sympatric and Allopatric Populations of Teosinte with Maize: Implications for the Risk of Extinction by Hybridization.
Eric Boime, History, UC San Diego (William Deverell). Fluid Boundaries: Southern California, Baja California and the Conflict over the Colorado River.
Victoria Carlton, Psychiatry, UC San Francisco (Nelson B. Freimer). Finding a Gene for Phytosterolemia.
Tim Clary, Geography, UC Los Angeles (C. Cindy Fan). Mexico’s Border Industrialization Program and Its Effects on Communicable Diseases along the Northern Mexican Border.
Kanan Patel Coleman, ESE Program, School of Public Health, UC Los Angeles (Irwin Suffet). Disinfection Management Implications and Human Health Impacts of Trihalomethanes in a Mexico City Drinking Water Supply.
Theresa Delgadillo, English, UC Los Angeles (Sonia Salvidar-Hull & Valerie Smith). Revolutionary Gods: Hybrid Spirituality in Chicana and Chicano Cultural Productions.
Grace Delgado, History, UC Los Angeles (Juan Gómez-Quiñones). Borderland Crucible: The Implications of Chinese and Mexican Immigration for Development along the Far Western Frontier States, 1882-1942.
Virginia Escalante, Communications, UC San Diego (Daniel C. Hallin). Sites of Power and Communities of Difference: Latinos and the Politics of U.S. Media Production.
Sylvia Escarcega-Judge, Anthropology, UC Davis (Carol A. Smith). Transnational Cultural Politics: Nation-Making and Ethnicity-Making among Mixtec Migrants.
Liette Gilbert, Urban Planning, UC Los Angeles (Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris). Socio-Spatial Manifestations of Ethnonational Identities; A Study of Chicano and Québécois Movements in Los Angeles and Montréal.
Linda Heidenreich, History, UC San Diego (David Gutiérrez). History and Forgetfulness in Napa County.
Judith Huacuja Pearson, History of Art, UC Santa Barbara (Ramón Favela). California Chicano Collectives and the Development of a Liberatory Artistic Praxis in America.
Judith A. Kessler, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, UC Santa Barbara (Richard Appelbaum). The Global Apparel Industry and Transnational Production Networks: North American Integration and the Southern California/Mexico Connection.
Barbara Reyes, Ethnic Studies/History, UC San Diego (Ramon Gutiérrez). Nineteenth-Century California as Engendered Space: The Public/Private Lives of Californio Women.
Gillian Schultz, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside (Arturo Gómez-Pompa). The Modern Pollen Rain and Flora of the El Eden Ecological Reserve, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Eduardo Serafin, Anthropology, UC Berkeley (Margaret W. Conkey). The Social Geography of Central Baja California, Mexico. A Landscape and Geoarchaeological Approach.
Diana L. Steller, Biology, UC Santa Cruz (Pete T. Raimondi). Importance of Rhodolith Beds as Shell Fish Recruitment Habitats.
Zulelma Valdez, Sociology, UC Los Angeles (Vilma Ortiz). What is "Ethnic" about Ethnic Entrepreneurship?: The Intersection of Ethnicity and Class in Self-Employment Opportunities.
Eric Van Dusen, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis (J. Edward Taylor). In Situ Conservation of Farm Level Biodiversity: The Case of the Milpa.
Irene Vasquez, History, UC Los Angeles (James Lockhart). Gender and Interethnic Relations in Colonial Durango: The Creation of a Multi-Ethnic Society, 1600-1750.