ACP Fellows

2021-2022

Dr. John Kennedy, Music
Dr. Birte Pfleger, History
Dr. Sara Pugach, History

 


Past ACP Faculty Fellows:
( * indicates a Dr. Joseph A. Bailey II, M.D. Fellow)

2020-2021
Dr. Louis Esparza, Department of Sociology
Prof. Sylke Rene Meyer, Department of Television, Film, and Media
Dr. Ezekiel Joubert, Charter College of Education*

2019-20
Dr. Pablo Baler, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures*
Dr. Gabriela Fried-Amilivia, Department of Sociology
Dr. Angela Vergara, Department of History

2018-19
Dr. Shweta Adur, Department of Sociology  
Dr. Libby Lewis, Departments of Sociology and Pan African Studies*
Dr. Kimberly Robertson, Departments of Liberal Studies and Women's, Genders, and Sexualities Studies

2017-18
Dr. Akhila Ananth, School of Criminal Justice and Criminalistics*
Dr. Eileen Ford, Department of History

2016-17
Dr. José G. Anguiano, Department of CLS and the Honors College
Dr. Andrew Knighton, Department of English
Dr. Priscilla Leiva*, Departments of CLS and History

2015-16
Dr. Lucian Gomoll, Department of Liberal Studies and the Honors College
Dr. Caroline McManus, Department of English

2014-2015
Dr. Pablo Baler, Associate Professor of Modern Languages
Dr. Cheryl Koos, Professor of History
Dr. Paola Marin, Associate Professor of Modern Languages

2013-2014
Dr. Benjamin Bateman, Associate Professor of English
Dr. Christopher Endy*, Professor of History
Dr. Alejandra Marchevsky, Professor of Liberal Studies and WGSS

2011-2012
Dr. Sara Pugach*, Assistant Professor of History
Dr. Bidhan Roy, Assistant Professor of English
Dr. Aaron Sonnenschein, Assistant Professor of English

2011-2012
Dr. Choi Chatterjee, Professor of History
Dr. Maria Karafilis, Professor of English
Dr. Molly Talcott, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Dr. Mark Wild*, Associate Professor of History

2010-2011
Dr. Rob DeChaine, Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Studies
Dr. Kate Sullivan, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

2009-2010
Dr. Talia Bettcher, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Dr. Patrick Sharp, Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Studies
Dr. Michael Willard*, Assistant Professor, Department of Liberal Studies

2008-09
Dr. Manuel Aguilar, Professor, Department of Art
Dr. Beth Baker-Cristales*, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Dr. Andrew Knighton, Assistant Professor, Department of English

2007-08
Dr. Marilyn Elkins*, Professor, Department of English
Dr. Maria Karafilis (deferred), Associate Professor, Department of English
Dr. Suzanne Regan, Professor, Department of Communication Studies

2006-07
Dr. Hema Chari, Professor, Department of English
Dr. Robert Dechaine, Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Studies
Dr. Alejandra Marchevsky*, Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Studies

2005-06
Dr. John Kennedy, Associate Professor, Department of Music
Dr. Micol Seigel*, Assistant Professor, Department of Liberal Studies
Dr. Michael Willard, Assistant Professor, Department of Liberal Studies

2004-05
Dr. Michelle Hawley, Assistant Professor, Department of English
Dr. San San Kwan, Assistant Professor, Department of Theater Arts and Dance
Dr. Lauri Ramey*, Associate Professor, Department of English

2003-04
Dr. Bryant Alexander*, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Dr. Lena Chao, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Dr. Maria Karafilis, Assistant Professor, Department of English

 

Some Scholarly Work Funded by ACP Fellowships:

Below please find a list of some of the publications, presentations, and installations we've been able to support.

Manuel Aguilar, "Walls of Passion; The Murals of Los Angeles," a photo-documentary exhibit installed at the Art Gallery, Cal State LA and the Mexican Consulate, Los Angeles, CA, 2009.

Bryant Alexander, “Placement and Displacement of Black Identity:  The Case of Migration across Borders from Campus to Community.” In B. K. Alexander. Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006: 33-67.

Beth Baker-Cristales, “Structuring Race: Black and Brown in Los Angeles,” invited Presidential Session, American Anthropological Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, December 2009. 

Benjamin Bateman, co-editor and introduction author (with Elizabeth Adan, Cal Poly – SLO), “Precarity and Lateral Aesthetics,” special issue of Minnesota Review: A Journal of Critical and Creative Writing, Duke University Press, forthcoming Fall 2015; Co-organizer (with Andrew Lyndon Knighton), "Emergent Precarities: A Symposium," February 21, 2014, Cal State LA. ACP Fellowship support funded research for the book The Modernist Art of Queer Survival, which is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2017.

Hema Chari, “Transnational Identities: In/Excluding Nation and Self,” the American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2008.

Choi Chatterjee,  "Lady in Red: Bolshevik Feminism in the American Imagination, 1917-1939," Invited talk at the Oldenbourg Center, Pomona College, CA, 3 November 2011.; "American Communist Women and their Soviet Experience," at Women and Men in the Context of Historical Change, Tver University, Russia, 4-7 October, 2012; "American Communist Women and their Soviet Experience," invited talk at the conference, "Back to the USSR," CSU Fullerton, December 2012; Choi Chatterjee, Steven Marks and Steve Sabol, eds., The Wider Arc of Revolution (Slavica Publishers, Forthcoming 2017). See more at http://russiasgreatwar.org/team.shtml

Rob DeChaine, ed. Border Rhetorics: Charting Enactments of Citizenship and Identity on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P. [Forthcoming, 2012]; Bordering the Civic Imaginary: Alienization, Fence Logic, and the Minuteman Civil Defense CorpsQuarterly Journal of Speech 95 (2009): 43-65; Imagined Immunities. In Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice, eds. M. Romero, J. Parker & R. Samantrai.  Forthcoming from SUNY Press. 

Jazmin Delgado, Cal State LA graduate student, Department of English and ACP Research Assistant, "A Machine for Reading (in): Discipline and Modularity in Postwar American Public Library Architecture," Conscripted Subjects: Disciplined Society, Critique, and the Humanities; UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, February 24th and 25th, 2011.

Marilyn Elkins, (With Cynthia Caywood and Carlton Floyd).   Introduction and editing.  “August Wilson,” College Literature 36.2 [Spring 2009], iv-xv. 1-171.   An edition devoted to the work of August Wilson, the volume is a refereed publication.

Maria Karafilis, “American Racial Dystopia: Expansion and Extinction in Poe and Hawthorne,” forthcoming in Poe Studies in 2015; “The Jewish Ghetto in Mary Antin and her Contemporaries,” American Literary Realism, Winter 2010 (42)2: 129-150; “The Traumatic Sublime and American Democracy.” American Studies Association, Washington DC, November 2005; “Trauma, Race, and the Unassimilated.” American Studies Association, Hartford, CT, October 2003.

Andrew Lyndon Knighton, "Hollywood Panoramatics: Nathanael West's Baroque Modernity." Literature Interpretation Theory 21:3 (July-September 2010), pp. 145-162; "Speaking Volumes:  The Utopian Syntax of American Postwar Public Library Architecture,” presented at Libraries in the History of Print Culture, Center for the History of Print Culture, Madison, WI (Sept 2010); "Modernity, The City, and Liquidity:  Henry Blake Fuller’s ‘Seething Floods,’” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, (April 2010). "Holy City Adrift:  Thomas McGrath's Los Angeles" (co-authored with Salvador Ayala, Amanda Kong, and Gabriela Valenzuela), North Dakota Quarterly 83:4 (Fall 2016).

Alejandra Marchevsky (with Beth Baker), "Why Has President Obama Deported More Immigrants than Any President in US History?" The Nation (March 31, 2014); (With Jeanne Theoharis) "America's Brown Sites: Connecting the Domestic War on Terror and Immigration Detention." Forthcoming Roundtable at the Annual American Studies Association Meeting, Los Angeles, November 2014; (With Beth Baker), "Freedom's Movement: Spatial Regulation of Immigrants and Resistance by Undocumented Youth." Presented at Annual International Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, May 2014.

Lauri Ramey, “Border Crossing with the Slave Songs.” In Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); L. Ramey, editor, The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium (Ashgate, 2008).

Bidhan Roy, “That Other Ocean’: Buddhist Modernism and Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man” In Lawrence Normand and Alison Winch (Eds.) Encountering Buddhism (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013).

Patrick Sharp, "Science, Gender, Colonialism, and Science Fiction." Department of Ethnic Studies. University of California, Riverside: April 22, 2011; "New Worlds: Science, Colonialism, and Science Fiction." East Los Angeles College Chemistry and Biology Club. East Los Angeles College: February 16, 2011; "Amazonian Flowers: Gender, Science, and Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century." American Studies Association Conference. San Antonio: November 19, 2010; "Racial Hygiene, Sexual Selection, and Science Fiction before the Golden Age." Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference. Indianapolis: October 30, 2010; "The Amazon's Conquer Sexual Selection: Gillmore's Angel Island." Science Fiction Research Association Conference. Carefree, AZ: June 24, 2010.

Mark Wild.  "Religion and the Urban Civic Landscape: The Case of the Los Angeles County Committee for Church and Community Cooperation," submitted for collection (title TBA), eds. Richard Flory and Diane Winston.