Past Award Recipients
Established at UCSC in 2011, the purpose of the Hellman Fellows Program is to support substantially the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research. Click here to find out more about the Hellman Fellows Program.
2021 Recipients
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Filippo Gianferrari | Literature | Training the Reader: Dante and the Rise of Vernacular Literacy |
Euiseok Kim | Molecular, Cell, and Developemntal Biology | Molecular Identities and Connectivity of Feedback and Feedforward Circuits in the Mammalian Cortex |
Gueyon Kim | Economics | Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Occupational Mobility |
Jacqueline Kimmey | Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology | Circadian response to Streptococcus pnuemoniae infection |
Robbie Kubala | Philosophy | Social Aesthetics |
Jaimie Morse | Sociology | Bodies of Evidence: Legibility, Medical Uncertainty, and the Knowledge Problem of ‘Rape Kits’ |
Juan Pedroza | Sociology | Safety Net Access for Immigrant Families |
Justin Perez | Latin American & Latino Studies | LGBT Health Across the Americas Initiative |
Jason Samaha | Psychology | Neural Correlates of the Subjective Experience of Time |
Samuel Severance | Education | Creating Sustainable Buzz for Science Learning: Piloting an Elementary Project-Based Ecology Unit Supporting Native Bee Populations |
2020 Recipients
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Saskias Casanova | Psychology | Youth Participatory Action Research, Cultural Knowledge & Resilience for (Im)migrant High School Students |
A.M. Darke | Arts | Open Source Afro Hair Library |
Camilla Hawthorne | Sociology | A Black Santa Cruz Sense of Place |
Timothy Johnstone | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry to Treat Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Neglected Tropical Disease |
Jennifer Kelly | Feminist Studies | Detours: A Decolonial Guidebook to Palestine |
Katy Seto | Environmental Studies | Turning the Tide: Shifting Access, Equity, and Vulnerability in Coastal California |
Michael Wehner | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Low cost automation for Endotracheal Intubation |
Margaret Zimmer | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Quantification of groundwater recharge in non-perennial rivers |
2019 Recipients
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Susan Carpenter | Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology | Carpenter Lab Research Proposal |
Karolina Karlic | Art | Rubberlands: a transmedia art work which visualizes the ways rubber manufacturing is socially, ecologically, and systemically formed |
Anthropology | Contesting visions of City and Nation: Land, and Sovereignty in Coastal Kenya | |
Adriana Manago | Psychology | Social Media, Gender, and Sexual Identity Development in Adolescence |
Sara Niedzwiecki | Politics | Immigrants’ Access to Social Protection in Latin America |
Savannah Shange | Anthropology | Milked: Poverty, Race and the Politics of Breastfeeding |
Amanda Smith | Literature | Mapping the Amazon: Literary Geographies after the Rubber Boom |
Sergey Syzranov | Physics | Conductors insensitive to disorder: insights from high dimensions |
Jerry Zee | Anthropology | Algorithmic Necrosis: Machine Learning and Suicide Watch in China and Silicon Valley |
Yu Zhang | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Modernizing Power System Planning and Operation to Improve Grid Resilience Against Hazardous Events |
2018 Recipients
Faculty Name | ||
Benjamin Breen | History | Indra's Net: Technology and Magic in the Early Modern World, 1600-1820 |
Angela Brooks | Biomolecular Engineering | Novel therapeutic targets in lung cancer from genes with altered mRNA splicing |
History | Planning for Eurafrica: Development and Race in Algeria, 1958-1965 | |
Anna Friz | Film & Digital Media | We Build Ruins |
David Gordon | Politics | Accountability and Global Urban Climate Governance |
Michael Hance | Physics; SCIPP | Searching for New Particles and Symmetries at the Large Hadron Collider |
Cynthia Ling Lee | Theater Arts | Lost Chinatowns: a multimedia dance-theater work exploring Santa Cruz's historical Chinatowns |
François Monard | Mathematics | Inverse problems, integral geometry |
Vicky Oelze | Anthropology | Chimpanzee intoxication and the evolution of termite associated tool use |
Chemistry & Biochemistry | Theory Design of Charged Defects for Two-dimensional Quantum Technologies | |
Xi Zhang | Earth & Planetary Sciences | Deep Atmosphere of Jupiter: Insights from the Juno Spacecraft |
2017 Recipients
Faculty Name | ||
James Ackman | MCD Biology |
Functional Dynamics of Cerebral Lateralization in the Developing Brain |
Terrence Blackburn |
Earth and Planetary Sciences |
U-series Comminution Dating of Fine-Particle Production in Glaciers, Rivers, Faults and Extraterrestrial Surfaces |
Rebecca Covarrubias |
Psychology |
Acknowledging the Cultural Strengths of First-Generation Students: Longitudinal Explorations of Familial Interdependence and Hard Independence |
Renée Fox | Necromantic Victorians: Reanimation and the Historical Imagination in British and Irish Literature |
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Alma Heckman |
Radical Roads Not Taken: Moroccan Jewish Trajectories, 1925-1975 |
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Dongwook Lee | Applied Mathematics & Statistics |
New High-Order Schemes for Computational Fluid Dynamics using Gaussian Processes |
Amy Mihyang Ginther |
Theater Arts |
No Danger of Winning |
Tsim Schneider |
Anthropology |
Comparative Archaeologies of Native-Lived Colonialism in California |
Christopher Vollmers | Biomolecular Engineering |
Determining the Diversity of Individual Human B cells using Nanopore Sequencing |
2016 Recipients
Faculty Name | ||
Mark Amengual | Languages and Applied Linguistics |
Living in two languages: What constitutes “Good Pronunciation” in bilingual speech? |
Alexander Ayzner |
Chemistry and Biochemistry |
Semiconducting Polyelectrolytes as Building Blocks for a Soft Artificial Photosystem |
Rajarshi Guhaniyogi |
Applied Mathematics and Statistics |
Hierarchical Bayesian Statistical Modeling of Massive Scale Spatially Referenced Databases |
Juhee Lee | Novel Nonparametric Bayesian Inference for Metagenomics with Two Applications |
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Samantha Matherne |
Idealism in Exile: Cassirer and the Warburg Institute |
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Nick Mitchell | Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies |
Documenting Labor in California Black Studies |
Jevgenij Raskatov |
Chemistry and Biochemistry |
Cell Culture Studies of a Novel Chiral Variant of Alzheimer’s Amyloid Beta 1-42 Peptide |
Marilou Sison-Mangus |
Ocean Sciences |
Investigating the chemical cross-talk between the toxin-producing diatom and its associated bacteria |
Jennifer Taylor | Film and Digital Media Department |
Redneck Muslim |
2015 Recipients
Faculty Name | ||
Gerald Casel | Splinters In Our Ankles – Collective Cultural Amnesia and Performed Resistance in the Tinikling, The Philippine National Dance |
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Nicolas Davidenko | How experience shapes orientation-dependent visual processing |
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Jennifer Derr | Agriculture and Public Health in Egypt |
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Rebecca DuBois | Understanding how astrovirus enters human cells |
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Lars Fehren-Schmitz | Colonial Encounters and Climate Change: Mapping the Evolution of Human Genetic Diversity in the Central Andes throughout the Pre-Columbian Period |
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Grace Gu | Firm-paid Benefits, Employment, and Monetary Policy |
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Eric Palkovacs | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
An experimental test for eco-evolutionary feedbacks along a classic evolutionary pathway in threespine stickleback |
Juned Shaikh | Spatializing Caste and Class |
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Maziar Toosarvandani | How do languages vary? Aspect and its interpretation in discourse |
2014 Recipients
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Eric Aldrich | Filtering Methods for Volatility Estimation |
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Amy Rose Deal | Studies in Linguistic Diversity: Pronouns and Tense |
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Marc Matera | Decolonization and the Development of Race Relations |
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Adam Millard-Ball | Urban Sprawl: A Global Analysis |
2013 Recipients
Faculty Name | ||
Jennifer Horne | ||
Sylvanna Falcón | ||
Tesla Jeltema |
2012 Recipients
Faculty Name | ||
Megan Moodie | ||
Dejan Milutinović | ||
Ian Garrick-Bethell | ||
Rita Mehta | ||
Irene Lusztig | ||
Shannon Gleeson | ||
Mark Massoud |
2011 Recipients
Faculty Name | ||
Yiman Wang | ||
John Jota Leaños | ||
Neda Atanasoski | ||
Matthew Wagers | ||
Dorian Bell | ||
Christine Hong | ||
Kathleen Kay | ||
Victoria Auerbuch Stone | ||
Mayanthi Fernando | ||
Aspen Gorry | ||
Eduardo Mosqueda | ||
Hector Perla Jr. |