Second Annual Provost's Fellowships Honored

This year marks the second round of UC Davis Provost's Fellowships in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. An awards reception was held in the Student Community Center on campus Jan. 23, 2014. In attendance were Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of Graduate Studies Jeffery C. Gibeling, Interim Dean Mary E. Delany, Dean Jessie Ann Owens, and Dean George R. Mangun, this year's fellows and their family and friends, last year's fellows, and faculty and staff.

The Provost's Fellowships (in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences) is an initiative which began in 2012-13 that distributes $2 million of campus funding to 50 UC Davis Ph.D. and M.F.A. students each year. Both competitive first-year and dissertation-year recipients are chosen based on academic performance within the participating programs of study. Through the Provost's allocations, the fellowship provides a $25,000 stipend to each recipient in addition to the remission of tuition and fees for the school year.

The initiative aims to help the graduate recipients focus more on their coursework and research goals. Additionally, the Provost's Fellowship is designed to enhance the overall quality of education in arts, humanities, and social sciences at UC Davis, and recruit top prospective graduate students from around the world to their respective programs of study.

During the reception ceremony, fellows were announced and honored by their respective deans (Interim Dean Mary E. Delany, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Dean Jessie Ann Owens, Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies; Dean George R. Mangun, Division of Social Sciences). Student testimonials were given by first-year fellows Nina Farnia and Jenny Colmenero and dissertation-year fellows John Kincaid, Jess Curtis, and Ryan N. Schacht. Each shared his or her story and how the fellowship enhanced their graduate education. The ceremony concluded with a group photo outside the Student Community Center.

2013-2014 Recipients

  • Social Sciences

  • Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies

  • Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

  • First-Year Fellowships

    Grace Benefield
    Communication

    Elizabeth Boylan
    Sociology

    Nina Farnia
    History

    Meichun Lee
    Anthropology

    Matt L. Miller
    Psychology

    Emily Moline
    Linguistics

    Zachary Psick
    Sociology

    Elizabeth Rard
    Philosophy

    Grant Shields
    Psychology

    Pablo Silva Jr.
    History

    Chelsea Smith
    Anthropology

    Fiona Viney
    History

    David Weissman
    Psychology
     
  • First-Year Fellowships

    Phillip Acimovic
    Music

    Megan Arkenberg
    English

    Nina Cole
    Cultural Studies

    Jenny Colmenero
    English

    Chelsea Escalante
    Spanish

    Siqi Li
    Design

    Amber Muller
    Performance Studies

    Lauren Yoneko Rayburn
    Art

    David Roby
    Music

    Rebeca Rubio
    Spanish

    James Straub
    Comparative Literature

    Carlos-Manuel Vesga
    Dramatic Art

    Victoria Yeager
    Study of Religion
     
  • First-Year Fellowships

    Mohamad Ismail Allouche
    Agricultural and Resource Economics

    Laura Paul
    Agricultural and Resource Economics

    Rachel Turner
    Human Development
  • Dissertation-Year Fellowships

    Heidi Baumgartner
    Psychology

    Joseph R. Cummins
    Economics

    Thomas Scott Dixon
    Philosophy

    John Kincaid
    Sociology

    Jose Ragas
    History

    Ryan N. Schacht
    Anthropology

    Kristen Greer
    Linguistics
  • Dissertation-Year Fellowships

    avid Beard
    Spanish

    Valerie Billing
    English

    Jess Curtis
    Performance Studies

    Karina Deifel
    German

    Theodore Geier
    Comparative Literature

    Ingrid Lagos
    Cultural Studies

    ChiaWei Lin
    Music

    Josef Nguyen
    English

    Terry K. Park
    Cultural Studies

    Kristen Bergman Waha
    Comparative Literature

    Bryan Yazell
    English

    Tania Lizarazo
    Spanish
  • Dissertation-Year Fellowships

    Justin Beaudoin
    Agricultural and Resource Economics

    Nelson Martinez
    Geography

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