Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows
Amalia Contreras
Major: History
Project: No Place like Home: An Insight into the Resilience of Mexican Women affected by Unconstitutional Deportations of the 1930s
Mentor: Dr. Margie Brown-Coronel (History)
Pauli Cuellar Aguilar
Major: Linguistics
Project: Queerly said: a sociolinguistic analysis of cisheteronormative ideologies in Japanese popular media
Mentor: Dr. Satoko Kakihara (Japanese)
C. J. Quion
Major: History
Project: Trouble in the Tropics: An Exploration of the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893
Mentor: Dr. Mike Perez (Sociology)
Thai Butterfield
Major: Religious Studies
Project: The Bible and Judeo-Christian Writings on Homoeroticism: Deconstructing Gender Complementarity and Its Hermeneutical Implications toward Same-Sex Relationships
Mentor: Dr. Janet Bregar (Religious Studies)
Ayza Martinez
Major: American Studies
Project: America’s False Narrative of Gender Equality: Dissection of Misogyny within Women’s Policy
Mentor: Dr. Pamela Fiber-Ostrow (Politics, Administration and Justice)
Starlina Sanchez
Major: Sociology
Project: Beyond Incarceration: Exploring the Reentry of Latinx Women in California
Mentor: Dr. Tala Khanmalek (Women and Gender Studies)
Gabriel Taggard
Majors: English
Project: Applying Queer Theory to Shakespeare’s Irony
Mentor: Dr. David Kelman and Dr. Nicole Seymour (English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics)