Mellon Fellowships
The Early Modern Mellon Fellows program drew together some of UC Davis’s finest doctoral graduate students whose research focuses on the early modern period (c. 1500 – c. 1700). Fellows participated in all events associated with the Initiative.
Past Recipients
2013-2014
The Mellon Teaching-Research Fellows for 2013-2014 are:
Valerie Billing (English)
Dyani Johns (English)
Sawyer Kemp (English)
Josy Miller (Performance Studies)
Christopher Wallis (English)
Victoria White (English)
2012-2013
The 2012-2013 Mellon Fellows and their research projects are:
Christopher Hallenbrook, Political Science: “Conditional Obedience: The Power to Protect and the Right of Rebellion in Hobbe’s Leviathan.”
Emily Kuffner, Spanish: “Windows and the Sexualization of Space in La Lozana andaluza”
Giovanna Montenegro, Comparative Literature: “Sixteenth Century Textual and Visual Representations of Germans in the Province of Venezuela.”
Karolyn Reddy, English: Title TBA
Rachel Reeves, History: “Preaching in the Public Sphere: Politeness and Anglican Authority in Early Eighteenth-century Controversies”