The DHI oversees two fellowship programs for first-year graduate students in the humanities. The multi-year President’s Predoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities provides full fee remission and a stipend to two students annually. The one-year Research Assistantship in the Humanities provides full fee remission and a stipend to graduate student researchers with the Institute. Both groups of graduate fellows are invited to participate in DHI seminars and events, to receive mentoring on research and grants from Institute fellows and staff, and to remain affiliated with the Institute throughout their graduate studies at Davis. In recent years, graduate fellows have worked collaboratively with DHI support staff to coordinate a public event highlighting graduate research in the humanities.
For more information on nominating incoming humanities graduate students for these awards contact the Institute staff.
Jessica Fowler
Jessica Fowler is a Ph.D. student in History having recently completed her M.A. at the University of Georgia. Her research involves tracking a particular heresy throughout the Spanish empire via the intellectual network of inquisitors that prosecuted it.
Kelley Gove
Kelley received her B.A. in English and psychology from the University of New Hampshire, her M.L.I.S. from Simmons College, and her M.A. in American Studies and Environment and Natural Resources from the University of Wyoming. Her M.A. thesis was entitled “Nature as Other: Debating Wyoming’s Red Desert.” Her research interests include cultures of nature, landscapes and power, environmental consumerism, tourism, food, visual culture, and science studies.
Sayyeda Zehra Razvi, Comparative Literature
Sayyeda Zehra Razvi received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Comparative
Literature at University of California Davis where she studied Arabic and completed a senior
thesis on the redistributive potential of the Islamic levy Zakat in Pakistan. Her research interests include twentieth-century Arabic and Urdu Literature with an emphasis on Postcolonial experience and questions of identity and privilege.