The DHI presents this fellowship opportunity in an effort to support faculty who wish to pursue a community-engaged research or creative project that has a substantive community tie-in. Cross-college collaborations are welcome.
The call for the 2023-2024 fellowship can be found here.
2023-2024
Christoph Hanssmann, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Professor Hanssmann is an Assistant Professor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at UC Davis. He studies the politics of health, science, and medicine, focusing on relationships between biomedicine and social movements. Recently, he completed a manuscript entitled Care Without Pathology about the transnational emergence of transgender health care as an institutionalizing field and a public good. Dr. Hanssmann works collaboratively with researchers and activists in feminist, queer, and transfeminist health and justice and has published articles in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Social Science and Medicine.
Prof Hanssmann’s Public Engagement project is working on the Feminist Health Justice Meta-Syllabus, a resource created by the Feminist Health Justice Collective (FHJC), a group of students, faculty, and community members. In creating the meta-syllabus, the FHJC took inspiration from the emergence of the public syllabus or “hashtag syllabus” in 2020, which provided interactive resources for communities seeking to engage collectively with topics like racial justice and the COVID-19 pandemic. With the Feminist Health Justice Meta-Syllabus, Prof Hanssmann and his colleagues at the FHJC aim to provide individuals, classrooms, and communities with a tool that highlights the structural causes of health disparities by combining feminist intersectional social theory with health justice perspectives.
The meta-syllabus is an interactive repository of articles, videos, and other publications that are organized by a series of overarching structural frameworks. These frameworks seek to underscore the systemic sources of inequities in public health, ranging from housing justice to coloniality and decolonization.The FHJC incorporates creative contributions and feedback from those at the forefront of health and social justice, and the DHI fellowship will enable Prof Hanssmann and his colleagues to build community-contributed videos and narratives for the Structural Frameworks of the resource’s landing page.
2021-2022
Liza Grandia, Native American Studies
Lynette Hunter, Theater and Dance
Grace Wang, Cultural Studies
Julie Wyman, Cinema and Digital Media
2020-2021
Jesse Drew, Cinema and Digital Media
Robert Irwin, Spanish
Robyn Rodriguez, Asian American Studies
Keith Watenpaugh, Human Rights and Religious Studies
2017-2018
Glenda Drew, Department of Design
Sora Giordano, Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies
Nina Claire Napawan, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
2016-2017
Sunaina Maira, Asian American Studies
Elisabeth Middleton