University of Minnesota Postdoctoral Fellowship

2008-2009 Recipients

Robyn Autry-will hold dual appointments in the Departments of Sociology and History. Her research explores representations of race and nation in historical museums, with an emphasis on post-conflict societies. She is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

LaRose Davis—will hold an appointment in the Department of English with affiliations in the Department of African American and African Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study. Her research interests are in the past and present convergences of African American and Native American communities. She is currently working on a book that considers the role of place in African American and Native American cultures and literatures. Her doctoral degree is in English from Emory University.

2007-2008 Recipients

Zenzele Isoke--will hold dual appointments in the departments of gender, women and sexuality studies, and political science. Her research interest is to explore and enrich theoretical formulations developed in black feminist social theory through empirical investigations of U.S. black women's political agency.  Doctorate degree is in women’s and gender studies from Rutgers University.

Patina Mendez--will hold an appointment in the department of entomology. Her research focuses on variability in biological and ecological attributes of collected individuals across a family of caddisflies (aquatic insects closely related to moths and butterflies), using a phylogeny, or hypothesis of evolutionary history that will be constructed for the 73 species in the group.  Doctorate degree is in environmental science, policy and management from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ludwin Molina--will hold dual appointments in the departments of psychology and political science. His research focuses on inter-group relations, with an emphasis on how social identities and group-based power asymmetries influence prejudice. He will be a member of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology (CSPP), a nationally ranked center jointly sponsored by the hosting departments. Doctorate degree is in Social Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.