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The rigorous application and review process for graduate-level fellowships can be daunting, but it comes with the territory when you’re a blossoming distinguished academic. And the payoff is worth it: proof of excellence in research, and an investment in your future.Four UC Santa Barbara graduate students and one recent alumnus from the humanities and social sciences have received just such a professional vote of confidence, winning competitive fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). This is a record number of awardees for the university.
“I’m thrilled to hear of UC Santa Barbara’s excellent performance in a number of this year’s ACLS fellowship competitions, including the prestigious Public Fellows program,” said Carol Genetti, dean of graduate education. “This is a testament to the high quality of our graduate programs across the humanities and social sciences, and the impressive accomplishments of our students.”
The students represent a wide range of graduate work being done at UCSB, with the majority receiving support to help them complete their dissertations. They are:
John Vincent Decemvirale, a doctoral candidate in the history of art and architecture. Decemvirale received a Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art for his thesis, “Knowing Your Place and Making Do: Radical Art Activism in Black and Latino Los Angeles, 1960 to the Present”
 
Karen B. Hanna, a doctoral candidate in feminist studies who was awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her thesis, “Makibaka!: A Feminist Social History of the Transnational Filipina/o American Left, 1969-1992”
 
Megan Lukaniec, a doctoral candidate in linguistics who received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her thesis, “A Grammar of Wendat”
 
Or Porath, a doctoral candidate in religious studies who was awarded The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Buddhist Studies in support of his thesis, “Intimate Dharma: Buddhism, the Body, and Imperial Authority ...

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