Interdisciplinary Studies History of Consciousness Jeramy Decristo awarded UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship History of Consciousness graduate student Jeramy Decristo has received a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project, “Black Sounds and Their Fugitive Lives in Capture.” He will be working with Professor Dennis R. Childs in the Literature Department at UC San Diego. Jeramy is currently completing his dissertation, “Blackness and the Writing of Sound in Modernity” (committee: David Marriott, chair; Eric Porter, Gina Dent). He is teaching a course for the department in Spring quarter 2015 - Sound & Difference - a departure from classical media theory that uses books, articles and contemporary and archival recordings to explore how sonic technologies in the 19th and 20th centuries stimulated anxieties about otherness, racial and gender difference and (in) humanity. Alumna Løchlann Jain wins 2015 Fleck Prize History of Consciousness PhD (1999) Løchlann Jain has won the 2015 Ludwik Fleck Prize for Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013). The Fleck Prize recognizes the “best book in the area of science and technology studies (STS).” S. Løchlann Jain is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Professor Jain writes, “I am deeply honored to receive the Fleck prize for scholarship in STS. In particular, I have to thank my PhD advisor Donna Haraway, who took the time and energy – sometimes forcibly but always gently – to focus my curiosity and reign in my wildly undisciplined approach to interdisciplinary scholarship. Without her mentorship; her example of courage, creativity, and intellectual generosity; and her commitment to building STS, I could never have been a scholar.”
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