The Bancroft Library Study Awards
The Bancroft Library, with partial support from the Friends of The Bancroft Library, is pleased to host another group of University of California doctoral students in its 2002-2003 Fellows Program. Recipients are selected by a panel of UC Berkeley faculty members, in consultation with Charles B. Faulhaber, James D. Hart Director of The Bancroft Library. Bancroft fellows engage in doctoral research projects that require extensive use of the collections and research materials of The Bancroft Library.
Summer Awards
Samantha Holtkamp Gervase UCLA
Life and Law in the Lower Mississippi River Valley: Categories and the Expansion of
America, 1800-1860
The Mississippi River system provides a crucial lens into the social and legal processes of
the antebellum western world. The river itself acted as an important transportation route, for
persons, goods, and ideas. The system challenges the idea of boundaries and represents literal
fluidity. The Mississippi River enabled movement between North and South as much as it did East and
West. Those who worked on the river, traveled on the river, and even those who lived near the river
were part of a social context more diverse than is often portrayed by scholars used to encountering
rigidly defined systems. The labeling of the lower Mississippi River Valley as "South" rather that
the "West" had shifted historical questions in a particular direction. Such a shift hides
historical processes and assumes the inevitable development of regional structures. Viewing the
area as both western and southern reveals dynamics that previous scholarship had ignored.
Rudy Poscallo Guevarra, UC Santa Barbara
On Common ground: Mexican and Filipinos in San Diego Agriculture, 1920-1965
This dissertation is a comparative social history of Mexican and Filipinos in San Diego,
California from 1900 to 1965. It examines various factors that contributed to the development and
growth of multiethnic Mexican-Filipino communities in San Diego. The context of this community
formation is a shared colonial past with Spain, Catholicism, Spanish language, immigration, racial
segregation, and mutual wage labor experiences. The primary focus of this research is to delineate
the migration patterns, community formation, and racial unrest that occurred as a result of the
labor activities of Mexican and Filipinos in the agricultural sector of San Diego, California.
Chantelle Nicole Warner, UC Berkeley
Literacy Identity Construction in Works of Dutch Clandestine Literature Written During
the Second World War
This research will involve a comparative analysis of works within the Clandestine Dutch Book
Collection housed in The Bancroft Library and the post-war writings of these authors and their
followers. A primary focus will be an analysis of the presence of what Louis de Jong calls the
"geest can verzet" (the spirit of resistance) in those works which do not explicitly deal with the
Second World War or occupation subjects and their relation to Dutch Reconstruction of identity
which necessarily followed the events of the war.
Academic Year 2002–2003 Awards
Yu-fang Cho, UC San Diego
Visions of Pacific Destiny: Culture of Western Expansion and American Women's Work if
Benevolence, 1880s- 1900s
This project explores nineteenth-century U.S. nation-building and racially inflected
conflicts over territorial claims, economic interests, and spheres of political influence indexed
by several key historical events: the 1830 Indian Removal Act, the Mexican War (1846-1848), the
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, and the 1898 Spanish- American War.
Dulcinea Michelle Lara, UC Berkeley
Historical Evolution of Education and Its Detrimental Ideological and Identity Forming
Consequences on New Mexico
Education for Chicano/Mexican American students in contemporary New Mexico is in crisis.
Many schools and surrounding communities are characterized by a devastating combination of
community violence and deep sense of racialized inner-hatred, manifested through high drop out
rates, low life expectations, crime, and extreme poverty. This research investigates the origins of
this crisis by examining the complicated process of identity formation.
Jeffrey Alan Ow, UC Berkeley
Contested Isles: The History and Representation of Ellis Island and Angel Island
This dissertation examines the interaction of federal and state agencies, commerce, and
public interest groups regarding changes in the immigration policies and conceptualizations of
American nationalism through the transformations of Ellis Island and Angel Island Immigration
Stations into social history museums.
Volume 121
Fall 2002
Table of Contents
The Wasp: Stinging Editorials and Political Cartoons
From the Director: A Bancroft Library for the 21st Century
Imagining Women's Work Bancroft Collections Contribute to Web-based Visual Culture
Undergraduate Research: A Brave New World
Fifty-Five and Counting! The Friends Annual Meeting, April 27, 2002
Scholars in the Making Graduate Student Instructors and History 101
"Permission to Drink Anything" Mark Twain's Letters to Eduard Pötzl
From the Regional Oral History Office Berkeley Anthropologists Have Their Say
The Bancroft Library Study Awards
William Penn Mott, Jr. Papers A Celebration
Email Farewell from a Graduating Student Employee
Donors to The Bancroft Library July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002
