CHA Graduate Student Fellowships

Alana is a PhD student in Comparative Ethnic Studies, with a focus on Native American and Indigenous studies. Prior to joining the Ethnic Studies department at CU, Alana received her Master's in Archaeology from the University of Oxford (UK). Alana’s current research interests focus on the intersections between sexualized and racialized violence, specifically that experienced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2S individuals. Her previous work focused on the role of...

Page McClean is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology. Her dissertation, “ Conectividades : Histories and Futures of Connection at the End of Chile’s Southern Highway,” explores the discourses, practices, and experiences of national infrastructural projects and alternative connections in rural Patagonia. The dissertation interweaves ethnography, historical documents, media, and literary analysis to develop a text that is both interdisciplinary and at home within anthropology. Page has published in both...

Candace is an MFA candidate in English–Creative Writing. She is a literary non-fiction essayist whose thesis is centered around biracial subjectivity and identity; specifically, her work engages with multicultural practices of grief and mourning, while also exploring topics like addiction, suicide, and survivorship. In addition to her thesis, Candace is working on a public humanities project, developing a programmatic curriculum for eulogy and obituary writing advocacy.

Dawa T. Lokyitsang is a PhD candidate in the field of cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Her dissertation research is on the establishment of sovereignty and nationalist subjects in exile by Tibetan refugees through the development of their own educational institutions and the larger diaspora community of Tibetans in India. In addition to her research focus, she is also interested in and has written about ways...