The Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship has been awarded to the following individuals to perform research in UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections.
2024: Lina-Maria Murillo
Lina-Maria Murillo is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies and History at the University of Iowa. For her research fellowship, Murillo accessed the papers of UCSB faculty emeritus Garrett Hardin, an ardent population control activist, in support of an upcoming monograph, "Borderlands of Abortion Care,” a historical analysis of abortion, demographic change, and white supremacy, its confluence and politics from the 1850s to the present.
2022: Terezita Romo
Terezita “Tere” Romo is a Lecturer and Affiliate Faculty in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC, Davis. Romo’s project “Indigeneity in Chicana/o/x Art” focused on Chicana/o/x artists who incorporate indigenous images and/or rituals in their art. She accessed the Library’s California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives (CEMA), with its wide array of collections that represent the cultural, artistic, ethnic, gender, and racial diversity that characterizes California’s population.
2021: Brian Chidester
Brian Chidester is a filmmaker and scholar. He researched materials in the Bob Bertram Collection relating to Eden Ahbez for support in "As the Wind: The Enchanted Life of Eden Ahbez," a feature-length documentary about Ahbez’s musical career.
