Past Marvin and Kathleen Stone and CVMST Graduate Research Fellows

2020-21

Natacha Guyot

Natacha Guyot, a two-time recipient of Marvin and Kathleen Stone Research Fellowship, graduated from the School of Arts and Humanities, UT Dallas, with a doctoral degree in Spring 2021. Her dissertation was deveoted to “Dr. Dana Scully of The X-Files: A Feminist Scientist Navigating Patriarchies.” Currenlty, Natacha works as Content Manager at Scorpion. To see Natacha’s Youtube channel go here.

Kimberly Awa

Kim Awa, a 2020-21 CVMST Graduate Research Fellow, graduated with MA is Applied Cognition and Neuroscience, UT Dallas, in Spring 2021. Her research has focused on multivariate factors that shape how and why people come to form preferences and aversions within the fine arts. Kim is now a doctorate student at University of Arkansas, Department of Psychological Science at is a member of Mechanisms of Creative Cognition and Attention (MoCCA) Lab.

Richard Townsend

Rick Townsend, a 2020-21 CVMST Graduate Research Fellow, graduated from the School of Arts and Humanities, UT Dallas, with a doctoral degree in Spring 2021. His dissertation focused on William J. Bryan: “Reconsidering Bryan: William Jennings Bryan’s Advocacy of Causes Using Right-Based Argugments. Currently, Rick is an active memebr of our Values Lab, and presents his work at Lab meetings, worshops, and conferences.

2019-20

Elizabeth Escalante

Elizabeth Escalante, the 2019-20 MK Stone Fellow, has been researching the ethical issues surrounding reproductive technologies, with the focus on uterus transplantation as an ethical alternative to commercial gestational surrogacy.

2019

Natacha Guyot

As a 2019 MK Stone Fellow, Natacha Guyot launched her research on Dr. Dana Scully from The X-Files, with the focus on how the series female character navigated multiple patriarchies as a feminist scientist. Natacha is currently continuing her project on Dr. Scully from the X-Files as a 2020-21 MK Stone Fellow.

Rebekka Michaelsen

Rebekka Michaelsen, our former MK Stone Fellow, is currently a history grad student at UCLA. Her MK Stone research project was about the intersectionality of race and mental illness in the nineteenth-century United States. Specifically, she looked at discourse surrounding race and “insanity” following the 1840 Census, which reported significantly higher rates of “insanity” among free African Americans versus the enslaved.