DARE Doctoral Fellowship
The DARE Doctoral Fellowship prepares students from diverse backgrounds to pursue and succeed in academic careers.
2015-2017 DARE Fellows
Christine Amwake
Electrical EngineeringChristy is a PhD student in the electrical engineering department at Stanford. Her dissertation aims to understand two problems: 1) how to safely and effectively use stem cells to cure urinary incontinence and 2) how to understand the function of...
Jess Auerbach
AnthropologyJess Auerbach is a PhD Candidate in the department of anthropology. Her dissertation is entitled “From Water to Wine: the Emergence of the Angolan Middle Class in the Southern Atlantic.” Based on nearly two years of ethnographic field research in...
Cameron Awkward-Rich
Modern Thought and LiteratureCameron Awkward-Rich is a PhD candidate in modern thought & literature, with a PhD minor in anthropology. He works in the fields of transgender studies, disability studies, and 20th/21st century American literature. Tentatively titled "...
Jeremy Calder
LinguisticsJeremy Calder (known among friends as Novelí) is a genderqueer individual, drag queen, and PhD candidate in the department of linguistics. Their research interests include gender, performativity, and style, specifically how individuals use styles...
Lorena Castro
SociologyLorena Castro is a PhD Candidate in the department of sociology at Stanford University. Her research interests include sociology of education, social inequality and stratification, race and ethnicity, and immigration. Her dissertation examines...
Amal El-Ghazaly
Electrical EngineeringAmal El-Ghazaly is a PhD Candidate in the electrical engineering department at Stanford. Her research work sits at the intersection of electrical engineering and materials science to enable voltage control of magnetic materials. Her dissertation...
Mona Eskandari
Mechanical EngineeringMona Eskandari is a PhD candidate in the department of mechanical engineering with a focus in computational mechanics and biomechanics. Mona’s dissertation, tentatively titled: “On the Role of Mechanics in Chronic Pulmonary Disease,” seeks to...
Jeremy Feaster
Chemical EngineeringJeremy is a PhD candidate in the chemical engineering department at Stanford. His dissertation focuses on using electrochemistry to convert carbon dioxide into high-value fuels and chemicals. His work centers on designing, testing and optimizing...
Wakuna Galega
Civil and Environmental EngineeringWakuna is an environmental engineering PhD candidate working with professor Craig Criddle. Her research focuses on the production of biodegradable plastics using microbes as the engine and methane as the feedstock. She is interested in resource...
Timnit Gebru
Electrical EngineeringTimnit is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford University and is a member of the computer vision lab led by Fei-Fei Li. Her research interests lie in the intersection of computer vision and computational sociology: making use of...
