
Jessica Ordaz
John E. Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow

Vanessa Quince
John E. Sawyer Dissertation Fellow
Vanessa Quince is a 2017-18 John E. Sawyer Dissertation Fellow at the University of Washington and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science. Her dissertation, “Racism By Design: The Role of Race and Identity in Institutional Design” focuses on the role of race and identity in how states design international trade agreements. In her work, she argues that states will design favorable trade agreements with states they perceive as part of their racialized in-group than with states perceived as part of their racialized outgroup, and these differences have important implications for development. She is a graduate fellow in the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) and the University of Washington Security Colloquium (UWISC).

Roneva Keel
John E. Sawyer Dissertation Fellow
Roneva Keel is a 2017-2108 John E. Sawyer Dissertation Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in the department of History at the University of Washington. Her research interests have focused on the role of agricultural development in modern state formations, with an emphasis on the mobilization of workers across borders and oceans. Her dissertation, “Mobilizing Empire: Race, Sugar, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific, 1898-1934,” brings together the histories of colonization in California, Hawai‘i, and the Philippines to explore the historical development of race and capitalism in the formation of the U.S. empire. She is a graduate fellow in the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) and serves as the Digital Humanities Initiative Program Coordinator at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington.