Summer 2025

DEFCon Fellows 2025

With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CSUF DEFCon disbursed a final round of grants to support faculty, staff students and community partners in developing new  research, curriculum, and community engaged projects. Take a look at their projects below!

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Research and Community Fellows

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Dr. Ayana Ain Harris

Project: Patterning Histofutures: Mapping Migration, Worldmaking, and the Archive

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Samuel Penn III

Project: Visualizing Lakeland, architectural renderings for an enhanced streetscape

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Haritha Govind

Haritha has contributed to several projects including: I Am What I Eat: Vegetarianism and Identity Among South Indian Immigrants In California and a virtual timeline documenting student protests and mobilization at CSUF from the 1970s to present.

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Erin Coleen Robinson

Project: Archiving Black OC, A community-driven digital archive and data storytelling project

Mei Bowyer

Project: Documenting ephemeral immersive art installations throughout the Black Atlantic

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Dr. Viola Lasmana

Project: Shadow Imaginations: Post-1965 Transnational Indonesian Feminist Archives

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Emily Arcos

Project: During this fellowship extension Emily continued documenting the final installments of artwork for the HSS mural project.

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