CPS Doctoral Exchange

Simon(e) van Saarloos 2025

Simon(e) van Saarloos is a recipient of the Berkeley-Portugal Research Fund for Graduate Students.

van Saarloos is a writer, artistic collaborator, and independent curator whose work spans theory, literature, and contemporary art. They are the author of Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto (2023), Take ’Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting (2021), and...

Jair Jáuregui Torres Summer 2025

Jair Jáuregui Torres is a recipient of the Berkeley-Portugal Research Fund for Graduate Students.

During the summer of 2025, Jáuregui Torres will conduct archival research in Lisbon, Portugal, under the sponsorship of Professor Teresa Araújo, specialist in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Portuguese literature at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His...

Ahkeel Mestayer Summer 2025


Ahkeel Mestayer is a recipient of the Berkeley-Portugal Research Fund for Graduate Students.

Over the summer of 2025 Mestayer conducted research in Lisbon at the University of Lisbon, Sponsored by Dr. Carlos Almeida – Integrated Researcher of Centre for History of the University of Lisbon Research Group Coordinator - Cultural Encounters and Intersecting...