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Christina Aushana
Contact: caushana@ucsd.edu
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Ben Berners-Lee
Contact: dberners@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: social and cultural histories of conceptual metaphors, content analysis, metaphors in popular science publications -
Sean Canzone
Contact: scanzone@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: processes of cultural breakdown and extreme isolation, structural and existential practices of escape, digital media. -
Kim Clark
San Diego Fellow
Freida Daum Urey Fellow
Research Interests: cultural and knowledge production and exchange, mass incarceration, police brutality, and the detention and deportation of im\migrants, intercultural and international grassroots community-building and self-advocacy efforts involving digital and static media.
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Thomas Conner
Science Studies
Research Interests: cultural histories and media effects of holograms and hologram simulations.
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Googie Daniels
Contact: medaniel@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: D/deaf communities; American Sign Language; design; accessibility; DeafSpace; universal design; media representation of under underrepresented groups; audience research; cultural Deafness; medical intervention on deaf children; bilingualism
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Magdalena Donea
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Alex Edelstein
Contact: aedelste@ucsd.edu
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Asia Feiss
Contact: afeiss@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: assistive, and wearable technologies for high-performance athletes, ability -
Patricia Flores
Strategic Enhancement of Excellence through Diversity (SEED) Fellow
Contact: p1flores@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Disability Studies, STS, HOH-d/Deaf identity, American Sign Language, online communities and visual culture -
Rachel Fox
Year 4
Transdisciplinary Disability Studies Graduate Student Coordinator
Research Interests: Fat Studies, Disability Studies, STS, Narrative Medicine/Health Humanities, Feminist Studies, Online Communities
Contact: rafox@ucsd.eduWebsite: http://rachelefox.com/
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Sam Gaffney
Contact: sjgaffney@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Coal, extractivism, labor and labor history, environmentalism and environmental justice, techno-idealism, infrastructure -
Yelena Gluzman
Contact: egluzman@ucsd.edu
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Angelo Haidaris
Contact: anhaidar@ucsd.edu
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Jacob Hellman
Contact: jhellman@ucsd.edu
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Dorothy Howard
Contact: dhoward@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: cognitive and material aspects of participation and work in information societies, post(de)colonial critiques of information production, social computing, feminist research methodologies, information activism, syndicalism, the history of volunteering, archives, and contemporary and digital art practices.
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Poyao Huang
Contact: poh001@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Science and technology studies, feminism, queer studies, health communication. -
Kerry Keith
Contact: kekeith@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: U.S systems of incarceration, carceral geographies, queer and feminist theories, biopolitics, and Marxism, prison abolitionism, the interplay of ideology, imagination, and landscape -
Jungyoung Kim
Contact: juk028@ucsd.edu
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Sookyong Ko
Contact: sok105@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Media theory, phenomenology, visual culture, visual semiotics, cultural studies, affect theory, emotional and sensual aspects of media interaction, theories on evolving media and human perception of information. -
Olga Lazitski Torres
Contact: okovalev@ucsd.edu
www.mediaendarkenment.com
Media scholar and journalist studying media endarkenment - the process of media influence by which the intellectual level of media consumers and the number of informed citizens decrease -
Andrew Lee
Contact: a9lee@ucsd.edu
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Grant Leuning
Contact: gleuning@ucsd.edu
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Yazhou Liu
Contact: lyazhou@ucsd.edu
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Kathryne Metcalf
Contact: kymetcal@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: public science and the culture industry, popular conceptions of human genomics, biomedicalization. -
Corey Metcalfe
Contact: cmetcalf@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Analog & digital games; pop culture; online platforms -
Loreto Montero
Contact: lomonter@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: the relationship between media images and collective memory about the last decade in Chilean society -
October Montoya
Contact: alj039@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Transgressive change-making methodologies, new media, digital and corporeal activisms, surveillance studies, queer and trans poetry/poetics, feminist science and technology studies, social movements, resistance labor(s), and visual culture
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Joseph Moreno
Contact: j8moreno@ucsd.edu
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Teresa Naval
Contact: tnaval@ucsd.edu
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Manel Palos
Contact: mapalos@ucsd.edu
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Erika Ramirez-Mayoral
Contact: emr015@ucsd.edu
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Alanna Reyes
Contact: avr009@ucsd.edu
www.alannareyes.com
Research Interests: (dis)ability, technology, culture
examples: technology in the media, superhero narratives and disability, transnational disability studies, digital game design & culture, learning/training via digital gaming, embodied storytelling, laboratory education and knowledge production
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Pepe Rojo
Contact: jjrojo@ucsd.edu
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Paula Santa Rosa Siqueira Mendes
Contact: psantaro@ucsd.edu
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Monika Sengul-Jones
Contact: msengul@ucsd.edu
Science Studies
www.monikasengul.com
Research Interests: gender and labor in contemporary cultural/media industries, freelance English-language content writers, Internet “content farm” platforms such as Demand Media Studios, professional blogging, social media, and consumer-interest magazines -
Akshita Sivakumar
Contact: asivakum@ucsd.edu
https://akshitasivakumar.com/
Interests: Simulations and 3D modeling practices | diffuse objects | representation and situated practices in interdisciplinary design | indeterminacy | participatory design technology | f/open source software for creative production | visual and material culture | feminist technoscience -
Sophie Staschus
Contact: sstaschu@ucsd.edu
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Riley Taitingfong
Contact: rtaiting@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: community based participatory research (CBPR), health, indigenous knowledge, postcolonial theory, and disability studies, Pacific Islander communities in Southern California and their collaborate culturally-specific health interventions -
Shaun Terry
Contact: shterry@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: cultural studies (Birmingham School and Frankfurt School), continental philosophy/critical theory, rituals and performance studies, visual culture, poetics, aesthesis/aesthetics, political economy, fascisms, autonomist political movements, vulnerability, memory, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler -
Nicholas Turner
Contact: ndturner@ucsd.edu
Artist, digital entertainment producer and an academic late bloomer.
Research Interests: the structure and mechanics of power within corporate global entertainment, imagined utopian economies and geographies such as a decolonized, anti-racist, anti-discriminatory entertainment industry; post nation-state political organization, collective and indigenous rights, narrative ownership, and global development. -
Veronica Uribe del Aguila
Science Studies
Feminist Labor Lab
Contact: vuribede@ucsd.edu
http://www.veronicauribea.com/
Research Interests: intersection between critical geography, design, labor, and feminist/ decolonial STS -
Jonathan Walton
Contact: jwalton@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: institutions of social control, particularly in China, and their relationship to international discourses and practices of crisis management and policing. -
Elisabeth Wiering
Contact: ewiering@ucsd.edu
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Linnea Zeiner
Contact: lzeiner@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: grunge, punk, Mixed Reality Pedagogy/Design, Digital Humanities Pedagogy/Design, girls’ studies, Sci-fi/Pop Dystopias, 19th-20th Century U.S. History