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Marwa Abdalla
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Christina Aushana
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Ben Berners-Lee
dberners@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: social and cultural histories of conceptual metaphors, content analysis, metaphors in popular science publications -
Taylor Brough
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Sean Canzone
scanzone@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: processes of cultural breakdown and extreme isolation, structural and existential practices of escape, digital media. -
Kim Clark
kmclark@ucsd.edu
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
tconner@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Research Interests: cultural histories and media effects of holograms and hologram simulations.
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Googie Daniels
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 -
Magdalena Donea
Contact: mdonea@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow
Research interests: Phenomenology and sense/knowledge of place and placelessness. Communication as embodied and emplaced, situated practice. Surveillance and critical data studies. Spatial knowledges, critical mapping, disaster, dispossession and displacement. -
Alex Edelstein
aedelste@ucsd.edu
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Carmel Farzaneh
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Ignacio Evans
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Asia Feiss
afeiss@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Research Interests: assistive, and wearable technologies for high-performance athletes, ability -
Patricia Flores
p1flores@ucsd.edu
Strategic Enhancement of Excellence through Diversity (SEED) Fellow
Research Interests: Disability Studies, STS, HOH-d/Deaf identity, American Sign Language, online communities and visual culture -
Rachel Fox
rafox@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Critical Gender Studies Program
Transdisciplinary Disability Studies Graduate Student Coordinator
Research Interests: Fat Studies, Disability Studies, STS, Narrative Medicine/Health Humanities, Feminist Studies, Online Communities
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Sam Gaffney
sjgaffney@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Coal, extractivism, labor and labor history, environmentalism and environmental justice, techno-idealism, infrastructure -
Yelena Gluzman
egluzman@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
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Eva Gonzalez-Ruskiewicz
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Angelo Haidaris
anhaidar@ucsd.edu
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Jacob Hellman
jhellman@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: the cultural nexus of accumulation and the creation of new economic subjectivities and the popularization of early-stage startup investing. -
Keven Hernandez
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Dorothy Howard
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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Kerry Keith
kekeith@ucsd.edu
Critical Gender Studies Program
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
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Sookyong Ko
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
okovalev@ucsd.edu
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.
mediaendarkenment.com
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Andrew Lee
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Grant Leuning
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Yazhou Liu
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Kathryne Metcalf
kymetcal@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Research Interests: public science and the culture industry, popular conceptions of human genomics, biomedicalization. -
Corey Metcalfe
cmetcalf@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Analog & digital games; pop culture; online platforms -
Loreto Montero
lomonter@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: the relationship between media images and collective memory about the last decade in Chilean society -
October Montoya
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 -
Joseph Moreno
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Teresa Naval
tnaval@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program -
Manel Palos
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Erika Ramirez-Mayoral
Contact: emr015@ucsd.edu
Critical Gender Studies Program
Research Interests: Gendered Notions of Place and Placemaking, Rural Studies, Oral History Practices, Development and Infrastructure -
Nithyanand Rao
Contact: nnrao@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: the practice of science in contemporary India and how it influences, and is influenced by, hierarchies of various kinds. Also interested in how the narratives surrounding science and technology, especially in media coverage, influence our views of peoples, knowledges, and their histories.
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Alanna Reyes
avr009@ucsd.edu
Undergraduate Affairs Intern and Ph.D. Student
Science Studies Program
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
alannareyes.com
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Pepe Rojo
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Paula Santa Rosa Siqueira Mendes
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Akshita Sivakumar
asivakum@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Research 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
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Sophie Staschus
sstaschu@ucsd.edu
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Riley Taitingfong
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
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
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
vuribede@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Feminist Labor Lab
Research Interests: intersection between critical geography, design, labor, and feminist/ decolonial STS
veronicauribea.com
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Jonathan Walton
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
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Linnea Zeiner
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