Graduate Students

Christina Aushana

Ben Berners-Lee

dberners@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: social and cultural histories of conceptual metaphors, content analysis, metaphors in popular science publications

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.

Thomas Conner

tconner@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Research Interests: cultural histories and media effects of holograms and hologram simulations.
thomasconner.info

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

mdonea@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program

Alex Edelstein

aedelste@ucsd.edu
Critical Gender Studies Program

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
rachelefox.com

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
Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Program

Angelo Haidaris

anhaidar@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program

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.

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.
dorothyhoward.com

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

juk028@ucsd.edu

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

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

j8moreno@ucsd.edu

Teresa Naval

tnaval@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program

Manel Palos

mapalos@ucsd.edu

Erika Ramirez-Mayoral

emr015@ucsd.edu

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

Pepe Rojo

jjrojo@ucsd.edu

Paula Santa Rosa Siqueira Mendes

psantaro@ucsd.edu

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
akshitasivakumar.com

Sophie Staschus

sstaschu@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program

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

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

ewiering@ucsd.edu

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