Graduate Students

Marwa Abdalla

mabdalla@ucsd.edu
Research interests: Media, Critical Muslim Studies, Islamophobia, Racism and Racialization
https://sites.google.com/view/marwa-abdalla/home
www.ispu.org/journalists

Ben Berners-Lee

dberners@ucsd.edu

Research Interests: semiotics, metaphor, cognitive science, ethnography, phenomenology, machine learning, care work.

Taylor Brough

tbrough@ucsd.edu

C. Abby Bratton

Research Interests: bioethics, communication of emergent biotechnologies, science fiction/speculative worldbuilding, biomedical/tissue engineering, genetics as storytelling, narrative accessibility, science policy/STS, synthetic/astro/marine/conservation biology, poetics/hermeneutics

Tony Hyunduck Cho

Contact: t1cho@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program

Research Interests: Anthropology of technological acceleration, design after acceleration, “slow futures,” material design, environmental justice and social inequality in design, critical data studies

Googie (Marion) Daniels

medaniel@ucsd.edu

Transdisciplinary Disability Studies Graduate Student Co-Coordinator Research Interests: deaf communities, American Sign Languages, US disability legislation and policy, bi/multilingualism, linguistic colonialism, accessibility, intersectionality.

Magdalena Donea

mdonea@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow
Research Interests: visual culture and lived experience of disaster and displacement; critical disaster and critical infrastructure studies, STS; time and temporalities of disaster; media archaeology; digital humanities; critical data studies.

Ignacio Evans

ivevans@ucsd.edu

Dana Ekhitar

Research interests: Critical Media Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Migration and Asylum Studies

Carmel Farzaneh

cfarzane@ucsd.edu

Asia Feiss

afeiss@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Research Interests: assistive, and wearable technologies for high-performance athletes, ability

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

Keli L Gabinelli

Contact: kgabinelli@ucsd.edu
Research interests: Housing, property technologies, suburbia, the nuclear family

Sam Gaffney

sjgaffney@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Coal, extractivism, labor and labor history, environmentalism and environmental justice, techno-idealism, infrastructure

Gray Golding

Research interests: history of architecture, disability studies, critical whiteness studies, settler colonialism studies, history of medicine

Eva Marie Gonzalez Ruskiewicz

eruskiew@ucsd.edu
Research interests: Queer and trans studies; popular music and sound studies; performance studies

Aaron Gozum

agozum@ucsd.edu

Research Interests: art, activism, cultural studies, epistemology, ethnic studies, globalization, violence

Anvar Hassanpour

ahassanpour@ucsd.edu

Keven Hernandez

kehernan@ucsd.edu

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

Ramal L. Johnson

rljohnson@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Studying superhero media and implementing ethnography, ethnology, deconstructive reflexivity, critical race theory, and epistemology and axiology from anthropological standpoints.

Kerry Keith

kekeith@ucsd.edu

Critical Gender Studies Program

Research interests: critical geography; prison abolition; environmental toxicity; infrastructure

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.

Julia Kott

jkott@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Research interests: accessibility, digital classrooms, instructional design, surveillance technologies, histories of technologies, subjectivities, online proctoring and other forms of watching.

Olga Lazitski

okovalev@ucsd.edu
Keywords: media endarkenment, alternative professional journalism, journalistic norms, journalistic practices, ideology of objectivity, media systems, hybrid regimes, authoritarianism, propaganda, public spheres, populism, nationalism, ethnography, discourse analysis, situational analysis, grounded theory
mediaendarkenment.com

Grant Leuning

gleuning@ucsd.edu

Yazhou Liu

lyazhou@ucsd.edu

Kathryne Metcalf

kymetcal@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Research Interests: (post)genomics, biomedicine, tissue economies, critical data studies, privacy and health data, surveillance studies

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

Joseph Moreno

j8moreno@ucsd.edu

Teresa Naval

tnaval@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program

Lindsey Ortega

leortega@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: anti-imperialism, climate justice, decolonizing epistemologies, food sovereignty, mutual aid, revolutionary socialism, U.S. hegemony

Erika Ramirez-Mayoral

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

nnrao@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
Research Interests: Science-state-publics relations, Journalism studies, History of particle physics in India
https://nithyanandrao.github.io/

Vandhana Ravi

vravi@ucsd.edu

Alexis Reed

Research interests: Media, Japanese Popular Culture, Globalization, Transnationalism

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

Lian Song

lhsong@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program

Sophie Staschus

sstaschu@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program

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

Elisabeth Wiering

ewiering@ucsd.edu

Nicoletta Vangelisti

nvangelisti@ucsd.edu
Critical Gender Studies Program
Artist and digital entertainment producer
Senior Teaching Assistant
Research Interests: Political economy of art philanthropy, media making as resistance, critical gender studies, decolonial art practice, antiracist methodologies, ethics of storytelling, institutional ethnography, transgender studies
nicolettavangelisti.com

Ifsha Zehra

Research Interests: Visual Anthropology, Ethnography, Images and Visual Culture, Political Conflict, Militarization, Violence, Gender, Intersectionality, Decoloniality, Memory/Memorialization, Archives, South Asia (particularly Kashmir).

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
linneazeiner.com