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Marwa Abdalla
mabdalla@ucsd.edu
Research interests: Media, Critical Muslim Studies, Islamophobia, Racism and Racialization
https://sites.google.com/view/marwa-abdalla/home
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Ben Berners-Lee
Research Interests: semiotics, metaphor, cognitive science, ethnography, phenomenology, machine learning, care work.
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Taylor Brough
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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 ProgramResearch 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
Transdisciplinary Disability Studies Graduate Student Co-Coordinator Research Interests: deaf communities, American Sign Languages, US disability legislation and policy, bi/multilingualism,
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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
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Dana Ekhitar
Research interests: Critical Media Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Migration and Asylum Studies -
Carmel Farzaneh
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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
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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
Research Interests: art, activism, cultural studies, epistemology, ethnic studies, globalization, violence -
Anvar Hassanpour
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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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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 ProgramResearch 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.
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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
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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: (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
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Teresa Naval
tnaval@ucsd.edu
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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
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Vandhana Ravi
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Alexis Reed
Research interests: Media, Japanese Popular Culture, Globalization, Transnationalism -
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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Lian Song
lhsong@ucsd.edu
Science Studies Program
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Sophie Staschus
sstaschu@ucsd.edu
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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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Elisabeth Wiering
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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
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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