Graduate Students

Marwa Abdalla

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

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

Science Studies Program
t1cho@ucsd.edu

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

Yi-Lin Eli Chung

yic108@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: The lineage between Japanese classical theatre and popular culture; media adaptation; cross-cultural media production; representation of trauma in art; the cultural impact of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; geography in visual culture; queerness, race, and gender in media

Googie (Marion) Daniels

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

Magdalena Donea

Science Studies Program
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow
mdonea@ucsd.edu
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

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

Rachel Fox

Science Studies Program
Critical Gender Studies Program
rafox@ucsd.edu
rachelefox.com
Research Interests: Fat Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Feminist Studies/Critical Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Weight Stigma, Narrative Medicine/Health Humanities, Representation, Culture & Semiotics, Qualitative Methods

Keli L Gabinelli

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

Francis Galang

fgalang@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Aspiration, affect theory, political affect, cultural industries, cultural labor, digital capitalism, biopower, deservingness, institutional navigation, labor studies, musicianship, subculture, media and becoming.

Gray Golding

gmgolding.com
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: Creative activism, socially engaged art, performance, sound and music, Filipinx cultural production, theories of the human (race), transnational feminisms and social reproduction theory, queer theory and subjectless critique, memory and place-making

Anvar Hassanpour

ahassanpour@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Political economy of film and media, critical film studies and practice, “totality” in film and media production, decolonizing film practice, documentary films

Keven Hernandez

kehernan@ucsd.edu

Dorothy Howard

dhoward@ucsd.edu
dorothyhoward.com
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.

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

Critical Gender Studies Program
kekeith@ucsd.edu

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

Science Studies Program
jkott@ucsd.edu
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
mediaendarkenment.com 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

Grant Leuning

gleuning@ucsd.edu

Yazhou Liu

lyazhou@ucsd.edu

Kathryne Metcalf

Science Studies Program
kymetcal@ucsd.edu
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

Science Studies Program
tnaval@ucsd.edu

Lindsey Ortega

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

Ivonne Ramirez

i3ramirez@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Xicanx studies, film studies, critical media studies, critical cultural studies, transborder relations, feminist studies, gender and sexuality, and visual ethnography.

Erika Ramirez-Mayoral

Critical Gender Studies Program
emr015@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Gendered Notions of Place and Placemaking, Rural Studies, Oral History Practices, Development and Infrastructure

Nithyanand Rao

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

Vandhana Ravi

vravi@ucsd.edu

Alexis Reed

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

Paula Santa Rosa Siqueira Mendes

psantaro@ucsd.edu

Lian Song

Science Studies Program
lhsong@ucsd.edu

Bárbara Tauffner De Souza

btauffnerdesouza@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Political communication, scientific communication, public opinion, disinformation, social network analysis, comparative analysis, discourse analysis, knowledge and power, neoconservatism and neoliberalism in Brazil, critical global health, and climate crisis.

Veronica Uribe del Aguila

Science Studies Program
Feminist Labor Lab
uribede@ucsd.edu
veronicauribea.com
Research Interests: Intersection between critical geography, design, labor, and feminist/ decolonial STS

Elisabeth Wiering

ewiering@ucsd.edu

Nicoletta Vangelisti

Critical Gender Studies Program
Artist and digital entertainment producer
Senior Teaching Assistant
nvangelisti@ucsd.edu
nicolettavangelisti.com
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

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