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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 -
Bayonle Olanisimi Akinfemisoye
Research Interests: LGBTQ Studies; Diversity Studies; Performance Studies; Critical Gender Studies; Social Justice; Community and Environmental Advocacy; Media, Technology, and Society; Politics; Discourse Analysis; Linguistics.
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Research Interests: Consent, AI, platform capitalism, community-owned technology, political economy, phenomenology, media studies
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Abby Bratton
Research Interests: Science studies/STS, science communication, genomic/genetic metaphors, textuality and spectrality in genomic discourse, scientific poetics
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Taylor Brough
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Loydie Burmah
Research Interests: Digital Media, Pop Culture, Journalism, Media Production, Film Studies, Technology -
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 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 -
Graduate Student Co-Coordinator, Transdisciplinary Disability Studies
medaniel@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Disability justice; cross-disability solidarity; (in)visible disabilities; identity; community; access; critical legal studies; intersectionality; deafness; American Sign Language(s) -
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
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Dana Ekhitar
Research Interests: Critical Media Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Migration and Asylum Studies -
Carmel Farzaneh
Research Interests: Birth Justice, Postpartum Care, Community Care, Public Health, Food Access, Photography, Advancing Participation towards Justice
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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 -
Michael Gainey
Research interests: Animation Labor History, Critical Film Studies, Popular Animation and its portrayals of the working class.
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Francis Galang
UC San Diego Labor Center
Research Interests: Aspiration, artistic dreaming, popular music studies, cultural industries, stardom and meritocratic ideology, status professions, labor and community studies, strategic labor research, affect theory, political subjectivity, biography as restoration, politics of alternatives, media and becoming. -
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 -
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
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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
Research Interests: Diaspora Studies, Migration Studies, Affect Theory, Critical Race Theory, Labor Studies, Critical Film and Television studies.
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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. -
Critical Gender Studies Program
Research Interests: Critical geography; prison abolition; environmental toxicity; infrastructure
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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. -
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.
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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
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Yazhou Liu
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Science Studies Program
kymetcal@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: (post)genomics, biomedicine, tissue economies, critical data studies, privacy and health data, surveillance studies -
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
Science Studies Program
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Lorenzo Nericcio
Research Interests: Ethics of emerging technologies, technological mediation of value, and philosophy of technology. -
Lindsey Ortega
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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. -
Science Studies Program
nnrao@ucsd.edu
https://nithyanandrao.github.io/
Research Interests:Science-state-publics relations, Journalism studies, History of particle physics in India
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Vandhana Ravi
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Research Interests: Media, Japanese Popular Culture, Globalization, Transnationalism
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Gisselle Lydia Salgado
Research Interests: Cannabis & Cannabis Regulation, Human Rights, (In)Formal Economies, Latin American Studies, Social Ecologies, Urban Studies, Diaspora Studies
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Paula Santa Rosa
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Lian Song
Science Studies Program
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Bárbara Tauffner De Souza
Science Studies Program
tauffner@ucsd.edu
tauffner.ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Political communication, public opinion, social media platforms, disinformation, social network analysis, discourse analysis, neoconservative movements in Brazil, and climate crisis -
Veronica Uribe del Aguila
Science Studies Program
Feminist Labor Laburibede@ucsd.edu
veronicauribea.com
Research Interests: Intersection between critical geography, design, labor, and feminist/ decolonial STS -
Elisabeth Wiering
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Critical Gender Studies Program
Artist and Digital Entertainment Producer
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, Images and Visual Culture, Archives, Gender, Intersectionality, Decoloniality, Memory, Ethnography, South Asia
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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