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Research Interests: Media, Critical Muslim Studies, Islamophobia, Racism and Racialization
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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
Research Interests: Decolonial theory, Native and Black feminisms, settler colonialism and genocide, reproduction
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Loydie Burmah
Research Interests: Digital Media, Pop Culture, Journalism, Media Production, Film Studies, Technology -
Kelly Chen
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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 -
Yi-Lin Chung
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
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Science Studies Program
Eugene V. Cota-Robles FellowResearch Interests: Affective and phenomenological dimensions of living under surveillance, affective displacement, un-belonging. Infrastructures and mediations of resistance. STS; time and temporalities of displacement; unprecedentedness and crisis. Critical Data/Surveillance Studies, AI, DH, maps, counter-archives.
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Dana Ekhitar
Research Interests: Critical Media Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Migration and Asylum Studies
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Ignacio Evans
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Carmel Farzaneh
Research Interests: Birth Justice, Postpartum Care, Community Care, Public Health, Food Access, Photography, Advancing Participation towards Justice
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Research Interests: Housing, property technologies, suburbia, the nuclear family
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Sam Gaffney
Research Interests: Coal, extractivism, labor and labor history, environmentalism and environmental justice, techno-idealism, infrastructure
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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
Research Interests: Aspiration, prefigurative politics, labor studies, music worker organizing, popular music studies, gig and status economies, meritocracy, affect theory, cultural industries, 2020s unionism
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Ann Giusti
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Research Interests: History of architecture, disability studies, critical whiteness studies, settler colonialism studies, history of medicine
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Eva Marie Gonzalez Ruskiewicz
Research Interests: Queer and trans studies; popular music and sound studies; performance studies
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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
Research Interests: Political economy of film and media, critical film studies and practice, “totality” in film and media production, decolonizing film practice, documentary films
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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 Johnson
Research Interests: Studying superhero media and implementing ethnography, ethnology, deconstructive reflexivity, critical race theory, and epistemology and axiology from anthropological standpoints.
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Critical Gender Studies Program
Research Interests: Critical geography; prison abolition; environmental toxicity; infrastructure
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Sookyong Ko
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.
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Julia Kott
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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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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Loreto Montero
Research Interests: The relationship between media images and collective memory about the last decade in Chilean society
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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. -
Fletcher Nickerson
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Lindsey Ortega
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Googie (Marion) Puvvadi-Daniels
Graduate Student Co-Coordinator, Transdisciplinary Disability Studies
Research Interests: Disability justice; cross-disability solidarity; (in)visible disabilities; identity; community; access; critical legal studies; intersectionality; deafness; American Sign Language(s)
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Ivonne Ramirez
Research Interests: Xicanx studies, film studies, critical media studies, critical cultural studies, transborder relations, feminist studies, gender and sexuality, and visual ethnography.
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Science Studies Program
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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Alden Requena-Robison
Research interests: Phenomenology, history of education, education technology, instructional design -
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
Research Interests: Political communication, public opinion, social media platforms, disinformation, social network analysis, discourse analysis, neoconservative movements in Brazil, and climate crisis
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Johnathon Vargas
Research Interests: Borders, counter-geographies, relationality, situated practices
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Elisabeth Wiering
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Ifsha Zehra
Research Interests: Visual Anthropology, Images and Visual Culture, Archives, Gender, Intersectionality, Decoloniality, Memory, Ethnography, South Asia
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Linnea Zeiner
Research Interests: Grunge, punk, Mixed Reality Pedagogy/Design, Digital Humanities Pedagogy/Design, girls’ studies, Sci-fi/Pop Dystopias, 19th-20th Century U.S. History