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Graduate Students

  • Marwa Abdalla

    Marwa Abdalla

    mabdalla@ucsd.edu

    www.ispu.org/journalists

    Research Interests: Media, Critical Muslim Studies, Islamophobia, Racism and Racialization

  • Bayonle Olanisimi Akinfemisoye

    Bayonle Olanisimi Akinfemisoye

    bakinfemisoye@ucsd.edu

    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.

  • Nima Boscarino

    Nima Boscarino

    nboscarino@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Consent, AI, platform capitalism, community-owned technology, political economy, phenomenology, media studies

  • Abby Bratton

    Abby Bratton

    cbratton@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Science studies/STS, science communication, genomic/genetic metaphors, textuality and spectrality in genomic discourse, scientific poetics

  • Taylor Brough

    Taylor Brough

    tbrough@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Decolonial theory, Native and Black feminisms, settler colonialism and genocide, reproduction

  • Loydie Burmah

    Loydie Burmah

    lburmah@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Digital Media, Pop Culture, Journalism, Media Production, Film Studies, Technology
  • Kelly Chen

    Kelly Chen

    kec029@ucsd.edu
  • Tony Hyunduck Cho

    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 Chung

    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

  • Magdalena Donea

    Magdalena Donea

    Science Studies Program
    Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow

    mdonea@ucsd.edu

    Research 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.

  • Dana Ekhitar

    Dana Ekhitar

    dekhtiar@ucsd.edu

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

  • Ignacio Evans

    Ignacio Evans

    ivevans@ucsd.edu
  • Carmel Farzaneh

    Carmel Farzaneh

    cfarzane@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Birth Justice, Postpartum Care, Community Care, Public Health, Food Access, Photography, Advancing Participation towards Justice

  • Keli L Gabinelli

    Keli L Gabinelli

    kgabinelli@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Housing, property technologies, suburbia, the nuclear family

  •  Sam Gaffney

    Sam Gaffney

    sjgaffney@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Coal, extractivism, labor and labor history, environmentalism and environmental justice, techno-idealism, infrastructure

  • Michael Gainey

    Michael Gainey

    migainey@ucsd.edu

    Research interests: Animation Labor History, Critical Film Studies, Popular Animation and its portrayals of the working class.

  • Francis Galang

    Francis Galang

    fgalang@ucsd.edu

    UC San Diego Labor Center

    Research Interests: Aspiration, prefigurative politics, labor studies, music worker organizing, popular music studies, gig and status economies, meritocracy, affect theory, cultural industries, 2020s unionism

  • Ann Giusti

    Ann Giusti

    agiusti@ucsd.edu
  • Gray Golding

    Gray Golding

    ggolding@ucsd.edu

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

  • Eva Marie Gonzalez Ruskiewicz

    Eva Marie Gonzalez Ruskiewicz

    eruskiew@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Queer and trans studies; popular music and sound studies; performance studies

  • Aaron Gozum

    Aaron Gozum

    agozum@ucsd.edu

    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

    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

    Keven Hernandez

    kehernan@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Diaspora Studies, Migration Studies, Affect Theory, Critical Race Theory, Labor Studies, Critical Film and Television studies.

  • Ramal Johnson

    Ramal 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

    Kerry Keith

    Critical Gender Studies Program

    kekeith@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Critical geography; prison abolition; environmental toxicity; infrastructure

  • Sookyong Ko

    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

    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

    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

  • Yazhou Liu

    Yazhou Liu

    lyazhou@ucsd.edu

  • Loreto Montero

    Loreto Montero

    lomonter@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: The relationship between media images and collective memory about the last decade in Chilean society

  • Joseph Moreno

    Joseph Moreno

    j8moreno@ucsd.edu

  • Teresa Naval

    Teresa Naval

    Science Studies Program

    tnaval@ucsd.edu

    https://teresa.news/

  • Lorenzo Nericcio

    Lorenzo Nericcio

    lonericcio@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Ethics of emerging technologies, technological mediation of value, and philosophy of technology.
  • Fletcher Nickerson

    Fletcher Nickerson

    nfnickerson@ucsd.edu
  • Lindsey Ortega

    Lindsey Ortega

    leortega@ucsd.edu

  • Googie (Marion) Puvvadi-Daniels

    Googie (Marion) Puvvadi-Daniels

    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)

  • Ivonne Ramirez

    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.

  • Nithyanand Rao

    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

    Vandhana Ravi

    vravi@ucsd.edu

  • Alexis Reed

    Alexis Reed

    a3reed@ucsd.edu

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

  • Alden Requena-Robison

    Alden Requena-Robison

    alrobison@ucsd.edu

    Research interests: Phenomenology, history of education, education technology, instructional design
  • Gisselle Lydia Salgado

    Gisselle Lydia Salgado

    gisalgado@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Cannabis & Cannabis Regulation, Human Rights, (In)Formal Economies, Latin American Studies, Social Ecologies, Urban Studies, Diaspora Studies

     

  • Paula Santa Rosa

    Paula Santa Rosa

    psantaro@ucsd.edu

  • Lian Song

    Lian Song

    Science Studies Program

    lhsong@ucsd.edu

  • Bárbara Tauffner De Souza

    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

  • Johnathon Vargas

    Johnathon Vargas

    j7vargas@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Borders, counter-geographies, relationality, situated practices

  • Elisabeth Wiering

    Elisabeth Wiering

    ewiering@ucsd.edu

  • Ifsha Zehra

    Ifsha Zehra

    izehra@ucsd.edu

    Research Interests: Visual Anthropology, Images and Visual Culture, Archives, Gender, Intersectionality, Decoloniality, Memory, Ethnography, South Asia

     

  • Linnea Zeiner

    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