August 2012

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09 Aug

Amber Workman graduated from UCSB in 2012 with a Ph.D. in Hispanic languages and literatures. Her academic work focuses on Mexican literature and Latin American literary journalism....

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09 Aug

Carly Thomsen a Doctoral Candidate in Feminist Studies. Her dissertation is titled "I'm Just Me": Queer Critiques of Gay Visibility, Identity, and Community from LGBTQ Women in the Rural Midwest. This dissertation analyzes representations, discourses, experiences, and identities of queer women in the rural Midwestern...

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09 Aug

Andrew J. Henkes is both a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and a research associate at the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a lecturer at the University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Art. His research...

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09 Aug

Eric Fenrich is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled The Color of the Moon: The American Manned Space Program and Racial Inclusion, 1957-1978. This project examines the interactions between the U.S. space program and the struggles for racial justice within the United...

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09 Aug

Anne Cong-Huyen is a Doctoral Candidate in English. Her dissertation is titled Host and Server: The Literature and Media of Temporariness in an Age of Globalized Networks. This project traces the emergence of temporariness, a term used to conceptualize the widespread phenomena of rising provisional...

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09 Aug

Paul Reed Baltimore is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled From the Camel to the Cadillac: The Culture of Consumption and the U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship. From the Camel to the Cadillac tells a story of how the political economies of the United States...

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08 Aug

  Conveners Ann Bermingham, History of Art bermingham@arthistory.ucsb.edu Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Music rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu "The Uses of the Public University is an RFG devoted to imagining the role of the University of California in serving the State, its citizens, the nation and the world. Fundamental to this role is maintaining the University...

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08 Aug

Conveners: Xiojian Zhao, Asian American Studies xiaojian@asamst.ucsb.edu Xiaowei Zheng, History and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies zheng@eastasia.ucsb.edu This Research Focus Group examines a unique moment in the history of urban/rural relations in modern China: the sent-down youth movement that accompanied the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). This movement is one of...

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08 Aug

Conveners Peter Alagona, History alagona@history.ucsb.edu Chloe Diamond-Lenow, Feminist Studies cdiamondlenow@umail.ucsb.edu Russell Samolsky, English rsamolsky@english.ucsb.edu This RGF brings the myriad work emerging in the growing field of animal and posthumanist studies together in its diversity. We are talking across disciplinary boundaries- science, social science, and humanities- drawing on disciplines including philosophy, biology, feminist...

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08 Aug

Ruthe Hellier-Tinoco, Music rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu Gabriela Soto Laveaga,History gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu Sarah Townsend, Spanish and Portuguese stownsend@spanport.ucsb.edu Contemporary or modern Mexico, covering the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is the principle focus of this group, with an emphasis on political, ideological, cultural, social, technological, pedagogical, and artistic movements, processes, and activities. Through our research...

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08 Aug

Conveners Mary Hancock, Anthropology and History hancock@anth.ucsb.edu David Novak, Music dnovak@music.ucsb.edu The Research Focus Group in Ethnography and Cultural Studies aims to take stock of the ways that ethnographic practice has diversified in response to the challenges of contemporary culture. Our central questions are these: How does contemporary ethnography work?...

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