June 2013

Chicano/Latino Research Group

Conveners: Mario T. Garcia, Chicano Studies, garcia@history.ucsb.edu Ellen McCracken, Spanish and Portuguese, emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu Description: This group is concerned with the historical and contemporary experiences of people of Chicano/Latino background in the United States. Numbering some 45 million people, Chicano/Latinos have become the largest minority group in the United...

IHC Research Fellow: Mary Garcia

IHC Research Fellow: Alison Turtledove

IHC Research Fellow: Marthine Satris

IHC Research Fellow: Chrissy Yee Lau

IHC Research Fellow: Rachel Johnson

IHC Research Fellow: Sarah Kimberlin Harris

  Sarah K. Harris' research interests include information technology regulation and access, digital media literacy and utilizing ethnography to measure IT policy impact. In 2013, she earned her Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies, with a doctoral emphasis in Global Studies, from UC Santa Barbara. Her dissertation,...

IHC Research Fellow: Ayla Applebaum

  Ayla Bozkurt Applebaum is an ethnic Kabardian from Turkey. Kabardians are among the Circassian people which, although indigenous to the Northwest Caucasus, live primarily in exile in Turkey and the Middle East due to their expulsion by Czarist Russia in the mid 19th century. Dr. Bozkurt...

IHC Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Barbara L. Taylor

Barbara L. Taylor is a Doctoral Candidate in Music. Her dissertation is titled The Ghosts of Banjos Past: The Early Banjo Revival and Remapping America's Racial Terrain. Diverse cultural activists are contesting conventional knowledge of early banjo history as they construct a subversive reading of "America's...

IHC Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Rahul Mukherjee

Rahul Mukherjee is a Doctcoral Candidate in Film and Media Studies. His dissertation is titled Competing Knowledges, Uncertain Futures: A Study of Mediated Technoscience Publics in India. "Through case-studies in India, my dissertation explores media’s role in science controversies. The cases include arguments about effects of...

IHC Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Andrew Magnusson

Andrew Magnusson is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled Muslism-Zoroastrion Relations and Religious Violence in Early Islamic Iran. My dissertation examines Muslim-Zoroastion relations in Iran between the seventh and eleventh centuries. It challenges the lachrymose narrative of Zoroastion history which  blames Muslim prosecution for...

IHC Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Kuan-yen Liu

Kuan-yen Liu is a Doctoral Candidate in English. His dissertation is titled Animal-Human Analogy and the Order of Things: A Comparative Study of Victorian British and Late-Qing Chinese Darwinism. This research project will explore the cross-boundary interaction of Darwinism with philosophy, socio-political thought and literature in...

IHC Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Zachary Horton

Zachary Horton is a Doctoral Candidate in English. His dissertation is titled Scale and Alterity: Ecology, Media, and Technics After the Human. This dissertation is an interdisciplinary effort to analyze current techno-scientific discourses for underlying scalar frameworks that constrain personal, local, and transnational efforts to think other...