Fellows
Kwabena is a M.A./Ph.D. student in the Department of History. His wide range of research interests include African history, the history of public health & medicine, and public/digital history.
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Kristy Ali
Kristy is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics. Her research interests are sign language documentation and description, Caribbean languages, and their relationship to social justice and decolonial theory.
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Maisnam Arnapal
Maisnam is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Feminist Studies. He is interested in Indigenous feminism, and queer and trans* studies with special focus on Northeast India (Asia), which lies at the intersection of India, China, and Myanmar.
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Victoria Ballmes
Vicky is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies. She is a historian of religion whose research explores violence, trauma, and communal identity formation.
Guillem Belmar Viernes
Guillem is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics, where his work focuses on minoritized languages. He is interested in language revitalization movements as means of contesting minorization, community healing and empowerment.
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Tannishtha Bhattacharjee
Tannishtha is a Ph.D. student of South Asian History. She investigates the intersection of collective memory, migration and trauma in the culinary culture of Sylhetis in India. She engages with the notion of borderland living in contemporary practices and communal spaces of the Sylhetis.
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Ana Maria Cardenas
Ana Maria is a Ph.D. student in the Media Arts and Technology Program. Ana Maria’s research focuses on developing technologies for storytelling and fostering human connections through narratives.
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Tanner Cassidy
Tanner is a doctoral candidate in Music Theory. He studies film music, musical nationalism, jazz, and music in Japan. He is also an active performer and arts administrator.
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Ricardo Delgado Solis
Ricardo is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. His research focuses on race, immigration, and sexuality among non-traditional, first-generation, undocu-queer Latinx students navigating higher education spaces.
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E. Solaire Denaud
Solaire (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student in the Comparative Literature Program. Her research focuses on race and animality in Caribbean literature as well as occurrences of Black plant-based diets throughout the Black Diaspora.
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Alex Eleazar
Alex is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology. Alex’s research focuses on the experiences of LGBTQ migrants through a feminist postcolonial lens.
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Olivia Henderson
Olivia is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English, where she studies 16th- and 17th-century English literature, disability studies (particularly neurodiversity), and ecocriticism.
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Dana Hughes
Dana is a Ph.D. student in History with a specialization in public history. Her research focuses on a nineteenth-century female writer and historic preservationist, analyzing her effects on constructions of imperialism, race and gender in colonial memory on the east and west coasts of the U.S.
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Emma John
Emma is a graduate student in the Department of History and is interested in public history and nineteenth-century U.S. history with a particular focus on women.
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Grace Kimball
Grace is a Ph.D. student in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Her research focuses on the English early modern period and performance.
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Yan Liu
Yan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies. His research focuses on modern and contemporary art, literature, and cinema in East Asia.
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Katya Lopatko
Katya is a Ph.D. student in the Comparative Literature program. Her research examines the interactions of built space, objects, and subjectivity in modern and contemporary French, English, and Russian literature and film.
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Claudia Mendoza Chavez
Claudia is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology. Her research focuses on environmentalism, policy, and disadvantaged communities. Her work is centered around water policy and BIPOC communities in California’s Central Valley.
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Somak Mukherjee
Somak is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English. His research focuses on environmental media studies, global modernism, visual culture, and postcolonial literature.
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Russell Nylen
Russell is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology. His research focuses on environmental advocacy, resource extraction, and land-use conflicts in Brazil.
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Heath Pennington
Heath is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Theater and Dance, with a doctoral emphasis in Feminist Studies. Their interdisciplinary research investigates sexual cultures, centering BDSM as a performative, affective mode of consensual intimacy.
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R. Wolfe Randall
Wolfe is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy. His research focuses on theory of knowledge (epistemology). In particular, he is interested in the relationship between public advocacy and norms of assertion.
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Cypris Roalsvig
Cypris is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Classics. They study the modern reception of Greek and Latin literature and the reinterpretations of classical mythology and drama in modern queer literature and theater.
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Megan Sheard
Megan is a Ph.D. student in the History of Art and Architecture Department. Her research focuses on the materiality of early Tasmanian architecture, in the context of colonial transformation of Aboriginal landscapes and larger webs of regional and imperial trade.
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MariaCarolina Sintura
MariaCarolina is a Ph.D student in English. Her research brings together the Legal Humanities, Critical University Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Women of Color Feminisms to study the discourses constructed around international students and scholars.
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Lauren Smyth
Lauren is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology. Her research focuses on Muslim physical and digital spaces and community belonging in the United States.
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Jungah Son
Jungah is a Ph.D. student in Media Arts and Technology and is especially interested in applying her technology skills in a museum setting.
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Abylay Stambayev
Abylay is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History, where he studies modern Central Asia. His current research focuses on the movements of Kazakh refugees on the Sino-Soviet borders.
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Morgane Thonnart
Morgane is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Religious Studies. Focusing on the production of religious humor, her research explores questions of representation, ethics, and religious authority through the comic discourse.
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Mika Thornburg
Mika is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History. Her research focuses on Japanese migration in the post-World War II period and themes of empire, race, and gender.
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Shannon Toribio
Shannon is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Religious Studies, where his work focuses on Asian and Asian American religion, specifically Filipino New Religious Movements, and indigeneity, diaspora, identity, race/ethnicity, and postcolonial critique.
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Jordan Tudisco
Jordan is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature. Their interdisciplinary research in literature, sociocultural linguistics, and queer and trans studies examines transness at large and its relationship to narratives of the self, constraints in genres and forms, trauma, criminalization and mass incarceration, and healing.
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MacKenzie Wade
MacKenzie is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology. She studies changing cultural perceptions of edible insects and participates in community education of the environmental, social, and health impact of the food we eat.
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Kira Weiss
Kira is a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology with an emphasis in Global Studies. Her research focuses on the adoption of the violin family in traditional Egyptian Arab music ensembles in the context of national discourses regarding identity and heritage, postcolonialism, affect, and modernity.
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Eunwoo Yoo
Eunwoo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Theater and Dance and a Fulbrighter from South Korea. Her research focuses on food, performance, race, and colonialism in the early modern period.
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Maya Zaynetdinova
Maya is a doctoral student and scholar-activist in the Department of Global Studies. Her research focuses on civil society activism, technologies of advocacy, and movement leadership.
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Maria Anna Zazzarino
Maria is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Comparative Literature, where she works on Latin American and Caribbean literatures with a focus on environmental aesthetics.
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ALUMNI
Unita Ahdifard
Unita received her Ph.D. from the Department of English. Her research focuses on women writers and Anglo-Persianate relations in the early modern period, postcolonial theory, and the boundaries around fictional and nonfictional genres in travel writing.
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Anna Bax
Anna received her Ph.D. from the Department of Linguistics. She is a sociocultural linguist fascinated by the connections between language, identity, power, and inequality. Her research focuses on young Mixtec women’s multilingual identity practices in the California context. LEARN MORE
Amanda Brush
Amanda received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science. Her expertise is in American politics, with an emphasis in gender and sexual politics, coalition and allyship formation, and how people work collaboratively to enact meaningful public policy.
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Alesha Claveria
Alesha received her Ph.D. from the Department of Theater and Dance. Her research interests include Native North American drama and Indigenous theory.
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Olga Faccani
Olga received her Ph.D. from the Department of Classics specializing in ancient theater. She is interested in community building and the power of storytelling to connect different audiences.
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Kirsten Jaqua
Kirsten received her Ph.D. from the Department of Classics, where she studied ancient Greek tragedy, women’s social bonds, and the significance of female-female relationships portrayed in male-written and -performed dramas.
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Christopher MacMahon
Christopher received his Ph.D. from the Department of History. His expertise includes the 19th-century American West, Native American history, environmental history, and historical preservation, interpretation, and education through social media and open-sourced platforms.
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David McIntosh
David received his Ph.D. from the Department of History, where he studied comparative race and ethnicity as well as the history of science.
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Esra Tunc
Esra received her Ph.D. from the Department of Religious Studies. She is interested in the meeting of the logic of calculation and innovation with the production of religious discourses around the questions of ethics and justice.
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George Ygarza
George received his Ph.D. from the Department of Global Studies. His research, which is grounded in sustained collaboration with communities in and beyond the university, explores Indigeneity and the politics of autonomy and resistance to the State across the Americas.
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