Kwabena Agyare Yeboah

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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Lan An

Lan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English interested in eighteenth-century women’s writings and British Romanticism. Her research interests are in poetics, gender/genre, psychoanalysis, trauma, and archives.
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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.

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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Alice Fulmer

Alice is a poetess and an MA/PhD student in English, pursuing a Medieval Studies emphasis. After her MA was conferred in June 2024, she is planning her prospectus on disability studies and transfeminism in the works of Chaucer and Hoccleve.
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Katherina Gontaryuk

Katherina Gontaryuk is a Ph.D candidate in Philosophy. Her primary research interests are in social ontology and philosophy of social science.
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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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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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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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Martina Mattei

Martina is a Ph.D. student in the Comparative Literature program. Her research interests include adaptation studies, children’s literature and film and media studies.
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José Manuel Mejía Villena

José Manuel is a M.A./Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department. His ongoing research on anti-mining class struggles developed by the Andean indigenous-cholo peasantry examines its antisystemic effects over capital reproduction.

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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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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Huy Phan

Huy Phan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics. His work focuses on the marginalized Tây community in the Mekong Delta area, documenting the community’s unique Tây dialect of Southern Vietnamese, as well as revitalizing and maintaining other Tây cultural aspects.
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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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Edward Reyes

Edward Reyes is a Ph.D. student in Chicana and Chicano Studies. His pedagogical advocacy for teaching Ethnic Studies in elementary schools shapes his research on the social movement for Ethnic Studies (Chicana/o Studies) in K-12. His scholarly interests center Ethnic Studies policy, history and curriculum.
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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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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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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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Mingyi Xiao

Mingyi Xiao is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her research encompasses Chinese and Francophone literature, translation studies, critical theory, and East Asian philosophy.
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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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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

Guillem Belmar Viernes

Guillem received his Ph.D. in Linguistics, where his work focused on minoritized languages. He is interested in language revitalization movements as means of contesting minorization, community healing and empowerment.
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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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Dana Hughes

Dana received her Ph.D. from the Department of History with a specialization in public history. Her research explores 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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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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Morgane Thonnart

Morgane received her Ph.D. from the Department of Religious Studies, where she studied the production of religious humor and the questions of representation, ethics, and religious authority through the comic discourse.
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Mika Thornburg

Mika received her Ph.D. in History, where her research focused on Japanese migration in the post-World War II period and themes of empire, race, and gender.
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Jordan Tudisco

Jordan received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, where their research in literature, sociocultural linguistics, and queer and trans studies examined 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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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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Maya Zaynetdinova

Maya received her M.A. from the Department of Global Studies. Her research focuses on civil society activism, technologies of advocacy, and movement leadership.
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