Malia Baricuatro
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., International Studies, California State University, Long Beach 
    B.A., Anthropology, California State University, Long Beach 

  • indigeneity, oceania, food sovereignty, decolonization, sociolinguistics, anti/inter/transdisciplinary methods, critical mixed-race studies

  •  515 Social Science Tower

  • mbaricua@uci.edu
Yiping Cai
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., History, Peking University, 1995
    B.A., History, Peking University, 1992

  • gender and sexuality, development, transnational feminist movement, global China

  •  507 Social Science Tower

  • yipinc1@uci.edu
Lupita Cisneros-Arroyo
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Chicanx Studies, California State University, Long Beach, 2020
    A.A, Chicanx Studies, Fullerton College, 2018
    A.A., Arts and Human Expression, Fullerton College, 2018

  • global fascism and eugenics, history of health sciences, far-right studies, chicanx studies, latin american studies

  •  SST 511

  • gscisner@uci.edu
Michael Clevenger
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2021
    B.A., Political Science, New College of Florida, 2020

  • political economy of (dependent) development; critical agrarian studies; critical development studies; world systems analysis; historical sociology; comparative anti-systemic movements; economic geography; uneven development and unequal exchange; energy, infrastructure, extraction; the Philippines; modern middle east; third world approaches to international law (TWAIL)

  •  509 Social Science Tower

  • mcleveng@uci.edu
  • CV
Aakanksha D'Cruz
  • Graduate Student
    M.Phil. Women & Gender Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi 
    M.A. Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University 
    B.A.(Hons.) Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi 

  • girl studies, girlhood, femininity, gender performativity, hidden curriculum, discipline at school, social reproduction, girls' education, power, ethnography, qualitative methods

  •  SST 511

  • dcruza@uci.edu
Trinh Dang
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., California State University, Long Beach 

  • food studies, consumption, production, gastronomy, Vietnamese diasporas, labor, coloniality, imperialism and colonialism

  •  517 Social Science Tower

  • trinhhd@uci.edu
Maira Delgado Laurens
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Migration Studies, University of San Francisco, 2021
    B.A., Sociology, University of California Davis, 2015

  •  SST 507

  • mairad@uci.edu
Temi Famodu
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., DePaul University 

  • black geographies, queer placemaking, geopolitical economy, critical social theory, afterlives of socialist internationalism, anti-colonial methodologies, arts-based pedagogy

  •  SST 511

  • tfamodu@uci.edu
Charles Finn
  • Graduate Student
    M.S., Development Studies, SOAS, University of London 
    B.A., Global Studies, St. Lawrence University 

  • Palestine studies, settler colonial studies, insurgency and counterinsurgency, transnational resistances, cultural theory, global social movements, decolonization

  •  SST 503

  • cfinn1@uci.edu
Katherine Funes
  • Graduate Student
    B.A. Ethnic Studies & Political, Legal, & Economic Analysis, Mills College, 2019

  • queer mobilities, LGBTQ social movements, queer/trans worldmaking, critical Central American studies, abolition, migration

  •  SST 517

  • kfunes@uci.edu
Gvantsa Gasviani
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. in Global Studies, Leipzig University, 2019
    M.A. in Global Studies, Roskilde University, 2019
    B.A., International Black Sea University, 2016

  • gender and sexuality studies, gender and conflict, militarized masculinities, history and memory, post-Soviet Space

  •  515 Social Science Tower

  • ggasvian@uci.edu
Alison Jones
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. International Affairs, Northeastern University, 2021
    B.A. Political Science and Classical Civilizations, Binghamton University, 2019

  • voluntourism, the moral economy/economy of affect, critical university studies, heritage tourism, critical tourism studies, development, imperialism and colonialism

  •  SST 507

  • alisonlj@uci.edu
Nate Joseph
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 2021
    B.A., Sociology, California State University, Long Beach, 2017

  • revolutionary internationalism, anticolonial praxis, critical whiteness studies, guerrilla movements, the black radical tradition, settler and neo-colonialism, political economy, race, nationalisms, uneven development and unequal exchange

  •  SST 503

  • ngjoseph@uci.edu
Genesis Mazariegos
Safia Msami
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of California, Berkeley 

  •  SST 507

  • smsami@uci.edu
Edward Kenneth Lazaro Nadurata
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019
    B.A., Ethnic Studies and Political Science, University of California, San Diego, 2017

  • aging and retirement, reproductive labor, mobilities, migration, Filipino Studies, Disability Studies

  •  SST 517

  • enadurat@uci.edu
Gunn Phikrohkit
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Critical Global Studies, Pitzer College 

  • global Thailand, global Asias, global cultural studies, film and media studies, queer cultural productions and popular culture, selfhood and identity, Buddhist metaphysics, phenomenology, new materialism

  •  517 Social Science Tower

  • kphikroh@uci.edu
Johansen Pico
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Communication Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2021
    B.A., Communication Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2018

  • queer of color critique, metaphysics of gender, the Black radical tradition, abolition, Indigeneity, dis/ability, Philippine national democratic movements, diasporas

  •  SST 503

  • jpico@uci.edu
Alex Piña
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., University of California, Los Angeles 

  •  SST 515

  • dapina@uci.edu
Katherine Alissar Tannous
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 

  •  SST 511

  • ktannous@uci.edu
Demetrius Tien
  • Graduate Student
    B.A. History, California State University, Long Beach, 2023

  • Cambodian Studies, Asian American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Representation

  •  509 Social Science Tower

  • demetrt@uci.edu
  • CV

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