Julian Arreguin Vega
Jake Atienza
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Sociology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2023

  • extractivism, epistemology, violence, law and society, political dynasties, the intersection of power and knowledge production

  •  509 Social Science Tower

  • atienza1@uci.edu
  • Website
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
    M.A., Global Studies, University of California, Irvine, 2023
    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

  •  511 Social Science Tower

  • gscisner@uci.edu
Valeria Couttolenc González
  • Graduate Student
    MSc., Global Crime, Justice and Security, University of Edinburgh, 2022
    B.A., International Relations, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, 2020

  • war on drugs, Latin American studies, militarisation & state violence, migration, drug policies

  •  517 Social Science Tower

  • vcouttol@uci.edu
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

  •  511 Social Science Tower

  • 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

  •  507 Social Science Tower

  • 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

  •  531 Social Science Tower

  • 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

  •  531 Social Science Tower

  • 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

  • global and international studies; gender and sexuality in media; migration, war and exile; militarization & masculinities; citizenship, nationalism, & belonging; eastern european studies; post-soviet studies; southern caucasus studies

  •  515 Social Science Tower

  • ggasvian@uci.edu
Joma Geneciran
  • 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

  • j.geneciran@uci.edu
  • CV
Jala Grant
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Pan African Studies, Syracuse University, 2024
    B.S., Business Administration, Bucknell University, 2022

  • Politics of Anti-Blackness, Afro-Caribbean Migration, Socialist and Anti-Capitalist movements, Conflict Transformation, Afro-Caribbean's in Britain, and the social mobilization and organizing of the Black diaspora

  •  511 Social Science Tower

  • jalag1@uci.edu
  • CV
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

  •  507 Social Science Tower

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

  •  531 Social Science Tower

  • smsami@uci.edu
Silvi Naci
  • Graduate Student
    M.F.A., Photography and Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 2019
    B.F.A., Fine Arts and Graphic Design, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 2011

  • queer and gender studies; decolonization; counter archives; traditional craft practices; arts-based pedagogy; anti-inter-transdisciplinarity; human rights; labor; intersection of power and knowledge production; translation; migration; globalization; feminist praxis

  •  509 Social Science Tower

  • snaci@uci.edu
  • Website
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

  •  531 Social Science Tower

  • 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
Alex Piña
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., University of California, Irvine 
    B.A., University of California, Los Angeles 

  • critical feminist geographies; transnational social movements; tourism geopolitics; race, gender, and sexuality; queer theory; affect and aesthetics; latin american cultural studies

  •  515 Social Science Tower

  • dapina@uci.edu
  • Website
Melissa Sanford
Derek Sherrange
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. International Relations  
    B.A. Global Studies and International Economics  

  •  503 Social Science Tower

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

  •  511 Social Science Tower

  • 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
Zoë Van Gyseghem
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., African American and African Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University, 2024

  • comparative global movements, political economy of globalization, africana studies, human rights

  •  517 Social Science Tower

  • zvangyse@uci.edu
  • CV

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