Sara Abed
Julian Arreguin Vega
Jake Atienza
  • Graduate Student

  • 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

  • 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

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

  •  507 Social Science Tower

  • yipinc1@uci.edu
Lupita Cisneros-Arroyo
  • Graduate Student

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

  •  511 Social Science Tower

  • gscisner@uci.edu
Aakanksha D'Cruz
  • Graduate Student

  • 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

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

  •  517 Social Science Tower

  • trinhhd@uci.edu
Jaiden Davis
  • Graduate Student

  • politics of anti-blackness, black resilience neoliberalism, black masculinity studies and anti-black misandry, Africana studies, comparative global movements, critical archival theory, black political thought

  •  546 Social Science Tower

  • jaidend1@uci.edu
Maira Delgado Laurens
Luthfi T. Dzulfikar
  • Graduate Student

  • knowledge production; the social sciences and power; political precarity in the intellectual field; archives and past atrocities; postcolonial scholarship; Indonesia; Southeast Asia

  •  546 Social Science Tower

  • ldzulfik@uci.edu
Temi Famodu
  • Graduate Student

  • 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

  • Palestine studies, Marxist theory and praxis, armed social and political movements, settler colonialism and anti-colonialism, historical materialism and dialectics

  •  503 Social Science Tower

  • cfinn1@uci.edu
Katherine Funes
  • Graduate Student

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
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Jala Grant
Jimena Laso
Heidi Lucero
Safia Msami
Silvi Naci
  • Graduate Student

  • 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

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

  •  531 Social Science Tower

  • enadurat@uci.edu
Samantha Olvera
  • Graduate Student

  • food studies, culinary labor as resistance, Oceania diasporas, feminist methodologies, gender studies, decolonization, solidarities

  •  546 Social Science Tower

  • siolvera@uci.edu
Shreya Paudel
  • Graduate Student

  • Migration, Capitalism, Migrant workers, South Asia, Progressive popular culture

  •  546 Social Science Tower

  • spaudel2@uci.edu
Gunn Phikrohkit
  • Graduate Student

  • 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

  • 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
Meena Sadr
Melissa Sanford
  • Graduate Student

  • histories of US imperialism; historical materialism; political economy of surveillance and repression; global political economy; racial capitalism; anti-colonial theory and praxis

  •  507 Social Science Tower

  • mmsanfor@uci.edu
Derek Sherrange
Olivia Sirchio
  • Graduate Student

  • urban studies, economic development and poverty alleviation, human rights, neoliberalism and financialization, housing, Latin America

  • osirchio@uci.edu
Katherine Alissar Tannous
Demetrius Tien
Zoë Van Gyseghem