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

  •  SST 519

  • 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

  •  SST 539

  • 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

  •  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; modern middle east; peasantry and land; economic geography; world-systems analysis; uneven development; Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL); energy, infrastructure, and extractivism; anti-systemic movements; competing sovereignties

  •  SST 509

  • mcleveng@uci.edu
Livia Machado Costa
  • Graduate Student
    Unesco Great Wall Fellow, Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), 2020
    LLM., China Studies, Yenching Academy of Peking University, 2019
    B.A., International Relations, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), 2016

  • China and Latin America, Brazilian Amazon region, soybean and beef supply chains, decarbonization, political ecology, human geography, global political economy

  •  SST 515

  • lmcosta@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

  •  SST 511

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

  •  SST 517

  • 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

  •  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
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

  •  SST 519

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

  •  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
  • Graduate Student
    B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 

  • Latino/a studies, Orange County, Spatial Inequalities, Interdisciplinary research methods

  •  SST 515

  • gmazari@uci.edu
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, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, Theravada Buddhism, Continental Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Selfhood/Identity, Affects and Aesthetics, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Theory, Critical Theory

  •  SST 517

  • 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

  • Filipinx/a/o futurities, transnational coalition building, queer and trans rhetorics, Indigeneity, global Asias

  •  SST 503

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

  •  SST 515

  • dapina@uci.edu
Spencer Potiker
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. Sociology, University of California, Irvine 
    B.A. Sociology and Economics, California State University, Long Beach  

  • global political economy, labor and social movements, border studies, comparative-historical sociology, contentious politics, critical logistics and supply chain studies, urban and regional studies, world-systems analysis, non-state spaces, theories from the global south, anarchism and anarchist theory

  •  SST 503

  • spotiker@uci.edu
  • CV
Phelipe Ribeiro Veiga
  • Graduate Student
    M.A., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 

  • far-right movements, transnational nationalism, elections, Ibero-American politics

  •  SST 509

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

  •  SST 511

  • ktannous@uci.edu
Sadaf Vafa
  • Graduate Student
    M.A. in Public Law, University of Tehran, 2021
    B.A. in Law, University of Tehran, 2019

  • human rights, international law, armed conflicts, international security, climate change, gender studies

  •  SST 519

  • vafas@uci.edu

 

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