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2022

2022

Sherman, Zandi

  • Research Interests: Negotiations of identity and belonging in the queer African diaspora
  • Education: M.A., Global Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Freiburg University and the University of Cape Town Undergraduate and Honours Degrees, University of Cape Town, African Gender Institute
  • Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, CUNY

Bio

Zandi Sherman is an African feminist activist who devotes most of her energy to collectively imagining new ways of building queer African community. She has been involved in struggles for racial, gender and economic justice in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. She has also worked as a researcher for organizations working in popular education and queer media making and documentation. 

Pivazyan, Arev

  • Research Interests: Nation building, citizenship and identity, human rights discourses, queer theory, transgender studies, the Caucasus and the Eastern Mediterranean.
  • Education: M.A., Performance Studies, New York University

Bio

Arev's research focuses on discourses of the modern nation-state, anxieties around racial and geographic belonging, land claims, and the deployment of human rights rhetoric in the Caucasus and Eastern Mediterranean. Arev earned an M.A. in Performance Studies at NYU, completing a thesis on transgender visual and performance art, mourning, and the progressive logic of neoliberal identity formation. Arev is also a founding member of the Hye-Phen Collective, a transnational, queer and feminist, diasporan Armenian media collective and e-zine.

Haziz-Ginsberg, A.

  • Research Interests: Queer and Trans studies; Biopolitics and Critical Security Studies; British Empire and Surveillance; Crisis and Theories of Emergency
  • Education: B.A., Religion, Hunter College, 2010 MTS, Harvard Divinity School, 2012
  • Job Placement: Lecturer in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities at King's College London
  • Committee: Jasbir Puar, Chair, Carlos Decena, Maya Mikdashi, Rahul Rao, Professor of International Political Thought, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
  • Dissertation: Technologies of the Quotidian: British Empire, Race, and the Biopolitics of Security

Salazar, Jillian

  • PhD
  • Research Interests: Sexualities, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Chicana Feminist Thought, Queer of Color Critique
  • Education: 2017, MA, Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University 2011, BA, Politics/Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Committee: Sylvia Chan-Malik (co-chair), Deborah Vargas (co-chair), Carlos Decena (internal member), Kyla Schuller (internal member), Wendy Cheng (outside member)
  • Dissertation: "Queer Modes of Survival: A Cultural Analysis of Responses to Gender, Sexual, and Racial Marginalization in California’s Central Valley"

 

  

 

 

Orsak, Sarah

  • Orsak, Sarah
  • Rising Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate
  • Research Interests: Black feminist theory, Disability Studies, American studies, Literary and cultural studies
  • Education: B.A., Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Smith College, 2016
  • Job Placement: University of Virginia, Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality
  • Webpage: https://virginia.academia.edu/SarahOrsak
  • Committee: Kyla Schuller (chair), Ed Cohen, Marisa Fuentes, Jasbir Puar, and Alison Kafer (external examiner)
  • Dissertation: "Making Disability White: Blackness and White Disability from Hollywood to Academia"
  • Abstract URL: https://www.proquest.com/docview/2679657855/82E441257D6D4603PQ/

Corona Aguilar, Itzel

  • Research Interests: Migration, Prisons, Queer and Trans Studies, Religion
  • Education: B.A. Anthropology - UT San Antonio
  • Committee: Sylvia Chan-Malik (Chair), Deborah Vargas, Kyla Schuller, Nicole Fleetwood, Dylan Rodriguez (External Examiner)
  • Dissertation: "Abolition and Faith: Embodying the Sacred in Migrant Liberation Narratives"