Ph.D. Student Profiles

K Anderson

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Black transfeminist theory, pornography, historiographies of slavery, sexual economy and geography, archival method, critical musicology, and technology

Camila Belliard-Quiroga

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Caribbean Diasporas and Migration; Black Caribbean Studies; Blackness and Racism; Structural violence; Black Feminisms, Racialization and embodiment, Resilience and Self-Making, Spirituality and mental Health, Decolonial and Feminist Research Methodologies.

Sam Brooks

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Trans History & Prison Studies

Carlos Burgos

David Carre

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blackness, gender, plasticity, aesthetic theory, abstraction, pornotroping,
ontological resistance

Tyler Carson

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LGBTQ history, American studies, psychoanalysis, and queer theory

Sarah-Anne Gresham

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Black feminist theory, Caribbean feminist theory, Media Studies, Anime Studies, Fandom Studies, Black Geographies, Affect Theory, and New Materialisms

Jennie Jiang

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Feminist science studies, toxicity, pollution, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, biopolitics, decolonial thought, racial capitalism

Carmen Jones

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Abolition, Decolonization, Astrology, Agency, and Grassroots Organizing

Michelle Ling

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East Asian racialization and sexualities, settler colonialism and capitalism in the Pacific, surplus populations, comparative racial studies, Marxist Feminist analysis of labor and reproduction, women of color feminism and queer/trans of color critique, disciplinarization/institutionalization of knowledge.

Molly McCullough

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Childhood Studies; Global Orphanhoods; Decolonial Ecologies; Affect Theory; Biopolitics and Racialization

Nehal Naser

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US/Middle East history and geopolitics, emotion, affect, Islamophobia

Sara Perryman

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Affect, animality, architecture, and critical geography.

Meryem Uzumcu

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Nationalism, erasure, and genocide; Disability studies; Gender-based Violence; Memory studies, multicultural futurity; Oral history

Jennifer Vilchez

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Latinx studies, feminist theory, cultural studies, history of technology, and humanistic data analysis

Taida Wolfe

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Intersection of race, class, gender in reproductive experiences.