Graduate Students
Elaine Andres
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Vanessa Baker
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Simona Mila Capisani
Research Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics (Meta and Normative), Feminist Philosophy, Aesthetics
Luzilda Carrillo
Research Interests: accountability, economic and moral value, practices and discourse of inclusion, U.S.
Chris Chamberlin
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Erica Cheung
Research Interests: Erica's interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of food as a racialized and gendered text, identity formation, critical landscapes, and cyberspace. As such, her current research looks at the discursive construction of Asian American racialized and hypermasculine identities within the popular culinary industry and narratives about food, eating, and cooking. Her larger project is interested in analyzing the production and consumption of food as performative self-making within the “global city” of Los Angeles.
Elizabeth Clark
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Charlie Curtis
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Allison Dziuba
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Melissa Gang
Research Interests: Medical humanitarianism, gender and development, the U.S. military and the body politic.
Jennifer Gutierrez
Research Interests: Migration, Border Studies, Latin American Literature, Non-linear Dynamics and Self-Organization, Performance.
Ben Kruger-Robbins
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Stefanie Lira
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Ssu-Fang (Kiki) Liu
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Elizabeth Matthews
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Amanda Mixon
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Sara Newsome
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Angela Okune
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Amanda Petersen
Research Interests: Resistance to the U.S. legal system; abolition theory and practice; biased decision-making in the U.S. legal system; knowledge production in socio-legal and criminological scholarship; liberation theories
Jessica Pruett
Research Interests: Jessica’s research interests include queer theory, new media, affect theory, crip theory, trauma studies, lesbian fandom, gender and sexuality studies, and performance studies.
Anandi Rao
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Judith Rodriguez
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Jamie Rogers
Research Interests: Visual culture; radical politics; feminism; critical race theory; Latin American and Caribbean film and literature; theories of subjectivity and representation.
Mindy Tauberg
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Annie Wilkinson
Research Interests: global sexualities, transnational social movements, religious fundamentalisms
Alexander Wolff
Alexander Wolff is a second year graduate student in the Anthropology department. He received his Bachelor's degree in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Research Interests: issues of political participation, governance, citizenship, gender, and sexuality in South Korea.
Nima Yolmo
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