STUDENTS
Cultural Studies First-Year Students
Kelley Gove
Research Interests: Cultures of nature, landscapes and power, environmental consumerism, tourism, food, visual culture, science studies
M.A. American Studies and Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming.
Thesis: "Nature as Other: Debating Wyoming's Red Desert"
MLIS Simmons College.
B.A. English and psychology, University of New Hampshire.
Bevin Hall
Research Interests: Southern African studies (Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa), mobility and migration, geopolitical mapping of mobile subjects, transnational space, critical race theory, post colonial studies, politics of space and representation, feminist theory, sexuality studies, public health and narratives of disease (especially HIV/AIDS).
B.A. Gender Studies & Race and Ethnic Studies, Whitman College, 2007
Race and Ethnic Studies Thesis: "The Racial Conception of HIV/AIDS in African Space: The First Ten Years of American Print Media Discourse"
Honors Gender Studies Thesis: "Deconstructing the Evolution of Sexual Culture in Botswana: HIV/AIDS and the Commercial Sex Industry"
Presentations:
"Urban Commercial Sex: Race, HIV/AIDS and Sexual Risk in Botswana." Whitman Undergraduate Conference, May 2007.
"On Whiteness." Symposium on Race Relations and Community, Whitman College, November 2006.
Julia Alejandra Morales Fontanilla
jmoralesfontanilla@ucdavis.edu
Research Interests: Gender subjectivities within peace and reconciliation processes, masculinities, queer and gender studies, rhetoric
B.A. Languages and Sociocultural Studies, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 2006.
B.A. Thesis: "Infinite Expiation: Discourse Analysis of the Justice and Peace Law, Law 975/2005, Confronted with Derrida's Notion of Forgiveness"
Cultural Studies Second-Year Students
Megan Bayles
Research Interests: Memory and subjective histories, narrative, queer and gender studies, physicality and identity in performance, contemporary
literature
B.A. Intersectionality in Literature and Social Movement in the U.S., Macalester College, 2005
Thesis: "A 'patchwork quilt of reality': Individuality, Collectivity, & the Narrative Community in Toni Morrison's Novels"
Hilary Berwick
Research Interests: the implications of the relationships between music, community, information and media.
B.A. English Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. NYU in the John W. Draper School for Humanities and Social Thought. The title of my MA thesis was "I Listen to Records: Historical Objects Within an
Analysis of New Media."
Presentations:
"I Listen to Records: The Interplay Between Old Media and New Technology." DSO Student Colloquium, December 2007, at New York
University.
"I Listen to Records: The Interplay Between Old Media and New Technology." (Ex)Change Under Construction X, The Eastern Regional STS Graduate Student Conference, February 2008.
"Historical Objects and New Technologies: LPs, Message Boards, and Narrative." Warren G. Susman Graduate Student History Conference at Rutgers University.
Andrea Dooley
Research Interests: politics of representation, personal narrative and the dialog between place and trauma, multivalent memorial space, place and reconciliation and the language of the unimaginable in the context of genocide.
M.A. Visual Criticism, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 2006.
M.A. Thesis: "It Seems the Earth Could not Hold Them: Public Genocide Memorials in Rwanda."
B.S.S. Interdisciplinary Social Science: Urban Studies emphasis, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, 2003.
B.S.S. Thesis: "New Urbanism: Communitarianism and the Organizing Power of Space"
Presentations:
March 2007- 2nd Annual Conference on Human Rights - Genocide in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Cases, Causes and Cures, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Paper Presented: Cut Down the Tall Trees: Public Memorials in Rwanda
July 2007- 1st Congress of the African Sociological Association: Sub theme: Race, Ethnicity, Xenophobia, and Genocide, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Paper Presented: Implicated Geographies and the Rwandan Genocide
October 2007- Past in the Present: History as Practice--Art, Design and Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
Paper Presented: Topographies of Genocide: Public Memorials and the Activation of Memory
Ryan Looysen
Research Interests: *Masculinities, Fashion, Hegemony, Cultural Affect
B.A. Liberal Studies, Iowa State University 2005; MS, Textiles, UC Davis, 2008
M.S. Thesis title: Unmarked Men: Anxiously Navigating Hegemonic Masculinities
Presentations:
Green, D., Kaiser, S.B., Looysen, R. "Material(izing) Networks: Disposable and Reusable Surgical Textiles." Pending presentation August 2008 at the Conference for the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) & European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Looysen, R., Kaiser, S.B. "The Beard of Consumption: Capitalizing on a Ritual." Presented June 2008 at the 9th Association of Consumer Research Conference on Gender, Marketing, and Consumer Behavior, Boston, MA.
Kaiser, S. B., Looysen, R., Hethorn, J. "Un(marketing) Hegemonic Masculine Fashion: On the Politics of Cultural (In)visibility." Presented June 2008 at the 9th Association of Consumer Research Conference on Gender, Marketing, and Consumer Behavior, Boston, MA.
Looysen, R., "Ridiculing Masculinities." Presented May 2008 at the 6th Annual Meeting for the Cultural Studies Association, New York, NY.
Looysen, R., "Masculinity is Spinach." Presented March 2008 at the Joint Conference for the National Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, San Francisco, CA.
Looysen, R. "Dress Like a Man: Exploring Fashion Discourse in Esquire Magazine, 1980-2007." Presented November 2007 at the 64th Annual International Textiles & Apparel Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Kaiser, S.B., and Looysen, R., "Free Style: Interactive, Collaborative Fashion Research Programming." Presented November 2007 at the 64th Annual International Textiles & Apparel Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Kaiser, S.B, Looysen, R., and Green, D., "Breaking Down the (Disposable vs. Single-Use) Binaries." Presented September 2007 at the 2007 National Science Foundation MUSES Conference, Davis, CA.
Looysen, R., "Superman's Unmarked Masculinity: The Evolution of Clark Kent." Presented August 2007 at the King Power: Designing Masculinities Symposium, Melbourne, Australia.
Kaiser, S.B., Hethorn, J., Looysen, R., and Claro, D. "Masculine Fashion: Prescription and Description." Presented July 2007 at the 8th European Conference for the Association for Consumer Research, Milan, Italy.
Publications:
Kaiser, S.B., and Looysen, R. In press. 2010. "Alternative Fashion." The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress & Fashion: General Perspectives, Berg: London.
Kaiser, S.B., and Looysen, R. In press. 2010. "Antifashion." The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress & Fashion: North America, Berg: London.
Looysen, R., and Kaiser, S.B. In press. 2008. "The Beard of Consumption: Capitalizing on a Ritual." Proceedings of the 9th Association of Consumer Research Conference on Gender, Marketing, and Consumer Behavior.
Kaiser, S.B., Looysen, R., and Hethorn, J. In press. 2008. "Un(marketing) Hegemonic
Masculine Fashion: On the Politics of Cultural (In)visibility." Proceedings of the 9th Association of Consumer Research Conference on Gender, Marketing, and Consumer Behavior.
Looysen, R. In press. 2008. "Dress Like a Man: Exploring Fashion Discourse in Esquire Magazine 1980-2007." Proceedings of the 64th Annual International Textile and Apparel Association Conference.
Looysen, R. In press. 2008. "Superman's Unmarked Masculinity: The Evolution of Clark Kent." The Rack, 1(1). Melbourne: University of RMIT Press.
Kaiser, S.B., Hethorn, J., and Looysen, R., Claro, D. 2008. "Masculine Fashion: Prescription & Description." European Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 8. Duluth, MN: Association of Consumer Research.
Andrew Ventimiglia
Research Interests: Circulation and Use of Media in New Age Communities, Transnational Contact in the Spiritual Tourism Industry, The Intersection of Science and Religion, Secularism, Post-Secularism, The History and Practice of Atheism
B.A. Cinema Studies, New York University, 2003
M.A. Cinema Studies and Certificate in Media and Culture, New York University, 2006
M.A. Thesis Documentary, "Dream Theater"
Presentations:
"The Logics of Comparison: Global Religion and Paul Carus' Practice of Cultural Translation." Davis Humanities Institute Graduate Research Symposium, University of California--Davis, May 2009.
"World Religions and the World's Religion: Constructing Global Spirituality at the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions." Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Washington--Seattle, May 2009.
Publications:
"Z/Z: The Headbutt Buzz" Popmatters, 2006 (http://www.popmatters.com/sports/features/060718-zinedine-zidane.shtml)
Karl Zoller
Research Interests: American exceptionalism; sports and nationalism; espionage; detective fiction; food and travel writing; pop culture.
B.A. American Studies, UC Santa Cruz, 2004
M.A. Humanities, San Francisco State University, 2008
M.A. Thesis: "David Beckham and Cross-National Cultural Diffusion in the 21st Century"
Cultural Studies Third-Year Students:
D. A. Caeton
Research Interests: Technosocial Systems of Disability and Warfare, Histories of Blindness, Histories of Binary Codes and Languages, Cyborg Theory, Nonmodernism, Neo-Sophism.
M.A. English Composition Theory and Rhetoric, California State University, Fresno, 2006.
M.A. Thesis: "Ones, Zeros, and Everything in Between."
B.A. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2002.
B.A. Honors Thesis: "Re/Constructing Frederick Douglass."
Presentations:
"Perverse Functionality: How TerrorTech Confounds the Confounds the Neutrality of Non-humans." Society for the Social Studies of Science, Vancouver, November 2006.
"Striding into the Tunnel: The Pedagogical Imperative Posed by Confluences of Rhetoric and Technoscience." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, University of Utah, October 2006.
"Perpetual Negotiation Machine." 2nd International Wikimania Conference, Harvard Law School, August 2006.
"Kafka's Scarabaeidae and the Possibilities for a Posthuman Canon." 17th Southland Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2006.
"Information Superhighway Robbery." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Atlanta, April 2006.
Publications:
“Agency and Accountability: The Paradoxes of Wiki Discourse.” Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom. Ed. Matthew Barton and Robert Cummings. Ann Arbor: Digital Culture Books, 2008. 123-137.
"The Cultural Phenomenon of Identity Theft and the Domestication of the World Wide Web." The Lathe of Popular Culture. Ed. Tim Blackmore. Special issue of Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society 27.1 (2007): 11-23.
Links:
http://ucdavis.academia.edu/DACaeton
Tom Galaraga
M.A. Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California, 2006.
B.A. Journalism: Print Emphasis, University of La Verne, 2002.
Ingrid Lagos
ilagos@ucdavis.edu
Research Interests: formation of subjectivities, identities, and citizenships in transnational spaces; critical perspectives on nation, nation-state, and nationalism that intersect analyses on race/ethnicity, immigration, and globalization; colonialism and postcolonialism; contact zones; memory and nostalgia.
B.S. Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.
Sarah McCullough
Research Interests: Embodiment, science & technology studies, feminist and critical theory, sports studies, fashion theory, material culture, mobilities.
M.A. American Studies, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 2007.
M.A. Thesis: "Construction of the Female Body in Action: A Study of Women's Sport Uniforms."
M.A. English, Marquette University, 2002.
B.A. English and Spanish, Marquette University, 2000.
Presentations:
"Making Bodies Like Rocket: Enhancement and Evolution of Natural Bodies." American Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 2009.
"Training for Optimal Performance: How to Increase your Academic Output in 30 Days or Less." Society for the Social Studies of Science, Washington, DC, October 2009.
"Gender Jammer: A Multi-media Exploration of Roller Derby as Performative Transgression." Co-presenter with Denise Green. Thinking Gender, UCLA, February 2009.
"Gender Goes High-Tech: Intersection of Sport Performance, Technology, and Gender." North American Society for Sociology of Sport, Denver, CO, November 2008.
"Performing the Natural Athletic Body: Discourses of Allowable and Prohibited Technologies in Sport." Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), New York City, NY, May 2008.
"If 'Life is One Big Dress-Up,' Then I Want Your Wardrobe: Collection and Muffy VanderBear." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.
"Female Sports Uniforms as a Gender Border Warrior." Women and Sport: Before, During, and After Title IX, Bowling Green State University, February 2005.
Isabel Porras
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Latin@/Latin American cultural studies, performance studies, epistemologies of race, urban music.
B.A. Latin American Studies, Smith College, 2006.
Minor: Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Presentations:
"'¡Levàntate! ¡Ponte hyper!': Towards a Politics of Penetration in the Cultural Production of Calle 13." Served as Organizer and Chair for Latin@Cultural Production Panel. Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, June 2009.
"'El Estorbo del Rebusque': Colonial Authenticity and the Discourse of Intangible Heritage among Cartagena's Black Population." SSRC/Mellon-Mays Summer Conference, Oberlin College, June 2009.
"'Lo llevo en mi sangre': negritud, autenticidad y patrimonio en la industria turístca de Cartagena." Hemispheric Institute of the Americas Colloquium, UC Davis, October 2008.
"'Lo llevo en mi sangre': negritud, autenticidad y patrimonio en la industria turístca de Cartagena." Cultural Studies Colloquium, Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia, September 2008.
"An Incomprehensible Ritual Sound: Subversive Cyborgs and Fragmented Bodies in Diamela Eltit's Los Vigilantes." Celebrating Collaborations, Smith College, April 2006.
Publications/Translations:
"Creating Our Own: folklore, performance, and identity in Cuzco, Peru." Brujula 7 (forthcoming, Spring 2009). (Book review)
"Border." by Marisa Belausteguigoitia. Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies. Robert McKee Irwin and Monica Szurmuk, eds., forthcoming. (Translation from Spanish to English)
Cultural Studies Fourth-Year Students:
Tallie Ben Daniel
Research Interests: Middle-Eastern Studies; Feminist and Gender Studies; Queer Theory; citizenship production; the discourses of rights-based politics; gendered nationalism; postcolonial literature; continental philosophy.
B.A. Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2005.
Presentations:
"Ani G'eh Bisrael: Zionism and the Rhetoric of Gay rights." Thinking Gender Conference, UCLA, 2007.
Sara Bernstein
Research Interests: Fashion Theory, Visual Culture, Theories of the Novel and Narrative, Consumption, Representations of Disease, Subject Formation.
M.A. Visual Culture, Dept. of Art and Art Professions, New York University, 2005.
B.A. English Literature, Portland State University, 1997.
Presentations:
"Buying Time: Commodifying Temporality in Mid-Nineteenth Century Women's Fashion and Magazines." Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, Calgary, Alberta, October 2007. Nominated for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation.
"Rock Star as Post-Modern Dandy: Andrew Oldham and the Fashioning of The Rolling Stones." Fashion Research Conference, UC Davis, April 2007.
"In this gown of shadow: Between Fashion and Anti-Fashion in Charlotte Brontés Villette." Richard Martin Visual Culture Symposium, New York University, April 2005.
Publications:
"In this gown of shadow: Functions of Fashion in Villette." The Brontés in the World of the Arts. Sandra Hagan and Juliette Wells, eds. Alershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishers, Ltd., forthcoming.
Elise Chatelain
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Feminist Theory, Motherhood and Domesticity, The Family and Children, Consumer Culture, Public Health Narratives in Popular Culture, Television and Radio, Popular Music, Southern U.S. Identity and Culture, 20th Century U.S. Cultural History.
M.A. Sociology, University of New Orleans, 2005.
M.A. Thesis: "The Discursive Production of Subjectivity in Television News: Reflecting the Other on the Obese Child's Body."
B.A. Sociology, Whittier College, 2001.
B.A. Thesis: "Men's Health Magazine: Masculinity, Subjectivity, and the Reproduction of Power in Men's Magazines."
Presentations:
"Mapping (Im)Mobility Through the Fashion System in Tori Morrison's Tar Baby: Race, Class, and American Souths." 62 Annual RMMLA Convention, University of Nevada, Reno, October 2008.
"Fat Chance for Normativity: Reflecting the Other on the Obese Child's Body." The Northeastern American Studies Association, Brown University, November 2007.
"Death and Mourning in Contemporary Country Music: The Displaced South and its Haunting Subjects." New Directions in Critical Theory, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 2007.
"The Signification of the Single Mother Family Structure on Children's Bodies." Race, Class, and Gender Conference, Southern University of New Orleans, September 2004.
Terry Park
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Korean diasporic and Asian-American performance and youth culture, Racial Melancholia, Trauma, Masculinity, Critical Race Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Marxism and Neo-Marxism, Radical Social Movements.
M.A. Individualized Study, New York University, 2006.
M.A. Thesis: "38th Parallels" (performance) and "Blood Acts: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, Michael Joo's Salt Transfer Cycle and Lee Kyung-hae's Protest Suicide."
B.A. International Studies, Vassar College, 2001.
Presentations:
" Endangered Acts, Dangerous Species: Michael Joo's Salt Transfer Cycle." Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Chicago, April 2008.
" Resident Alien: Seung-Hui Cho and the Asian American Terrorist." The 2008 Texas Tech Comparative Literature Symposium on "War, Empire, and Culture," Texas Tech University, April 2008.
" Resident Alien: Seung-Hui Cho and the Asian American Terrorist." Presenter. Creating a Community of Scholarship on Asian Pacific American Issues: A Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Berkeley, April 2008.
"'I am crying out my words to you': Anti-WTO Funerals and the Melancholic Protest Suicide of Lee Kyung-hae." Asian Pacific American Graduate Students Organization Conference, University of Illinois-Chicago, March 2007.
Memberships:
Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
Magali Rabasa
Research Interests: transamerican cultural studies, subaltern & postcolonial studies, radical political theory, transnational feminist theory, autonomy, grassroots politics, Mesoamerican and Andean literatures, popular music, film.
BA: University of Oregon, International Studies & Spanish, 2004.
B.A. Thesis: "New Social Movements- New Testimonio: Latin American Women & the Negotiation of Identity & Representation."
Publications:
"Animalization & Infantilization: Colonialist Tropes in Outpost in Morocco& In Morocco." NOMAD: The Undergraduate Journal of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 2005.
Presentations:
"'Detrás de nostotros, estamos ustedes': El Zapatismo y la creación de nuevos espacios y prácticas de testimonio." Coloquio de Estudios Culturales, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, September 2009.
"Hacía un concepto feminista del hombre nuevo: Fanon, Guevara, Freire y nuevas teorías de rebelión." Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2009.
"Remembering Fanon: Zapatista Women & The Labor of Disalienation." Thinking Gender Conference, UCLA, February 1 2008.
"Del hip-hopero al revolucionario: Alteridad y pluralidad en los nuevos discursos zapatistas." Perspectives on Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literatures, & Cultures: Graduate Colloquium, University of California, Davis, October 20, 2007.
"Remembering Fanon: Zapatista Women & The Labor of Disalienation." Chimalpahin Conference: Colonial & Postcolonial Remembering & Forgetfulness, Special Session: Gendered Empires, Enkidu Centro Cultural, Mexico City, October 17, 2007.
"Just a Movie About People? Structures of Affect in Amores perros & the New New Latin American Cinema." Spring Graduate Film Symposium, UC Davis, May 24 2007.
Cultural Studies Fifth-Year Students:
Abigail Boggs
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Critical, Queer and Postcolonial Theory, Transnational Feminist Studies, Twentieth Century Intellectual and Political U.S. History, Neoliberalism and Privatization, Higher Education.
B.A. Women's Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 2002.
B.A. Thesis: "Pornography and Its Discontents: Feminism, Sexuality and the University."
Presentations:
"Sayyid Qutb and The Siege: Lawrence Wright's Construction of the International Student as Terrorist." Cultural Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, Spring 2009.
"Legislating Love: Thinking Beyond Same-Sex Marriage." Guest lecture in Women and Gender Studies 50, Introduction to Women and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis, Spring 2007.
"Prospective Student, Potential Threat: International Students in the U.S. and the Education of Desire." Delivered at the Conference on Sexualities in World History, University of California, Davis, Spring 2007.
"Money, the Market, and 'American' Multiculturalism: International Students and the U.S. University." Delivered at the Changing the Culture of the Academy: Toward a More Inclusive Practice Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, Winter 2007.
"Prospective Citizen, Potential Threat: Neoliberalism, Affect, and International Students in the U.S." Delivered at the New Directions in Critical Theory Conference at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Winter 2007.
"The Social Contract and the Family: Thinking Beyond Conjugality." Guest lecture in Women and Gender Studies 60, Feminist Interpretations of Western Thought, University of California, Davis, Winter 2007.
Cathy Hannabach
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Body theory; queer theory; phenomenology; critical theory; psychoanalysis; feminist theory; ethics; disability studies; sexuality studies; 20th c. continental philosophy; Merleau-Ponty; Levinas.
Dissertation: "Touching Bodies: Toward a Queer Ethics of Embodiment and Affect."
B.A. Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA, 2005
1st B.A. Thesis: "Recognizing Desire: Queer Femme Bodies in Sadomasochistic Practices."
2nd B.A. Thesis: "Performing Absence: Queer Ties and Time in the Choreography of Bill T. Jones."
Publications:
"Anxious Embodiment, Disability, and Sexuality: A Response to Margrit Shildrick." Studies in Gender and Sexuality 8.3 (2007): 253-61.
"Untimely Forgetting: Melancholia, Sexual Dispossession, and Queer Femininity." In The Shadow's Shadow: Mourning and Melancholia, edited by Liz Constable and Naomi Janowitz, forthcoming.
Presentations:
"Toward an Ethics of Eroticism: Beauvoir, Affect, and the Embodiment of Ambiguity." Invited Speaker. Simone de Beauvoir Life and Works Panel. International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference. Melbourne, Australia. July 2008.
"Toward an Ethics of Embodied Pain: Marina de Van's In My Skin." Panel Participant. Cultural Studies Association Conference. New York University. New York, NY. May 2008.
"Untimely Forgetting: Melancholia, Sexual Dispossession, and Queer Femininity." Invited Plenary Speaker. Thinking Gender Conference. University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA. February 2008.
"Sexual Inheritance and Reproductive Futurism: Queer Critiques of Generationality." University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium Conference on "Generations." Lake Arrowhead, CA. May 2007.
"Constructing the Corporeal: Sexual Embodiment, Tactility, and Queer Materialities." Panel Participant. New Directions in Critical Theory: Relocating Borders, Negotiating Identities. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. March 2007.
"Phantom Bodies: Corporeality, Absence, and Desire in the Choreography of Bill T. Jones." Panel Participant. The Undead: Comparative Literature Conference. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley,CA. October 2006.
"Irigaray, Sexual Difference, and Feminist Critiques of Marxism and Psychoanalysis." Guest Lecturer. Feminist Interpretations of Western Thought (WMS 60), University of California, Davis. Davis, CA. January 2007.
"Housing Multiplicity: Transgender Geographies of Temporal Embodiment." Panel Participant. Gender Studies Symposium-Body Language: Sexualities, Identity, and Time. Lewis and Clark College. Portland, OR. March 2006.
"Performing Absence: Queer Ties and Times in the Choreography of Bill T. Jones." Invited Speaker. Gender and Women's Studies Honors Symposium. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. April 2005.
"Recognizing Desire: Queer Femme Bodies in Sadomasochistic Practices." Panel Participant. GLBT Studies Conference: Gender Difference and Cultural Resistance. University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC. March 2005.
"Recognizing Desire: Queer Femme Bodies in Sadomasochistic Practices." Panel Participant. GenderQueers/QueerGenders Conference. University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA. February 2005.
Tristan Josephson
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Queer and feminist theory; transgender studies and politics; travel and migration; race, sexuality, gender and citizenship; technologies of the state; media and film studies.
M.A. Women's Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 2004.
M.A. Thesis: "The Cultural Politics of ftm Transsexuality: Representations and Identities of Transsexual Men."
B.A. Comparative Sociology, Biology Minor, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, 2002.
Presentations:
"Technologies of crossing: trauma and the production of (transgender) national subjects in U.S. asylum cases." TransSomatechnics conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., May 2008.
"Gender/Home/AIDS: Representations of Melancholic Subjectivity in The Salt Mines and The Transformation. New Directions in Critical Theory: (Re)Locating Borders: Negotiating & Constructing Identities conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 2007.
"(In)coherent genders: the construction of transsexual identities in U.S. asylum law." Sex Matters: Sexualities Across the Disciplines conference, University of California, Riverside, February 2006.
"Trans Masculinities: (Self) Representations of ftm Identities." (dis)junctions: Romancing Heteroglossia Conference, University of California, Riverside, April 2004.
"Little girls" becoming "Big Boys": Representations of Embodiment and Masculinity in Transsexual Narratives." The Art of Gender in Everyday Life conference, Idaho State University at Pocatello, Idaho, March 2004.
Dawn Lee
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Multiculturalism, diversity, and neoliberalism in higher education and social justice education; panethnicity in transnational and diasporic contexts; Asian American youth culture; cultural citizenship; cultural productions and the performance of panethnicity; critical theory in higher education.
M.A. American Studies, New York University, 2002
M.A. Thesis: "Asian American Hip Hop Cultural Production: Hybrid Subversions of the Model Minority Myth."
B.A. Political Science/Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis.
Presentations:
"Making Heads or Tails of Diversity in Higher Education: Asian American Undergraduate Student Negotiations of Multicultural Policies Through Cultural Performance," UC Davis School of Education, Brown Bag Series, Spring 2007.
"Resistance and Consciousness-Raising: Social Justice Education Models as Experienced by Asian American Students," Association for the Study of Higher Education, Anaheim, CA, November 2006.
"Theory Into Practice: Perspectives on Asian American Student Leadership Development," National Association of Student Personnel Administrators National Conference, Tampa, FL, March 2005.
Pre-Conference Institute on "Race, Identity, and Community: Empowerment and Outreach for Asian Pacific Islanders in Higher Education," National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, Miami, FL, June 2004.
"Theory Into Practice: Perspectives on Asian American Student Leadership." Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education, San Francisco, CA, April 2004.
"New Directions in Cultural Studies in Asian American Studies," Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, San Francisco, May 2003.
"The Place of Interdisciplinarity in Asian American Studies or What I Learned From Hip Hop," East of California (Association of Asian American Studies) Annual Conference, Oberlin, OH, Oct 2001.
"Conflicting Images of Asian Americans: Revisiting the Spring of Discontent," Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, April 2001.
*Special Projects and Invited Talks:*
"Asian American and Pacific Islander Her/History of Resistance and Movements," UC Davis Asian Pacific Islander Leadership Conference, January 2008, Bodega Bay, CA
Curator, "30 Years of Asian American and Pacific Islander Art and Activism at UC Davis" (Curated exhibit for Asian Pacific Culture Week, May 2008).
Memberships:
Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
American Studies Association (ASA)
Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Cultural Studies Association (CSA)
Jamila Moore
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Critical Geography of the Black Atlantic; Modernity; Pan-Africanism; Digital Humanities Research and African American/African Diaspora Studies.
B.A. English and American Studies, Africa and the New World Minor, Tufts University, Medford, MA 2003.
B.A. Honors Thesis: "Speaking the Poem, the role of the Oral Poet in Transatlantic Conversation."
Presentations:
"Rebranding the Continent, Rethinking Modernity: Africa's Image Problem in the Twenty-First Century." Paper presented at the Out of TimeSpace Symposium in Berkeley, California, November 2007.
"Transferring Spatial Legacies From the Antebellum South to Post-Colonial South Africa." Paper presented at the 12th Annual UC Davis Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium. March 2007.
"Irreconcilable Differences: Colonialism and Pan-Africanism in the Making of Liberian Nationalism." 49th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2006.
"Irreconcilable Differences: Colonialism and Pan-Africanism in the Making of Liberian Nationalism." UC Davis Humanities Institute Spring Seminar, Davis, California, June 2006.
"Pan-Africanism and the Poet, Imagining the Space Between." 13th Annual African Diaspora Conference, California State University, Sacramento, CA, April 2004.
"Black Horizons: Student Experiences in Africa." Organized a student led colloquium. Participants discussed projects, research and experiences on the African Continent. Tufts University, Medford, MA, December 2002.
Posters:
"Black Horizons: Student Experiences in Africa." Fall 2002 Workshop of the Tufts Africa Forum. Tufts University, Medford, MA, December 2002.Publications:
"Journalists Say Black Community is Demonized in Boston Media." The Bay State Banner. Boston, MA, April 8, 2004.
Various Poetry published in the French literary magazine, The Paris Journal. Paris, France, 2003-2004.
Christina D. Owens
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: U.S.-Japan relations, transnational America, multicultural Japan, expatriate communities, critical race theory, feminist theory, whiteness studies, political subjectivity, identity politics, human rights discourse, ethnography.
B.A. Psychology, Philosophy Minor, University of South Carolina, 1998.
Presentations:
"Human Rights as Ideology: Thinking Hannah Arendt 50 Years Later." Renderings Conference, Theory, Culture, Politics Program, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, October 2007.
"Universal Consumer?: Selling Human Rights Rhetoric in Japan." Migrants, Migration and Neoliberalism Panel. Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 2007.
Publications:
"Visitation Hours at Kershaw Correctional." Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces. Ed. Michelle Sewel. Hyattsville, MD: GirlChild Press. 2006.
"From Thailand to Japan." Outside of Ordinary: Women's Travel Stories. Ed. Lynn Cecil and Catherine Bancroft. Toronto: Second Story Feminist Press. 2005.
Ami Sommariva
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Family history as an engine of racial formation, family history as "women's work," the aesthetics of historical representations, horror and desire relating to contact with the past, outsider knowledges and organic intellectuals, Holocaust memory, distinctions between the terms "history" and "memory."
M.A. American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2005.
M.A. Thesis: "You Can't Throw It Away: Heirlooms, Identity, and Reification."
Winner of 2006 Outstanding Thesis Award, University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
B.A. Communications, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1997.
Publications:
"Gifts and Giving" and "Heirlooms", Encyclopedia of American Material Culture, eds. Helen Sheumaker and Shirley Wajda, ABC-CLIO, forthcoming.
Presentations:
"Should All Hell Break Loose?: Return and Rupture in Ester Rebeca Shapiro Rok's 'From Belarus to Bolondron.'" Nuestra America in the U.S.?: A U.S. Latino/a Studies Conference, February 2008.
"Overwhelmed and Confounded: Historical Research in 'House on Loon Lake.'" 10th Annual Graduate Conference on History and Theory, UC Irvine, April 2007.
"Getting to the Bottom of Things: Vernacular Historical Production in 'House on Loon Lake' and Everything Is Illuminated." UC Davis Humanities Institute Seminar, June 2006.
"'You Can't Throw It Away': A Case Study in Heirlooms, Reciprocity, and Social Status in the United States." Graduate Student Ethnography Conference, Stony Brook University, March 2006.
"Saving Family Artifacts" Social Science History Association Conference, Portland, OR, November 2005.
"Playing at Research on Performativity: A Confessional Tale" Hall Center for the Humanities Performance and Culture Seminar, Lawrence, KS, February 2005.
"(Per)forming the Healthy Subject: Grief, Writing, Healing, and Discourse" 2004 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 2004.
"Writing Death: An Ethnographic Exploration of Bereavement Writing." 2004 Mid-America American Studies Association Conference, Lawrence, KS April 2004.
"AIDS and the Vampire Protagonist." 2004 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 2004.
Cultural Studies Sixth-Year Students:
Brooke Butler
Ph.D. Candidate
Research interests: Food studies, Tourism, Popular Culture, Performance, Southern studies, Media studies
M.A. Southern Studies, University of Mississippi, 2004.
M.A. Thesis: "Greens: A Cultural Text of the South."
B.A. Classics, Women's Studies, and English, Westminster College, 1995.
B.A. Thesis: "From Beauty to Beast: Angela Carter's Autoethnographic Recontextualization of the Grimm Heroine."
Publications:
Book review: Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, Marcie Cohen Ferris. Food and Foodways. 15.1(2007): 128.
Entries on Watermelon, Lusco's Restaurant, and Craig Claiborne in The Mississippi Encyclopedia. Charles Reagan Wilson, et al, eds. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, Forthcoming 2008.
Entries on Pellagra, Greens, and Turnip Greens in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Foodways in the American South volume. John T. Edge, Consulting Editor for Volume. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
"Domino Sugar." New York Food Museum Newsletter. 2006.
Presentations:
"Restoring Xantippe." Presented at the 8th Annual Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference, Albuquerque, NM, September 1999.
"Poke Sallet: A Cultural Text of the South." Presented at the 2005 AFHVS/ASFS Conference, Portland, OR, June 2005.
"Selling Voodoo: The Performance and Commodification of Voodoo in New Orleans Tourism." Presented at the 2005 Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories Conference, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 2005.
Stacy Jameson
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Material Culture; Popular Culture; Consumption; Gender; Food Studies: 20th century American Foodways; intersections of food and gender representation in mass media, meat and masculinity studies; Foodways in Enlightenment France (Food in Literature, aesthetics of food, food and subjectivity).
B.A. American Studies, Women's Studies Minor, Colby College, Waterville, ME.
B.A. Thesis: "Consuming Hierarchy: The Impact of Meat Texts on Gender Divisions in America since the Post-World War II Period."
Presentations:
Regard(ing) the Consumptive Response: Eating, Morality and Social Differentiation in Chocolate." PCA/ACA Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2007.
"(Re)Acting to Food: The Legacy of Brillat-Savarin's 'Gastronomic Tests.'" French Studies Colloquium, Bloomington, IN, October 19, 2006.
"Advertising and the Female Food orgasm." Founding Food Studies-Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Davis, May 3, 2006.
"Visualizing Consumption: Eating and the Male Gaze." PCA/ACA Conference, February 2006.
"'Asphalt, the other Red Meat.' Edible Rhetoric in Contemporary American Automobile Advertising." Association for the Study of Food in Society (ASFS), June 2005.
"Finding Masculinity over the Grill: The 1950s Barbecue Boom"-- SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference, February 2005.
David Michalski
Ph.D. Candidate
Dissertation: Conducting a critical analysis of taste, style, and consumption as played out in leisure and work. These concerns are explored in my dissertation project by focusing on the California wine industry and culture from Prohibition to present.
Research Interests: urban studies, consumption, geography, critical theory, ethnography, visual culture, information studies.
M.L.S. Graduate School for Library and Information Studies, City University of New York, Queens, 2000.
M.A. American Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1994.
B.A. Sociology, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1990.
Contributing Editor, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. http://xcp.bfn.org
Organizer, Critical Studies in Food and Culture, a Davis Humanities Institute Research Cluster. http://people.lib.ucdavis.edu/dem/CSFC.html
Publications:
"Employee Entrances and Emergency Exits." In Visualizing the City. Eds. Alan R Marcus and Dietrich Neumann. Architext Series. New York: Routledge. Publication Date: 08/01/2007.
Cosmos and Damian: A World Trade Center Collage. Boston: Bootstrap Productions, 2005. http://www.bootstrapproduc tions.org/home.html
"Portals to Metropolis: Nineteenth Century Guidebooks and the Assemblage of Urban Experience." Tourist Studies. Vol. 4, No. 3, 187-215 (2004) DOI: 10.1177/1468797604057322.
"Dreaming in the City of No Illusions: Buffalo's Great Carnival." Living Forge: Arts and Culture of the Rustbelt. v. 1 (Fall 2003).
"The Bibliographic Imagination: The 19th Century Origins of the Internet." Journal of American and Comparative Cultures, 24.3 and 24.4 Winter 2001.
"Cities Memory Voices Collage" Art and The Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of Recollection, ed. Richard Candida-Smith, New York: Routledge, 2002. This collection is reprinted as Text and Image: Art and the Performance of Memory. Philadelphia: Transaction Publishers, 2006.
"Measuring Interdisciplinarity: A Three Tiered Analysis of Cultural Studies." with Aaron Taub, Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, Fall 2001.
Presentations:
"On the Taste of Place: Positioning Terroir in Consumer Culture." Cultural Studies Association, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon April 19-21, 2007.
"Robert Moses Meets the Mighty Niagara: Aesthetic Collisions at Empire's Edge." Robert Moses: New Perspectives on a Master Builder. Columbia University, NYC March 1-3, 2007.
"An Escape from History: Modern Aesthetics and the 1855 Classification of the wines of the Bordeaux." 32nd Annual Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. October 18-21, 2006.
"On the Persistence of Dark Bottles: Modern Aesthetics and the Hesitant Receptivity of Wine." Founding Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Symposium of UC Davis Faculty and Graduate Students. University of California, Davis. May 3 2006.
"Employee Entrances and Emergency Exits: the invisible culture of Consumption" Visualising the City, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, June 26-28, 2005.
"Colliding Compositions: The Urban Design of Buffalo New York." North East Popular Culture Conference. November, 2004.
"Imagining the City through Evolving 19th Century Guidebook Displays," Cities of the Mind, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. January 23-24, 2004.
"Portals to Metropolis: The Use of Photography in Nineteenth Century Guidebooks" International Conference on Tourism and Photography: Still Visions / Changing Lives, Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, July 18-23, 2003.
More info: http://www.xcp.bfn.org/michalskivita.html
Liz Montegary
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: lesbian & gay activism in the U.S.; travel and tourism studies; transnational feminist and queer cultural studies; histories of neoliberalism & militarization; sexuality, citizenship, & the state .
M.A. Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
B.A. English; Women's and Gender Studies and Communication Studies Minors, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ.
Select Presentations:
"The Face of Gays in the Military: Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the .Right to Fight.." Queering Race, Policing Bodies: Militarization and Resistance; Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley; 10 September 2009.
"Decorating Eric, Disavowing Marquise: Queer Activism, Visibility Politics, and the .Right to Fight.." Division on Culture and War, Cultural Studies Association Meeting; Kansas City, MO; 17 April 2009.
"Traveling to Equality: Linking Queer Tourism and Activism." Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University; New York, NY; 3 November 2008.
"The Exceptional Soldier: U.S. Homonationalism and the Fight to Repeal .Don.t Ask, Don.t Tell." Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference; University of California, Los Angeles; 11 October 2008.
"Cruising with Kids: Gay Tourism, Family Values, and U.S. Homonationalisms." Historicism, Homonormativity, and Queer Political Formations, UC Santa Cruz, 12 May 2007.
Cultural Studies Seventh-Year Students:
Toby Beauchamp
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Transgender studies; feminist and queer theory; surveillance and security; transnational feminist cultural studies; science and technology studies; critical race theory; disability studies; digital humanities.
Dissertation: "Going Stealth: Transgender Bodies and U.S. Surveillance Practices."
B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies with concentration in Women's Studies, University of Florida, 1998
Publications:
"Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility: Transgender Bodies and U.S. State Surveillance After 9/11." Surveillance and Society 6.4 (forthcoming, Fall 2009).
"The Limits of Virtual Memory: Nationalism, State Violence, and the Transgender Day of Remembrance." InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies 2 (2007).
Selected Presentations:
"Parts of a Whole: Transgender Bodies, Prosthetic Technologies, and Visual Surveillance After 9/11." Cultural Studies Association Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA March 2010.
"The State and the Individual: Technologies of Gender and Questions of Choice." National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2009.
"Progress and Purification: Gender-Nonconformity, Disability, and National Bodies at the Olympics." American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2009.
"Deceptive Documents, Classified Bodies: Transgender Politics and U.S. Identification Documents." American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, October 2008.
"Sleeping with the Enemy: Trans Bodies, New Technologies and National Security." Transsomatechnics: International Transgender Studies Conference, Vancouver, BC, May 2008.
"Alternate Visions: Rethinking Violence, Memorial & Transgender Politics," Trans Politics, Social Change & Justice Conference, CLAGS at CUNY, May 2005.
Benjamin D'Harlingue
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A. Women's Studies, U.C. Santa Cruz, 2001.
Research Interests: History and culture of tourism; psychoanalytic theory; feminist philosophy and critical theory; transnational feminist cultural studies; digital humanities; ethnicity and race in the U.S.; pedagogy.
Dissertation: "Haunted Tourism: Sites of Violence and Memory in the United States."
Publications:
"Specters of the U.S. Prison Regime: Tourism and the Penal Gaze." In Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture. Eds. Esther Peeren and María del Pilar Blanco. Continuum Books, 2010.
"The Wall Street Journal's Muslims: Representing Islam in American Print News Media." Co-author Suad Joseph. In Deconstructing Islamophobia. Ed. Hatem Bazian. Forthcoming.
"Arab and Muslim Americans in The New York Times, Before and After 9/11." Co-author Suad Joseph, with Ka Hin Wong. In Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects. Eds. Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber. Syracuse University Press, 2007.
"Media Representations and the Criminalization of Arab Americans and Muslim Americans." Co-author Suad Joseph. In Women's Lives (Fourth Edition). Eds. Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. McGraw-Hill Companies, 2006.
Selected Academic Presentations:
"The Winchester Mystery House: Haunted Tourism, White Settler Domesticity, and the Imperial Museum." Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference. Berkeley, CA. March 2010.
"Pedagogy, Intersectionality, Transnationality: Teaching from a position of privilege on the gendered scene of racism and imperial war." National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. November 2009.
"Specters of the Prison-Industrial-Complex: Tourist Geographies, Undead Epistemologies." American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Harvard University. March 2009.
"Ghost Tour, Spectral War: the Making of Friends and Enemies in Popular U.S. Culture." Texas Tech Comparative Literature Symposium on War, Empire, and Culture. Lubbock, TX. April 2008.
"Between Friend and Enemy: Battlestar Galactica and Ethics in War." ACA/PCA Conference. Boston, MA. April 2007.
"Walter Benjamin's Divine Violence, Ethics and Opposition to the State." Rethinking Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. October 2006.
"Failure of the Divine and Mythic in Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence.'" Failure: Ethics and Aesthetics Conference. University of California, Irvine. March 2006.
"Constructing Gender Essentially: How Theorizing Transgender Subjects Complicates Feminist Movements." Co-author Toby Beauchamp. Queer Research Colloquium, University of California, Davis. April 2004.
Ms. Andrea L. Smith
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Commodification of African American Identity via Hip-Hop: foci includes West Coast rap during/after the post intdustrial era and Bay Area Subverted Artist in mainstream Hip Hop; Overall influence of Identity Politics in rap culture.
Dissertation: "Hyphy Intellect: The Formation and Re-formation of Urban Identities in Popular Culture."
B.A. Sociology, African American Studies Minor, University of California, Davis 2003.
Presentations and Workshops:
"Bay Area Rap History 101." African and African American Studies Program Brown Bag Series, University of California, Davis, November 11, 2008.
"Bay Area Rap History 101." Cultivating Academic Excellence Through Hip Hop Workshop for Sacramento teens. Sponsored by ACE. University of California, Davis, April 2009.
"Urban Fashion In Hip Hop Music: Urban Fashion History." Fashion Conference at University of California, Davis, April 2007.
"The Mis-Objectification of African American Women in Hip Hop." Fashion Conference at University of California, Davis, April 2005.
Winnie Tam Hung
Ph.D. Candidate
Dissertation: Chinatown Rim: Chinese Subjectivities and the Cultural Politics of an Ethnic Space.
Research Interests:Gentrification of ethnic space; neoliberal subjectification; youth racial and ethnic formation; urbanity.
B.A. Philosophy and Japanese Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 2002.
B.A. Thesis: "Empty Bamboo: Tales of a Second-Generation Chinese American."
Publications:
"The Derivative Status of Asian American Women's Subjectivity." Co-author Rhacel Parrenas. In Women, Migration, and the Politics of Reproductive Labor: The Ochanomizu Gender Lectures. Tokyo: Ochanomizu University Press. (In Japanese.) Forthcoming.
Presentations:
"'East Broadway is So Dirty': Fuzhounese Youthscapes in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown." New York City: Divided Metropolis. New York Institute of Technology Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference. New York, NY, March 2008.
"Derivative Status of Asian American Women." Globalization, Regionalism, and Identity: Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies. Los Angeles, CA, April 2005.
"Clever Enough: Model Minority, Breaking the Cycle, and Getting Away With Everything in Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow." Fifth International Conference of the Association for Cultural Studies: Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. June 2004. (Invitation extended by Professor Kent A. Ono, Director and Professor, Asian American Studies Program).
Carolyn Tyjewski
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Critical Race Theory, Critical Disability, Theory, Feminist Theory, Governmentality, Queer Theory, Whiteness Studies.
B.A. Black Studies and English, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
B.A. Thesis: "Revolution Without Guns: Disabled Students Civil Rights Movement at The Ohio State University 1993-1996."
Publications:
"The Male Rapunzel in Film: The Intersections of Disability, Gender, Race and Sexuality." with Johnson Cheu. Sexualized Bodies: Masculinity From Multiple Perspectives. Eds. Elwood Watson and John Kille. Forthcoming.
"Ghosts in the Machine: Civil Rights Laws and the Hybrid Invisible Other." In Critical Disability Theory: Essays in Philosophy, Politics, Policy and Law. Eds. Dianne Pothier and Richard Devlin. Vancouver: U British Columbia Press, 2006.
"Hybrid Matters: The Mixing of Identity, the Law and Politics." Politics and Culture. Eds. Amitava Kumar and Michael Ryan. Issue 3 (July 2003). http://aspen.conncoll.edu/p oliticsandculture/page.cfm
"Learning Within the Lines: Disability, Education and Possibilities." with Johnson Cheu. Delirium: An Interdisciplinary Webzine of Culture and Criticism. Disability Culture Issue. 1:4 (May 2002) http://www.deliriumjournal.org/writings/cheu- tyjewski/learning.htm
"On Identity and Invisibility: The Tragic Mulatto Theme in Andrew Niccol's Gattaca." Disability Studies Quarterly. 20 (Summer 2000): 339- 42.
Presentations:
"The Male Rapunzel in Film: The Intersections of Disability, Gender, Race, and Sexuality." with Johnson Cheu, Ph.D. The Film and the Problem Body Symposium. University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. January 2005.
"The Labor of the Freak Show: Race, Disability, and the Promotion of Eugenics." East of California Conference. Vanderbilt University. Nashville, Tennessee. October 2004.
"Hybrid Matters: The Mixing of Identity, the Law, and Politics." Cultural Studies Association Conference. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. June 8, 2003.
"Ghosts in the Machine: Civil Rights Law and the "Invisible Other." Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences: Canadian Law and Society Association Conference. Dalhousie University. Halifax, NS. June 3, 2003.
"Legal Confusions: Hybridity and the Politics of Identity within the Law." International Queer and Disability Conference. San Francisco State University. San Francisco, CA. June 2, 2002.
"Reconceptualizing Medicine: Representations of Difference within Medical Discourse." Guest Lecture. The Ohio State University Medical School. LEND Program. May 2001.
"Passing and the Politics of Identity." Enabling the Humanities: Disability Studies in Higher Education Colloquium. The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio. April 18, 1998.
Michelle Yates
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: green Marxism, green cultural studies, film, critical theory, environmental justice.
B.A. Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 2001.
Thesis: "Pleasing Pussy: Exploring Women-Centered Pornography."
Presentation:
"The Human as Waste and the Labor Theory of Value." Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society, Portland State University, Portland, OR, June 2009.
"Human Waste and Contemporary Capitalism." Association for American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 2009.
"Time, Space, and Environmental Degradation." Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society, University of Illinios, Chicago, June 2007.
"Marx and Sex Work." Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society, Georgetown University, Washington DC, June 2005.
Cultural Studies Eighth-Year Students:
Barbara Ceptus
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Haiti and US military occupations; Haitian Revolution; African-American cultural history; Black Diaspora; Critical Race Theory.
B.A. American Studies and Clinical Psychology, Tufts University, 2000.
B.A. Thesis: "Staying Religious, Staying Sane: Haitian Pentecostal in Boston."
Publications:
"Growing Up Haitian, Growing Up Black" ColorLines Magazine, Fall 2005.
Presentations:
"Haitian Revolution in Black America in the 20th Century." African and African Diaspora Brown Bag Series, UC Davis, November 2006.
"Interrupted Silences." University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium, UC Davis, May 2006.
"Zora Neale Hurstons' Haitian Anthropology," Cultural Studies Colloquium, UC Davis, May 2004.
Marisol F. Cortez
Ph.D Candidate
Research Interests:The Scatological; Popular Culture and Cultural Theory; Green Cultural Studies; Environmental Justice; The Body.
B.A. English, Women's Studies Minor, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.
Publications:
"Environmentalism Without Guarantees: The Spectral and Scatological Politics of Displacement in Miyazaki Hayao's Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away)". Green Letters 6 (Winter 2005): 39-49.
"Brown Meets Green: The Political Fecology of Poop Report.Com". Reconstruction 5, no. 2 (Spring 2005). Available at http://www.reconstruction.ws/05 2/cortez.shtml
Presentations:
"Toxic Sludge or Beneficial Biosolids? The Environmental Politics of Poop in the United States." Obscenity: An Interdisciplinary Discussion, Iowa City, IA, March 2007.
"The Transportation and Transformation of Shit on the US-Mexico Border." Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. Oakland, CA, October 2006.
"Waste Matters: Why Cultural Theory and Environmental Justice Need a Critical Study of the Scatological." Work in Progress Series on Waste, Pollution, and Social Justice. Brown Bag Lecture Series Organized by the Women's Research Consortium. University of California, Davis, February 2006.
"Time Out of Mind: the Animation of Obsolescence in The Brave Little Toaster." Out of Time: Theorizing Culture and the Political. Conference organized by the Collective for Critical Practices. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, October 2005.
Sandy Gómez
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Feminist Theory, the use of oral narratives to examine race/ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and cultural citizenship; the performance of class; theories of racialized consumption; the employment of Spanish-speaking women in direct marketing companies (Princess House, Inc); racialized gender and technology.
M.A. Social Science, University of Chicago, 2001.
M.A. Thesis: "Princess House on Display: Latinas and Direct Marketing."
B.A. Ethnic Studies, Music Literature Minor, University of California, San Diego, 1997.
Presentations:
"Alrededor de la Manzana: Latinas and Feminized Entrepreneurship with Princess House, Inc." National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 2006.
"Femininity, Masquerade, and Empowerment: Immigrant Voices from Princess House." Building New Bridges: Sources, Methods, and Interdisciplinarity, University of Ottawa, Canada, Spring 2004.
"The 'Princess' in Patriarchy: Crafting Selves and Renegotiating Power for Mexican Women in Southern California." Cultural Studies "Mini" Conference, University of California, Davis, Winter 2004.
"Cholera and Images of Mexico." Ronald E. McNair Conference, University of California, San Diego, Spring 1996.
Amanda L. Morales
Ph.D. Candidate
B.S. Sociology and U.S. Latina/o Studies, Iowa State University, 2002.
Research Interests: Chicana/o Studies, Film, Popular Culture, and Representation.
Jee-Eun R. Song
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests: Material Culture, Gender and Cultural Politics, Transnational Food Consumption, Political Economy of Coffee, Cafe Society, and Critical Race Theory.
B.A. English Literature, American Studies Minor, University of New Hampshire, 1999
B.A. Thesis: "Space and Place in Ng's Bone."
Presentations:
"The Teaching and Receiving of Asian American-ness in the Culture of 'Diversity': Reinscribing Normalization and Discipline," Crossing Over 1969-1999: Ethnic Studies and Radical Politics Beyond the Schooling Industrial Complex, 30 Year Commemoration of the U.C.Berkeley Third World Strike, Berkeley, CA, April 1999.
"Cultural Attitude and Its Construction of Social Space and Confinement: Sampling a Piece of Chinatown," Undergraduate Honor's Conference, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, April 1999.
"Class Issues in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the Heart," Ronald E. McNair Symposium, Annual Conference, Durham, NH, August 1998.
Cultural Studies Ninth-Year Students:
Kahala Crayton
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interest: Rhetoric, Film Theory, Television, Blackness, Representations, Stereotypes and Feminist Theory.
M.A. Speech Communication, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, 2000.
B.A. Communication Specialist, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 1996.
Presentations:
"The Humanization of African Americans in 1920's Adverstisments." Texas Speech Communication Association, South Padre Island, TX, Nov 1998.
"Boy Takes on World: Boy Meets World and the Issues of Interracial Relationships." The Southern States Communication Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1, 2000.
Fernando Socorro
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A Degree: Social Science Interdisciplinary Studies, San Francisco State University, Spring, 1999.
Research Interests: Race History, Cuban History, Immigration, Identity Politics, Memory, Representation, Semiotics, Film, Media, Black American Identity, Video Documentary Production, Feminist/Gender Theory, Academic and Creative Writing.
Publications:
"Un Cubanito and Carnaval in San Pancho 95 and 97." Urban Action, 1998, San Francisco State University Urban Studies Program.
"Un Cubanito Loses his heart at an Aztec Ritual." Ex Post Facto, v. 8, 1999, San Francisco State University History Department.
"The Cuba Solidarity Movement in the San Francisco Bay Area: Its Activities and Objectives, 1991-Present," Cuba in Transition, v. 9, 1999, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy.
Presentations:
"The Cuba Solidarity Movement in the San Francisco Bay Area: Its Activities and Objectives, 1991-Present." Ninth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Coral Gables, FL, 1999.
"911: An Academic Rhizomatic Center or the Vortex That Swallowed Normal." Colloquium: Cultural Studies and the Current Crisis, UC Davis, November 8, 2001.
"Herbert Matthews: How a New York Times Editor in Search of a Cuban Hero Altered Cuban, and World History," Imajinorities: Who We Are/n't, California American Studies Association Riverside University Extension Center, May 4, 2002.
Panel discussion re the film "La Milpa" (2002) by Patricia Riggen, Brujula: Hemispheric Institute's Critical Encounters and Textual Production in Latin America, UC Davis, May 21, 2004.
Editorial Participation:
Managing Editor, Ex Post Facto, The San Francisco State University History Journal, 2000, v. 9.
Contributing Editor, Brujula, UC Davis, Fall 2004-present.