Nina L. Cole, Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation: Reggae to L.A. with Love: Style, Authenticity, and Nostalgia in Los Angeles’s Vintage Jamaican Music Scene
Postdoctoral Scholar, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies - University of California, Davis.
Amanda Modell, Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation: Hearing Heredity: Sound, Music, and Evolution in the Twentieth-Century US
Associate Director, Graduate Teaching Programs - Stanford University
Xan Chacko, Ph.D., 2018
Dissertation: Moving, Making, Saving: The Science of Seed Banking
Hira Mahmood, M.A., 2018
Stephanie Maroney, Ph.D., 2018
Dissertation: Eat for Your Microbes: Reconfiguring Dietary Health and Subjectivity in the Probiotic Present
Program Manager - UC Davis Mellon Public Scholars
Sophie Moore, Ph.D., 2018
Dissertation: Futures Otherwise: Radical Life on Haiti’s High Central Plateau
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for Research on the Plantationocene, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kelley Gove, Ph.D., 2018
Ksenia Fedorova, Ph.D., 2017
Dissertation: (Bio)sensing Interfaces and Encodings of Affect in Arts and Technoculture
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Postdoc, Humboldt University Berlin - Art&Image Studies Institute
Omar Abdullah, Ph.D., 2017
Dissertation: The Politics of Punchlines: Comedy as Decoy in a Postracial U.S.
Adjunct Professor, Texas A&M University - Sociology
Fernando Socorro, Ph.D., 2017
Dissertation: Post-1959 Cubans in the US: Remapping How We Got Here, Excavating Our Place
Educational Technologist - UC Davis Academic Technology Services
Ami Sommariva, Ph.D., 2016
Dissertation: Television for a Better America: Public Feeling, Race, and Privatization from Sesame Street to Roots
Current Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor at Portland State University in the Interdisciplinary General Education Program (aka University Studies)
Ingrid Lagos, Ph.D., 2016
Dissertation: Remittance Clinics: Making relatives, patients, and doctors in rural El Salvador
Myrtie Williams, M.A., 2016
Thesis: Transition: Development of the Online Natural Hair Community and Black Women's Emerging Identity Politics
Jinni Pradhan, Ph.D., 2016
Dissertation: Multiplex Kathmandu: Local Identities, Global Aspirations
Middle Eastern and South Asian Student Affairs Officer, UC Davis
Rusty Bartels, Ph.D., 2016
Dissertation: War Memories, Imperial Ambitions: Commemorating WWII in the U.S. Pacific National Park System
Megan Bayles, PhD., 2016
Dissertation: Bodies of Wonder: Human Body-Objects in US Museums
Lecturer, American Studies, UC Davis
Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute
Hilary Berwick, Ph.D., 2015
Dissertation: Producing Anarchist Subjects: Emotion, Race, and Gender in the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1917-1927
Andrew Ventimiglia, Ph.D., 2015
Dissertation: Spirited Possessions: Intellectual Property in the American Spiritual Marketplace
Publications: Andrew Ventimiglia, “A Market in Prophecy: Secularism, Law, and the Economy of American Religious Publishing.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 85:2 (June 2017).
Andrew Ventimiglia, Copyrighting God: Media and Intellectual Property in the American Spiritual Marketplace, under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland.
Karl Zoller, Ph.D., 2015
Dissertation: Home & Away: Transnational U.S. Soccer Cultures
Office of Legislative Counsel, State of California
Tallie Ben Daniel, Ph.D., 2014
Dissertation: Branding Israel: Queer Markets and Politics in San Francisco and Tel Aviv
Academic Advisory Council Coordinator at Jewish Voice for Peace.
Andrea Dooley, Ph.D., 2014
Dissertation: It seemed The Earth Could Not Hold Them: Public Memorials, Implicated Geographies, and The Remaking of the Rwandan Citizen
Visiting Faculty, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, San Francisco Art Institute
Jamila Moore, Ph.D., 2014
Dissertation: Digitally Mapping The Black Atlantic: Spatial Imagination and the Politics of Reappropriation between Africa and North America
"Reimagining Little Liberia: Restoration and Reunion," Exhibit in collaboration with the Mary and Eliza Freeman Center in Bridgeport, CT. funded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Assistant Professor of History, Cal State Fullerton.
Christina Owens, Ph.D., 2014
Dissertation: Translating Privileges: White U.S. Americans in Contemporary Japan
Postdoctoral Fellow, Women's Studies, Vassar College
Terry Park, Ph.D., 2014
Dissertation: De/militarizing Empire: The Korean DMZ
Former Lecturer on History & Literature, Harvard University
Lecturer, Asian American Studies, University of Maryland - College Park
Magali Rabasa, Ph.D., 2014
Dissertation: The Book in Movement: Autonomous Politics and the Recrafting of Books in Latin America
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Lewis and Clark College
Book Publication:
- The Book in Movement: Autonomous Politics and the Lettered City Underground. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2019.
- El libro en movimiento. Trans. Ezequiel Gatto. Tinta Limón Ediciones/Tren en Movimiento Ediciones. 2019.
Tracy Samperio, Ph.D., 2014
Dissertation: Defragging the Diaspora: Utilizing Morisco Historical Narratives in the Formation of Muslim-European Organic Hybridity across Online and Offline Communities
Online Associate Professor, General Education, Colorado Technical University, June 2016 - Present
Online Instructor, Southern New Hampshire University, January 2017 - Present
Publication: Samperio, Tracy L. "Sporting Change in Spain." Anthropology News 57.8 (2016).
http://tracylsamperio.weebly.com
Sara Bernstein, Ph.D., 2013
Dissertation: From Little Black Dress to Little Blue Vest: Fashion, Film and the Shifting Position of the American Shopgirl
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Liberal Arts, Adjunct
Abigail Boggs, Ph.D., 2013
Dissertation: Prospective Student, Potential Threat: The Figure of the International Student in US Higher Education
Book Publication: “American Futures: International Students and the Global U.S. University”, Fordham University Press
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University
Tom Galaraga, Ph.D., 2013
Dissertation: Citizenship and the Voice: the Arrival of Late Biopolitics
Sandy Gomez, Ph.D., 2013
Dissertation: "Princess House es mi Negocio": The Gendered and Racial Movement of Latina Bodies in Direct Sale Organizations
Tristan Josephson, Ph.D., 2013
Dissertation: On Transits and Transitions: Mobility, Displacement, and Trans Subjectivity, and the U.S. Nation-State
Assistant Professor, Women's Studies, Sacramento State University
Sarah McCullough, Ph.D., 2013
Dissertation: Mechanical Intuitions: Bicycles and the Development of Natural Abilities
Associate Director of the Feminist Research Institute, UC Davis
Co-Founder of Bicicultures: https://bicicultures.com/, The Untokening: http://www.untokening.org/
Elise Chatelain, Ph.D., 2012
Dissertation: Refiguring Domestic Work: Represenation, Feminities, and Meanings of Labor in U.S. Popular Culture
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of New Orleans
Winnie Tam Hung, Ph.D., 2012
Dissertation: Chinatown Rim: Chinese Subjectivities and the Cultural Politics of an Ethnic Space
Dawn Lee, Ph.D., 2012
Dissertation: Diversity Lessons: Higher Education Multiculturalism, Youth Pedagogies and Performances of Asian American Panethnicity
Director of Asian Pacific American Student Development Office, University of California, Berkeley
Jee-Eun R. Song, Ph.D., 2012
Dissertation: Building an Empire One Cup at a Time: Cultural Meaning and Power of Starbucks Korea.
Lecturer, Group in Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Michelle Yates, Ph.D., 2012
Dissertation: Ecological Crisis: Nature, Labor, and the Historical Specificity of Capitalism
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences, Columbia College Chicago
Co-Director, Chicago Feminist Film Festival
Barbara Ceptus, Ph.D., 2011
Dissertation: (Re)membering Revolution, Imagining Blackness: The Haitian Revolution in the Black Cultural Imaginary
Leadership Development Officer, Council on Foundations
Benjamin D'Harlingue, Ph.D., 2011
Dissertation: Haunted Tourism: Sites of Violence and Memory in the United States
Lecturer, Department of Communication, Saint Mary's College of California
Stacy Jameson, Ph.D., 2011
Dissertation: Food Face: Eating on the Small Screen
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto
Liz Montegary, Ph.D., 2011
Dissertation: Queer Mobilizations: The Transnational Politics of US Lesbian and Gay Activism
Book Publications:
Familiar Perversions: The Un-American Politics of the Gay American Family. Forthcoming
with Melissa Autumn White, Mobile Desires: The Erotics and Politics of Mobility Justice. Forthcoming.
Assistant Professor, Cultural Analysis and Theory, Stony Brook University
Andrea L. Moore, Ph.D., 2011
Dissertation: Hyphy Intellect: The Formation of Bay Area Identities in the Realm of Commercial Hip Hop.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State University
Toby Beauchamp, Ph.D., 2010
Dissertation: Going Stealth: Transgender Bodies and U.S. Surveillance Practices
Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cathy Hannabach, Ph.D., 2010
Dissertation: Queer Tactilities: Corporeal Ethics in Visual Culture
Book Publication: Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms. Palgrave. 2015
President, Ideas on Fire
Host, Imagine Otherwise podcast
David Michalski, Ph.D., 2010
Dissertation: Taste After Taste: On the Aesthetic Invitation of Wine
Social and Cultural Studies Librarian, UC Davis
Book Publications: The Dialectic of Taste: The Rise and Fall of Tuscanization and Other Crises in the Aesthetic Economy. Palgrave Macmillan. 2015.
Cosmos and Damian: a World Trade Center Collage. Bootstrap Press. 2005.
Marisol Cortez, Ph.D., 2009
Dissertation: The Ecology of Scatology: Excretory Encounters in American Cultural Life
Creative Wrter, Social Movement-Based Scholar, and Cultural Arts Worker based in San Antonio, Texas
Co-Founder, Vecinos de Mission Trails (https://vecinosdemissiontrails.wordpress.com/)
Publications: "Occupy Los Intersticios! Or, In Defense of Carbon Free Unicorns (forthcoming in Works and Days/Cultural Logic)
Luz at Midnight: A Novel (forthcoming)
"Visualizing Disappearance: A Case Study of the DIsplacement of Mission Trails Mobile Home Community" (forthcoming)
Santiago Castellanos, Ph.D., 2008
Dissertation: Hauntings by the Latin Lover: The Ambiguities of Eroticized Latino Male Bodies in Contemporary U.S. Queer Commercial Narrative Cinema
Dean, College of Communications and Contemporary Arts; Professor, Communication and Film Studies, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Co-editor, with Diego Falconí Trávez y María Amerlia Viteri, of the anthology Resentir lo Queer en América Latina: Diálogos desde/con el Sur (2014)
Editor of the journal post(s): Revista del Colegio de Comunicación y Artes Contemporáneas from Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
David Laderman, Ph.D., 2007
Dissertation: Slip-Sync: In/Authenticity and Performance in the Punk Musical Film Cycle, 1978-1986
Book Publications:
Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie, Univ of Texas Press, 2002.
with Laurel Westrup. Sampling Media, Oxford University Press. 2014
Punk Slash Musicals: Tracking Slip-Sync on Film. University of Texas Press. 2010.
Professor, Film, College of San Mateo
Valerie Kim-Thuy Larsen, Ph.D., 2007
Dissertation: Still the Heart of Darkness? Performing Congo on the Western Stage
Book Publications:
Mwana. Amazon Digital Services. 2011
Makila - Blood on the Dance Floor. Amazon Digital Services. 2011
Independent Scholar and Published Author
Kathy Littles, Ph.D., 2006
Dissertation: Locating the Hidden Voices in African Museum Exhibitions: How African Voices at the Smithsonian Institution Politicizes Race, Class, and Cultural Capital
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Bachelor of Arts Completion Program, California Institute of Integral Studies; Director of the Transformative Inquiry Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies
Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Ph.D., 2006
Dissertation: To Study, to Control, and to Love: Women Scientists in American Natural History Institutions, 1870-1950
Assistant Professor, History Department, Boise State University
Denise Carvalho Bergstrom, Ph.D., 2005
Dissertation: Articulations and Interventionist Art: Negotiating the Production of Knowledge in Brazilian Culture
Assistant Professor of Art and Cultural Studies, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland, Maine; Art Critic and Independent Curator
Karyl Ketchum, Ph.D., 2005
Dissertation: Technovisual Formalism: Representation in a Digital Age
Associate Professor, Women & Gender Studies Program and Queer Studies Minor Program, California State University, Fullerton
David Nylund, Ph.D., 2004
Dissertation: Have a Take: Masculinity and Sports Talk Radio
Book Publications:
Beer, Babes, and Balls: Masculinity and Sports Talk Radio. SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations. 2007.
Professor, Division of Social Work, California State University--Sacramento
Scott Schonfeldt-Aultman, Ph.D., 2004
Dissertation: White Rhetorics: South African Expatriate Discourse in the United States.
Professor, Communication, Saint Mary's College of California