Kristin Hogue

Kristin Hogue (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis, with a dual Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies, and the Environmental Humanities. Kristin teaches in the English, University Writing Program, and Science and Technology Studies Departments in the College of Letters and Science, and also in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Her research examines the rhetoric of cryptocurrency, speculative digital economies, and environmental justice, with a focus on how digital financial technologies shape cultural imaginaries of climate crisis and economic futures. Her forthcoming dissertation interrogates the environmental politics and ideological contradictions of cryptocurrency, asking how financial technologies reproduce, contest, or attempt to solve environmental crises and structural inequalities in an era of planetary change.

Education

M.A. Climate and Society, Columbia University
B.A. English Literature, UC Davis

Research Interests

Environmental Humanities; Critical Environmental Justice; Science and Technology Studies; Political Ecology; Racial Capitalism; Decolonial Theory; Digital Ecologies; Blockchain and Cryptocurrency; Financialization and Economic Sovereignty, Platform Studies, Multimodal Rhetoric and Discourse Analysis, Digital Ethnography, Media Archaeology

Fellowships, Honors and Awards

Teaching Fellow and Associate Instructor, University of California Center for Climate Justice
University of California, Office of the President, Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow
University of California, Climate and Sustainability Education Resource Library (CSERL) Fellow
Susan F. Regan Award. UC Davis Prytanean Honor Society