Students

Abir Abyad

Graduate Lecturer

Muna Al Taweel

Graduate Professional Assistant

Theories of Nationalism, Politics of Space, Identity Politics, Levantine Postcolonialism, S.W.A.N.A Studies , Trauma Studies

Shukadev Amgain

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Digital culture, online communities, algorithmic power, AI bias, decentralized web, immersive visuality, digital ethnography

Angela N Barajas

Graduate Teaching Assistant, SOC Co-Chair

Fanship Studies, Pop Culture

Aziza Bayou

Graduate Lecturer

Economic anthropology, culture and political economy, labor unions, identities and inequalities, gendered division of labor, ethnographic methods, anthropology of work, anthropology of religion, New Orleans and Caribbean region.

William Beaman

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Camila Campos Costa

Graduate Research Assistant

Racial Formation in Brazil, Self-representation, Politics of Memory, Visual Culture, African diaspora studies, and Decolonial Theory.

Esma Husniye Celebioglu

Techno-religion, religious conservatism, neoliberal political economy, cultural politics, social/cultural resistance, social movements, digital activism.

Austin A. Deray

Instructor

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Critical University Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnography, Film and Media Studies, Masculine Theory, Spectatorship, SWANA Studies, Iranian Studies, Globalization, Transnational Bodies, Fraternity(ies), and Social Institutions

Terilee Edwards-Hewitt

Graduate Lecturer, SOC Graduate Liaison

Gender and Sexuality; mass and popular culture; social media/digital ethnography; disability, historical and modern US culture.

Robert Gabriel

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Zach Gehring

Graduate Research Assistant

Critical Theory, Neoliberalism, Digital Cultures, Genre Studies, New Media, Popular Culture

Clara Joy Gibson

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Critical theory, historical materialism, Marxist analysis, postcolonialism, disability studies, and visual narrative.

Collin Hawley

Graduate Teaching Assistant

photography, gender and sexuality, alienation, power, and subject formations

Stephen Hickson

Graduate Research Assistant

Working-class studies, mass culture, gender and sexuality, labor studies

Kerri Kline

Museum studies, cultural/economic policies, social history, public education

Carl Leak

Librarian III, SOC Communications Chair

Labor History; Black Studies; Social Movements; Critical Archival Studies

Taylor Macchia

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Amirhossein Mohammadzadeh

Graduate Research Assistant

Aesthetics of Politics, Culture Industry, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Avant-garde Fashion

Susan Monroe

Luma Mousa

Graduate Teaching Assistant, SOC Treasurer

- Visual Culture - Memory Studies - Social Media

Severin Mueller

Graduate Research Assistant

Culture and Political Economy, Globalization, American and Southern Studies, Visual Culture

Kylie Musolf

Graduate Lecturer

Kathleen N O'Neal

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Soojung Paek

Graduate Professional Assistant

Visual culture, Culture industry, Media culture, Public art, Urban studies, Sense of belonging, Sense of place, and Critical Tourism Studies

Mark Edwin Peterson

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Medievalism, Academia as Culture, The Significance of Library Collections.

Sharon Qiu

Graduate Lecturer

Governance, Informal Sector, Shortage, Socialism, Time and Space, Cuba, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Joey J Robbins

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Teo Rogers Mendizabal

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Ecocriticism; animal liberation; climate discourse and narrative; climate and mass media; critical animal studies; critical environmental justice; posthumanism; visual culture

Regine Romain

Graduate Professional Assistant

Haitian/Caribbean arts and media, Visual Anthropology, Immigrant/Third culture studies, African diaspora spirituality/religions, Memory/Family archives, Black Diaspora Representation, Photography, Filmmaking, and Radio/Podcasting

Maya Ruffin

May Santiago

Graduate Teaching Assistant, SOC Co-Chair

Cinema studies, genre cinema theory, decolonization, Puerto Rican identity studies, queer and feminist media studies

Aparna Shastri

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Global media industries, streaming platforms, spectatorship, post-colonial studies, visual culture, Indian cinema,

Ian S Sinnett

Graduate Research Assistant

Popular music and hip-hop studies, popular culture, cultural memory, media and technology, affect theory, Marxist political economy, critical race and ethnicity studies

Nichole Michelle Smith

Graduate Lecturer

Reproductive and Productive Labor, Marxist Feminism, Online Culture and Social Media, Social Movements and Social Change, Labor Movements, Anti-Rape Activism

Abla Triki

Graduate Research Assistant

Migration and Border Studies, Humanitarianism, Globalization, MENA

Andrew Wahnsiedler

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Mariah Wakefield

Graduate Lecturer

Rachel Williams

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Black visual cultures, Music videos, Animation, Race and representation studies

Dominique Winters

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Africana Studies; Urban Studies; Diasporic Studies; Immigrant Studies

Sophia Xiangyan Xiong

Graduate Teaching Assistant

gender and race, ecocriticism, community engagement, immigrant, language and assimilation, spectacle, affect theory

Chelsea Wenzhu Xu

Graduate Professional Assistant

Film and media, popular culture, gender and sexuality

Muge Yuce

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Politics of Humor, Memory, Affect, Performance, Gender&Sexuality