Graduate Assistants

Abir Abyad

Graduate Lecturer

Md Samzir Ahmed

Graduate Research Assistant

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

William Beaman

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Brae Riggins Blackley

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.

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

Wakaba Hisatomi

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

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

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

Lee Thielemier

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Feminist Philosophy, Bioethics, Black Existentialism, Philosophy of Mental Health, Men and Masculinity, Symbolic Logic

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