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Victoria Adams Ph.D. Student Email: victoriaa@email.arizona.edu Victoria is a doctoral candidate in Gender and Women's Studies. Her work is focused on violence against women, narratives, and meaning in language. She holds an Masters of Public Health from University of Michigan. [more information] |
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Harrison Apple Ph.D. Student Email: happle@email.arizona.edu Harrison Apple is a Ph.D. student in the Department Gender and Women's Studies with a minor in Information. They are the founding co-director of the Pittsburgh Queer History Project, an oral history and media preservation project focused on... |
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Alex Barksdale Ph.D. Student Email: barksdale@email.arizona.edu Alex Barksdale is a second year PhD student in Gender and Women's Studies. They graduated from Rice University in 2011 with a B.A. in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and a B.A. in Anthropology. Their research interests include queer/trans studies, LGBTQ historiography, community-based... |
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Scott Bradford Ph.D. Student Email: sbradford@email.arizona.edu TEL: none FAX: none Office: TBA [more information] |
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Mel Ferrara Email: mferrara@email.arizona.edu Mel Ferrara is a second-year PhD student in Gender and Women’s Studies with an intended minor in medical anthropology. They received their BA in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy/Political Thought from Muhlenberg College. They are a University Fellow and a 2016 Point Foundation... |
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Adrian Flores Ph.D. Student Email: adrianf@email.arizona.edu Office: GWS 109D non-humanism [more information] |
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Katherine Freeman Ph.D. Candidate Email: freemank@email.arizona.edu Bio Katherine E. Freeman is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. Katherine was raised in the rural U.S. Southwest and is dedicated to the production of scholarship that addresses contemporary socioeconomic... |
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Emrah Karakus Email: emrahkarakus@email.arizona.edu Emrah Karakus is a Ph.D. student in the department of Gender and Women's Studies whose research interests include political theory and practices of resistance, trans studies, body politics, posthumanism, queer theory, urban transformation and neoliberalization in the Middle East. He received his... |
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Alex Karaman PhD Candidate Email: akaraman@email.arizona.edu TEL: use email Office: GWS 105B Alex Karaman is originally from Los Angeles and moved to Long Beach for his undergraduate degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Political Science. Returning to school in Arizona, he has focused his fieldwork within Israel-Palestine on the development of Palestinian hip-hop culture... |
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Liz Kinnamon PhD Candidate Email: kinnamon@email.arizona.edu Liz Kinnamon works at the intersection of Marxist feminism, technology studies, and critical theory. Her dissertation tracks the concept of "attention" since the mid-twentieth century from a materialist perspective, analyzing the... |
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Elena L'Annunziata Monge Ph.D. Student Email: lannunziata@email.arizona.edu Elena is a first year Ph.D student whose research interests include postcolonial, Chicana, and U.S. Third World feminisms, immigration, social movements, food sovereignty and food justice. Previously Elena received her M.A. in an interdisciplinary program titled Environment and Community from... |
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Dylan McCarthy Blackston PhD Candidate Email: dylanmb@email.arizona.edu Dylan McCarthy Blackston is a PhD candidate in Gender and Women's Studies with a minor in Visual Culture Studies. His areas of research are trans cultural theory, visual culture studies, critical race studies, transnational feminist and postcolonial theory, and feminist environmental and animal... |
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Stephanie Murphy Ph.D. Student Email: sumurphy@email.arizona.edu Office: Gender & Women's Studies Stephanie Murphy is a doctoral candidate in the University of Arizona Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Her teaching and research interests include political economy, urban geography, feminisms, and histories of race, gender, and sexuality in the US. Her dissertation titled, "... |
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Gloria Negrete-Lopez Ph.D Student Email: gnegretelopez@email.arizona.edu Gloria Negrete-Lopez is an incoming PhD student in Gender and Women's Studies. In 2012, she graduated from the Women and Gender Studies Master's Program in San Francisco State University (SFSU), where she wrote her Master's Thesis titled "A Ti Querida Hija: Prisons, Deportation and the Act of... |
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Juan Ochoa Ph.D. Candidate Email: ochoaj1@email.arizona.edu Office: Gender & Women's Studies Juan Ochoa is a PhD Candidate working on his dissertation, "¡Quiero que me llames joto!/Call me joto!: Gay Chicano Men (Re)Imagining the Brown Body, that explores gay Chicano/Latino men's subject formation through cultural production. His dissertation conceptualizes a joteria analytics... |
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Justin Ostrowski Email: jostrowski@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Susana Sepulveda Ph.D. Student Email: sepulveda@email.arizona.edu Susana Sepulveda is a 4th year PhD Student in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. Her developing dissertation project engages Chicana feminist studies, cultural studies, subcultural studies, sound studies and punk subcultures. She focuses on... |
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Kelly Sharron PhD Student Email: kellycsharron@email.arizona.edu TEL: none FAX: none Office: TBA Kelly Sharron is a PhD student in Gender and Women's Studies. Kelly graduated with a BA in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Political Science from the University of Minnesota in December 2011. Her primary research focus is queer and affective political resistance to State and capitalist... |
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Felix Vargas [more information] |
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Abraham Weil PhD Student Email: abrahamweil@email.arizona.edu Office: 114-D Abraham Weil is a sixth-year PhD candidate whose research focuses on Continental Philosophy, theories of assemblage and affect, trans* theory, and political geographies of race and gender. [more information] |
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Ruben Zecena Ph.D. Student Email: rubenz@email.arizona.edu Ruben Zecena is a second year PhD Student in Gender and Women’s Studies with a graduate minor in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University in English and Women’s Studies. A formerly undocumented queer migrant, his research investigates... |
