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  • Emillion Adekoya
    Emillion Adekoya.
    PhD student, 2022-presentAreas of interest:  Black feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Politics, Critical Race theory, African studies, Asylum and Refugee Aesthetics, African lgbtq+ migration and mobility. 
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  • Peter Bruno
    Peter Bruno
    PhD student, 2023-presentAreas of interest: Critical Theory, Fascism, Media Studies, Psychoanalysis, Science Studies, Sexuality Studies
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  • A.J Castle
    A.J Castle
    PhD student, 2022-present  Areas of interest: Disability Studies, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Film and Media Studies, Video Games, Deconstruction, Embodiment, and Bioethics
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  • Maura Conley
    Maura Conley
    PhD student, 2024-presentAreas of interest: Gender and sexuality, Feminist Praxis, Feminist Pedagogy, Critical Institutional Studies, Affect Theory, Embodiment, Digital Media Studies
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  • Galia Cozzi Berrondo
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    PhD student, 2020-present Areas of interest: Transnational feminisms, Queer politics, Migration and mobility in Latin America, Queer and transgender studies, de/coloniality, Latinx imaginaries, Performance studies
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  • Hayden Cuttone
    Hayden
    PhD student, 2022-present  Areas of interest: Feminist Literary and Cultural Studies, Affect Theory, Horror Studies, Monster Theory, Feminist Disability Studies and Crip Theory.
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  • Emily Ferrante
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    MA student, 2024-present Areas of interest: Queer and transgender theory; transnational feminism; media studies; disability studies; de/colonialism
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  • Jose Flores-Sanchez 
    JFS
    PhD student, 2019-present Areas of interest:  Disability, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, migration, aesthetics, body and embodiment and settler-colonialism studies.
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  • Kassel Franco Garibay
    Kassel
    PhD student, 2023-presentAreas of interest:  Friendship; feminist solidarities; queer and transgender theory; Latin American social movements; Mexican feminisms; affect theory; community and kinship; Latinx and Chicanx methodologies; decolonial theory and methodology; and lesbian feminist theory. 
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  • Mar Galvez Seminario
    Mar
    PhD student, 2024-presentAreas of interest: Reproductive Justice, Queer and Trans of Color Critiques, Queer and Crip Theory, Disability Justice Theory, Media Studies, Memory Studies, and Gender Politics in Public Policy.
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  • Lynette Kwaw-Mensah
     
    PhD student, 2025-present Areas of interest: Black queer feminist thought, crip and queer temporalities, the body as archive, oral histories, disability justice, and African and African Diaspora studies.
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  • Tasmia Haque
    Tasmia
    PhD student, 2019-presentAreas of interest: Sexuality, feminism and queer theory, agency, trauma and mental health, critical race theory, transnational activism.
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  • LaQuette Holmes 
    Laquette
    PhD student, 2023-presentAreas of interest: Critical Race Theory, Cultural Production Theory, ethnographic studies, anti-Blackness, misogynoir, and the racialized misrepresentation of the Black woman’s identity in popular romance fiction.
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  • Jade Kai
    JK
    PhD student, 2019-presentAreas of interest: Aesthetic medicine, Black and African American studies, body/embodiment, care work, decolonizing methodologies, kinship, queer and trans genders and sexualities.
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  • Hnin Hnin Oo
    Hnin Hnin Headshot
    PhD student, 2024-presentAreas of interest: Burmese militarized sexual violence against women, reproductive justice/rights for women, activism, transnational feminisms and Burmese refugee/immigrant patterns to the United States.
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  • Kara Pernicano
    Kara Pernicano
    PhD student, 2022-presentAreas of interest: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Care Work; Disability Justice & Madness Studies; Queer & Crip Theories; Embodiment & Affect, Hybrid Aesthetics, Performance Studies & Comic Studies
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  • Frankie Petronio
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    PhD student, 2019-presentAreas of interest: Trans studies; cultural studies; American studies; critical discourse analysis; parasociality; politics and social movements; political psychology; far-right studies. 
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  • Genie Ruzicka
    Genie
    PhD student, 2020-presentAreas of interest: Critical Race Studies, the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality in pop culture, television studies, consent.
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  • Desi Self  
    desi
    PhD student, 2019-presentAreas of interest: Surveillance Studies, Critical Studies of Race, Philosophy of Sex, and Radical Pedagogy
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  • Sonbol Bahramikamangar
    Sonbol
    PhD student, 2025-presentAreas of interest: Areas of interest: Kurdish and Iranian feminisms, gendered violence and resistance, diasporic identity, visual culture and storytelling, feminist media studies, trauma and representation, transnational feminism, memory and narrative, digital activism, and violence prevention. 
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  • Carlos Vazquez
    Carlos
    PhD student, 2017-present Areas of interest: Areas of interest: Critical Race Theory; Black and Latino Studies; Higher Education Studies; Disability Studies; Queer Theory; Transgender Studies; Masculinity Studies
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  • Lizbeth Zuniga
    Lizbeth
    PhD student, 2020-present Areas of interest: Critical Fat Studies; Fat Theory and the medicalization of fat bodies; Queer Theory; Critical Race Theory; Jotería Studies; Latinx/a and Xicanx/a Feminisms; Latinxs in Labor Systems, Disability/Crip Theory.
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  • Jay Walter 
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    MA Student, 2025-present Areas of interest: queer theory, asexuality, aromanticism, masculinity, and race. Jay hopes to eventually pursue a PhD and build a career in academia with the goal of fostering spaces for shared knowledge, dialogue, and research exchange.
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