Graduate Students

Name Specialties 
Hilary Abe  
Akeem Anderson Black Studies, Gender Studies, Antiblackness, Critical Disability Studies, Critical Legal History, Eugenics, Jazz, Archival Studies, Black Radicalism, Afrofuturism, Law
Lennixx-Nickolai Bad Moccasin American Studies; American Indian Studies; Native Film; Native Literature; Native Television; Native Representation; Dakota Language
Jonny Quenga Borja Queer Indigenous Studies, Queer Theory and Queer of Color Critique, Gender, and Sexuality; Native Pacific Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Literatures, Indigenous Feminisms, Women of Color Feminisms; Decolonial Methods and Methodologies, Embodiment, and Felt Theory, Critical Race and Indigenous Theory.
Rebecca "Agleska" Cohen-Rencountre Native Feminisms; history; decolonizing methods; gender; sexuality
Ashton Dunkley  
Stephanie Gandy Race and Temporality, U.S. Black Identity, Critical Black Studies, AntiBlackness, Black Aesthetics, Black Arts and Music, Diaspora Studies, Miscegenation, Blood Quantum, U.S. Racial legislation, Racial Taxonomies, Racial Perception, Racial Qualifying 
An Garagiola  
Taher Herzallah  
Maria Higueros-Canny  
Kaylen James  
Germaine Lindsay Saladino Juan  
Wakinyan LaPointe  
Richard Lim  
Amanda Lugo Popular culture, critical media studies, race, citizenship, belonging and immigration in the contemporary U.S.
Mary Marchan Queer theory; women of color feminism; transnational feminism; postcolonial and decolonial theory; Filipinx Studies
Daniel Modesto  
Selena Moon Critical race and ethnic studies, Women of Color Feminisms, Asian American studies, Critical disability studies, immigration, war, carcerality, multiculturalism 
Ayaan Natala Critical Black Studies, Black radicalism, Black feminism, Comparative social movements, Afro-futurism & Afro-pessimism, Healing Justice, Political Theory, Human Rights, Diaspora studies, Auto-ethnography, Bio-mythology, Community Engaged Participatory Research.
Khoi Nguyen Critical Refugee Studies, Ethnic Studies, Queer Studies, Transnational American Studies, Asian American Studies, Oral Histories, Ethnography, Archives
Chelsea Osademe African American Gothic; Citizenship; Anti-Blackness; Slavery and it's afterlives; Critical Race Studies; Mid-nineteenth century to contemporary African American Culture and Literature; Afro-pessimism.
Kiara Padilla
comparative and relational ethnic studies; Chicanx/Latinx Studies; US-Mexico borderlands; carcerality; immigration/deportation regimes; feminist abolitionisms; community-engaged and systems-impacted research; autoethnography and counter narrative methods 
David Ramos  
Francisco Rangel Almanza  
Gabi Dominguez-Salas  
Demiliza Saramosing Asian American Studies; Critical Youth Studies; Diaspora Studies; Filipinx Studies; Native and Women of Color Feminisms; Oceanic Ethnic Studies; Native Pacific Cultural Studies; Queer of Color Critique; Settler Colonialism studies; Urban Studiesoceanic ethnic studies; native and womxn of color feminisms; settler colonialism and urban studies
Chia-Hua Tsai  
Reid Uratani  
Jonnelle Walker  
Phoebe Young Indigenous food sovereignty, natural resource extraction, traditional ecological knowledge, land-based education.