Alumni Panel with “Bodies That Haunt” Authors

Former RIDGS and ICGC-affiliated PhD students discuss their research in the recently published Cultural Studies special edition: “Bodies that Haunt: Rethinking the Political Economy of Racialised Death” (Volume 39, Issue 6, 2025)

With Panelists:

Emily Mitamura
Postdoctoral Fellow, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Bowdoin College
Journal Contribution: "Introduction" and "Love story, ghost story: the Cambodian genocide, labour extraction, and Hout Bophana"

José Manuel Santillana Blanco
Assistant Professor of American Studies 
University of California, Davis​
Journal Contribution: "Radical motherhood ecologies: towards a mapping of social life, death and resistance in the southwest borderlands"

María J. Méndez
Assistant Professor in Political Science
University of Toronto
Journal Contribution: "Registering the gang body in pain: violence and haunting in Central America"

Naimah Pétigny
Assistant Professor of Literary Arts and Studies 
Rhode Island School of Design
Journal Contribution: "Haunting erotics: theorizing Black erotic aliveness"

Sayan Bhattacharya 
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
Journal Contribution: "The broken others of the nation state: debility, capacity and dissent"
 

Co-sponsored by: Gender Women, and Sexuality Studies, Political Science, the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change