Graduate Students

Research Interests:

Afrocentric methodology; decolonial pedagogy; Queer feminist theory; cultural studies; worldview studies; and ethnic studies in k-12 education.

Subfield(s):

Ethnic Studies

Contact Information

Email: tcardonazambeis@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Identity; global policy; interracial relationships; multiracial; critical race studies; Black feminist studies; transnational adoption; and transracial adoption.

Subfield(s):

Critical Adoption Studies

Contact Information

Email: sophiecoletta@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

African American Literature; Black Art History; Black feminist studies; Queer theory; fashion studies; museum studies; Afrofuturism/Black science fiction; horror; and Hip Hop & Rap.

Subfield(s):

Visual cultures and popular culture

Contact Information

Email: chanelmarie@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black Feminist Thought; Queer Theory; design media arts; comparative social movements; education; and reparative archiving.

Subfield(s):

Black Queer Studies

Contact Information

Email: jofobbs@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Kinship; methods of resistance; narrative as a way knowing; and pop culture.

Subfield(s):

Popular Culture

Contact Information

Email: khagans@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black empowerment through video games and Black student outcomes in the public school system.

Subfield(s):

Education

Contact Information

Email: joshuajackson@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black entertainment; African American popular culture; domestic slavery; modern Jim Crow; Reconstruction Era; and social/cultural history.

Subfield(s):

African Diaspora

Contact Information

Email: robinson.adamca@gmail.com

Research Interests:

Social movements; community organizing;, mutual aid; Black and Latinx resistance efforts; Black and Third World Feminist Liberation Theory; Inland Empire; labor and warehouse industry; spatial violence; reclaiming space and place; counter-mapping; liberatory futures; and archive of resistance.

Subfield(s):

Geography, Labor Studies, Chicanx and Central American Studies, History

Contact Information

Email: mtyus2020@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black Studies; pop culture studies; Black Visualities; African aesthetics in film; African Diaspora; cultural memory; Black Feminist Studies; Black Queer Studies; sociocultural imagination; and cultural studies.

Subfield(s):

Cultural Studies, digital media, film and television, media and communication, gender and sexuality

Contact Information

Email: nwaititu@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Afrocentric methodology; decolonial pedagogy; Queer feminist theory; cultural studies; worldview studies; and ethnic studies in k-12 education.

Subfield(s):

Ethnic Studies

Contact Information

Email: tcardonazambeis@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Identity; global policy; interracial relationships; multiracial; critical race studies; Black feminist studies; transnational adoption; and transracial adoption.

Subfield(s):

Critical Adoption Studies

Contact Information

Email: sophiecoletta@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

African American Literature; Black Art History; Black feminist studies; Queer theory; fashion studies; museum studies; Afrofuturism/Black science fiction; horror; and Hip Hop & Rap.

Subfield(s):

Visual cultures and popular culture

Contact Information

Email: chanelmarie@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black Feminist Thought; Queer Theory; design media arts; comparative social movements; education; and reparative archiving.

Subfield(s):

Black Queer Studies

Contact Information

Email: jofobbs@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Kinship; methods of resistance; narrative as a way knowing; and pop culture.

Subfield(s):

Popular Culture

Contact Information

Email: khagans@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black empowerment through video games and Black student outcomes in the public school system.

Subfield(s):

Education

Contact Information

Email: joshuajackson@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black entertainment; African American popular culture; domestic slavery; modern Jim Crow; Reconstruction Era; and social/cultural history.

Subfield(s):

African Diaspora

Contact Information

Email: robinson.adamca@gmail.com

Research Interests:

Social movements; community organizing;, mutual aid; Black and Latinx resistance efforts; Black and Third World Feminist Liberation Theory; Inland Empire; labor and warehouse industry; spatial violence; reclaiming space and place; counter-mapping; liberatory futures; and archive of resistance.

Subfield(s):

Geography, Labor Studies, Chicanx and Central American Studies, History

Contact Information

Email: mtyus2020@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black Studies; pop culture studies; Black Visualities; African aesthetics in film; African Diaspora; cultural memory; Black Feminist Studies; Black Queer Studies; sociocultural imagination; and cultural studies.

Subfield(s):

Cultural Studies, digital media, film and television, media and communication, gender and sexuality

Contact Information

Email: nwaititu@g.ucla.edu