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Areas of expertise: Social Movements, Social Theory, Political Theory, Affect Studies, Activism, Sexuality, Queer Studies
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2000 - Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago1989 - M.A., Political Science, University of Chicago1986 - B.A., in Government, Wesleyan University with High Honors Deborah Gould is an associate professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz (and affiliated faculty in Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Politics). She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in Political Science in 2000 and was a post-doctoral Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Art... more »
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Sylvanna Falcón
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Areas of expertise: Human Rights, Activism, Border Studies, Community-based Research, Violence and Violence Prevention, Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sociology, International and Global Affairs
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I am the 2024 president-elect of the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS). I an on the faculty of the Department of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at UC Santa Cruz. I am also the founder and director of UC Santa Cruz's Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas.
Areas of expertise: Activism, Art Theory, Contemporary Art, Feminist Theory, Aesthetics, American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Arts
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BA, Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven PhD, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Areas of expertise: Activism, Youth Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sociology, Democracy
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An interdisciplinary youth studies scholar, my work focuses on the political lives of children and youth across the Americas, with an emphasis on youth activists and youth social movements. Theoretically, I am interested in how identity narratives shape social movement practices and look at how the subject categories of child, youth, adult, teenager, and girl are constructed within transnational and local political cultures, and how these subject categories matter for the strategies, organ... more »
Areas of expertise: Digital Media, New Media, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Animation, Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Activism
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As a first-generation middle school, high school, and college graduate, I was fortunate to attend and earn my B.F.A. from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, an institution with a radically progressive history founded on the belief that advanced education should be free. It was here that my nascent interest in community building conceptually merged with art practice, media-making, and humanities scholarship, thereby laying a foundation for research into creative embodied app... more »
Professor, Dorothy E. Everett Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship Chair, Director, Everett Program for Technology and Social Change, Director, Institute for Social Transformation
Environmental Studies Department, Sociology DepartmentAreas of expertise: Urban studies, Labor and Social Movements, Sociology, Environmental Justice, Globalization, Community-based Research, Science and Technology, Social Justice, Political Economy of Development, Activism
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Dr. Chris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Institute for Social Transformation. His research examines the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity, focusing on regional labor markets... more »
Areas of expertise: Activism, Environmental Justice, Science and Technology, American Studies, Sustainability, California History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
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Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley B.A., Politics with Honors, Oberlin College
Areas of expertise: Activism, African Diaspora, Agroecology and Agriculture, Climate Change, Community Studies, Colonialism, Community-based Research, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Justice, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Peoples, International Development, Latin American and Latino Studies, Marxism, Social Justice, Sustainability, Tropical Forest
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Dr. Juli Hazlewood is an Intercultural Geographer and activist, researcher, writer, and educator from Indiana (USA). She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Roots & Routes IC, an organization dedicated to facilitating the sharing of cultural ways of knowing and compassion between diverse cultures en route to responsibly stewarding a flourishing living world. For over two decades she has lived and walked with the Chachi, Awá, and Afro-descendant communities of Ecuador’s Pacific Northwes... more »
Areas of expertise: Sociology, African Diaspora, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Immigration, Activism, Discrimination and Inequality, Labor and Social Movements
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PhD: Geography and Science and Technology Studies, UC Berkeley (2018) MPA: Brown University (2010) AB: International Relations and Africana Studies, Brown University (2009)
Areas of expertise: Agroecology and Agriculture, Biotechnology, Activism, Science Studies
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Ph.D., Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley M.S., Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.A., Biology, Williams College
Areas of expertise: Ethnography, Language and Linguistics, Discrimination and Inequality, Science and Technology, Teacher Education, Activism, Marxism
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Ph.D. Language, Reading, & Culture University of Arizona, 2015 Advisor: Norma González M.A. Language, Reading, & Culture University of Arizona, 2007 Advisor: Luis Moll B.A. History & Latin American Studies (dual degree) University of Arizona, 2003
Professor of History of Consciousness
History of Consciousness Department, Science & Justice Research Center, Latin American & Latino Studies, Global & Community HealthAreas of expertise: Science and Technology, Social Theory, Social Movements, Science Studies, Art Photography/Photography as Critical Practice, Activism, Environmental Justice, Cultural Studies, Political Theory, Visual Culture
Biography, Education and Training
Before joing the History of Consciousness Department I was Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Director of the Institute for Science and Society and Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Priority Cluster EcoSocieties at the University of Nottingham, UK, following appointments at the University of Leicester, Cardiff Universty, and the Free University of Berlin, Germany, where I also earned his PhD. I have been a Leverhulme Fellow in the UK and an Alexander-von-Hum... more »
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