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Katherine Ponds
Graduate Student
katherine.ponds@yale.edu |
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Areas of Interest: African-American Literature, Greek Tragedy, Translation, Classical Reception Studies, Performance Studies |
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Daniella Posy
Graduate Student
daniella.posy@yale.edu |
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Areas of Interest: Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African American Studies, Popular Culture, Film and Media Studies, Urban Studies |
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Jocelyn Proietti
Graduate Student
jocelyn.proietti@yale.edu |
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Areas of Interest: Visual art, literature, cultural history, and black feminist performances of self |
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Amanda Rivera
Graduate Student
amanda.rivera@yale.edu |
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Areas of Interest: Puerto Rican Studies; Latinx Studies; ethnic studies and racial formations; women's and gender studies; education reform and activism; ethnography; archives; public scholarship |
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Sylvia Ryerson
Graduate Student
sylvia.ryerson@yale.edu |
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Areas of Interest: Racial Capitalism, Histories of U.S. Empire, the Carceral State, Sound Studies, Appalachian Studies, Public Humanities |
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Taa Machiria Salazar
Graduate Student |
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Areas of Interest: Colonization and decolonization; late-20th/early-21st-century Native America; Native American/Indigenous linguistic and cultural revitalization; Yaqui studies; Indigenous feminism; queer Indigeneity; community-based organization and advocacy |
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Mays Smithwick
Graduate Student
mays.smithwick@yale.edu |
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Areas of Interest: Feminist Science and Technology Studies (FSTS), Environmental Humanities, religion, secularism, military imperialism, nuclear technology, radioactivity |
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Melinda Stang
Graduate Student
melinda.stang@yale.edu |
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Areas of Interest: Public Amusement; Popular Culture; Hollywood Film & Television; Immersive & Interactive Entertainment; Historic Site Exhibition; Performance Studies; Race & Ethnicity; Secularism; Anti-Democracy; Fear; and Hauntology |
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Isra Syed
Graduate Student
isra.syed@yale.edu |
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Areas of Interest: Religious studies, legal history, race studies, critical theory, imperialism, gender and sexuality studies, psychoanalysis, affect theory, diaspora and migration studies, postcolonial theory |
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Babette Thomas
Graduate Student
babette.thomas@yale.edu |
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Areas of Interest: Black radio history; public humanities; sound studies; radio studies; media studies; new media studies; Black feminist theory; affect theory |
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Taylor Thompson
Graduate Student
taylor.thompson.twt9@yale.edu |
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Areas of Interest: Black Feminism, Feminist Theories, Oral History, Economic History, Economics, Black Studies |
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Minh Huynh Vu
Graduate Student
minh.vu@yale.edu |
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Areas of Interest: Asian American Studies, Critical Refuge(e) Studies, Discard Studies, ecologies of empire, everyday war, intimacies of infrastructure, supply chain logistics |
