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Education

Ph.D., Gender Studies, The University of California, Los Angeles, 2024

Dissertation Title: “Electronic Empires and Digital Domains: Settler Colonial Spatial Regimes, Digital Environments, and Information and Communication Technology Infrastructures”

M.A., Gender Studies, The University of California, Los Angeles, 2017

M.A., English, The University of Texas, San Antonio, 2013

Thesis Title: “Queer (Cyber)Spaces: Queer Subjectivities in Queer Digital Communities”

B.A., Women’s Studies and English, Highest Honors, The University of Texas, San Antonio, 2009

Honor’s Thesis Title: “No se raje, Chicanita: An Exploration of Identity Politics, Social Scripts, and Power Negotiations in Latina Authors’ Youth Literature

Teaching Experience

UCLA
UTSA
TA-UCLA

Instructor of Record

Instructor of Record

Teaching Assistant 

Publications

Chapters

 “Networking the Nation: Approaching Critical Infrastructure Studies through Settler Colonial Studies” in Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (Debates in the Digital Humanities Series), edited by Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies, University of Minnesota Press (Forthcoming)

“Alive with Story: Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles and Carrying Our Ancestors Home” in Digital Mapping and Indigenous America, edited by Janet Berry Hess, Routledge (2021)

Book Reviews

On Strong Hearts & Healing Hands: Southern California Indians and Field Nurses, 1920-1950 by Clifford E. Trafzer for California History (2022)

On Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country by Marisa Elena Duarte for Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience (2019)

On Weaponizing Maps: Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas by Joe Bryan and Denis Wood for Great Plains Research (2017)

Select Digital Humanities Projects

The Racial Violence Hub

The Racial Violence Hub

Site Design, Content Management and Editing, and Event Coordinator
A site of Dr. Sherene Razack, the UCLA Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, the RVHub is organized around annual workshops that bring together feminist scholars to reflect on transnational structures and practices of racial violence.
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Race and Deaths <br>in Custody

Race and Deaths
in Custody

Project Design, Content Research and Editing, Coder
Headed by Dr. Sherene Razack, Race and Deaths In Custody "contains case studies of Indigenous, Black and racialized peoples who have died in state custody in countries of the global North." The site asks users to "consider deaths in custody as racial violence."
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The Industry of Uplift Exhibit

The Industry of Uplift Exhibit

Lead Curator
Produced in a DH Museum Studies Course with Dr. Miriam Posner, "The Industry of Uplift: Silent Race Film, The Lincoln Motion Picture Company, and The George P. Johnson Collection," was displayed in UCLA's Special Collections at The Charles E. Young Research Library.
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Mapping Indigenous LA

Mapping Indigenous LA

Content Management
A project of Dr. Mishuana Goeman (Co-PI), MILA "aims to uncover and highlight the multiple layers of indigenous Los Angeles through a storymapping project with youth, community leaders, and elders from indigenous communities throughout the city."
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