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Dinka Benitez Piraino

Graduate Student
dbenitez@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment only
Critical Pedagogy, Feminist Theory, Human Rights, Law and Political Thought, Philosophy
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Vivyne Chen

Graduate Student
ychen301@uw.edu
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Yasmine Gomez

Graduate Student
ygomez@uw.edu
Office Hours: Monday 12-1pm; by appointment
PDL B111
Chicana/o, Decolonial, Indigenous, Latino/a Studies, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Surveillance and Privacy, Tejana, Transnational, Violence and Trauma
Ramon Johnson

Ramon Johnson

Graduate Student
rj44@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
African American, Archives, Gender, Masculinity, Music, Photography, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Sociology, Transgender Studies, Violence and Trauma
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Kanupriya Kanupriya

Graduate Student
rabia09@uw.edu
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Saad Khan

Graduate Student
saakh494@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Allen Research Commons
Archives, Development, Ethnography, Human Rights, Masculinity, Political Economy, Pornography, Queer Studies, Sexuality
Marielle Marcaida

Marielle Marcaida

Graduate Student
marcaida@uw.edu
Office Hours: Mondays at 11:00-12:00 and by appointment
TA Office: Padelford B-111
Activism, Community, Feminist Theory, Grassroots, Motherhood, Philippine and Filipino American, Political Science, Southeast Asian
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Nastasia Paul-Gera

Graduate Student
nastasia@uw.edu
Office Hours: Fridays from 10:30-11:30 am in PDL B111 and by appointment
Adivasi Studies, Critical Tourism Studies, Decolonial, Environmental History, Ethnography, Feminism, Labor Studies, Multispecies Studies, Political Economy, Postcolonial, South Asian
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Shelley Pryde

Graduate Student
spryde@uw.edu
Office Hours: Mon 12-1pm, by appointment
PDL B111
African, Decolonial, Feminist Pedagogy, Global South, Media Studies, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Visual Culture
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Royalti Richardson

Graduate Student
royalti@uw.edu
Afrofuturism, Black Sexuality, Erotic Sovereignty, Gossip, Labor, Pro-Pornography Feminism
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Keila Taylor

Graduate Student
keilat@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
PDL B111
Activism, African American, Feminist Theory, Social Change, Violence and Trauma, Women of Color

Catalina Velasquez

Graduate Student
cvp25@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
PDL B111
Critical Refugee Studies, Decolonial Studies, Feminist Methods and Methodologies, Feminist Pedagogy, Latin American, Law and Political Thought, Political Economy, Transgender Studies, Transnational and Indigenous Feminisms
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Liz Zeng

Graduate Student
zzeng31@uw.edu
PDL B111
China Studies, fan studies, New Media, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Transnational Feminisms