Visiting Scholars / Visiting Student Researchers from 1999 - 2015
Bios reflect scholars’ status at the time of their appointment at the Center for Race and Gender.
Fatima Khemilat
FATIMA KHEMILAT
VISITING STUDENT RESEARCHER (AY 2015-16)
Fatima Khemilat is a PhD Student in Political Sciences at the IEP (Institute of Political Studies) in Aix-en-Provence (south of France). Thanks to her training in law and social sciences of religion, she approaches her work from a multidisciplinary viewpoint, drawing from intersectional analyses of gender, racialization and gentrification. Through law, sociology, political sciences and rhetoric, she endeavors to critique the controversies linked to the visibility of Islam in the European public space. She is a Visiting Scholar with the CRG and Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project and is compiling a bibliography of the different works dealing with islamophobia in France.
She discusses her research in this CRG podcast.
THEA QUIRAY TAGLE
VISITING STUDENT RESEARCHER (AY 2012-13)
Thea Quiray Tagle is a PhD candidate in Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego. Her dissertation, “Grounded Struggles: Filipino Americans in San Francisco and the Hunger for Justice,” is a sitespecific study of San Francisco-based Filipino American artists and activists involved in antigentrification, housing and labor, and urban farming issues. Her research illuminates the work done by queer and feminist Filipina American poets, performers, activists, and other cultural producers, focusing on how these productions expand understandings of Filipino American subjectivity and embodied experience as simultaneously raced, classed, sexualized, and gendered; and challenge the realm of what is considered “appropriate” politics for the larger San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American to engage.
EMILY THUMA
VISITING STUDENT RESEARCHER (AY 2011-12)
Emily Thuma is a PhD candidate in American Studies at New York University. Her teaching and research interests include twentieth century U.S. social and cultural history; gender, race and sexuality studies; intellectual history and grassroots activisms; politics of sexual violence; historiography; and progressive pedagogy. Her dissertation examines community-based activist efforts to curb sexual and domestic violence at their intersections with the racial politics of criminalization and imprisonment in the United States since 1968.
NOÉMI MICHEL
VISITING STUDENT RESEARCHER (AY 2011-12)
Noémi Michel is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Geneva. Her disseration is entitled, When Words and Images Matter: Racialized Symbolic Politics in Postcolonial Europe A Critical Analysis of two Controversies in France and Switzerland. In the frame of the Western European liberal State’s management of diversity, an increasing number of public controversies address the issue of symbolic politics. Groups and individuals marked by ethnic, racial or cultural differences question the State’s management of public words and images by claiming that these can inflict “injury” upon them. How can and should the State manage these “injuring” words and images circulating in the public sphere? On which normative grounds should they be censored or authorized? Why can words and images generate symbolic injury? Inscribing itself in the field of critical and poststructuralist political theory dealing with multiculturalism, but also drawing upon speech act theories and postcolonial approaches, this dissertation aims to address these questions by investigating two empirical cases of symbolic controversies in Switzerland and France.
BETHAN HARRIES
VISITING SCHOLAR (AY 2010-11)
Bethan Harries was a visiting scholar at CRG in 2010-11. She is currently a post-doc researcher at the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (www.ethnicity.ac.uk) at the University of Manchester in 2012. Her research focuses on the lived experience of racism and ethnicity. Her PhD examined how discourses which construct cities as tolerant and multicultural spaces are reproduced and simultaneously contradicted by everyday experiences. She is also interested in the relationship between the construction and implementation of ethnic categories and how these are experienced and understood to be used. Her research engages with representations of geographical patterns of inequalities and the social, cultural and historical conditions in which these are produced.
JOANNE BARKER
VISITING SCHOLAR
Joanne Barker was the CRG’s Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow. She completed her PhD in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. She is an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University and an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians. Her primary areas of research include indigenous jurisprudence, women ’s/gender studies, and cultural studies.
REBECCA HALL
VISITING SCHOLAR
Rebecca Hall was the CRG’s Mellon Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on slavery, historical constructions of racialized gender and contemporary legacies of the same. She earned a J.D. from Boalt Hall and completed her PhD in History. Her dissertation, Not Killing Me Softly: African American Women, Slave Revolts, and Historical Constructions of Racialized Gender develops “a trans-Atlantic social history of African American women in slave revolts and examines the discourse surrounding these women.”
ELAINE KIM
VISITING SCHOLAR (AY 2001-02)
During 2002, the Center supported a Ford Foundation-funded project entitled “Multicultural Education and Critical Pedagogy.” UCB Professor Elaine Kim and four Comparative Ethnic Studies graduate students studied and compiled a report of recent research and writing on multicultural, immigrant, and language diversity education, as well as, race and education, gender and education, and critical pedagogy (April 2001-August 2002).