Faculty Directory

Summary of Expertise

Race and technology; war and nationalism; gender, ethnicity, and religion; cultural studies and critical theory; media studies

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Literature and Cultural Studies University of California, San Diego

Honors, Awards and Grants

• 2019-2020  Co-PI “Speculative Futures” UC Multicampus Research Program
• 2017-18 Committee on Academic Research Special Research Grant, UCSC 
• 2016 Visiting Research Fellowship, GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden
• 2015-16 Co-PI, The Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster, Institute for Humanities Research
• 2013-2015 Co-PI, Religion in Diaspora and Global Affairs, Luce Foundation Humanities Studio Grant, “Humanitarian Ethics, Religious Affinities,” 
• 2012 Co-PI, UC Humanities Research Institute, Residential Research Fellowship, “Imperial Legacies, Postsocialist Contexts: History, Ethics and Difference in a Neoliberal Age,” Fall 2012
• 2012 Co-PI, Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies Grant, “Reframing Race/Religion,” 
• 2011-2012 Hellman Fellows Program, Fellowship
• 2011 Institute for Humanities Research Faculty Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
• 2010-11 Co-PI, UC Center for New Racial Studies Grant, “Reforming Religion: Race, Ethnicity, and Secularism in the New Europe” 
• 2010-11 Co-PI, UC Humanities Research Institute Working Group Grant, “Imperial Legacies, Post-socialist Contexts: Transnationalizing Analytics of Race, Gender and Sexuality”
• 2008 Faculty Research Grant, UC Santa Cruz
• 2007-2008 UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology 
• 2007 FAHSS Research and Interdisciplinary Initiatives Individual Grant, SUNY Stony Brook
• 2005-2006 Faculty Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara 

Selected Publications

• Books:
• Humanitarian Violence: the U.S. Deployment of Diversity (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
• Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (Duke University Press, 2019)
• Edited Collections:
• Guest Co-Editor with Kalindi Vora, “Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution.” Social Identities (online publication May 2017; print publication Winter 2018). 
• Articles:
• "Why the Sex Robot Becomes the Killer Robot – Reproduction, Care, and the Limits of Refusal" Spheres: Journal for Digital Cultures, Issue #6 (March 2020)
• “Postsocialism and the Afterlives of Revolution: Impossible Spaces of Dissent.” Co-authored with Erin McElory. In Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories: Thought on the Edge, ed. Nicoletta Pireddu (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pgs. 273-297.
• "‘Seeing justice to be done’: the documentaries of the ICTY and the visual politics of European value(s)." Transnational Cinemas 9:1 (2018): 67-84.
•  "The Surrogate Effect: Technoliberalism and Whiteness in a 'Post' Labor Era." With Kalindi Vora. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 4(1): 1-13, 2018.
• "Unhappy Desires and Queer Postsocialist Futures Unhappy Desires and Queer Postsocialist Futures: Hong Kong and Buenos Aires in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together." With Jinah Kim. American Quarterly 69.3: 697-718, 2017.
• Introduction: Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution." With Kalinid Vora. Social Identities 25 May 2017, pgs 1-16.
• "The Muslim Mediterranean: Islam and the Contradictions of 'Europe' in Bosnia and Herzegovina." Journal of Mediterranean Studies 24.2: 231-248, 2016.
• "Surrogate Humanity: Posthuman Networks and the (Racialized) Obsolescence of Labor" with Kalindi Vora. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 1(1): 1-40, 2015.
• "A Feminist Politics and Ethics of Refusal: Teaching Transnational Cinema in the Feminist Studies Classroom." Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy, eds. Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett (Routledge, 2016).
• "Cold War Carmen in U.S. Racial Modernity." Cinema Journal 54.1 (2014): 88-111.
• “Roma Rights on the World Wide Web: The Role of Internet Technologies in Shaping Minority and Human Rights Discourses in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe,” European Journal of Cultural Studies (2009)
• “‘Race’ Toward Freedom: Post-Cold War U.S. Multiculturalism and the Re-Construction of Eastern Europe.” In The Journal of American Culture 29.2 (2006)
• “Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: The Technologies of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ in the Balkans during the 1999 NATO Bombing of Serbia and Kosovo.” In Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Niall Scott, ed. (New York: Rodopi, 2007).
• Book Reviews:
• "Just Life: Bioethics and the Future of Sexual Difference by Mary C. Rawlinson," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 43, no. 2 (Winter 2018): 494-495.
• “Katarzyna Marciniak, photographs by Kamil Turowski, Streets of Crocodiles: Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland.” Journal of Visual Culture 11: 409-411, 2012.
• “Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Islam, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria by Kristen Ghodsee,” American Ethnologist 38.2: 388-389, 2011.
• Interviews:
• "(Re)thinking Postsocialism: Interview with Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora" by Lesia Pagulich and Tatsiana Shchurko
• “UCHRI Perspectives with Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski,” Interview with David Theo Goldberg"