Faculty Directory

- Title
- Professor
- Co-director, Center for Racial Justice
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Feminist Studies Department
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Affiliations Film and Digital Media Department, Digital Arts and New Media, Legal Studies
- Phone 831-459-2773
- Fax 831-459-1925
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 337
- Office Hours On Leave (2021-22)
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Courses 125 Race, Sex, Technology; 80T Religion in U.S. Politics; 100. Feminist Theories; 126. Images, Power, and Politics: Methods in Visual and Textual Analysis; 194O. Politics of Gender and Human Rights; 200. Feminist Theories; 222. Religion, Feminsm, and Sexual Politics; 215 Postcolonial/Postsocialist Analytics; 202 Disciplining Knowledge
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"