Graduate Alumni
Summer 2021
Jessica Calvanico, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Carceral Girlhoods: The House of the Good Shepherd and “The Problem” of the Girl in New Orleans
Primary Advisor: Gina Dent
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, Rutgers UniversitySpring 2021
Noya Kansky, MA
Primary Advisor: Neda Atanasoski
Spring 2020
Yizhou Guo, Ph.D.
Dissertation: The Hermeneutics of Ephemerality: Digital Media and Radical Politics in Postsocialist China
Primary Advisor: Neda AtanasoskiFall 2019
Evelien Geerts, PhD
Dissertation: Materialist Philosophies Grounded in the Here And Now: Critical New Materialist Constellations & Interventions in Times Of Terror(ism)
Primary Advisor: Bettina Aptheker
Current Position: Research Fellow, University of Birmingham (UK)Cecelia Lie-Spahn, PhD
Dissertation: The Pharmocratics of Misoprostol: Race, Drugs, and Reproductive Neoliberalism
Primary Advisors: Neda Atanasoski and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
Current Position: Director, First-Year Writing Workshop Program and Lecturer, English Department, Barnard CollegeSpring 2019
Erin McElroy, PhD
Dissertation: Unbecoming Silicon Valley: Techno Imaginaries and Materialities in Postsocialist Romania
Primary Advisor: Neda Atanasoski
Current Position: Assistant Professor, American Studies, UT AustinVeronika Zablotsky, PhD
Dissertation: Governing Armenia: The Politics of Development and the Making of Global Diaspora
Primary Advisor: Gina Dent
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berlin University Alliance-funded project Transforming Solidarities in the Department of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin. Research affiliate at the Humanities and Social Change Center at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In Winter 2021/22, she will be Interim Chair in Gender Studies in the Department of Politics at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen in Germany.