Dr. Erin Gray is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies at UC Irvine. Specializing in the intersections of politics, aesthetics, and critical theory, her current research focuses on gendered racial formations within and against the photographic history of global white supremacy. Mobilizing black feminist theory, Marxist critical theory, affect studies,…Continue Reading Erin Gray
Dr. SA Smythe completed their Ph.D. in history of consciousness (with emphases in literature and feminist studies) from UC Santa Cruz and will continue postdoctoral research here at UCI with Lilith Mahmud, Associate Professor in the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies. SA’s research interests include Black poetics, dispossession, créolité, meticciato, postcoloniality and decoloniality in Europe and Africa,…Continue Reading SA Smythe
Dr. Phillip Tran (Department of Otolaryngology) investigates non-invasive methods for the treatment of neurological disorders. He works with Dr. Fan-Gang Zeng in the UCI Center for Hearing Research on transcranial electric stimulation of deep structures within the head. Phillip is developing a computational model to optimize the stimulation parameters to target the auditory nerve and…Continue Reading Phillip Tran
Dr. Sandra Harvey researches the production of race and gender through surveillance technologies originating in colonialism and chattel slavery. She has been awarded as a 2017-18 UCI Chancellor’s Advance Postdoctoral Fellow in Criminology, Law and Society. Her book manuscript, Passing for Free, Passing for Sovereign: Blackness and the Formation of the Nation, traces narratives of…Continue Reading Sandra Harvey
Dr. Carey Y. L. Huh works with A. Prof Sunil Sandhi in the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior. She is studying how circuits in the brain are affected by sensory challenges such as visual deprivation during development, and how neural dysfunctions can be restored in adulthood. A better understanding of this topic is key to…Continue Reading Carey Huh
Dr. Aude Segaliny works with A. Prof Weian Zhao in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She uses emerging bioengineered technologies, stem cell based therapy, and immunotherapy to address unmet needs for cancer treatment. Specifically, she is developing a stem cell based therapy to target and treat breast cancer bone metastases. Her goal is to improve…Continue Reading Aude Segaliny