Salvador Rangel, PhD

Salvador Rangel came to the United States as an undocumented immigrant. After various years working in the construction and manufacturing sectors, he made his way into higher education, first obtaining a GED and then attending community college. He went on to obtain a...

Joss Greene, PhD

Joss studies state punishment of gender and sexual variance, with a focus on transgender experiences with the criminal justice system.  His dissertation traces prison regulation of gender-nonconformity in California from 1941-2018, drawing on archival research, oral...

Silas Grant, PhD

Silas Grant studies the relationship between oil and gas extraction and settler jurisdiction in northwestern New Mexico’s San Juan Basin. In this region, a recent fracking boom has brought extraction deeper into the Greater Chaco landscape, held sacred by Diné...

Chryl N. E. Corbin, PhD

C.N.E. Corbin completed her dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley in 2020. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning at Portland State University. As an urban environmentalist and political ecologist,...

Jasmine H. Benjamin, PhD

Jasmine was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and her dissertation interests were shaped watching media portrayals and delayed government response during Hurricane Katrina. Her dissertation uses Angela Onwuachi-Willig’s (2016) theory of “trauma of...

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