Bruno Seraphin, PhD

Bruno Seraphin completed his dissertation at Cornell University in 2023. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Bruno is also a graduate minor in American Indian and Indigenous studies. His research...

Nora Kassner, PhD

Nora Kassner (she/they) is a doctoral emphasis in Feminist Studies. Her dissertation, titled “Hard to Place: Queer Foster Families and the Remaking of U.S. Family Policy, 1975-1996,” explores the transformation of U.S. family policy in the late 20th century through...

Nicole Foti, PhD

Nicole Foti’s (she/her) research analyzes the emergent movement to apply open-source principles to pharmaceutical research and examines potential emancipatory practices in the production of biomedical knowledge in a community-based medicine initiative. Her...

Melanie Brazell, PhD

As a Chancellor’s Fellow, Melanie Brazzell studies gender, critical criminology, and social movements. Melanie’s dissertation focuses on transformative justice alternatives to prison and policing, particularly for gender-based violence. Drawing on their involvement in...

Jennifer Zelnick, PhD

Jennifer’s dissertation, “Life and Death After America: Deportee Transnationalism Among Cambodian American Refugees,” examines the deportation process and lifeworlds of deported and deportable Cambodian American refugees. Drawing on over two years of multi-sited...

Pin It on Pinterest

Skip to content