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I am a third year undergraduate student studying History. On campus I am involved as a member in SAFE and a part of the organizing core for RAO (Resstaff Allied Organization). I am interested in studying Black Marxism as a separate, and not just supplementary to Western Marxism. Currently, I am researching historical surveillance of Blackness…

I am a Ph.D. student in the History Department. My current scholarly interests revolve around the history of metal mining in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, with regional focuses on the Urals, Siberia, Kazakhstan, and Armenia. For my doctoral dissertation, I look into the longue durée of mining development in these regions from…

I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, studying Spanish and Chemistry. I am interested in the medium of filmmaking within the context of Latin American guerrilla movements and its historical and philosophical relationships with various forms of colonial cultural and artistic movements. I also am interested in the diverging readings of…

Nolan Boomer is a PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture program at Harvard University. They study the modern built environment, media, and cultural exchange across the Western Hemisphere. Their work looks at popular architecture through cultural studies and historical materialist lenses. They received a B.A. in English at Oberlin College and an M.S.…

Madeleine Aquilina is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan in the History of Art department. She is writing a dissertation on how postwar social housing in Lima was imbricated in questions of indigeneity, labor, and representation. Her work has been supported by grants from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the International Institute at the…

I’m studying the left-wing intellectual history from 1980’s to contemporary Korea in light of its connection to what Vijay Prashad calls the Third World project and global discourses on political economy. It has been commonly argued that contemporary South Korea has become a neoliberal society in which there is nothing left but the naturalized sense…

Fernando VALCHEFF GARCIA is a PhD student in Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish at the University of Michigan. He holds a BA in Spanish Language and Literature (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata) and an Erasmus Mundus MA in Crossways in Cultural Narratives (University of St Andrews / Universidad de Santiago de Compostela / Universidade…

My research centers on histories of modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a focus on photography. In my dissertation, I attempt to examine the role of photographic archives in state-driven developmental projects in 1970s South Korea, when the nation’s territory was newly imagined, visualized, and materialized in the discursive space of landscape.

I am a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in RLL. I am interested in theories of Feminism, Marxism, and literature in Southern Cone and the Indian Subcontinent. I seek to understand the feminist struggles under their sign of “refusal” as the movement of non-identity or the negative that persists towards a total disarticulation of the domination of…