Graduate Fellows 2026-2027

Jesús Ayala-Candia
Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, UC San Diego

Blanca Garcia
Doctoral Candidate, Economics, UC San Diego

Andrea Kvietok-Dueñas
Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, UC San Diego

Lauren Medina
Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, UC San Diego

Michael Min-Torresdey
Doctoral Candidate, Linguistic Anthropology, UC San Diego

Bianca Negrete Coba
Doctoral Candidate, Literature, UC San Diego

Johnathon Vargas
Doctoral Candidate, Communication, UC San Diego

Ifsha Zehra
Doctoral Candidate, Communication and Critical Gender Studies, UC San Diego

Graduate Affiliates

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Lucia Canul
Doctoral Candidate, Global Health, UC San Diego

Mir Fatima Kanth
Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, UC San Diego

Magdalena Donea
Doctoral Candidate, Communication and Science Studies, UC San Diego

Adriana López Acle Delgado
Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, UC San Diego

David Lindstorm
Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology, UC San Diego

Carolina Ramirez Moreno
Doctoral Candidate, Literature and the Critical Gender Specialization, UC San Diego

Ann Jiang
Research Interests: Political and Cultural Sociology; Immigration Attitudes; Polarization; Theory; Methodology.

Research Interests: Educational Policy; Mexico-US Education; Transborder Education.

Research Interests: Mexico; migration; climate change; land use; food sovereignty; farmworkers; health; medicine.