Current Members
Aanchal Saraf is a PhD candidate in Yale University’s American Studies and Women’s, Gender,and Sexuality Studies departments. She received her B.A. in Geography and Ethnic Studies from Brown. She writes and teaches on overlapping imperialisms in the Pacific, transpacific cultural production, and Asian American Studies.
Damanpreet Pelia is a PhD student in American Studies at Yale University.
Javier Porras Madero is a PhD student in History at Yale University.
Jessica Marion Modi is a PhD student in African American Studies and English. She studies black poetry and print culture as forms and formats of diaspora in the mid-twentieth century. Also a poet, her writing has appeared in Trans Studies Quarterly and Washington Square Review.
Lucero Estrella is a PhD student in the American Studies Department. Her research is on Japanese migration to the Americas, with an emphasis on Japanese migration to Mexico, and the formation of Japanese communities in states along the US-Mexico border during the early twentieth century.
Madeleine Han is a PhD student in American Studies at Yale University.
Maru Pabón is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature department. She received her BA in Comp Lit from Brown University. Her current work examines notions of cultural decolonization across Palestine, Cuba, and Algeria during the Third Worldist period, Marxist theories of language, and transnational poetics of solidarity. She is also a translator from the Spanish, French, and Arabic languages.
Michael Denning is the William R Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the Director of the Initiative on Labor and Culture. Among his publications are Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (Verso, 2015), Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (Verso, 2004), The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (Verso, 1997), Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (Verso, 1987), and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987).
Monique Flores Ulysses is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Yale, where she studies the intertwined histories of twentieth-century Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Indigenous peoples in the U.S. and México. She received her BA frorm the University of Victoria and her MA frorm McGill University. Her current project is an exploration of citizenship, racial categories, and political un/belonging as related to Mexican migration to the U.S. from 1910 to 1940.
Salonee Bhaman is a PhD candidate in the History department and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Yale University. She received her B.A. in history from Columbia University. Her research interests include the history of the American welfare state, policy and reform discourse, and immigration history with particular attention towards questions of race, gender, and political economy in the shaping of American cities and institutions.
Working Group Members in the Field:
Ever Esther Osorio Ruiz is a PhD student in the American Studies Department.
Kelvin Ng is a PhD student in the History Department.