Graduate Assistants

Jahaira Arias is a seventh year doctoral student in the department of History. She specializes in the history of Latin America and is interested in the politics of race, nation, region and gender in the Caribbean. Her dissertation focuses on the political culture of the Dominican Republic in the late 19^th century and the ways in which discourses of race, region and gender were woven into nationalist politics in a neo-colonial context.

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Ashley Glassburn Falzetti is a doctoral candidate in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers with graduate training in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  Her dissertation brings together analyses of epistemic violence from feminist theory and critiques of settler-colonialism.  Her current research explores the significance of place in popular narratives about the Miami Indians, raising crucial questions about how race, nationality, and belonging are imagined in the United States – particularly the ways in which indigeneity comes to be marked by historical impossibilities.  As a feminist activist and member of the Miami Nation of Indiana, building connections between community-life, writing, and teaching is central to her work as an educator.  She has received numerous awards for her research and teaching – most recently serving as the Frances C. Allen Fellow at the Newberry Library and recipient of the Linda Rothman Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching. 

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Kartikeya Saboo currently does ethnographic research in Newark and South Orange, New Jersey, on the experiences of the recession/depression. Previously, he worked in India as a micro finance practitioner, responsible for path breaking, worldwide first work in that sector. He has also consulted with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, India’s leading local development funding agency. He was the Executive Director of Spandana, India’s fastest growing micro finance company at the time, before starting the PhD program in cultural anthropology at Rutgers. He is in the sixth year of the program.

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Wendy Wright is a 7th year doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, studying political theory and public law.  Her dissertation focuses on the role of punishment in creating, maintaining and legitimating a racial order in the United States.  General research interests  include critical theory, relations between theory and policy, and law and society.

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