IRES Graduate Employees + Students
Marlene Andrade
Graduate Student
IRES
Email: marand@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Chicanx/Latinx Studies, Environmental Justice, Race, Women of Color Feminisms, Epistemologies, Pedagogies of the Land, Food Justice, Agroecology, Theory
Chailen August
Graduate Student
Graduate Employee
IRES
Email: chailen@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Black studies, Hip Hop, Black popular culture, race/ethnicity, mobility, Black Geographies, African Diasporic Culture.
Zoë Gamell Brown
Graduate Student
Founder of Fernland Studios
IRES
Email: jtbrown@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0900
Research Interests: Boviander ecological knowledge, Caribbean restorative cartographies, Critical autotheory, Critical ocean studies, Culinary catharsis, Healing praxis, Hyperrealism, Queer diaspora
Clara Gorman
Graduate Student
IRES
Email: cgorman4@uoregon.edu
Office: Alder 104
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Native American History, Oral History, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage, Museum Education, Public History, Archival Studies and Library Science.
Sophie Grewell
Graduate Student
IRES
Email: sgrewell@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Indigenous studies, Pacific studies, trans-Indigenous relationalities, Indigenous diasporas, Hawaiian out-migration
Mariana Rivera
Graduate Student
IRES
Email: mrivera5@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0900
Office: Winter '22: Tues. 2 - 3 pm, Thurs. 10 - 11 am, via Zoom.
Alexander Symonette
Graduate Student
Graduate employee
IRES
Email: alsym@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Conspiracy Theory, Social Movements, Black/Queer Diasporic Solidarity, History of Eugenics, Ethnography and Digital Media.
Bryant Taylor
Graduate Student
IRES
Email: bryantt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0900
Office: Spring '22: Tuesday 12 - 1 pm.
Asako Yonan
Graduate Student
IRES
Email: asakoy@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0900
Office Hours: Fall '22: Monday 12 - 1 pm, or by appt., and via Zoom.