Graduate Fellows

Francisco is a Ph.D. student in the Literature and Culture program. He holds a M.A. of Arts in Hispanic Studies (Auburn University), a M.A. in Hispanic Studies (Universidad de Cádiz), a B.A. in Spanish Linguistics and Literature (Universidad de Cádiz) and a B.A. in English Linguistics and Literature (Universidad de Cádiz). Since 2019, he directs ÍMPETU (www.revistaimpetu.org), a digital literary magazine in which worldwide researchers and artists participate.

Ankita Chandranath is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology program. 

Jennie Jiang (she/her) joined the Ph.D. program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University in Fall 2021. She holds a B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University, where her undergraduate thesis focused on interrogating the epistemological roots of biomedical models of mental illness in scientific and popular imagination. Her current research interests include taking a feminist science studies approach to understanding endocrine-disrupting chemicals, a...

Ayelet Marron is a doctoral candidate in history, specializing in American foreign relations. Her dissertation, “Occupation Economics in WWII”, examines the first large-scale occupation the US undertook in WWII – French North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia). American occupation administrators constructed occupation as liberation while reinforcing French colonial rule – and their economic policies became blueprints for postwar military interventions and foreign aid programs that preserved...

Zainab Najeeb is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Rutgers University. Her research explores the intersections of gender, displacement, and digital and urban infrastructures in postcolonial South Asia. Over the past year, she has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Peshawar, Pakistan, focusing on how internally displaced Pashtun women navigate conditions of protracted crisis, cultural expectations, and scarcity.

Before beginning her doctoral studies, Zainab was a Teaching Fellow at the...