Affiliated Researchers
Saniya Ghanoui
Saniya Ghanoui is a scholar of 19th and 20th century United States and Europe. Trained as a digital and public historian, her work examines the intersections of gender and sexuality, medicine, and media with an emphasis on transnational history. She is the Senior Producer for the podcast Sexing History, the co-creator of the digital publishing initiative SourceLab, and a documentary film producer.
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Brianna Anderson
Brianna Anderson’s research and teaching focuses include children’s and young adult literature, comics studies and visual rhetoric, digital humanities, ecocriticism, critical race and gender studies, and speculative fiction. Her scholarship analyzes how comics and picture books use their multimodal forms to represent and inspire activism for difficult and complex issues, such as climate change and racism.
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Daniel Carey-Whalen
Daniel Carey-Whalen, as Director of Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens, works mainly in museum administration, informal educational environments, cultural programming, community engagement, and exhibit curation. His core interest is the history of the built environment in American cities during the 20th century and the concept of Sense of Place.
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John de Frank
John de Frank is a Lecturer at UTEP and co-faculty and media producers for the Layers of Rome project. He owns a small business, Rebirth Multimedia, which produces commercials, online promo videos, short & feature documentaries & narrative films, academic media and journalism multimedia. He is an active member of Movimiento Hunab Ku, a artist collective, and the lead organizer of the Del Corazon Film Festival.
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Ronald Weber
Ronald Weber teaches courses on the history of the Ancient Middle East, Greece and Rome. He leads an annual two-week study trip to Rome and Central Italy. In 2015 he won a NEH grant to serve as Co-Director of a Summer Institute for Teachers/Scholars on the significance of the monuments of Rome in English culture. The resulting website, The Layers of Rome, now operates as an expanding, open access resource promoting materials for teachers and scholars interested in ancient Rome.
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Christina Villarreal
Christina Villarreal’s research focuses on the Texas-Louisiana borderlands, early America, fugitives from slavery, desertion, and sanctuary. Dr. Villarreal’s work has received support from the Fulbright Program, Ford Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, SSRC-Mellon Mays Program, and the E.D. Farmer International.
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Alex Ohemeng
Alex Ohemeng is a doctoral candidate in the Rhetoric and Composition program with a focus on multimodality, language and communication research, international development, and peace studies. He is a contributor to the Ghana internet ecosystem and the Ghana Journal of Linguistics as Digital and Editorial Assistant.
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Elias Adanu
Elias Adanu’s scholarly interests are in cultural and visual rhetorics, non-western rhetorics, and African Diaspora Studies. He explores how contemporary Africans on and off the continent experiment with, and perform their Africanity in literary, digital, and visual spaces. He is interested in how global ideas about Africa and Africans – rhetorically constructed through centuries of racism, imperial conquest, slavery, and apartheid – interact with contemporary trends in African modernity.
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Irma Montelongo
Irma Montelongo’s research and teaching interests focus on race, class, gender, sexuality, and criminology on the U.S.-Mexico border. She developed and teaches Global Learning Communities linked with classes at Victoria University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The courses focus on globalization and its impact on migration, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
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Daniel Chacón
Daniel Chacón is author of seven books of fiction, the most recent being The Last Philosopher in Texas: Fictions and Superstitions. He teaches courses on Kafka, The Writer and the Brain, Physics and the Writer, and The Writer and the Occult, among others. He is host of the radio show and podcast The Writer and the Brain, a Words on a Wire production.
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