Christopher J. Bates is a fourth-year student in Criminology, Law and Society Department. Chris’ employs novel spatial datasets, such as Google Street View, Twitter, and Socrata, and interdisciplinary methodology, from economics, criminology, & geography, to research the community context of crime. In addition to his research interests, Chris has a passion for using technology to publicly communicate research findings through websites, videos, and interactive applications.
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Evan Conaway
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Evan Conaway is a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. After getting his BA in Anthropology from the University of Georgia, Evan came to the University of California, Irvine to study gaming cultures. His dissertation work explores how the servers that run online games serve as sites of memory and culture, as new kinds of places of the digital age. This work addresses how online gamers are using servers to preserve, memorialize, and restore virtual worlds and online games, and how servers matter to gamers both as social places and in geopolitical places. He is specifically interested in understanding how virtual space is maintained and reproduced, often through illicit or unauthorized means, in relation to the material technologies that create it, and he seeks to identify the politics embedded in present-day efforts to engage with the pasts of virtual worlds.
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Email: econaway@uci.edu
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Tania DoCarmo
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Tania DoCarmo is a doctoral student in Sociology, entering her fourth year of study. Her research interests are in sociology of culture, representation, migration, human rights, humanitarian ethics, global inequality, law and society. She is currently working on multiple collaborative projects with faculty and peers on storytelling for advocacy more generally, and the experience of detained migrants in California, in addition to individual projects on the international institutionalization of human trafficking as a contemporary social problem, tensions between international discourses on “crime” and “rights,” and the experiences of trafficking survivors in Cambodia during and after receiving assistance from law enforcement and social service providers. Prior to doctoral studies, she worked ten years for international NGOs in Brazil, Cambodia and the US on projects related to violence, human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Noopur Raval
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Noopur Raval is a fourth year PhD student in Informatics. Her research focuses on the role of digital technologies in supporting and transforming the future of work, especially blue-collar work in post-colonial countries. She is advised by Prof. Paul Dourish. Noopur was an affiliate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society in 2016-17 and has worked with the Wikimedia Foundation and the Center for Internet & Society, Bangalore in the past. Beyond academic work, Noopur thinks a lot about diversity and tries to learn new languages.
Read more at http://noopur.xyz
Email:noopur.raval@gmail.com
John R. Emery
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John R. Emery is a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science at University of California, Irvine. His area of study centers on the intersection of the ethics of war, international law, terrorism studies, and international relations. Asking if traditional discussions of compliance, effectiveness, and legitimacy in international law or discrimination and proportionality in the just war tradition are eroded by the utilization of advanced computing technology to fight against terrorist organizations, his research explores how the logics and discourses of techno-warfare are viewed as making war an inherently more ethical space. By looking to the natural law and humanist traditions, John Emery strives to illuminate some blind spots created by new technologies of war for law and ethics today. His work on drones, ethics, and counter-terrorism can be read in Ethics & International Affairs and Peace Review, as well as book chapters in Georgetown University Press and New York University Press.
Read more: www.EmeryJohnR.com
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Email: jremery@uci.edu
