Working Group

Formed in 2021 by faculty and graduate students in the Department of Sociology, the Critical Urban Studies (CUS) working group is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together researchers from the social sciences and humanities at UC Santa Cruz who are interested in advancing critical urban scholarship, broadly defined. CUS provides a platform to discuss groundbreaking urban studies scholarship, to engage in contemporary debates in urban theory, and to foster collaboration across disciplines. Activities include an ongoing reading groups, paper workshops, and public talks.

Affiliated Graduate Students

Kyle Rod Galindez

• Title
  • Graduate Student
• Department
  • Sociology Department
• Campus Email
  • kgalinde@ucsc.edu

James Sirigotis

• Title
  • Graduate Student
• Department
  • Sociology Department
• Campus Email
  • jsirigot@ucsc.edu

Elena Losada

• Title
  • PhD Student
• Department
  • Sociology Department
• Campus Email
  • elosada@ucsc.edu

Henry McLaughlin

• Title
  • Ph.D. Candidate
• Department
  • Politics Department
• Campus Email
  • hlmclaug@ucsc.edu

Carrie Hamilton

• Title
  • PhD Student
• Department
  • Sociology Department
• Campus Email
  • caahamil@ucsc.edu

Alma Esperanza Villa Loma

• Title
  • Graduate Student
• Department
  • Sociology Department
• Campus Email
  • avilla9@ucsc.edu

Aida Mukharesh

• Title
  • PhD Candidate
• Department
  • Sociology Department
• Campus Email
  • amukhare@ucsc.edu

Will Parrish

• Title
  • PhD Candidate
• Department
  • History of Consciousness Department
• Campus Email
  • wparrish@ucsc.edu

Ankit Sharma

• Title
  • Graduate Student
• Department
  • Sociology Department
• Campus Email
  • asharm46@ucsc.edu

Dylan Robert Tarleton

• Title
  • Graduate Student
• Department
  • Sociology Department
• Campus Email
  • dtarleto@ucsc.edu

• Former Graduate Members: Adrian Drummond-Cole