Kristina K Shull

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Lecturer, History
School of Humanities
Ph.D., UC Irvine, 2014, History
M.A., UC Irvine, 2013, History
M.A., New York University, 2006, Humanities & Social Thought
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 2003, History
Phone: (949) 824-1964
Email: kshull@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
185 Humanities Instructional Building
Mail Code: 3385
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Immigration, Immigration Enforcement and Detention, Foreign Policy, US and the World, Climate Change, Race, Gender, Media Culture
Academic Distinctions
2016 Soros Justice Fellow, Open Society Foundations
Humanities Advisor, Cal Humanities Community Stories Grant, Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC; end isolation.org)
John Higham Grant, Organization of American Historians and Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Graduate Fellow, University of Miami Cuban Heritage Collection
UC-Cuba Academic Initiative Mini-Grant
Research Abstract
As a Soros Justice Fellow, Shull is currently working with non-profit Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) to dismantle the immigration detention system from the “inside” by challenging censorship practices, exposing abuses, and lifting up migrant voices in popular media and public discourse.
Publications
"'Nobody Wants These People': Reagan's Immigration Crisis and the Containment of Foreign Bodies," in Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century, ed. Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick (Duke University Press, 2014).
Last updated
09/01/2016