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Literature &<\/span> Environment Members<\/h3>
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Faculty<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heidi Amin-Hong<\/a><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook<\/a><\/p>\n

Bishnupriya Ghosh<\/a><\/p>\n

Ken Hiltner<\/a><\/p>\n

Melody Jue<\/a><\/p>\n

Amrah Salom\u00f3n<\/a><\/p>\n

Teresa Shewry<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

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Graduate Students<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ripley Baker<\/a><\/p>\n

Sage Gerson<\/a><\/p>\n

Baron Haber<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott Kneece<\/a><\/p>\n

Surojit Kayal<\/a><\/p>\n

Sydney Lane<\/a><\/p>\n

Somak Mukherjee<\/p>\n

Suvankur Sukul<\/a><\/p>\n

Calla Winchell\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Featured Alumni<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christopher Walker, PhD<\/p>\n

Walker is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities<\/a> at Colby College. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2017.<\/p>\n

Thomas Doran, PhD<\/p>\n

Doran is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor<\/a> at Rhode Island School of Design. He graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2017.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Callaway, PhD<\/p>\n

Callaway is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program<\/a> at the University of Utah. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2016.<\/p>\n

Andrew Kalaidjian, PhD<\/p>\n

Kalaidjian is Assistant Professor of English <\/a>at CSU, Dominguez Hills. He received his doctorate from UC Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n

Judith Paltin, PhD<\/p>\n

Paltin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia<\/a>. She received her doctorate from UC Santa Barbara in December 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

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Undergraduate Students<\/strong><\/p>\n

L&E Alumni<\/p>\n

2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raul Guerrero<\/p>\n

Kenton Hauber<\/p>\n

Jackson Jaeger<\/p>\n

Courtney Jones<\/p>\n

Savannah Lippert<\/p>\n

Natasha McClellan<\/p>\n

Monique Noghli<\/p>\n

Sara Sessler<\/p>\n

Justin Shieh<\/p>\n

Haylie Vestal<\/p>\n

Carly Warffuel<\/p>\n

Michelle Yeh<\/p>\n

Irene Yoon<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tyler Chavez-Feipel<\/p>\n

Darrin Ching<\/p>\n

Beverly Chow<\/p>\n

Garrett Edwards<\/p>\n

Jonah Erickson<\/p>\n

Edward Friedlander<\/p>\n

Tasha Harris<\/p>\n

Amanda Quick<\/p>\n

Dasha Sadovnikova<\/p>\n

Maile Schoonover<\/p>\n

Michael Weiland<\/p>\n

Siobahn Wetzel<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luis Arinaga<\/p>\n

Michael Dayan<\/p>\n

Allison Gerrard<\/p>\n

Joseph Legotte<\/p>\n

Aimee Wong<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Liliana Magdaleno<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Derek Ahlswede<\/p>\n

Nicole Eisenbeisz<\/p>\n

Kyle Jones<\/p>\n

Cassidy Langley<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

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