Nicole Sintetos
Election
Position
Name
Nicole Sintetos
Candidate statement
I am currently a PhD candidate in American Studies at Brown University, where my work sits at the intersection of Asian American Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, the History of Science, and Environmental History. My dissertation project, “Reclamation: Race, Labor, and the Making of Settler States” is a long duree environmental history of Tule Lake Segregation Center.
I believe deeply in preparing graduate students for rigorous, academic work, and the need to include in this definition of “work” the many community-oriented and publicly-facing projects that continue to fuel our discipline. As a prior high school teacher, I am particularly invested in bridging the divide between high school curriculum development and university research. Further, as a current teaching assistant for Professor Bob Lee, and a student of Naoko Shibusawa, I see significant opportunities within Asian American Studies to think deeply about radical pedagogy both within and beyond the space of the academy. As such, I am working to launch the second iteration of JA Incarceration Mobile Workshop, scheduled for summer of 2020, in the hopes of bringing graduate students, artists, and community members together to discuss histories of racialized violence. If elected Student Rep, I will stress such an academic orientation, and the need for robust and sustained mentorship across our communities.
I believe deeply in preparing graduate students for rigorous, academic work, and the need to include in this definition of “work” the many community-oriented and publicly-facing projects that continue to fuel our discipline. As a prior high school teacher, I am particularly invested in bridging the divide between high school curriculum development and university research. Further, as a current teaching assistant for Professor Bob Lee, and a student of Naoko Shibusawa, I see significant opportunities within Asian American Studies to think deeply about radical pedagogy both within and beyond the space of the academy. As such, I am working to launch the second iteration of JA Incarceration Mobile Workshop, scheduled for summer of 2020, in the hopes of bringing graduate students, artists, and community members together to discuss histories of racialized violence. If elected Student Rep, I will stress such an academic orientation, and the need for robust and sustained mentorship across our communities.