Graduate Student Directory
- Title
- PhD Candidate
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History of Consciousness Department
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Remote
- Mail Stop History Of Consciousness
Summary of Expertise
Justine is a PhD Candidate in History of Consciousness who studies ecological literatures, politics, and histories. Drawing on her training in German and environmental literatures, her master's thesis developed a literary-ecological reading of Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno. Her doctoral research examines ecological thought and practice in the Island Pacific with a focus on Aotearoa/NZ. Prior to starting her graduate studies at UCSC, she taught history, philosophy, and literature for four years at a philosophy-based high school in Los Angeles, CA. As an ecological thinker, she aspires in her research, teaching, and writing to model an ethics of care to meet the challenges of the present.
Research Interests
German literature & philosophy; political theory; intellectual history; critical theory; politics & aesthetics; ecological thought; indigenous studies; environmental/oceanic humanities; feminist science studies
Biography, Education and Training
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 2017
B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies (Literature & Politics), UC Berkeley, 2012
Honors, Awards and Grants
Cota-Robles Fellow, UC Santa Cruz (2021- )
SEACoast Junior Scholar Research Funds (2024)
UCHRI Working Group (Coastal Ecologies) (2022-2023)
Tribeca Fellow, UC Santa Cruz (Summer 2022)
Beall Fellow, University of Oregon (2015-17)
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, UC Berkeley (2011)
Selected Publications
"Love the Killjoy." In Millennial Feminism at Work, edited by Jane Juffer. New York: Cornell University Press, Nov 2021.
"Upcycling." In In, From & With: Exploring Collaborative Survival, preface by Anna Tsing, edited by Grace Denis. Berlin: Circadian Books, March 2021.
"On the Meaning of Home in a More-than-Human World." In Lady Science, 24 Nov 2020.
"Of Abortions, Miscarriages, and Would-Be Mothers." In Lady Science, 10 Dec 2019.
"Fecundity." In Environmental Humanities, vol. 9, no. 2, 2017.
"Narrative, Speech and Action: Gandhi's Satyagraha and the Constant Becoming of Truth." Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, 2012.
"Narratives and the Social Imagination: Lessons in Reading for Gandhi's Theory of Action. Presented at Summer Undergraduate Research Conference on August 23, 2011. Published in Berkeley Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2011.
Teaching Interests
political & intellectual history; literature and philosophy; speculative fictions; environmental thought
