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Humanities Division
History of Consciousness Department
PhD Candidate
Graduate
Humanities Building 1
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History Of Consciousness
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 2017
B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies (Literature & Politics), UC Berkeley, 2012
Justine is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History of Consciousness who studies ecological literatures, politics, and histories. Her dissertation examines the history of conservation on two of New Zealand's outer islands, Aotea and Hauturu (Great Barrier and Little Barrier Islands), and its entanglement with the dispossession of the Ngāti Rehua/Ngātiwai people. Following the forms and figures of Māori storytelling, she argues for reading practices that challenge standard approaches to histories of science, political thought, and the writing of history itself. In tracing the story of these outer islands, she examines dynamic forms of political, scientific, and historical consiousness to coordinate new ethical responses to living amidst ecological collapse.
political & ecological thought; literary & aesthetic theory; German literature & philosophy; Māori/Pacific thought; intellectual history; critical theory; indigenous studies; environmental/oceanic humanities; feminist science studies
political & intellectual history; literature and philosophy; speculative fictions; environmental thought
Courses taught as a GSI:
HISC 87: What is Utopia?
HISC 108: Parables for a Warming Planet
PRTR 1: Academic Literary & Ethos: Arts of Reading
2024-25 - ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Innovation Fellowship
2021-26 - Cota-Robles Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2024 - Summer Dissertation Fellowship, The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz
2024 - Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, Teaching & Learning Center, UC Santa Cruz
2024 - GSI Peer Support Team, Teaching & Learning Center, UC Santa Cruz
2022-23 - UCHRI Working Group ("Coast as Crisis")
2022 - Tribeca Fellowship, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
"Toward an Oceanic 'Becoming With.'" English Language Notes 62, no. 1 (April 2024): 30-47.
"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.
"Fecundity." Environmental Humanities 9, no. 2 (Nov 2017): 460-63.
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