Graduate Students – Film & Digital Media Department

Social Documentation M.F.A. Students

Alexandra Lenore Ashworth

Title
- MFA Candidate & Teaching Assistant
Campus Email
- alashwor@ucsc.edu

Tugba Baykal

Title
- MFA Student, Teaching Assistant
Campus Email
- tubaykal@ucsc.edu

Vida Rae Behar

Title
- MFA Candidate in Social Documentation
Campus Email
- vbehar@ucsc.edu

Isabella De La Hoz

Title
- MFA Student & Teaching Assistant
Campus Email
- idelahoz@ucsc.edu

Libertad Huerta Rodriguez

Campus Email
- lhuert11@ucsc.edu

Urmila Janardan

Title
- Graduate Student in Social Documentation
Campus Email
- ujanarda@ucsc.edu

Jason Lac Nguyen

Title
- MFA Student, Teaching Assistant
Campus Email
- jalanguy@ucsc.edu

Sage Tran

Title
- MFA Student, Teaching Assistant, and Independent Filmmaker
Campus Email
- stran67@ucsc.edu

Film and Digital Media Ph.D. Students

Glenn Philip Martinez Aquino

Campus Email
- glmaquin@ucsc.edu

Yasmine Benabdallah

Title
- PhD Candidate
Campus Email
- ybenabda@ucsc.edu

Sarah Bird

Title
- PhD Candidate
Campus Email
- sbird1@ucsc.edu

Lan Anh Chu

Campus Email
- lchu11@ucsc.edu

Kevin Patrick Corcoran

Title
- PhD student
Campus Email
- kpcorcor@ucsc.edu

Ksenia Fir

Title
- PhD candidate
Campus Email
- kfirsova@ucsc.edu

Gonzalo Galetto

Campus Email
- gnunezga@ucsc.edu

Merve Genc

Title
- PhD candidate
Campus Email
- mgenc@ucsc.edu

Stephen Graves

Campus Email
- stgraves@ucsc.edu

Tzion Avraham Hazan

Campus Email
- thazan@ucsc.edu

Nena Hedrick

Campus Email
- nehedric@ucsc.edu

Hannah Mir Jayanti

Title
- PhD Student
Campus Email
- hjayanti@ucsc.edu

Emily Sunflower Khajavi-Thompson

Title
- PhD Student
Campus Email
- ethomps6@ucsc.edu

YoungEun Kim

Title
- PhD Candidate
Campus Email
- ykim188@ucsc.edu

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Hans Kuzmich

Title
- Graduate Student
Campus Email
- jdkuzmic@ucsc.edu

Kim Kölle Valentine

Title
- PhD Student
Campus Email
- kkielhof@ucsc.edu

Yixuan Li

Title
- PhD student
Campus Email
- yli1127@ucsc.edu

Yoonkyung Lim

Title
- PhD student
Campus Email
- ylim17@ucsc.edu

Mahshid Modares

Title
- PhD Student
Campus Email
- mmodares@ucsc.edu

Ines Moldavsky

Campus Email
- imoldavs@ucsc.edu

Bradford Nordeen

Title
- PhD Student
Campus Email
- bnordeen@ucsc.edu

Max Oginz

Title
- PhD Student
Campus Email
- moginz@ucsc.edu

Lalu Esra Ozban

Title
- PhD Candidate
Campus Email
- eozban@ucsc.edu

Ines Pedrosa e Melo

Title
- Ph. D. Student
Campus Email
- ipedrosa@ucsc.edu

Amy Catherine Reid

Campus Email
- amcreid@ucsc.edu

Allen Riley

Title
- PhD Candidate
Campus Email
- ariley2@ucsc.edu

Maya Scherr-Willson

Title
- PhD Student
Campus Email
- mscherrw@ucsc.edu

Lior Shamriz

Campus Email
- lshamree@ucsc.edu

Kelly Karuna Sky

Campus Email
- ksky@ucsc.edu

Saramanda Nell Swigart

Title
- PhD Student
Campus Email
- sswigart@ucsc.edu

Shirin Towfiq

Campus Email
- stowfiq@ucsc.edu

Ailin Zhou

Title
- PhD Student
Campus Email
- aizhou@ucsc.edu

Diana Mulan Zhu

Campus Email
- dmzhu@ucsc.edu

Last modified: Sep 29, 2025