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Troy Kokinis

Course Title: The Metropolis and Me: A History of Immigration, Race, and Space in Southern California

Troy Kokinis is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American History at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a teaching assistant at UC San Diego for the Urban Studies and Planning Department and the Culture Art Technology Department. His research interests are modern Latin America, modern Spain, Anarchism, guerilla warfare, race and urban collective action, and chicano street art. 

  • BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Pitzer College, California 
  • MA in Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego 
  • Ph.D. in Latin American History, University of California, San Diego (in process)

Troy is a current teaching Assistant at UC San Diego for the following courses in Urban Staudies and Planning (USP) and Culture Art Technology (CAT):

  • USP1: US Urban Communities 
  • USP2: Urban World Systems
  • CAT1: Origins 
  • CAT1: Fictions of History 
  • CAT1: Historical Encounters of Science and Religion 
  • CAT2: Society of the Spectacle
  • CAT3: Ethnographics Intervention
  • CAT3: See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil: The Culture, Art and Technology of Free Expression
  • CAT3: Aliens on Earth
  • CAT125: Practical Rhetoric  
  • Center for the Humanities Research Grant, UC San Diego, 2015-16
  • History Department Summer Research Grant – Argentina and Uruguay, UC San Diego, 2015
  • Tinker Research Travel Grant –Argentina and Uruguay, UC San Diego, 2015
  • Friends of the International Center Fellowship – Argentina and Uruguay, UC San Diego, 2015
  • Dean of Arts and Humanities Travel Grant – Puerto Rico (LASA 2015), UC San Diego, 2015
  • Graduate Student Association Travel Grant – Puerto Rico (LASA 2015), UC San Diego, 2015
  • Dean of Arts and Humanities Travel Grant – New York (CUNY Graduate Center), UC San Diego, 2015
  • H. Stuart Hughes Award, UC San Diego, 2014
  • Tinker Research Travel Grant – Argentina and Uruguay, UC San Diego, 2014
  • History Department Summer Research Grant – Argentina and Uruguay, UC San Diego, 2014
  • Fulbright Research Grant (Finalist) – Spain, UC San Diego, 2013
  • Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Travel Grant – Argentina, UC San Diego, 2012
  • Bonner Research Fellowship, Pitzer College, 2010