From its inception, the ModLab has provided a base of operations for an evolving network of collaborators at UC Davis and beyond. Since 2008, when a small group of faculty and graduate students came together to form a research cluster focused on experimentation in the humanities and the sciences, there have been many changes in the composition of the ModLab community—it has grown, propagated, and mutated in myriad ways. Some of the faculty members involved in the ModLab have come and gone; some of our graduate students and postdocs have become faculty members at other universities or pursued successful careers across a variety of industries; some of our undergraduate researchers have transitioned to graduate school or to other professional adventures. The list of ModLab members below represents a snapshot of our community from 2008 to 2024, including current and former members. We have categorized the roster of “dramatis personae” below according to the institutional roles played by particular ModLab members—faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students—during the time they were affiliated with UC Davis, not to reinforce hierarchical distinctions but rather to indicate the organizational diversity of our research crew. We have also listed the home departments of faculty members and graduate students, not to reinforce disciplinary identities but rather to showcase the range of fields that come together in friendship in the ModLab.
“I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends”
— Richard II, 2.3.46-47
UC Davis Faculty in the ModLab (Current and Former)
Gina Bloom (English)
Larry Bogad (Theater and Dance)
Stephanie Boluk (Cinema and Digital Media / English)
Gerardo Con Diaz (Science and Technology Studies)
Joseph Dumit (Science and Technology Studies / Anthropology)
Kris Fallon (Cinema and Digital Media)
James Griesemer (Philosophy / Science and Technology Studies)
Caren Kaplan (American Studies)
Louise Kellogg (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Oliver Kreylos (DataLab: Data Science and Informatics)
Patrick LeMieux (Cinema and Digital Media)
Timothy Lenoir (Cinema and Digital Media / Science and Technology Studies)
Marit MacArthur (University Writing Program)
John Marx (English)
Josh McCoy (Computer Science / Cinema and Digital Media)
Emily Merchant (Science and Technology Studies)
Flagg Miller (Religious Studies)
Colin Milburn (English / Science and Technology Studies / Cinema and Digital Media)
Michael Neff (Computer Science / Cinema and Digital Media)
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (Cinema and Digital Media / Science and Technology Studies)
Cuihua (Cindy) Shen (Communication)
Justin Siegel (Biochemistry / Chemistry / Genome Center)
Eric Smoodin (American Studies)
Carl Stahmer (DataLab: Data Science and Informatics)
Dawn Sumner (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Carolyn Thomas (American Studies)
Chunjie Zhang (German)
UC Davis Postdoctoral Scholars in the ModLab (Current and Former)
Amanda Phillips (English)
Jordan Carroll (English)
Owen Marshall (Science and Technology Studies)
UC Davis Graduate Students in the ModLab (Current and Former)
Treena Balds (English)
Ashlee Bird (Native American Studies)
Sylvie Bissonnette (Performance Studies)
Benjamin Blackman (English)
Tom Burmester (Performance Studies)
Katherine Buse (English)
Evan Buswell (Cultural Studies)
Ofir Cahalan (English)
Diana Cage (Performance Studies)
Jordan Carroll (English)
Janae Cohn (English)
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal (English)
Jonathan Doucette (Cultural Studies)
Ksenia Federova (Cultural Studies)
Iliya Giyahchi (Performance Studies)
Yasmine Hachimi (English)
Tucker Haddock (English)
Jacob Hagelberg (Cultural Studies)
Thomas Hintze (English)
Nicholas Hosein (Electrical Engineering)
Kaylani Juanita (Design)
Colin Johnson (Performance Studies)
Megan Johnston (Design)
Tanner Jupin (English)
Sawyer Kemp (English)
Ingrid Lagos (Cultural Studies)
Evan Lauteria (Sociology)
Tom Lin (English)
Luna Loganayagam (English)
Emelie Mahdavian (Performance Studies)
Evan Manzanetti (English)
Yasmin Mendoza (English)
Avital Meshi (Performance Studies)
Andrea Miller (Cultural Studies)
Robert Moeller (Cultural Studies)
Loren Michael Mortimer (History)
Josef Nguyen (English)
Heather Nolan (Performance Studies)
Lee O’Brien (English)
Slater Penney (Theater and Dance)
Samuel Pizelo (English)
Christine Sampson (Performance Studies)
Jesse Smith (Computer Science)
Tobias Smith (Cultural Studies)
Hayley/Harlin Steele (Cultural Studies)
Himali Thakur (English)
Nicholas Toothman (Computer Science)
Emma Leigh Waldron (Performance Studies)
Madeline Weeks (Geography)
Martin Weis (English)
Joshua Zane Weiss (Anthropology)
Melissa Wills (English)
Adam Wright (Performance Studies)
Ryan C. Wright (English)
Iris Xie (Design)
Ekaterina Zharinova (Performance Studies)
John Zibell (Performance Studies)
UC Davis Undergraduate Students in the ModLab (Current and Former)
Salma Abdelfattah
Gienel Agacaoili
Joe Akanesuvan
Raida Aldosari
Alida Araica
Sarah Asnaashari
Raeanne Baird
Alyssa Bates
Alison Blecman
Ofir Cahalan
Patrick Camarador
Raul Castellanos
Alisha Chan
Evelyn Chan
Susie Chavez
Sam Chiang
Cheryl Choo
Leah Daugherty
Mark Emmanuel Diaz
Rick Elwood
Zoe Fochs
Tobi Foley
Rebecca Fong
Robert Fox
Carl Glahn
Nathan Green
Emelie Guzman
Ashley Han
Ivan Hebrio
Jordan Henderson
Robert Hoile
Maryna Imas
Alex Jungroth
Pavel Kuzkin
Jared Lacer
Michelle Lang
Michael Lee
Alexander Lewis
Andrew Linaac
Daphne Liu
Brian Mah
Bayan Mashat
Evanay McNeal
Samantha Moody
Prakfruti Nadendla
David Nessl
Christopher Ng
Alicia Nguyen
Amanda Ong
Karla Quezada
Meghan Palu
Mira Pranav
Darin Reyes
Annaliese Sanders
Simon Santos
Daniel Schlesinger
Daniel Schooling
Amanda Shores
Holly Simpson
Benjamin Sipes
Allie Sousa
Kaly Stormer
Christopher Summers
Wesley Sweger
Alison Tam
Danielle Taylor
Phillip Tran
Marissa Trujillo
Melissa Valk
Isabelle Williams
Dylan Woods
Nian Xiong
Karen Xu
Sungmin Yi
Rebekah Zachariou
Ali Zarrabi
Jason Zhang
Yonna Zhong
Yue Zhu