avaolson

Full Name
Ava Guihama Olson
First Name
Ava
Last Name
Guihama Olson
Pronouns
they/them
Affiliation
Graduate Employee
Graduate Student
GTF
Student
Title
PhD Student / GE
Office
UO Annex 128
Office Hours
Wednesday 2:30-4:30 or by appointment
Departments
English
Environmental Studies
Interests
Land Back, critical whiteness studies, masculinity, eschatology, American environmental history/historiography, animal studies (carnivores), public memory, science communication
Profile Section
Biography

Originally from Los Angeles, CA (Fernandeño and Chumash land), Ava Guihama Olson holds a B.A. in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (Ohlone land). Their undergraduate work focused on organized crime, sex work, pornography, sexual war crimes, and the image of the Asian woman in American culture. As a doctoral student in the ESSP program, they research rhetorical, ecological, and eschatological modes of extinction, carnivore policy, white American identity formation, the American west/"frontier" and novel ecosystems. Outside of academia, they also hold a degree in creative writing, with work published in The Offing and {m}aganda magazine, as well as by Roost Books.  

Honors and Awards

2024 Krohn Fellow for Environmental Humanities
2023 Departmental Citation Winner, UC Berkeley
2022 Adam Z. Rice Fellow for American Studies
2017 California Governor's Medallion for Creative Writing
 

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