NICOLE A. ITURRIAGA

Email: n.iturriaga@uci.edu

www.nicoleiturriaga.com

Academic Appointments

2021-Present        Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine Department of Criminology, Law

and Society & Department of Sociology (by courtesy)

2018-2021     Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity,                       Gottingen, Germany                         

Education

2018           Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles                                                

Dissertation: “Digging for the Disappeared: Forensics, DNA, and Rewriting Spain's Violent                                                           History" Committee: Gail Kligman (co-chair), Abigail Saguy (co-chair), Hannah                                                         Landecker, Geoffrey Robinson

                                                                                                                                                                                      2012             M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles                                                

M.A. Thesis: “God, Flag, and Obama: Mechanisms of In-Group Cohesion and Out-Group Threat in Conservative Movements”

Field Exams: Gender and Ethnographic Methodologies

                                                                                                                                                                                 2009              B.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (High Distinction)                       

Highest Honors in the Department of Sociology

B.A. Thesis: “Among Women and Wives: A Qualitative Study of Female Networking and Solidarity in Polygamist Families”

Books and Book Chapters

February 2022 Nicole Iturriaga. “Exhuming Violent Histories: Forensics, Memory and Rewriting Spain’s

Past” Columbia University Press

*Winner of the 2023 ASA’s Collective Behavior and Social Movements Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award

*Honorable Mention ASA’s Peace, War, and Social Conflicts Best Book Award 2023

Reviewed in Social Forces

Reviewed in HNet- sci-med-tech

Reviewed in Human Rights Quarterly

January 2020 Nicole Iturriaga and Abigail C. Saguy. “Producing a Sense of Linked Fate.” In Come Out,

Come Out, Whoever You Are by Abigail Saguy. Oxford University Press, USA

Articles

Forthcoming Nicole Iturriaga, Aaron Panofsky, Kushan Dasgupta. “Feminist Retroviruses to White

Sharia: ‘Scientific' Theorization of Gender on 4chan” Public Understandings of Science

March 2023 Kushan Dasgupta, Nicole Iturriaga, and Aaron Panofsky. “Beyond Biological Essentialism:

White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology.” Social

Problems

May 2022                Nicole Iturriaga and Derek S. Denman. “The Necropolitical Spectrum: Political Lives of

the Surplus Dead.” Human Remains and Violence

April 2022               Kushan Dasgupta, Aaron Panofsky, and Nicole Iturriaga. “Trying to Make Race Science

the “Civil” Science: Charisma in the Race and Intelligence Debates.” Theory and Society

September 2020 Aaron Panofsky, Kushan Dasgupta, and Nicole Iturriaga. “How White Nationalists

Mobilize Genetics: From Genetic Ancestry and Human Biodiversity to Counterscience and

Metapolitics.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology

December 2019      Nicole Iturriaga. “The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Framing, and Mnemonic Memory

of State Terror” Mobilization: An International Quarterly

March 2019             Nicole Iturriaga. “At the Foot of the Grave: Challenging Collective Memories of Violence

in Post-Franco Spain.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

(Winner of the American Sociological Association’s Human Rights Section Best Article

Award 2020)

August 2017            Nicole Iturriaga and Abigail Saguy. “I Would Never Want to be an Only Wife,” The Role of

Discursive Networks and Post-Feminist Discourse in Reframing Polygamy.” Social

Problems

Under Review

  • Kushan Dasgupta, Aaron Panofsky, and Nicole Iturriaga, “Racist Agnotology: Reflexivity Within the Varieties of Racialized Ignorance” Revise and Resubmit at Race and Ethnicity

  • Nicole Iturriaga, “Technologies of Truth, Human Rights, and Global Feedback Loops” Revise and Resubmit at American Journal of Sociology

  • Nicole Iturriaga, “Ending the “Double Death”: Objective Science, The Moral Claims to Rebury the

    Disappeared, and Rewriting Spain’s Violent Past” Revise and Resubmit at Heritage and Society

Awards

  • ASA Collective Behavior and Social Movements Best Book Award 2023

  • ASA Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section Best Book Award Honorable Mention2023

  • Hellman Fellowship 2023-2024 ($50,000)

  • UCI Confronting Extremism 2023-2024 ($20,000)

  • UCI Covid-19 relief grant ($10,000)

  • InstituteforResearchonMaleSupremacismFellow2022-2023

  • ASA Human Rights Section Best Article Award 2020

  • UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship 2017-2018 ($20,000)

  • Department of Sociology UCLA Excellence in Teaching, 2015-2016

  • The Russian & Eurasian Studies Endowed Award, 2016 ($6,000)

  • Peter Kollock Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award, 2015 ($500)

  • Latin American Institute Summer Research Fellowship, 2014 ($2,000)

  • Department of Sociology UCLA Excellence in Teaching, 2013- 2014

  • Del Amo Spanish Cultures Summer Fellowship 2013 ($5,000)

  • Department of Sociology UCLA Excellence in Teaching, 2012- 2013

  • Department of Sociology UCLA Excellence in Teaching, 2011-2012

  • UCLA Sociology Department Graduate Fellowship, 2010-2015

  • Graduate Research Summer Mentorship, 2012 ($6,000)

  • Graduate Research Summer Mentorship, 2011 ($5,000)

  • Glaser Education Foundation Academic Scholarship, 2009

Academic Conference Presentations

  • American Sociological Association 2022: “Tunneling from Alternative Health to Alt-Right: Disinformation Ecosystems and Truth Cultures on Bitchute and Instagram”

  • American Sociological Association 2021: “FeministVirusestoWhiteSharia:‘Scientific’ Theorization of Gender on 4chan”

  • Conference on Right-Wing Studies and Research on Male Supremacism 2021:“Feminist Viruses to White Sharia: ‘Scientific’ Theorization of Gender on 4chan”

  • Conference on Right-Wing Studies and Research on Male Supremacism 2020: “Misogynistic Science in the Manosphere” (Cancelled due to Pandemic)

  • AmericanSociologicalAssociation, 2020 “Impacts of Human Rights Transnational Advocacy Networks in Post Franco Spain” and “Citizen Science Racism” (Cancelled due to Pandemic)

  • Council for European Studies, 2020 “From Argentina with Love: TransnationalAdvocacy Networks and Belated Transitional Justice” (Cancelled due to Pandemic)

  • American Sociological Association, 2019: “Moral Imperative of Reburying the Missing, Objective Science, and Reframing Spain’s Violent Past

  • Memory Studies Association, 2019: “Ending the Double Death: Moral Imperative of Reburying the Dead, Objective Science, and Reframing Narratives”

  • Council for European Studies, 2019: “Home and Reburial Ceremonies: Importance of Death Rituals, Public Grief, and Claiming Space”

  • Society for Social Problems, 2018: “Human Rights Activists and their utilization of Forensic Science to Rewrite Historical Memories of Violent Pasts” Regular Panel

  • American Sociological Association, 2018: “Human Rights Forensics, A Global Movement Born in Death” Human Rights regular panel

  • Norte Dame Young Scholars Conference, 2018: “Pedagogy and De-politicized Science: Changing the Dominant Narrative of State Terror” American Sociological Association, 2017: “At the Foot of the Grave: How Human Rights Workers Use Forensic Science to the Challenge the Dominant Narrative of Violence in Post-Franco Spain” Human Rights regular panel

  • Council of European Studies, 2017: “At the Foot of the Grave: How Human Rights Workers Use Forensic Science to Challenge the Dominant Narrative of Violence in Post-Franco Spain” Regular panel

  • American Sociological Association, 2014: “I Would Never Want to be an Only Wife:” The Role of Discursive Networks and Post-Feminist Discourse in Reframing Polygamy.” Social Movements Roundtable

  • American Sociological Association, 2013: “God, Flag, and Obama: Mechanisms of In-Group Cohesion and Out-Group Threat in Conservative Movements.” Regular Panel

  • CUNY Tea Party Working Group, 2012: “God, Flag, and Obama: Mechanisms of In-Group Cohesion and Out-Group Threat in Conservative Movements.” Regular Panel

  • Pacific Sociological Association, Panel 2010: “Among Women and Wives: A Qualitative

  • Study of Female Networking and Solidarity in Polygamist Families.” Regular Panel

  • Pacific Sociological Association, 2009: “Among Women and Wives: A

  • Qualitative Study of Female Networking and Solidarity in Polygamist Families.” Roundtable

Teaching Experience

* Recipient of the 2015 Peter Kollock Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award for excellence in graduate teaching

  • 2023: Guest Lecture Williams College

  • 2021-2023: C100 Science and Technology Studies University of California Irvine; C100 Crimes of the State; 275 Crimes of the State graduate seminar; C100 Science, Technology, & Society; C113 Gender and Social Control; UCI Lifted Classical Sociological Theory

  • 2022: Guest Lecture California State Sacramento Graduate Seminar

  • 2022: Guest Lecture Wesleyan University Undergraduate Seminar on Human Rights

  • 2011-2017: Teaching Fellow, University of California Los Angeles (Sociology of Deviant Behavior, Gender and Social Movements, Sociology of Gender, Introduction to Sociology, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Social Movements, Research Methods, Sociology Coordinator for the Center of Community Learning)

  • 2013: Guest Lecture, Fiat Lux UCLA

  • 2012-2013: Sociology Coordinator for UCLA’s Center for Community Learning

  • 2012: Guest Lecture, Fiat Lux UCLA

  • 2011: Guest Lecture, Sociology of Marriage, UC Berkeley

  • 2010: Guest Lecture, Sociology of the Family, UC Berkeley

Affiliations/Memberships

  • Society for the Social Studies of Science

  • Sociologists for Women in Society

  • American Sociological Association

  • Phi Beta Kappa

  • The National Society of Collegiate Scholars

  • Golden Key International Honor Society

  • Alpha Kappa Delta

  • Phi Theta Kappa

Non-Profit Organization Experience

Huntington Beach Youth Shelter-Youth Specialist (2010-2018)