Kresge 1 Faculty

Leonard Crosby

Kresge Lecturer

Leonard Crosby is a science-fiction writer and scholar specializing in utopian and apocalyptic literature. His research focuses on the interplay between utopian works and culture, and the societal impact of our imagined futures. He received his MFA from the California College of the Arts and has appeared in several publications including Somnambulist, Eleven Eleven, Forklift, Ohio and the Oakland Review. In addition to teaching at UCSC, he has taught at CCA, Cogswell University of Silicon Valley and UC Berkeley.

Jeremy Gauger

Kresge Lecturer

Jeremy Gauger did his masters’ work at New York City’s New School for Social Research. His dissertation addresses “problems of universalism in political modernity, through a conceptual history and re-articulation of so-called ‘universal history’. Its underlying thesis is that political universals are constituted through concrete human practices—whether emancipatory or repressive”—rather than by theory. Gauger investigates “how to open up practices that claim dignity and equality for those to whom this has historically and institutionally been denied”; post-dissertation, Gauger currently works on the philosophy of time and social temporalities in history, economics, and politics. 

Nicol Hammond

Associate Professor, Kresge College (Kresge 1); Department of Music

Nicol Hammond is an ethnomusicologist and popular music scholar specializing in South African popular, traditional, and choral music, and in feminist and queer studies. She is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, where she completed her BMus at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2006. She lived in New York from 2006 to 2014, where she completed a PhD at New York University. Her dissertation focuses on South African rock musician Karen Zoid and the intersection of gender, sexuality and nationalism among post-apartheid Afrikaner youth. She has published on the topic of her dissertation, and also on South African choral music, and music and sports. She is a choral conductor and singer. Her research interests include music and nationalism, gender and sexuality, queer theory, voice, African music theory, South Africa, Afrikaans music, women’s work, popular music, cultural studies.

Daryl B. Jones

Kresge and Film & Digital Media Lecturer

Daryl B. Jones is a documentary filmmaker and is an alumnus of UC Santa Cruz. He currently teaches core and self-developed elective courses for Kresge College at UCSC. Daryl’s first film was Tender, a short documentary about black trans women managing the housing crisis in San Francisco. He also wrote, “Know Your Ethical Guidelines for Documentary Filmmaking,” for New Day Films.

 Juliana Leslie

Lecturer (Kresge 1; Kresge 65W—Writing Lab; Kresge 100—Learning with Intention and Purpose)

Juliana earned a PhD in Literature from UCSC in 2013 and has been teaching at Kresge College ever since. She has taught many courses at UCSC including the Core Course, Creative Writing, Transfer Success, and Learning With Purpose and Intention. Juliana is also the author of two books of poetry, More Radiant Signal, published in 2010, and Green Is For World, which won the 2011 National Poetry Series competition, and is an alumnus of UC Santa Cruz. 

Melissa Sanders-Self

Lecturer (Kresge 1, Porter 1, Creative Writing, Literature)

Winner of a UCSC 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award, Melissa Sanders-Self is a member of lecturer faculties in Literature, Creative Writing, Kresge College, and Porter College. She is also a published author (All That Lives: A Novel of the Bell Witch, Warner Books 2002; The Stone Mother, Bellwether Prize finalist 2006) a documentary filmmaker (Writing Women’s Lives, PBS 1999), and an alumnus of UCSC. She has published short fiction with the Catamaran Literary Reader, New Rivers Press, New Brighton Books, and Doubleday. She is currently working on a memoir Seizure: A Love Story, and a Fellow at the Center for Integrated Teaching and Learning to improve undergraduate experiences in the classroom.