Kresge 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.
Isabel Cruz
Lecturer (Kresge 1, Theater Arts)
Born and raised in California, Isabel attended Gavilan College in South Santa Clara County, then transferred to UC Berkeley, where she earned her BA in Theater and Performance Studies. She is an actor/director/writer, and has performed with Western Stage in Salinas, and Teatro Visión in San José. She received her MA in Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz, where she staged her adaptation of an Irish canonical play, set in Alta California and written for a primarily Chican@/x/Latin@/x cast. She has recently directed for El Teatro Campesino, where she first began performing more than 25 years ago. She is currently a Lecturer in the Theatre Arts Department of Gavilan College. At UC Santa Cruz, she is a Lecturer in the Theater Arts program in the Department of Performance, Play and Design; as well as Kresge College.
Jeremy Gauger
Lecturer (Kresge 1, College Nine 1)
Jeremy Gauger is a philosopher who thinks about time and history. He received his PhD from The New School for Social Research in New York City and has taught at Kresge College since 2018. His many scholarly interests and areas of academic research—among them, political ecology, world literature, and epistemologies of science—frequently blend into other passions and life pursuits.
Kathryn Gougelet
Lecturer - Kresge 1 (Core)
Kathryn (Katie) Gougelet is a writer, educator, and PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. In her current research, she focuses on intersections in medical and environmental anthropology and advocacy for health justice in regions affected by petrochemical pollution. Prior to UCSC, she received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Arizona, where she wrote about lobsters, coal, green chile, and the worlds we build around extractive industries. She has taught classes in community health, medical anthropology, environmental justice, and creative writing, among others, and served as a Teaching and Learning Center Graduate Pedagogy Fellow in 2020.
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.
Amy Reid
Lecturer - Kresge 1 (Core)
Amy Reid is a PhD Candidate in Film and Digital Media working on a dissertation entitled: Feminist Relationality: Feminist Creative Practices in Filmmaking and Quilting. Reid's work as a filmmaker examines the intersections between gender, national identities, and labor. By exploring observational approaches and expanding upon formal cinematic notions of time, structure, and narrative, Reid’s work questions how labor is constructed in the filmic form as seen in their film Grandmother's Garden, which looks at the history of quilting, women's labor, and US history. Their written dissertation work explores histories of feminist film distribution, collective filmmaking, and screening cultures in Latin America and the US during the long 1970s.
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.
Agnes Simon
Lecturer (Kresge 1, College Nine 1)
Agnes Simon is a College 1 Lecturer at Kresge College and College Nine. Originally from Budapest, Hungary, she holds an MA from the Central European University, and an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She is a historian of twentieth century Europe, working at the intersection of intellectual, political, and cultural history. Her interests include the history of economic thinking and knowledge production, and especially the interrelated history of economic structures, ideas and politics, and the intellectual and social context for the varied responses to the emergence of industrial capitalism in modern Europe. Her first monograph will be about Hungarian-born economists acting as advisers to the British government in the early postwar period.
