Current Postdocs

Angelica Loblack

CRRES Postdoctoral Scholar, 2025-2027

Email:

aloblack@umd.edu

Angelica "Jelly" Loblack is a CRRES Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Maryland in 2025. Her research examines how gendered racial socialization and anti-Black racialization shape identity, embodiment, and political engagement in Black multiracial, multiethnic, and immigrant communities. Using intersectional and critical feminist approaches, her work investigates these processes across familial, educational, and institutional contexts. At CRRES, Jelly will focus on a book manuscript that builds on her dissertation research, Tethered Tensions, Covert Bonds: Navigating Racial Socialization and Anti-Blackness in Multiracial Families. Through over 160 hours of ethnographic observation and 92 interviews with Black-white multiracial families, her project explores how racial socialization—centered on Black pride, mixedness, or both—differentially shapes children’s understandings of race, selfhood, and power. In this project, Jelly demonstrates how racial socialization in these families is marked by both resistance to and complicity in the reproduction of racial inequality, with whiteness operating as a pervasive force that structures whose labor counts, whose experiences are centered, and how racial meaning is constructed and internalized. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation and the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship. Jelly was also awarded the American Sociological Association's Minority Fellowship Program for the 2025-2026 academic year, which she declined to begin her CRRES postdoctoral fellowship.

Korinthia Nicolai

CRRES Postdoctoral Scholar, 2024-2026

Email:

knicolai@iu.edu

Korinthia D. Nicolai is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology. She received her Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a proud graduate of community college. Her line of research focuses on how race and racism shape academic contexts and how those contexts shape Black and Brown students' motivation and belonging. Additionally, she explores how psychology research and the educational psychology field can better examine racism and take anti-colonial and/or critical approaches. At CRRES she will work on publishing her dissertation focused on Black and Latine STEM students’ experiences related to belonging and further continuing her line of research. She will also work on fostering and establishing collaborations with students to “talk back” to narratives about them (Annamma et al., 2013).

Ramon Resendiz

CRRES Postdoctoral Scholar, 2024-2026

Email:

rresend@iu.edu

Ramón Resendiz is a Chicanx documentary filmmaker and media anthropologist from the south Texas U.S.-Mexico borderlands. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Media School at Indiana University. He holds a Ph.D. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University and a Master of Communication from the Native Voices Program at University of Washington. His research interrogates the material and imaginary intersections of national borders, memory, visual culture, systemic violence, and settler colonialism. His book project, Archival Resistance: Countervisual Documentary Media on the Margins of the U.S., investigates the historic violence, erasures, and undocumentation of critical Latinx Indigeneities in the national constructions of Texas, Mexico, and the U.S. He critically studies how settler colonial nation states are visualized by archival institutions across the south Texas/U.S. and northern Mexico border landscapes, and the ways visual documentary producers contest and render these erasures visible.     His filmography includes an array of collaborative community-based documentaries regarding immigration, social justice, human rights issues, Indigenous resistance, and the evidentiary. Chief of these is El Muro | The Wall (2017), a feature-length documentary film project co-produced with the Lipan Apache Band of Texas Tribal Board. The film documented the historic resistance exercised by Lipan Apache/Ndé peoples against colonial occupation and persecution in the south Texas borderlands. It follows Dr. Eloisa G. Tamez’s legal battle against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (USDHS) use of eminent domain to build the U.S. Border Wall of 2006 on her ancestral lands. His films have been screened across film festivals, community screenings, and both academic conferences, and in non-academic spaces.

Lucia Stavig

CRRES Postdoctoral Scholar, 2024-2026

Email:

lstavig@iu.edu

Dr. Lucía Isabel Stavig is a CRRES Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. Prior to this appointment, she was a Penn-Mellon Just Futures Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in Cultural and Medical Anthropology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2022), a Master’s in Anthropology from the University of Lethbridge, Canada (2017), a Master’s in Justice and Social Inquiry from Arizona State University (2013), and a Bachelor of Arts from New College of Florida (2010). She is Peruvian-American and has had the honor to learn with Las Abejas and the zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico; the Rama people in Nicaragua; the Ñhäñhú (Otomí) in Hidalgo, Mexico; the Kainai (Blackfoot) in southern Alberta, and the Runa (Quechua) of the Cusco area. Lucía´s research explores how Indigenous peoples’ struggles for health are also political defenses of their lands and more-than-human relations. Her work in reproductive and Indigenous justice follows the efforts of First peoples from Canada to southern Peru to heal from colonial reproductive violences (including forced sterilization, forced contraception, obstetric violence, and genocide) to create Indigenous futures for generations to come.