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Sara Mameni is faculty in the School of Critical Studies and director of Aesthetics and Politics program at California Institute of the Arts. She received her PhD in Art History from University of California, San Diego in 2015 and was a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2016–17. Her specialization is contemporary art in SWANA region with a focus on queer of color theory. Her current research explores biopolitics, racial discourse in the Anthropocene, post-humanist aesthetics, and the geo-ecological age of petroleum.