Julie Gaynes is a cultural historian, college instructor, and interdisciplinary 🏷️#artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. She is an 🏷️#academic presently completing her PhD in World Arts and Cultures at 📝UCLA, where she has spent over six years teaching and conducting ethnographic research. Her work emphasizes mixed-media storytelling, restorative justice systems, and women’s solidarity, particularly in East Indonesia. Gaynes’s academic career includes teaching positions at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia and Oberlin College, with a strong emphasis on social justice, media literacy, and cross-cultural research design. She has developed and customized writing curricula at the undergraduate and graduate levels and regularly advises students and grassroots researchers on public-facing narrative strategies. Her teaching methodology blends art, anthropology, and storytelling to explore the fluid boundaries of truth, identity, and representation.
Julie and I met through our 📝Gourmet Club.