Tamara Ionkova Hammond holds a Ph.D. in World Languages and Cultures from the University of Utah. She taught Introduction to the Study of Literature and Culture, and Modern and Ancient World Histor...view moreTamara Ionkova Hammond holds a Ph.D. in World Languages and Cultures from the University of Utah. She taught Introduction to the Study of Literature and Culture, and Modern and Ancient World History. Hammond’s research is focused on the independent digital media in the context of class, race, gender, and ethnicity among other factors, with a particular interest in the growing censorship on the Internet evident in the purge of dissidents from the mainstream media. Hammond’s Master’s is in Russian translation from Columbia University, and her Bachelor’s is in history from Utah Valley University. Hammond contributed to the anthology Academic Purgatory: Voices of Contingent Faculty, University of Texas (2022) and co-authored a book, The Female Precariat Universitas Press, Montreal, Canada, (2019). Hammond has published in The Projector, a Journal of Film, Media, and Culture (2019), Columbia University’s Academic Commons, New York University’s Anamesa, and Utah Valley University’s Crescat Scientia.view less