Paola Bacchetta is Professor and Chair in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the first Chair of Berkeley’s Gender Consortium. She currently serves as Co-coordinator of Decolonizing Sexualities Network, a transnational convergence of...Read more about Paola Bacchetta
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies and Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Mel Y. Chen (they/them+) is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California, Berkeley as well as Director of the Disability Studies Minor. Mel is also an affiliate of the Center for Race and Gender, the...Read more about Mel Y. Chen
Minoo Moallem is a Gender & Women's Studies professor at the University of California Berkeley. She was the director of the Media Studies Program from 2017 to 2023 and the department chair from 2010 to 2012. Before moving to Berkeley, she was the Women's Studies department chair at SF State...Read more about Minoo Moallem
Courtney Desiree Morris is a visual/conceptual artist and an associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches courses on critical race theory, feminist theory, black social movements in the Americas, women’s social movements in Latin...Read more about Courtney Desiree Morris
Laura C. Nelson is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. She received her PhD in Anthropology at Stanford, and holds a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley with a focus on housing and community economic development. Her current research...Read more about Laura C. Nelson
Ianna Hawkins Owen, he/none, is an advanced assistant professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. Owen’s first monograph, Ordinary Failure: Diaspora’s Limits & Longings, is under contract with Duke University Press. Owen has held fellowships from the...Read more about Ianna Hawkins Owen
Leslie Salzinger is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. She got her PhD in Sociology at UC Berkeley and previously taught in the sociology departments at the University of Chicago and and Boston College. She writes and teaches on gender, capitalism,...Read more about Leslie Salzinger
Dora Silva Santana is an artist and a scholar. She is an Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Iconica: transing afro diasporic signs” in which she argues that,...Read more about Dora Silva Santana
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research, and Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity
Eric A. Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory.
Barbara Barnes' current work examines the production of normalized and embodied national identities through the emotional appeal of outdoor adventure sport and travel in both practice and representation. She completed a dissertation entitled "Global Extremes: Spectacles of Wilderness...Read more about Barbara Barnes
Wendy DeSouza is a scholar of Modern Iranian and Middle East History. From 2013-2019 she was the Parsa Foundation Visiting Professor in Iranian Studies at UC Davis. Her book entitled Unveiling Men: Modern Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Iran (2019) explored the formation of modern discourses...Read more about Wendy DeSouza
Brooke Lober is a lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley who offers classes in feminist, queer and trans thought, with emphasis in American studies, cultural studies, and social movement history.
In the early seventies, after passing their Ph.D. exams in Comparative Literature (6 writtten exams and a two hour oral), a group of women students met to consider these requirements and to note that the 60 author reading list in several languages on which they were based included no women...Read more about Gloria Bowles
Professor of the Graduate School in Gender & Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies
Evelyn Nakano Glenn is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies and founding director of the Center for Race and Gender, an organized research unit.
Other positions include: Society for the Study of Social Problems; Deputy Editor, American Sociological Review; Editorial...Read more about Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Emerita Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Sociology
Barrie Thorne joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1995 with a joint appointment in Gender & Women's Studies and in Sociology. She previously taught at Michigan State University and the University of Southern California, where she was active in creating and rejuvenating interdisciplinary...Read more about Barrie Thorne
Founder, International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW)
A pioneer in the study of the economic impact on women in developing countries, Tinker has combined scholarship and activism throughout her professional life. Her attraction to studying other cultures began when she drove to and...Read more about Irene Tinker
Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in the departments of Gender & Women's Studies and Rhetoric
Originally trained as a musical composer, who received her two masters and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial theorist. She teaches courses that focus on women’s work as related to...Read more about Trinh T. Minh-ha
