Faculty in the department collaborate with an extensive group of faculty across campus. Gender and Women’s Studies students get significant personalized attention from our faculty. Our department is known for its investment in the well-being of our students, and its smaller size means that it is somewhat easier to cultivate a community among undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff.
Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
email: pbacchetta@berkeley.edu
Office: 626 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- Transnational Feminist and Queer Theory
- Decolonial Theory
- Critical Theory
- Movements, Activisms, Artivisms
- France, India, U.S.
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PaolaBacchetta
Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
email: melychen@berkeley.edu
Office: 624 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- Queer and feminist theory
- Disability theory
- Critical animal studies
- Materiality studies
- Cultural politics of race, sexuality, ability, and immigration
- Critical linguistics
- Paradigms of inter- and transdisciplinarity
Assistant Professor in Gender and Women's Studies
Office: 632 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- Black Feminist Theory
- Afro-pessimism
- Gender and Sexual Violence
- Political Philosophy
Professor, and Director of Media Studies
email: mmoallem@berkeley.edu
Office: 628 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- Postcolonial and Transnational Feminist Theories
- Immigration and Diaspora Studies
- Feminist Cultural Studies
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Iranian Cultural Politics and Diasporas
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research in Gender and Women's Studies
email: cdm36@berkeley.edu
Office: 622 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- Black women’s social movements
- State violence and authoritarianism
- Racial formations in Latin America, the Caribbean and the US
- Critical race theory
- Feminist and queer theory
- Environmental ethics
- Black visual culture and aesthetics
Associate Professor
email: lcnelson@berkeley.edu
Office: 618 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- Gender, medicine, and politics: Cultural, political, and experiential aspects of breast cancer in South Korea
- How, why, and to what effect constructions of gender, class, and race are mobilized and manipulated in South Korea
- Structures of cultural temporality (future, present, or past orientation) and anti-poverty policies (U.S. and South Korea)
Associate Professor and Chair in Gender and Women's Studies
email: lsalzinger@berkeley.edu
Office: 616 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- Gender and capitalism
- Feminist theory
- Political economy and transnational processes
- Ethnography
Professor
email: eshehabuddin@berkeley.edu
Office: 612 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- transnational feminism
- history and politics of feminist movements
- activisms
- critical approaches to development
- political economy
- South Asia, Middle East, Global South, US
- Islam
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Pedagogy, Gender & Women's Studies
email: eric.stanley@berkeley.edu
Office: 620 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- Prison abolition
- Radical queer/trans movements
- Anarcha-feminism
- Architectures of attack, gentrification, displacement
Emerita Professors
Professor of the Graduate School, Gender & Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies
email: englenn@berkeley.edu
Office:
Research Areas:
- Comparative race and gender studies focusing especially on political economy, immigration, labor and citizenship
- Critical race and feminist theory and transdisciplinary methods
Emerita Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Sociology
email: bthorne@berkeley.edu
Office: 612 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- Feminist theory
- Sociology of gender, families and childhood
Emerita Professor
email: i_tinker@comcast.net
Office:
Research Areas:
- International development and women
- Electoral quotas in legislatures for women
Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in the departments of Gender & Women's Studies and of Rhetoric
email: trinh@berkeley.edu
Office: 630 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- Feminist theory
- Film theory and production
- Comparative literary and art theory
- Cultural politics
- Third world arts and politics
- Postcolonial theory and transnational studies
Lecturers
Continuing Lecturer
email: babarnes@berkeley.edu
Office: 614 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
- Cultural Studies
- Affect and Landscape
- Settler Colonial Studies
- New Materialisms
- Bodies and the Nation
- Feminist Theory