Paola Bacchetta is Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also Director of the Institute for Gender and Sexuality Research. She was the first Chair of Berkeley’s Gender Consortium. She currently serves as Co-coordinator of Decolonizing Sexualities Network, a transnational convergence of scholars, artivists and activists. Her books include: Co-Motion: On Feminist and Queer Solidarities (Forthcoming Duke University Press); Fatima Mernissi For Our Times, co-edited...
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 Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Science, the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, and the Haas Disability Studies and LGBTQ Citizenship Research Clusters. Previously, they served as Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor of Art History at Williams College, and the...
Patrice D. Douglass is an Assistant Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. She holds a PhD and MA in Culture and Theory from the University of California, Irvine, a MA in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Riverside, and a BA in Feminist Studies and Legal Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Her first book project, tentatively titled, Engendering Blackness: The Ontology of Sexual Violence , examines the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to...
Minoo Moallem is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies. She is currently Director of Media Studies.
Professor Moallem received her MA and BA from the University of Tehran and her Ph.D. from Université de Montréal. She has also done postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies Department at Berkeley from 2008-2010 and the Chair of the Women’s Studies Department at San Francisco State University from 2001-2006.
Professor Moallem is the author of Persian Carpets: The Nation As a Transnational Commodity...
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 America and the Caribbean, as well as race and environmental politics in the African Diaspora. She is a social anthropologist and is currently completing a book entitled To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua, which examines how...
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 project is a study of breast cancer as a medical, cultural, personal, environmental, political and transnational phenomenon in South Korea. She is also in the early stages of a project looking at policies pertaining to the children of immigrant brides in South Korea. Her first book, Measured...
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 Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, & he recently received a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award to support his second book project, This Time Without Feeling: Reading Black Asexual Affects. Prior to...
Leslie Salzinger is Associate Professor and Chair 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, nationality, and race and their ongoing co-formations. Her empirical research is ethnographic, mostly focused on Latin America, especially Mexico. Her primary research questions address the cultural constitution of economic processes and the creation of subjects within political economies. Her award...
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, for black trans people, images that populate our art, imaginary, stories, and other forms of media correspond with actions for transformative living, whose meanings have been dislocated or erased by colonialism. She draws from multisited visual archives, critical memoir passages and translinguistic...
Professor and Equity Advisor in GWS. Director, Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies
Elora Shehabuddin is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, Equity Advisor in Gender & Women's Studies, Director, Global Studies Program, and Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies. She was Professor of Transnational Asian Studies and Core Faculty in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University prior to moving to Berkeley in 2022. She was Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Political...
