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 Adventure, Endless Frontiers, & American Dreams" in December 2006 at the University of California Santa Cruz that used multiple methods (i.e., ethnography, media analysis, cultural history) to examine the cultural-historical significance of outdoor adventure in the United States during the final...
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 on masculinity in Iran. Her current research explores African slavery in Iran and the Persian Gulf, focusing on issues of race, gender and sexual labor.
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.
Brooke’s book-length manuscript (in progress) situates late 20th century Jewish feminism in the context of the U.S. and Israel’s entwined racial regimes, analyzing the effect of state formations on social movement politics and culture by studying moments of cohesion and division in activist networks. Addressing the contemporary crisis of the “war on Palestine,”...
