Salih Can Açiksöz

I am an interdisciplinary-minded anthropologist working at the…

Joshua Javier Guzmán

Joshua Javier Guzmán is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA. He received his PhD in Performance Studies at New York University, and is a former University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow from UC Berkeley's Department of Gender and Women's Studies.

Zeynep K. Korkman

I am an assistant professor of Gender  Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. My teaching and research interests include transnational feminisms; cultural politics; gender, labor, and affect; and religion, secularism, and the public sphere, with a regional focus on Turkey and the larger Middle East.

Sherene Razack

Sherene H. Razack is a Distinguished Professor and the Penney Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies. Her research and teaching focus on racial violence.  She is the founder of the virtual research and teaching network Racial Violence Hub (RVHub). 

Shannon Speed

Dr. Shannon Speed, is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.  Dr.…

Sondra Hale

Sondra Hale, born to a working-class family in Des Moines, Iowa, graduated from secondary school in Omaha, Nebraska, and went on to the University of Omaha for a year before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She worked her way through high school and university in various jobs, an important one of which was as a professional comic (namely a ventriloquist). She was also active in theater and the visual arts.