Safiya Umoja Noble
Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed…
Rhonda Hammer
Rhonda Hammer received her MA in Communications from Simon Fraser University and her Ph.D. in Sociology from York University in Canada. She is currently a Lecturer in Gender Studies, Social Science & Comparative Education and Cinema & Media Studies at UCLA, as well as a Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. 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.
Jenny Sharpe
Jenny Sharpe is Professor of English, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. She taught at Boston College before joining UCLA’s English department in 1993. Her areas of research and teaching are postcolonial studies, Caribbean literatures, gender studies, the novel, literary archives of slavery and empire, and the black Atlantic. Prof.
Purnima Mankekar
Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Purnima Mankekar has conducted…
Grace Hong
Grace Kyungwon Hong is Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA; she also holds a joint appointment in Asian American Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Literature at UC San Diego, and her M.A. in Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her research focuses on women of color feminism as an epistemological critique of and alternative to Western liberal humanism and capital, particularly as they manifest as contemporary neoliberalism.
Elizabeth Marchant
Elizabeth Marchant is the Chair of the Department of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Comparative Literature.
