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Principal Faculty of the Feminist Studies Graduate Program

Bettina Aptheker
Professor, Feminist Studies and History
Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Women's history, feminist oral history and memoir, feminist pedagogy, African American women's history, queer studies, feminist Jewish studies, feminist critical race studies. Author of Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel (Seal Press 2006), The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (1999), Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work, Women’s Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Life (1989), and Women’s Legacies: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History (1982).

Anjali Arondekar
Associate Professor, Feminist Studies
Ph.D., English, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies

South Asian studies, colonial historiography; feminist theories; queer theory; critical race studies; nineteenth century interdisciplinary studies.

Neda Atanasoski
Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies
Ph.D. Literature and Cultural Studies University of California, San Diego

U.S. and Eastern European film and media; cultural studies and critical theory; war and nationalism; gender, ethnicity, and religion. Author of American Empire on Film and Television: From the Cold War to the War on Terror, under review, Routledge (American Film Institute Readers) and “Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: The Technologies of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ in the Balkans during the 1999 NATO Bombing of Serbia and Kosovo.” In Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Niall Scott, ed. (Rodopi, 2007).

Karen Barad
Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Philosophy
Ph.D., Theoretical Particle Physics, SUNY – Stony Brook

Feminist theory, physics, twentieth-century continental philosophy, epistemology, ontology, philosophy of physics, cultural studies of science, feminist science studies. Author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007).

Angela Davis
Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
Certificat de la Littérature Française Contemporaine, Sorbonne

Feminism, African American studies, critical theory, popular music culture and social consciousness, philosophy of punishment (women's jails and prisons). Author of Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories Press, 2003), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, (Vintage Books, 1999), and The Angela Y. Davis Reader, (Blackwell Publishers, 1998).

Gina Dent
Associate Professor and Chair, Feminist Studies
Associate Professor History of Consciousness and Legal Studies
Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Africana literary and cultural studies; legal theory; popular culture. Author of Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology (forthcoming). Editor of Black Popular Culture (1993-1999).

Carla Freccero
Professor, Literature, History of Consciousness, and Feminist Studies
Ph.D., Renaissance Studies, Yale University

Renaissance studies, French and Italian language and literature, early modern studies, postcolonial theories and literature, contemporary feminist theories and politics, queer theory, U.S. popular culture. Author of Queer/Early/Modern (2005), Popular Culture: An Introduction (1999)(Japanese translation, 2001), Premodern Sexualities (1996), and Father Figures: Genealogy and Narrative Structure in Rabelais (1991).

Rosa-Linda Fregoso
Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies and Feminist Studies
Ph.D., Comparative Studies, Language, Society, and Culture, University of California, San Diego

Theories of representation; cinema and media; cultural studies; transnational feminist studies. Author of meXicana encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (2003), The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Works by Lourdes Portillo (2001), and The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture (1993). Co-edited Miradas de mujer (1998).

Jennifer González
Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Contemporary theories of visual culture; semiotics; critical museum studies; photography; public and activist art in the U.S.

Jody Greene
Associate Professor, Literature and Feminist Studies
Ph.D., English, Cornell University

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and French literature and culture; pre- and early modern studies; early modern colonialisms; gay and lesbian cultural studies; gender studies; history of authorship; history of the book. Author of The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 1660-1730 (2005).

Emily Honig
Professor of History
Ph.D., History, Stanford University

Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in modern Chinese history; comparative labor history; Chicana history; nationalism and sexuality in Third World; oral history. Author of A Guide to Women's Studies in China with Gail Hershatter, Susan Mann, and Lisa Rofel (1997). Co-edited Remapping China with Gail Hershatter, Jonathan Lipman,and Randall Stross (1996), Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980 (1992), Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980’s with Gail Hershatter (1988), and Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949 (1986).

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel
Assistant Professor, Feminist Studies
Ph.D. American Studies, Minor in Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Border and hemispheric studies, globalization, transnational feminisms.

Anna Tsing
Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University

Culture and politics, feminist theory and gender, social landscapes and tropical forest ethnoecologies, ethnicity, local power and relations to the state in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and U.S. Author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (1993); Di Bawah Bayang-Bayang Ratu Intan: Proses Marinalisasi pada Masyarakat Terasing (1998). Co-edited Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture with Faye Ginsburg (1990) and Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia with Paul Greenough (2003).

Patricia Zavella
Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Relationship between women's work and domestic labor, poverty, family, sexuality, and social networks, feminist studies, ethnographic research methods, transnational migration of Mexicana/o workers and U.S. capital. Author of Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley (1987, in fifth printing, 1991); Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, co-authored with members of the Latina Feminist Group (2001), winner of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award of 2002. Co-edited Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader with Gabriela Arredondo, Aída Hurtado, Norma Klahn, and Olga Nájera Ramírez (2003).

Associate Faculty of the Feminist Studies Graduate Program

Donna Haraway
Professor, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
Ph.D., Biology, Yale University

Feminist theory, cultural and historical studies of science and technology, relation of life and human sciences, and human-animal relations. Author of Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1992), Simian, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991), Modest Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan”_Meets_Oncomouse‘ (1997), How Like a Leaf, a Conversation with Donna Haraway (1999), The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003), Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors that Shape Embryos (1996, 2004), When Species Meet: Encounters in Dogland (in progress), Notes of a Sports Writer’s Daughter (in progress).

Gail Hershatter
Distinguished Professor, History
Ph.D., History, Stanford University

Modern Chinese social and cultural history; labor history; women's history; history of sexuality; feminist theory; history, memory and nostalgia. Author of The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949 (1986; paperback edition 1993); Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980’s with Emily Honig (1988); Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997) (Winner, AHA Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History) (Chinese translation forthcoming); Meiguo nüxuezhe yanli de Zhongguo nüxing (Chinese edition of Personal Voices, translated by Chen Shan et al. (1999). Co-edited Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State with Christina Gilmartin, Lisa Rofel, and Tyrene White (1994); Remapping China with Emily Honig, Jonathan Lipman,and Randall Stross (1996); A Guide to Women's Studies in China with Emily Honig, Susan Mann, and Lisa Rofel (1997).

Aída Hurtado
Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Social identity, feminist theory, social psychology of education, political consciousness, survey methodology. Author of The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism (1996). Co-edited Strategic Interventions in Education: Expanding the Latina/Latino Pipeline with R. Figueroa, and E.E. Garcia (1996); Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader with Gabriela Arredondo, Patricia Zavella, Norma Klahn, and Olga Nájera Ramírez (2003).

Helene Moglen
Professor Emerita of Literature and Feminist Studies
Ph.D. Literature, Yale University

The English novel; feminist, critical, cultural, and psychoanalytic theory; gender and genre in social and psychological contexts Education History Author of The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel (University of California Press, 2001).

Lisa Rofel
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University

Critical theory; anthropology of modernity; popular/public culture; gender and sexuality; transnational political economy; postcolonial feminist anthropology; China. Author of Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism (1999). Co-edited Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State with Christina Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, and Tyrene White (1994); A Guide to Women's Studies in China with Emily Honig, Susan Mann, and Gail Hershatter (1997).

Marilyn Westerkamp
Professor, History
Ph.D., American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania

British colonial and revolutionary America; early modern cultural and religious history; U.S. religious history; women's history; gender. Author of Triumph of the Laity: Scots-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening (1988) and Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850 (1999).

Alice Yang Murray
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., History, Stanford University

Historical memory, Asian American history, gender history, race and ethnicity, 20th-century U.S., oral history. Author of Historical Memories of Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (2003) and co-authored Eternal Flames: World War II Commemoration Throughout the Pacific (in progress). Edited What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (2000) and co-edited Major Problems in Asian American History (2002).