Faculty Directory

Neda Atanasoski
  • Title
    • Professor
    • Co-director, Center for Racial Justice
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Feminist Studies Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Affiliations Film and Digital Media Department, Digital Arts and New Media, Legal Studies
  • Phone
    831-459-2773
  • Email
  • Fax
    831-459-1925
  • Office Location
    • Humanities Building 1, 337
  • Office Hours On Leave (2021-22)
  • Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
  • Courses 125 Race, Sex, Technology; 80T Religion in U.S. Politics; 100. Feminist Theories; 126. Images, Power, and Politics: Methods in Visual and Textual Analysis; 194O. Politics of Gender and Human Rights; 200. Feminist Theories; 222. Religion, Feminsm, and Sexual Politics; 215 Postcolonial/Postsocialist Analytics; 202 Disciplining Knowledge

Summary of Expertise

Race and technology; war and nationalism; gender, ethnicity, and religion; cultural studies and critical theory; media studies

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Literature and Cultural Studies University of California, San Diego

Honors, Awards and Grants

  • 2019-2020  Co-PI “Speculative Futures” UC Multicampus Research Program
  • 2017-18 Committee on Academic Research Special Research Grant, UCSC 
  • 2016 Visiting Research Fellowship, GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden
  • 2015-16 Co-PI, The Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster, Institute for Humanities Research
  • 2013-2015 Co-PI, Religion in Diaspora and Global Affairs, Luce Foundation Humanities Studio Grant, “Humanitarian Ethics, Religious Affinities,” 
  • 2012 Co-PI, UC Humanities Research Institute, Residential Research Fellowship, “Imperial Legacies, Postsocialist Contexts: History, Ethics and Difference in a Neoliberal Age,” Fall 2012
  • 2012 Co-PI, Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies Grant, “Reframing Race/Religion,” 
  • 2011-2012 Hellman Fellows Program, Fellowship
  • 2011 Institute for Humanities Research Faculty Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
  • 2010-11 Co-PI, UC Center for New Racial Studies Grant, “Reforming Religion: Race, Ethnicity, and Secularism in the New Europe” 
  • 2010-11 Co-PI, UC Humanities Research Institute Working Group Grant, “Imperial Legacies, Post-socialist Contexts: Transnationalizing Analytics of Race, Gender and Sexuality”
  • 2008 Faculty Research Grant, UC Santa Cruz
  • 2007-2008 UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology 
  • 2007 FAHSS Research and Interdisciplinary Initiatives Individual Grant, SUNY Stony Brook
  • 2005-2006 Faculty Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara 

Selected Publications