Core Faculty

Juliann Anesi

Assistant Professor

Disability Studies; Inclusive Education Pedagogies; Decolonial Feminisms; Native Pacific Studies; Indigeneity and Ableism; Interdisciplinarity

Contact Information

Email: janesi@ucla.edu
Office: 1312 Rolfe Hall
Phone: 310-825-7186

Alisa Bierria

Assistant Professor

Black Feminist Theory, Gender Violence and Redress, Feminist and Queer Carceral Studies, Agency and Intentionality, Feminist Epistemology

Contact Information

Email: abierria@ucla.edu
Office: 2203 Rolfe Hall
Phone: 310-206-8101

Giancarlo Cornejo

Assistant Professor

Transgender Studies; Queer Theory; Feminist Theory; Film and Media Studies; Latin American Studies

Contact Information

Email: gcornejos@ucla.edu
Office: 1120 Rolfe Hall

Mishuana Goeman

Professor

Native American Literature
20th Century American Literature
Race and Ethnic Theory

Contact Information

Email: goeman@gender.ucla.edu
Office: 2216 Rolfe Hall

Joshua Javier Guzmán

Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Affairs

Performance Studies, Latina/o Cultural Studies, Sexual Cultures, Feminist and Queer Theory, Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis

Contact Information

Email: joshuaguzman@ucla.edu
Office: 2210 Rolfe Hall

Ju Hui Judy Han

Assistant Professor

(Im)mobilities
Religion, difference, conservatism
LGBTQ/queer politics and activism
Comics and graphic novels
Korean studies
Cultural geography

Contact Information

Email: judyhan@ucla.edu
Office: 1117 Rolfe Hall

Grace Hong

Professor

Women of Color Feminism
Comparative & Relational Race Theory
Cultural Studies
Political Economies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Race and Neoliberalism

Contact Information

Email: gracehong@women.ucla.edu
Office: 3329 Rolfe Hall
Phone: 310-206-8006

Zeynep K. Korkman

Associate Professor

Transnational feminisms; gender, labor, and affect; religion, secularism, and the public sphere; Turkey and the larger Middle East

Contact Information

Email: korkman@ucla.edu
Office: 7266 Bunche Hall

Rachel C. Lee

Professor

Asian American Literature
Performance Culture
Gender & Sexuality Studies

Contact Information

Email: rlee@humnet.ucla.edu
Office: 354 Royce Hall
Phone: 310-825-7515

Elizabeth Marchant

Associate Professor

Latin American Cultural Studies
Comparative Race and Feminisms in the Americas
19th- and 20th-Century Latin American Literature and Film

Contact Information

Email: marchant@gender.ucla.edu
Office: 2222 Rolfe Hall

Uri McMillan

Associate Professor

Sexuality & Gender Studies
African American Literature & Culture/Black Diaspora Studies

Contact Information

Email: umcmillan@ucla.edu
Office: 1120 Rolfe Hall

Visual Anthropology, Indigenous Visual Arts and Curation, Gender Analysis, Film studies, Photographic archives, museum critique, arts education and Indigenous knowledge production; Native North America, globalized popular culture

Contact Information

Email: mithlo@ucla.edu
Office: 1120 Rolfe Hall
Phone: 310-206-8101

Safiya Umoja Noble

David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies

Search engine ethics, Racial and gender bias in algorithms, Technological redlining, Socio-cultural, economic and ethical implications of information in society, Race, gender and sexuality in information communication technologies, Digital technology and Internet policy development, Privacy and surveillance, Information and/as control, Critical information studies

Contact Information

Email: snoble@ucla.edu
Office: 1120 Rolfe Hall

Sherene Razack

Chair and Distinguished Professor, Gender Studies; Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women's Studies

Racial Violence; Race, Space, and the Law; Anti-Muslim Racism; Imperialism, Torture, and Terror; Race, Gender, and Disposability; Critical Race Feminism; Sexual Violence, Race, Space and Citizenship

Contact Information

Email: sherenerazack@ucla.edu
Office: 2220 Rolfe Hall

Sarah T. Roberts

Associate Professor

Contact Information

Email: sarah.roberts@ucla.edu
Office: 1314 Rolfe Hall

Shannon Speed

Professor

Indigenous Autonomy, Sovereignty, Gender, Neoliberalism, Violence, Migration, Social Justice, and Activist Research

Contact Information

Email: sspeed@aisc.ucla.edu
Office: 3220A Campbell Hall
Phone: 310-206-9673

Sharon Traweek

Associate Professor

Contact Information

Email: traweek@history.ucla.edu
Office: 2214 Rolfe Hall
Phone: 310-825-2884

Gender and the Law, Feminist Theory, Masculinities Studies, Gender and Education, Feminist Cultural Studies, Socio-Legal Research Methods

Contact Information

Email: jawilliams@gender.ucla.edu
Office: 2201 Rolfe Hall
Phone: 310-794-7954