Faculty Leadership
Grace Kyungwon Hong
Director
Grace Kyungwon Hong is Professor in the Department of Gender Studies and the Department of Asian American Studies. She teaches courses on women of color feminism, feminist knowledge production, and neoliberalism. She is the author of Death Beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) and The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Cultures of Immigrant Labor (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). She is the co-editor (with Roderick Ferguson) of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University Press, 2011) and the Difference Incorporated book series (University of Minnesota Press).
Nina Eidsheim
Associate Director
Nina Sun Eidsheim (she/her) is Professor of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. She is also a vocalist and the founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology Research (PEER) Lab, an experimental research Lab dedicated to decolonializing data, methodology, and analysis, in and through multisensory creative practices. She writes about voice, race, and materiality, including the books Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music. Publications include The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Duke University Press, 2019); Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (Duke University Press, 2015); Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies (co-editor, OUP, 2019); and she is co-editor of the Refiguring American Music book series for Duke University Press.
Staff
Rosa Chung (she/her), manager and chief financial officer, is responsible for all operations of CSW|Streisand Center. She provides key administrative recommendations to the CSW|Streisand Center director and faculty leadership as well as supervises all employees and researchers. She oversees financial services; personnel and human resources; employment and benefit services; staff, faculty, and student recruitment; information technology services; administration; donor relations and development; fundraising and partnerships; and awards and grants. She also manages CSW|Streisand Center’s facilities, budgets, and events.
Katja Antoine (she/her) oversees and develops CSW|Streisand Center’s research and programs, including publications (blog/video posts, journals, articles, policy briefs, working papers), events (workshops, conferences, colloquia/symposia, lectures), and community outreach/engagement. She collaborates with and advises CSW|Streisand Center faculty leadership on their research goals and missions and provides support to the Management Services Officer on awards and grants, development/donor relations, and oversight of student researchers.
Eva Amarillas Diaz (she/her) is responsible for assisting with fund management and office administration for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center.
Rosie Grant (she/her) is responsible for planning, strategizing, developing, evaluating, implementing, and managing the outreach, marketing, and branding for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center.
Colby Lenz (she/they) works with community-based organizations and leaders to develop and implement collaborative research, teaching, and policy projects with a focus on gender violence, criminalization, and pre- and post-conviction participatory defense. She acts as a liaison between the center and impacted communities, develops, applies, and disseminates feminist and anti-racist best practices for studying the effects of gendered criminalization and improving advocacy for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated communities. She also advises policymakers, legislators, attorneys, and community-based organizations working for the release of incarcerated women, transgender, and gender non-conforming people.
Student Workers
Lulah Balde
Communications & Marketing Student Worker
Lulah Balde (she/her) is one of our student workers responsible for writing and supporting CSW|Streisand Center’s newsletter and social media.
Reina Cooper
Office Operations Student Worker
Reina Cooper (she/her) is one of our student workers responsible for writing and supporting CSW|Streisand Center’s newsletter and blog.
Anna Li
Office Operations Student Worker
Anna Li (she/her) is one of our student workers responsible for supporting CSW|Streisand Center’s office.
Kaya Napachoti
Graphic Design Student Worker
Kaya Napachoti (she/they) is one of our student workers responsible for creating graphics and design for CSW|Streisand Center.
Emme Rackham
Office Operations Student Worker
Emme Rackham (she/her) is one of our student workers responsible for supporting CSW|Streisand Center’s office.
Anna Immergluck
Office Operations Student Worker
Anna Immergluck (she/her) is one of our student workers responsible for supporting CSW|Streisand Center’s office.
Advisory Committee
CSW|Streisand Center provides a vital environment within which scholars explore new frontiers of knowledge about women, sexuality, and gender. CSW|Streisand Center draws on the expertise of our executive board and advisory committee (all distinguished scholars in their own fields) to develop and refine our mission.
The executive board meets as often as necessary, at least once a quarter, to handle quarterly governance and undertake the advisory role originally assigned to CSWAC as a whole.
CSWAC as a whole meets on a quarterly basis and provides networking opportunities by incorporating mini-research presentations by one or more faculty. The primary goal of this larger body is to create an intellectual research community where faculty gathers to exchange and discuss new scholarship.
CSWAC members are appointed by the Dean of Social Sciences. If you are interested in joining CSWAC, contact CSW|Streisand Center at csw@csw.ucla.edu.
Executive Board
The CSW|Streisand Center Executive Board is comprised of Grace Kyungwon Hong and Nina Eidsheim, as well as the following faculty:
Timu Gallien, CSWAC Chair
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
tgallien@seas.ucla.edu
Timu Gallien holds a PhD in civil engineering from University of California, Irvine and is a former Chancellor’s Fellow and postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dr. Gallien’s Coastal Flood Lab (CFL) focuses on predicting coastal flood risk from sea level rise, storm events, and urbanization. She combines high resolution numerical modeling and extensive field observations to investigate fundamental flooding physics, advance coastal process knowledge and quantitatively evaluate model performance. Current CFL research areas are compound flooding in urbanized backshores, living shorelines and human constructed dunes, beach evolution, swash-beach groundwater dynamics, and characterizing model and measurement uncertainties.
Jessica Cattelino is a Professor of Anthropology and focuses her research on economy, nature, indigeneity, and settler colonialism. Her book, High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty (Duke University Press, 2008; winner of the Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Book Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of North America), examines the cultural, political, and economic stakes of tribal casinos for Florida Seminoles. Currently, she is writing an ethnography about the cultural value of water in the Florida Everglades, with focus on the Seminole Big Cypress Reservation and the nearby agricultural town of Clewiston. Cattelino leads a research team at the CSW|Streisand Center that has completed an ethnographic study of gender and everyday household water use in Los Angeles. The study was funded by the UCLA Grand Challenge on Sustainable Los Angeles. Her work is influenced by scholarship in American Indian studies and gender studies, and holds faculty affiliations in both programs at UCLA.
Juan Herrera is a human geographer who specializes in social movements, spatial theory, race, and sexuality studies. His research includes analysis on Latino immigration and community formation, the impact of gay rights on transnational migration and Latino community understandings of sexuality, and how nonprofit organizations negotiate urban racial subjects’ relationship to state institutions and social movements. In addition, his teaching interests include urban geography, ethnographic research methods, and environmental racism.
He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Care is Political: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space which traces the historical transformation of grassroots 1960s organizing into institutionalized agencies. The book argues for an analysis of social movement geographies and their ongoing production. His work can be found in Du Bois Review, Social Justice, and Latino Studies. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar, he completed his PhD in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley in 2013 and was an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Oregon State University.
Stephanie Pincetl, PhD, is a Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Founding Director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA. Dr. Pincetl conducts research on environmental policies and governance and analyzes how institutional rules construct how natural resources and energy are used to support human activities and create Earth Systems impacts. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the California Energy Commission for her work. Additionally, Dr. Pincetl has written extensively about land use in California, environmental justice, habitat conservation efforts, urban metabolism water and energy policy. Her book, Transforming California, the Political History of Land Use in the State, is the definitive work on land use politics and policies of California.
Jessica Schwartz is an Associate Professor of musicology in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Her approach to musical representations and sonic histories of militarization and imperial violence, affective alliances, and creative dissent works in tandem with American studies, Pacific studies, environmental anthropology, and indigenous studies. Alongside composing and performing experimental noise-based and punk music as an active guitarist, Schwartz also co-founded and advises the Marshallese Educational Initiative, Inc., a not-for-profit organization based in Arkansas that raises cultural awareness of and promotes educational opportunities for the Marshallese population.
AY23-24 CSWAC General Membership
Professor, Chicana/o Studies
Professor, Law
Assistant Professor, Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Assistant Professor, Law
Associate Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Assistant Professor, Art History
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Assistant Professor Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Public Policy; Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor, Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Assistant Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Assistant Professor, Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Associate Professor, Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies
Associate Professor, Theater, Film, and Television
Associate Professor, Information Studies
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Lecturer, Associate Director Design Media Arts, Counterforce Lab
Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology
Distinguished Professor, Law
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Director, Externships and Field Placement Programs, UCLA School of Law
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Professor, History
Professor, English
Assistant Professor, African American Studies
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management
Associate Professor, Geography
Assistant Professor, Musicology
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Education
Faculty Director, Williams Institute; Center for Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy
Associate Professor, Political Science and African American Studies
Assistant Professor Asian American Studies
Associate Professor Institute for Society and Genetics
Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences
Associate Professor, Urban Planning
Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, African American Studies and English
Associate Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Associate Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Associate Professor, WACD
Professor, Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Professor, Research Theme in Translational Social Science and Health Equity
Professor, Law
Associate Professor, Education
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Nursing
Professor, English; IOES
Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Sociology
Professor, Social Welfare
Assistant Professor in Residence, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Development Biology
Assistant Professor, Art
Professor, Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies
Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Professor, Theater, Film, and Television
Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Gender Studies and English
Assistant Teaching Professor, MCDB
Professor, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature
Associate Professor, Education;American Indian Studies
Associate Professor, History
Assistant Professor, Education
Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Professor, English and Film, Television, and Digital Media
Assistant Professor, IOES; Statistics
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Theater, Film, and Television
Professor, Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, IOES
Assistant Professor in Residence General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology
Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures and Asian American Studies
Professor, Information Studies and African American Studies
Professor Emeritus, Gender Studies
Professor Sociology
Assistant Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Lecturer, Law
Associate Professor, African American Studies and Anthropology
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Director, Women in Engineering
Clinical Professor, General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Associate Professor WACD
Professor, Law
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Professor, Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies
Associate Professor, Social Welfare
Associate Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Exec. Director Williams Institute
Professor, Public Policy
Assistant Professor, Institute for Society & Genetics
Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Professor, Management and Organizations
Professor, Anthropology
Lecturer, Linguistics
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare
Assistant Professor, Sociology and American Indian Studies
Professor, Anthropology and Gender Studies
Dean Humanities
Assistant Professor WACD
Professor, Sociology
Adjunct Professor, Community Health Sciences
Professor; Director “Urban Planning;Chicana/o and Central American Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center”
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Associate Professor, FTVDM
Associate Professor IOES
Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Director, Criminal Justice Program, UCLA School of Law
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies
Professor Gender Studies
Assistant Professor Political Science
Professor, Law
Ex-Officio Members
Assistant Professor, Gender Studies; LGBTQ Studies
Distinguished Professor, Gender Studies
Graduate Student Researchers
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Lynette Dixon is a doctoral student in the Department of Gender Studies. Her research utilizes black feminist thought, performance theory, and hip hop studies to interrogate techniques of embodiment for Black women in popular culture.
Activist-in-Residence
The activist will be in residence at UCLA from January – May, 2024.
Narges Zagub is the product of an immigrant family from Benghazi, Libya. Narges’ background as a North African, Muslim, and queer person has given them a unique lens on their relationship to the world. As a facilitator, movement worker, abolitionist and holder of change, Narges’ purpose is to move towards liberation. Grounded in the truth that change is the only constant, Narges guides community members, educators, and organizers to tap into the wisdom already within them with the goal of embodying a restorative and relationship-centered way of being. In her free time, Narges enjoys spending time with her loved ones, hiking, and reading.
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