Per the recommendation from UCLA campus leadership and in an effort to ‘flatten the curve,’ the UCLA Center for the Study of Women Main Office will be closed, effective March 18, 2020, until further notice. The CSW Faculty and Staff will work remotely and be available via e-mail. If you require assistance, please contact us at csw@csw.ucla.edu or contact the appropriate CSW Faculty/Staff member directly.
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The UCLA Center for the Study of Women works towards a world in which education and scholarship are tools for social justice feminism, improving the lives of people of all genders.
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New Director: Grace Hong
The Center for the Study of Women is proud to announce its new director, Grace Kyungwon Hong (Professor, Asian American Studies and Gender Studies). CSW is excited to welcome her as Director, and we are confident that she will uphold the center’s mission to create a world where education and scholarship are tools for social justice feminism.
Open Letter from the Black Feminism Initiative
On this Juneteenth, CSW and the Black Feminism Initiative urges UCLA leaders to commit resources to Black study and cultural life.
Statement for Justice
Read this letter signed by CSW Director Rachel Lee and other campus leaders, calling for solidarity and justice to end state violence against African Americans, Indigenous peoples, and other communities of color.
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Catalyst: Special Issue on Chemical Entanglements
CSW announces the publication of a Special Issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. The introduction by CSW Director Rachel C. Lee provides a map of the special issue’s scholarship by way of four clusters: “Petro- and Agro-Wars by Chemical Proxy,” “Educational Entanglements,” “Vernaculars of Consumption,” and “Cognicizing Chemicals through Aesthetic Forms.”
Abridged, Illustrated Annual Report
The abridged, illustration version of CSW’s 2018-2019 Annual Report is now available for download. We are so excited to share our accomplishments from the past academic year with you, and we look forward to even more exciting things in 2020!
Gender and Water Working Paper Series
Now available online is the Gender and Everyday Water Use in Los Angeles Working Paper Series which presents preliminary results from the Gender and Everyday Water Use in Los Angeles Study conducted by faculty and student researchers at CSW.
