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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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.
Director Position Call for Applications 2020
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MAY 1. The UCLA Center for the Study of Women is searching for a new Director to serve a three-year term (2020-2023), which may be extended for a second term. We seek a feminist scholar, broadly defined and in any discipline, whose work advances knowledge about the central role of women, gender, and/or sexuality in societal change, conditions, or relations of power.
POSTPONED – 2020 Awards and Benefit Reception
The 2020 CSW Awards and Benefit Reception is postponed. Join the CSW Mailing List to be the first to hear when it is rescheduled. Thank you for your understanding.
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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.
