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).
Katherine Marino
Associate Director
Katherine Marino is an Associate Professor in the History Department. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth-century U.S. and Latin American history; histories of women, gender, sexuality, and race in the Americas; human rights; U.S. empire, and transnational feminism. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, Gender & History, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, among other publications. Her first book, Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (UNC Press, 2019), is a history of Pan-American feminism, a movement uniting leaders and groups throughout the Americas over the first half of the twentieth century.
Sara Wilf
Faculty Research Associate
Sara Wilf is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. Sara’s dual streams of scholarship include (1) youth sociopolitical action on social media and within social movements, with a focus on youth organizing around the climate crisis; and (2) community-engaged research with survivors of sexual violence, using research to drive advocacy work. At UCLA, Sara co-founded the student organization Survivors + Allies, and co-led the first research study of survivors across all 10 UC campuses. Previously, Sara was a program evaluator, teacher, and facilitator with nonprofits and schools in India, Chile, and the U.S. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from UCLA, an MPA in Social Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a BA from Brown University.
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
Leila Chiddick
Office Operations Student Worker
Leila Chiddick (she/her) is one of our student workers responsible for supporting CSW|Streisand Center’s office.
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.
Zaia Hammond
Office Operations Student Worker
Zaia Hammond (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.
Kai Jefferson
Office Operations Student Worker
Kai Jefferson (they/them) is our student worker responsible for supporting CSW|Streisand Center’s social media.
Anna Li
Office Operations Student Worker
Anna Li (she/her) is one of our student workers responsible for supporting CSW|Streisand Center’s office.
Nhan Nguyen
Student Graphic Designer
Nhan Nguyen (he/him) 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 Katherine Marino, as well as the following faculty:
Nina Eidsheim, CSWAC Chair
Professor of Musicology
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.
Jessica Cattelino
Professor, Anthropology
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.
Timu Gallien
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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.
Will Rawls
Associate Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Will Rawls is a New York–based choreographer, dancer, and writer, whose practice probes the boundaries between dance, language, and other media to investigate the poetics of abstraction, blackness, and the materiality of time. His work has been presented at the MCA Chicago; The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas; On the Boards, Seattle; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon; the 35a Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil; and Counterpublic 2023, St. Louis, Missouri; among others. Rawls has been awarded numerous residencies and fellowships, including a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, and he received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in 2021. His writing has been published by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu de Arte de São Paulo; and the journal Dancing While Black. He is currently Associate Professor of Choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Courtney S. Thomas Tobin
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences
Courtney S. Thomas Tobin, is an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences and a Faculty Affiliate of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. Her research examines the social, psychological, and biological (i.e., biopsychosocial) pathways to health and longevity among Black Americans. As a medical sociologist, Dr. Thomas Tobin integrates perspectives from sociology, public health, social psychology, and medicine to investigate (1) psychosocial pathways to embodiment; (2) health risks and resources across the life course; and (3) racialized stress and coping processes among Black Americans.
Jasmine Nadua Trice
Associate Professor, Theater, Film & Television
Jasmine Nadua Trice is an Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Film, Digital Media at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her book, City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila Film Culture was published by Duke University Press in 2021. She is currently working on a second book project on spatial practices in Southeast Asian film organizing, coauthored with Philippa Lovatt. The book is based on a collaborative project undertaken with the Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas.
AY24-25 CSWAC General Membership
Professor, Chicana/o Studies
Professor, Law
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor, Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Assistant Professor, Law
Professor, Music
Associate Professor, Art History
Associate Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Assistant Professor, Art History
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Director, Hammer Museum
Assistant Professor Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Public Policy; Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor, Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Associate Professor, Political Science
Assistant Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Assistant Professor, Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Associate Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Professor, Musicology
Associate Professor, Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies
Associate Professor, Theater, Film, and Television
Professor, Information Studies
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Assistant Professor Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology
Distinguished Professor, Law
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Professor, History
Professor, English
Assistant Professor, African American Studies
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management
Professor, Geography
Assistant Professor, Musicology
Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Education
Faculty Director, Williams Institute; Center for Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy
Associate Professor, Political Science and African American Studies
Associate Professor Strategy and Behavioral Decision Making
Assistant Professor Law
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, Law
Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, African American Studies and English
Associate Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Assistant Professor, World Arts & Culture / Dance
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, Geography
Associate Professor, Geography
Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Sociology
Professor, Social Welfare
Assistant Professor in Residence, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Assistant Professor, Education; Information Studies
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Development Biology
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies
Assistant Professor, Art
Professor, Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies
Assistant Professor, Art
Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Professor, Theater, Film, and Television
Assistant Professor, English
Executive Director Critical Race Studies Program
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
Faculty Advisor, Education
Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Gender Studies and English
Assistant Professor Art
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare
Lecturer, Design Media Arts
Professor, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature
Associate Professor, Education
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
Lecturer, Law
Assistant Professor, Design Media Arts
Assistant Professor, IOES
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Assistant Professor in Residence General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
Assistant Professor, English; Design Media Arts
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology
Assistant Professor Classics
Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures and Asian American Studies
Professor, Information Studies, African American Studies and Gender Studies
Professor Emeritus, Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Musicology
Professor, Sociology
Assistant Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Law
Professor, Law
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lecturer, Law
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare
Associate Professor, African American Studies and Anthropology
Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Director, Women in Engineering
Professor, Comparative Literature
Clinical Professor, General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
Assistant Professor, Musicology
Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Associate Professor WACD
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Professor, Law
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
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, Bioengineering
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences
Assistant Professor WACD
Associate Professor, Information Studies
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, English
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Associate Professor, FTVDM
Associate Professor IOES
Assistant Professor, English
Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Director, Criminal Justice Program, UCLA School of Law
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences
Director, Labor Center
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies
Assistant Professor, Anderson School of Management
Professor Gender Studies
Professor, Social Welfare
Assistant Professor Political Science
Professor, Law
Ex-Officio Members
Assistant Professor, Gender Studies; LGBTQ Studies
Distinguished Professor, Gender Studies
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Activist-in-Residence
The activist will be in residence at UCLA from January through May 2025.
Romarilyn Ralston is the Director of the Justice Education Center at the Claremont Colleges and former Executive Director of Project Rebound at CSU Fullerton. Identifying as a Black feminist abolitionist, she earned a Bachelor’s in Gender and Feminist Studies from Pitzer College and a Master’s in Liberal Arts from Washington University in St. Louis after 23 years in prison. Her work focuses on empowering women and justice-involved people. Romarilyn is a member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. In 2022, she received a full pardon from Governor Gavin Newsom and is a PhD student in Executive Management at Claremont Graduate University.
