Pamela Yeh is an evolutionary biologist and studies how human activities affect the evolution of species, focusing on the evolution of birds in urban environments and the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria in urban and agricultural areas. She is also interested in the role biology plays in public health, and how biological data and insights can both inform public health research as well as public health policy. She received her BA in Biology from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, her PhD in Evolutionary Biology from University of California at San Diego, and conducted post-doctoral work in the Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University and the Systems Biology Department at Harvard Medical School. She has been at UCLA since 2013. Pamela is also an External Faculty at Santa Fe Institute.
Faculty Leadership
Jessica Cattelino
Director
Jessica Cattelino studies everyday political and material processes in the United States. She is the author of High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty. Cattelino’s book-in-progress, Water Ties: An Everglades Ethnography, examines how people are tied to one another through water in the Florida Everglades. She conducts research about gender and everyday household water use in Los Angeles and about the Indigenous waters of Los Angeles. She is a UCLA professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies, with a courtesy faculty appointment in Gender Studies. A past Chair of UCLA’s Academic Senate and President-Elect of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Cattelino is Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center.
Leisy Abrego
Associate Director
Leisy J. Abrego is Professor in Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Trained in sociology, she is a law & society scholar who studies the intimate consequences of U.S. foreign and immigration policies for Central American migrants and Latinx families in the United States. Her book, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders (Stanford University Press, 2014), examines the well-being of Salvadoran immigrants and their families—both in the United States and in El Salvador—as these are shaped by immigration policies and gendered expectations. Her research also explores how immigration and educational policies shape the educational trajectories of undocumented students. She is co-editor of We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States (with Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Duke University Press, 2020), a volume that offers a counternarrative to the idea that only exceptional and “deserving” migrants should gain citizenship and legal rights. Her scholarship analyzing legal consciousness, illegality, and legal violence has garnered numerous awards from the Latin American Studies Association and the American Sociological Association. She also dedicates much of her time to supporting and advocating for refugees and immigrants by writing editorials and pro-bono expert declarations in asylum cases.
Nina Eidsheim
Professor, Musicology
Senior Advisor for Faculty Development
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.
Grace Hong
Senior Faculty Research Associate
Grace Kyungwon Hong is Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA; she also holds a joint appointment in Asian American Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Literature at UC San Diego, and her M.A. in Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her research focuses on women of color feminism as an epistemological critique of and alternative to Western liberal humanism and capital, particularly as they manifest as contemporary neoliberalism. Most recently, she has been working on a project on situating Asian and Asian diasporic feminism within a genealogy of Third World feminism. 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) and the co-editor (with Roderick Ferguson) of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University Press, 2011). She is the co-editor (also with Roderick Ferguson) of the Difference Incorporated book series at the University of Minnesota Press. She teaches courses on women of color feminism and Asian American culture.
Alesia Montgomery
Faculty Research Associate
Alesia Montgomery is an Assistant Professor at UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability (IoES). An ethnographer, Montgomery studies the social and environmental justice concerns of low-income, racialized communities. Her book, Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit, focuses on battles over the aims and strategies of green redevelopment. Her publications also include articles in the International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, City & Community, Ethnography, Antipode, Sociological Perspectives, and Global Networks. Currently, Montgomery is studying (1) the politics and consequences of water insecurity in low-income, racialized communities and (2) constructions of political, cultural, and research bridges across communities to evaluate, re-imagine, and rebuild connections with water. Montgomery’s areas of research and teaching expertise span urban studies, environmental sociology, sociology of technology, race/class/gender/sexuality, social theory, and qualitative methods. She is involved in collaborations across institutions to develop new methods and tools for gathering, analyzing, preserving, and sharing qualitative data about environmental problems, in ways that further the rigor of research and its accessibility to communities. As part of this work, she serves on the Research Advisory Board for the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) at Syracuse University.
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
Molly Endert-Tatum
Office Operations Student Worker
Molly Endert-Tatum is one of our student workers responsible for supporting CSW|Streisand Center’s office.
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 Li
Office Operations Student Worker
Anna Li (she/her) is one of our student workers responsible for supporting CSW|Streisand Center’s office.
Ria Rao
Communications Student Worker
Ria Rao (she/her) is one of our student workers responsible for supporting CSW|Streisand Center’s office.
Missy Carrera
Social Media Student Worker
Missy Carrera (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.
Ethan Ngo
Student Graphic Designer
Ethan Ngo (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 Jessica Cattelino (Director), Leisy Abrego (Associate Director), as well as the following faculty:
Michelle Liu Carriger
Associate Professor, School of Theater, Film and Television
CSWAC Chair
Michelle Liu Carriger specializes in the historiography of theater, performance and everyday life, with special focus on gender, race and sexuality, as well as how clothing and fashion can themselves serve as historiographical methods for maintaining bodily links to the past. Formerly a lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, her first book project concentrates on clothing and fashion as everyday performance in 19th century Britain and Japan. She attends especially to the ways in which notions of theatricality in clothing and fashion simultaneously articulate and mystify the discourses of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and modernity in their work upon bodies. An article excerpted from this work, “The Unnatural History and Petticoat Mystery of Boulton and Park: A Victorian Sex Scandal and the Theatre Defense,” won the 2012 TDR (The Drama Review) Graduate Student Essay Contest Award and the 2014 Gerald Kahan Prize from ASTR (the American Society for Theatre Research).
Alesia Montgomery
Assistant Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Alesia Montgomery is an Assistant Professor at UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability (IoES). An ethnographer, Montgomery studies the social and environmental justice concerns of low-income, racialized communities. Her book, Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit, focuses on battles over the aims and strategies of green redevelopment. Her publications also include articles in the International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, City & Community, Ethnography, Antipode, Sociological Perspectives, and Global Networks.
Pamela Yeh
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Amander Clark
Professor, Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Amander Clark, PhD, is Professor of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology at UCLA and the Founding Director of the UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education. Professor Clark is an award-winning scientist and internationally recognized expert on topics in stem cell biology, developmental biology and reproductive science. Results from the Clark Lab provide the basis for engineering reproductive cells and tissues from stem cells to provide solutions for reproductive dysfunction at all stages of life. Her current interests are in vitro gametogenesis, understanding the formation of the ovarian reserve, and preserving ovarian health as a strategy to promote the health span of women. Dr Clark has authored more than 100 scientific articles with over 19,000 citations of her published work. Professor Clark is regularly invited to appear as a subject matter expert for the New York Times, the Economist, the New Yorker and Public Radio. From 2023-2024 she served as President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, a global non-profit that promotes excellence in stem cell science and applications to human health. Professor Clark is currently serving on the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine Health Sciences Policy Board and is committed to science and policy that promotes equitable representation and access, and is informed by public engagement.
Christine (Tina) Taitano DeLisle
Associate Professor, Gender Studies and American Indian Studies
Christine (Tina) Taitano DeLisle is a CHamoru daughter of Guåhan (Guam), the southernmost of the Marianas. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. DeLisle’s research commitments are on researching Native Pacific Islander histories, especially women’s stories, public history and rewriting histories of the island of Guåhan from a CHamoru perspective. DeLisle is the author of the book Placental Politics: Chamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity Under U.S. Colonialism in Guam (2020), a history of CHamoru nurse-midwives and teachers and how their work of inafa’maolek (of “making good”) was enmeshed in the work of white American navy wives. The book draws on this early twentieth century history of CHamoru women’s resistance against colonial efforts to stamp out inafa’maolek knowledge (like the precautionary practice of placenta burial) to articulate an Indigenous feminist “placental politics” of CHamoru women protecting people and land and feminist assertions of CHamoru sovereignty against US colonial and military patriarchy.
AY2026-2027 CSWAC General Membership
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor, Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Professor, Music
Associate Professor, Art History
Professor, Law
Associate Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Assistant Professor, Art History
Assistant Professor, Education
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Associate Professor, Gender Studies and Labor Studies
Director, Hammer Museum
Assistant Professor Gender Studies
Professor, Armenian Music, Arts and Culture
Assistant Professor, Public Policy; Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor, Political Science
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, Theater
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies
Assistant Professor, Art History
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Assistant Adjunct Professor, European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Assistant Professor Gender Studies
Distinguished Professor, Law
Professor. Architecture
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Professor, History
Professor, English
Assistant Professor, African American Studies
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management
Professor, Geography
Associate Professor, Musicology
Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Education
Faculty Director, Williams Institute; Center for Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy
Professor, Political Science and African American Studies
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor, Strategy and Behavioral Decision Making
Assistant Professor, Law
Associate 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
Assistant Professor, World Arts & Culture / Dance
Associate Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Associate Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Professor, Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Professor, Research Theme in Translational Social Science and Health Equity
Professor, Law
Associate Professor, Education
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, Political Science
Professor, Gender Studies; Asian American Studies
Assistant Professor in Residence, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Assistant Professor, Education
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
Executive Director Critical Race Studies Program
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
Assistant Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Faculty Advisor, Education
Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Gender Studies and English
Assistant Professor, English
Associate Professor, Art
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare
Lecturer, Design Media Arts
Professor, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Education;American Indian Studies
Associate Professor, Education
Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Professor, English and Film, Television, and Digital Media
Professor, Design Media Arts
Professor, Anthropology
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Theater, Film, and Television
Professor, Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Design Media Arts
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Assistant Professor, Education
Assistant Professor in Residence General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
Assistant Professor, English; Design Media Arts
Assistant Professor Classics
Professor, Information Studies, African American Studies and Gender Studies
Professor Emeritus, Gender Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Director, Women in Engineering
Professor, Sociology
Professor, Law
Assistant Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Law
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lecturer, Law
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare
Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Professor, Comparative Literature
Clinical Professor, General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
Assistant Professor, Musicology
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Professor Film, Television & Digital Media
Associate Professor World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Distinguished Professor, Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Composition
Professor, Law
Associate Professor, Social Welfare
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Assistant Professor Theater
Professor, Urban Planning; Social Welfare; Geography
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies
Associate Professor, Social Welfare
Associate Professor, Musicology
Associate Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Associate Dean, Public Interest Programs; School of Law
Associate Professor, Design Media Arts
Associate 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
Professor, Anthropology and Gender Studies
Dean, Humanities
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences
Assistant Professor, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
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
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Professor, Film, Television, and Digital Media
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences
Director, Labor Center
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies
Assistant Professor, Anderson School of Management
Professor, Social Welfare
Assistant Professor Political Science
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Tavi Carpenter
2026 Thinking Gender Conference Coordinator
thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu
Tavi Lorelle Carpenter (She/Her/Hers)Tavi is a second year PhD Student in the Anthropology Department at UCLA. Her research focuses on tribal sovereignty, governance, indigeneity, co-management agreements, land management & stewardship in Northern California. She is a Coast Miwok, Dry Creek Pomo, Southern Pomo, and Mishewal Wappo lineal descendant.
