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Areas of expertise: Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., Brandeis University M.A., University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

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Sylvanna Falcón

Associate Professor


Areas of expertise: Human Rights, Activism, Border Studies, Community-based Research, Violence and Violence Prevention, Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sociology, International and Global Affairs


Biography, Education and Training

I am the 2024 president-elect of the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS). I an on the faculty of the Department of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at UC Santa Cruz. I am also the founder and director of UC Santa Cruz's Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas.

Eileen Zurbriggen

Eileen Zurbriggen

Distinguished Professor

Psychology Department

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Allison Arteaga Soergel

Public Information Representative, Division of Social Sciences

asoergel@ucsc.edu

831-459-4399


Areas of expertise: Social Psychology, Women's Studies, Violence and Violence Prevention, Social Justice, Sexuality, Feminist Studies, Sexism and Gender Bias, Gender Studies, Mass Media, Popular Culture


Biography, Education and Training

M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan B.S., M.S., Michigan State University

Tanya Merchant

Tanya Merchant

Associate Professor

Music Department

Areas of expertise: Ethnomusicology, Ethnography, Asian Music, Gender Studies, Women's Studies


Biography, Education and Training

B.M., Peabody Conservatory, Institute of the Johns Hopkins University M.Mus., Goldsmiths College, University of London Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles


Areas of expertise: African Diaspora, African American / Black Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Theory, Marxism


Biography, Education and Training

(On sabbatical until Fall 2023) I trained in critical theory, black radical thought, and feminist theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I received a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness with an emphasis in Feminist Studies and served as a founding coordinator of the Black Cultural Studies Research Cluster and the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Graduate Collective. After two years as faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies at th... more »

Linda MacDonald Glenn

Linda MacDonald Glenn

Founding Director, Center for Applied Values and Ethics in Advanced Technologies (CAVEAT), Continuing Lecturer

Crown College

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Linda MacDonald Glenn

lmglenn@ucsc.edu

802-999-8678


Areas of expertise: Ethics, Law and Policy, Science and Technology, Health and Wellness, Philosophy of Mind, Animal-Human Relationships, Environmental Justice, Social Justice, Women's Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Linda MacDonald Glenn, JD, LLM, is an ethicist, futurist, educator and attorney-at-law with over 30 years of experience in private and public sectors across multiple industries including exponential technology, healthcare, government, education, business ethics and futures forecasting. She is an internationally renowned thought leader, keynote speaker, writer, seminar developer/presenter, with a large body of published work in peer reviewed journals. She is frequently quoted in the media fo... more »


Areas of expertise: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Colonialism, Middle East Studies


Biography, Education and Training

I received my Ph.D. in American Studies with a Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies from University of Texas at Austin, where I trained in transnational American studies, critical race and ethnic studies, feminist studies, and comparative colonialisms. My research broadly engages questions of settler colonialism, U.S. empire, and the fraught politics of both tourism and solidarity. My first book, Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine (Duke University Press, 202... more »

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