Alumni
Below are the alumni who've opted to share their profiles. If you're an alum and would like to share yours, please contact us.
PhD alumni
Evelyn Alsultany
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of American Culture, Director of Arab and Muslim American Studies
Email: alsultan@umich.edu
Cohort: 1999
Magdalena L. Barrera
Associate Professor, Mexican American Studies, San Jose State University
Email: magdalena.barrera@sjsu.edu
Cohort: 1998
Yael Ben-Zvi
Current Job TitlSenior lecturer, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University
Email: yaelbenzvi@gmail.com
Cohort: 1997
Carrie Bramen
Professor of English and Director of the UB Gender Institute, University at Buffalo
Email: bramen@buffalo.edu
Cohort: 1988
Julia Carpenter
Co-Owner, Clinic Manager, Berkeley Acupuncture Project, Berkeley, CA
Email: julia.carpenter@gmail.com
Cohort: 1999
K.J. Cerankowski
Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Email: kj.cerankowski@oberlin.edu
Cohort: 2007
Vanessa Chang
Lecturer in Visual & Critical Studies, California College of the Arts; Curator, CODAME Art + Tech
Email: vxchang@alumni.stanford.edu
Cohort: 2009
Karen Chase
Linden Kent Memorial Professor, Department of English, University of Virginia
Email: ksc3j@virginia.edu
Cohort: 1974
Alexandra Chasin
Associate Professor, Literary Studies, Lang College, The New School
Email: Chasina@newschool.edu
Cohort: 1985
Ed Cohen
Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Email: edcohen@rutgers.edu
Cohort: 1980
Raul Coronado
Associate Professor, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies
Email: raulc@berkeley.edu
Gordana P. Crnković
Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media; University of Washington, Seattle
Email: crnkovic@uw.edu
Cohort: 1987
Maya Dodd
Associate Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies, and Chair, Humanities and Languages, FLAME University, India
Email: mayadodd@gmail.com
Cohort: 2018
Laura Eliasieh
Project Research Curator, San Jose Museum of Art
Email: laura.eliasieh@gmail.com
Cohort: 2011
Nicole R. Fleetwood
Associate Professor of American Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Cohort: 1996
Vida Mia Garcia
Ethnographer | Designer, Red Cover Studios (Oakland, CA)
Email: vidamia@redcoverstudios.com
Cohort: 2000
Marcial Gonzalez
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Email: marcial@berkeley.edu
Cohort: 1994
Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Chair, LGBTQ+ Studies at City College of San Francisco
Email: athomas@ccsf.edu
Cohort: 1992
Shona N. Jackson
Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University
Email: soursop@tamu.edu
Cohort: 1997
Miranda Joseph
Professor and Chair Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Email: josephm@umn.edu
Cohort: 1986
Marty Kaplan
Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society Director, The Norman Lear Center USC Annenberg School
Email: martyk@usc.edu
Cohort: 1973
Sarah Kozloff
Professor of Film on the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair
Email: sakozloff@vassar.edu
Cohort: 1979
Carol Lashof
Managing Director, Those Women Productions, Berkeley, CA
Email: clashof@gmail.com
Cohort: 1978
Steven Madoff
Chair, MA Curatorial Practice, School of Visual Arts; curator; art critic; poet
Email: smadoff@sva.edu
Cohort: 2014
Tomas Matza
Assitant Professor, Dept. Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Email: tomas.matza@pitt.edu
Cohort: 2002
Sharona Muir
Professor, Creative Writing Program, Bowling Green State University
Email: smuir@bgsu.edu
Cohort: 2018
Daniel Murray
Associate Director, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
Email: ddmurray@stanford.edu
Cohort: 2008
Chon A. Noriega
Professor, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles; also, Director, Chicano Studies Research Center
Email: cnoriega@ucla.edu
Cohort: 1987
Hilton Obenzinger
Associate Director, Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford
Email: hiltonobenzinger@gmail.com
Cohort: 1991
George Otte
University Director of Academic Technology/CUNY Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, CUNY SPS
Email: george.otte@cuny.edu
Cohort: 1977
Helle Rytkonen
Academic Director, DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Copenhagen, Denmark
Email: helle@alumni.stanford.edu
Cohort: 2002
Dariek Scott
Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley
Email: dbscott@berkeley.edu
Cohort: 1991
Celine Parrenas Shimizu
Professor, School of Cinema, San Francisco State University
Email: shimizu@sfsu.edu
Cohort: 1996
Rebecca Stein
Nicholas J. & Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Duke University
Email: rlstein@duke.edu
Lisa B. Thompson
Associate Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Email: lbthompson@austin.utexas.edu
Cohort: 1994
Stephanie Kuduk Weiner
Professor of English, Wesleyan University
Email: sweiner@wesleyan.edu
Cohort: 1994
Rebecca Wilbanks
Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics and the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Cohort: 2017
Co-term alumni
Sarah Sadlier
History PhD student at Harvard University with a PhD secondary field in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Email: sadlier@alumni.stanford.edu
Cohort: 2016
