Faculty

Alicia Arrizón
Professor and Chair, Women's Studies
Ph.D., Stanford University, Latin American literature and cultural studies.
Interdisciplinary humanities approaches to Chicano/Latino ethnicity in relation to gender, class, and sexualities; comparative studies of Spanish post/colonial gender and sexualities
Office: 2033C CHASS Interdisciplinary Building
Phone: (951) 827-4359
e-mail: alicia.arrizon@ucr.edu

Amalia L. Cabezas
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., UC Berkeley, ethnic studies.
Comparative sexualities, sex tourism, women's health in international perspective, gender in Latin America and the Caribbean, women and labor in capitalist political economies.
Office: 2046 CHASS Interdisciplinary Building
Phone: (951) 827-3840
e-mail: amalia.cabezas@ucr.edu

Piya Chatterjee
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, cultural anthropology.
Women and community based organizing in the global south; international women's human rights; US women of color and transnational feminisms; women and labor; gender and colonialism with special emphasis on South Asia; intersectional and postcolonial feminist theory.
Office: 2011 CHASS Interdisciplinary Building
Phone: (951) 827-5219
e-mail: piya.chatterjee@ucr.edu

Tracy Fisher
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The City University of New York
Race, Anti-Racism, Gender and Feminist Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Women and Community Activism, Citizenship, Gender and the State.
Office: 2042 CHASS Interdisciplinary Building
Phone: (951) 827-2846
e-mail: tracy.fisher@ucr.edu

Christine Ward Gailey
Professor (Women's Studies and Anthropology)
Ph.D., New School for Social Research (New School University, NY), critical anthropology.
Gender and kinship, gender and state formation, feminist methodologies, gendered violence, politics of reproduction, gender and adoption, girls and video gaming.
Office: 2005 CHASS Interdisciplinary Building
Phone: (951) 827-6426
e-mail: christine.gailey@ucr.edu

Sherine Hafez
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., UC Davis, Anthropology
Middle East Studies, Post-colonial Theory, and Islamic Societies and Cultures
Office: 2021 CHASS Interdisciplinary Building
Phone: (951) 827-3329
e-mail: sherine.hafez@ucr.edu

Tamara Ho
Assistant Professor
PhD, Comparative Literature, UCLA 
Women's Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, US Ethnic Studies, Asian American literature, Chicana/o literature.
Office: 2038 CHASS Interdisciplinary Building
Phone: (951) 827-4364
e-mail: tamara.ho@ucr.edu

Chikako Takeshita
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
Ph.D. 2004, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Feminist studies of science, technology, and medicine; reproductive health, rights, and politics in global perspective; gender, technology and the body; women in science and engineering; indigenous rights and political ecology/economy.
Office: 2013 CHASS Interdisciplinary Building
Phone: (951) 827-6077
e-mail: chikako.takeshita@ucr.edu

Jane Ward
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, sociology
inequality, sexualities, social movements, critical theory
Office: 2025 CHASS Interdisciplinary Building
Phone: (951) 827-7047
email: jane.ward@ucr.edu

Marguerite R. Waller
Full Professor (Women's Studies and Comparative Literature)
Ph.D., Yale University, Comparative Literature
Gender and film, feminist theory, gender theory, feminist literary criticism, gender and militarism
Office: 2050 CHASS Interdisciplinary Building
Phone: (951) 827-7859
e-mail: marguerite.waller@ucr.edu