People at the Center For Race & Gender

DIRECTOR

Evelyn Nakano Glenn is Professor of Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies. Her teaching and research interests focus on transdisciplinary methods, political economy of households, the intersection of race and gender, immigration, and citizenship. Her articles have appeared such journals as Social Problems, Signs, Feminist Studies, Social Science History, Stanford Law Review, Contemporary Sociology, and Review of Radical Political Economy, as well as in numerous edited volumes. She is the author of Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service (Temple University Press), Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency (Routledge), and Unequal Freedom, How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizen and Labor (Harvard University Press). 

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Alisa Bierria is the Associate Director of the Center for Race and Gender. Alisa is an award-winning teacher of feminist theory and has ten years of community organizing experience related to racial and gender justice. She is currently a PhD candidate at Stanford University’s Department of Philosophy. Her dissertation investigates the social and political recognition aspects of human agency.

STAFF

Donna Hiraga-Stephens has been with the Center since June of 2004. She was promoted from Administrative Assistant to Program Manager in March 2006. Donna, previously, worked in the Library Human Resources Department, Moffitt Library, and other UCB departments. 

Joyce Li is the Center's Administrative Assistant. She joined the CRG staff in June 2006. She comes from a background in private industry.

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER

Timothy Charoenying is a third year doctoral student in the school of education. His research spans two fronts: The first involves the cognition of tools and artifacts. The second involves developing communities of action involving students, teachers, local businesses, and other entities through school-based enterprises. He is the editor-in-chief of the CRG Faultlines publication, and also designed this website.

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE

Alia Pan's research examines the relationship between the plantation and the literature that its laborers and their descendants eventually produced in response it. Her article “Laboring Beneath the Father: the Plantation in Absalom, Absalom!” will appear in a special issue of the Mississippi Quarterly on Faulkner, Labor, and the Critique of Capitalism. She helps to run the CRG’s writing group and is a member of a multi-campus research group on food and the body. Alia received her PhD in twentieth-century American literature from Berkeley’s English Department in May 2008 for her dissertation “Remembering Bodies: Subject Formation in the Neo-Plantation Narrative.”