People at CRG

EVELYN NAKANO GLENN
DIRECTOR Evelyn Nakano Glenn

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).

DONNA HIRAGA-STEPHENS
PROGRAM MANAGER

Donna Hiraga-Stephens

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

JOYCE LI
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Joyce is the Adminisrative Assistant and joined the CRG staff in June 2006. She comes from a background in private industry.

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHERS

TAMERA LEE STOVER

Tamera is a third year in the Sociology department. Her research examines how the Pakistani community in the US has been interpreting and responding to the post-9/11 political terrain, and how geopolitical pressures constrain and influence identity options. Tamera joined the CRG in the Fall of 2007 and works on the Thursday Afternoon Forum Series, community relations and publicity, and the development of new CRG program offerings.

DANIEL PAREDES
UNDERGRADUATE ASSISTANT

Daniel Paredes Photo

Daniel is the undergraduate assistant at the Center. He studies Political Science, specializing in international relations. Daniel has conducted undergraduate research on urban development and urban displacement and is also currently starting work as a coordinator for the Academic Peer Mentoring Program at Berkeley.

ALIA PAN
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.”

Advisory Committee, 2007-2008
Alice Agogino Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley Thomas Biolsi Native American Studies, UC Berkeley Steve Crum Native American Studies, UC Davis Angela Harris Law, UC Berkeley Charles Henry African American Studies, UC Berkeley Percy Hintzen African American Studies, UC Berkeley Elaine Kim Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley Colleen Lye English, UC Berkeley		Beatriz Manz Geography & Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley Martin Sanchez-Jankowski Sociology, UC Berkeley Tyler Stovall History, UC Berkeley Charis Thompson Rhetoric & Women's Studies, UC Berkeley Barrie Thorne Women's Studies & Sociology, UC Berkeley Nelson Maldanado Torres Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley Khatharya Um Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Affiliated Faculty
By Department On this page you will find a list of faculty affiliated with the Center for Race and Gender, organized by department, whose research touches on the intersections of race and gender. By Last Name On this page you will find a list of faculty affiliated with the Center for Race and Gender, organized by last name, whose research touches on the intersections of race and gender.