Graduate Students
miga13@aol.com
PH.D. Candidate, Women’s Studies, UCLA
JD, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA (1997)
BA, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA (1994)
Research Interests:
My doctoral research examines how the U.S. and Indian legal systems, adjudicate domestic violence homicides involving Indian women. My research also explores the extent to which the landscape of feminist legal activism in both regions has been altered by transnational feminist discourses and advocacy networks which increasingly link violence against women to changes in the global economy, shifting racializations and re-assertions of state power. Other research interests include: women of color feminisms, transnational feminisms, postcolonial theory, critical race theory and feminist legal theory.
Dissertation Committee:
Chair: Professor Sondra Hale (Anthropology and Women’s Studies) UCLA
Professor Christine Littleton (Law and Women’s Studies) UCLA
Professor Cheryl Harris (Law) UCLA
Professor Aziza Khazzoom (Sociology) UCLA
Fellowships and Grants:
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship (UCLA), 2000-2001
Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship (UCLA), 2002-2006
Quality of Graduate Education Research Grant (UCLA), 2004-2005
Teaching Experience:
Race and Gender Seminar, Fall 2004 (Loyola Law School)
Gender in a Global Context, Winter 2004 (Cal-Poly Pomona)
Gender in a Global Context, Winter 2003 (Cal-Poly Pomona)
Women of Color in the United States, Spring 2002 (UCLA)
Publications:
“Intimate Partner Violence in a Global Perspective,” Murder at Home Report, California Women’s Law Center (forthcoming)
Incite! Women of Color Against Militarism, zine produced by Incite! Los Angeles, 2003 (with Khanum Shaikh, Rebecca Yee and Katherine Freeman)
“Demanding the Right to Live Without Violence” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Vol. 3, Num. 1 2002 (with Sylvanna Falcon)
“Genetic Testing and the Law,” Breast Cancer Action Newsletter, July/August 2000
“Recent Laws Impacting Women With Breast Cancer,” California Women’s Law Center, Policy Brief, 2000
“Women of Color and Breast Cancer,” California Alliance Against Domestic Violence Newsletter, August 1999 (with Marci Fukuroda)
Conferences:
“Using Transnational Frameworks to Expand the Discourse on Gendered Violence” Feminism Unbound: Crossing Borders, The Huntington Library, March 2004
“The Woman Question in Bollywood Film,” Thinking Gender Conference, UCLA, March 2003
“When Culture Becomes a Commodity: Hindu Imagery in the Western Marketplace” Graduate Student History and Theory Conference, UC Irvine, November 2002
“Where Strict Equality and Colorblindness Converge,” Thinking Gender Conference, UCLA, March 2002