Graduate Students
Stacy I. Macías
maciass@ucla.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2003-Present University of California at Los Angeles
Degree in progress: Doctorate of Philosophy in Women’s Studies
2001-2003 University of California at Los Angeles
Masters of Arts Program in Urban Planning
1991-1995 Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA,
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology/ Sociology and Women’s Studies
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research explores the ways in which queer and racialized representations of femininity and femme identity circulate discursively and materially through such sites as the internet, television, conference meetings, critical anthologies, and performances. I seek to address the effects of these circulations at our present historical juncture in which the trope of femininity is an oft-relied upon device in the discipline and surveillance of women of color bodies and subjectivities. Other interests: multicultural-transnational, queer-feminist cultural production; “new” queer studies; borderlands theory; Chicana and Mexicana lesbian feminist scholarship and activism; histories of women of color feminist knowledge production.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
July 2004- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program Assistant, UCLA
Present
Feb 2005- Conference Co-Organizer, The Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference: Queer Scapes: Nov 2005 Body Space Sexuality.
May 2005 Library Exhibit Organizing Committee Member, Visionaries in the Academy:
Nov 2005 Women of Color at UCLA
January 2005- SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Graduate Student Editorial Intern
June 2005
Fall 2003 & Teaching Assistant Consultant (TAC), César E. Chávez Center and the
Winter 2004 Office of Instructional Development
Fall 2003 Conference Organizer, The Maquiladora Murders International Conference, UCLA
Summer 2003 Researcher and Editorial Team Member
Department of Urban Planning UCLA Community Scholars Program with
Dr. Jacqueline Leavitt.
Fall 2001- Teaching Assistant, César E. Chávez Center, UCLA
Spring 2003
1999-Current Co-Founding Member & Director of Development, Tongues, A queer women of color cultural arts community development organization
HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2005 UCLA Quality of Graduate Education Grant, 2004-2005 Academic Year.
2004 UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship in the Humanities and Social
Sciences Award
2004 UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program Travel
Grant Award
2003 National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Community Award,
presented to co-founding members of Tongues.
2002 UCLA Regent Fellowship for Continuing Students, 2002-2003 Academic
Year.
2001 UCLA Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, 2001-2002 Academic Year.
1998 The National Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Organization (LLEGO) “National Youth Leadership Award.”
PRESENATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Macias, Stacy, Alma Lopez, and Deborah R. Vargas; Panel Chair: Alicia
Arrizon; Panel Commentator: Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano. (November 2005). Panel
Presentation “Haciendo Caras, Haciendo Femme.” American Studies Association
Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.
Macias, Stacy, Alma Lopez, and Cristina Serna (July 2005) Panel
Presentation: “Chicanas in Mexico: Queer Feminist Print Culture and
Organizational Practices.” Semana Cultural de LeSVOZ. Mexico City, Mexico.
Macías, Stacy (February 2005) Panel Presentation “Chicana Lesbian Praxis as
a Bridge In/Outside of Academia: A Case Study of Tongues.” Abriendo Brecha/Haciendo
Camino: Activist Scholarship on Race, Identity, and Mestizaje in the
Americas. University of Texas, Austin.
Macías, Stacy (August 2004) Panel Presentation: “Cada Beso es Revolución,
Or, For Every Lesbian Kiss, a Social Change: Lesbian Feminist Activism as
Social Movement Practice, Los Angeles to Mexico.” Mujeres Activas en Letras
y Cambio Social (MALCS). University of Washington, Seattle.
Macías, Stacy (July 2004) Publication: “From the editors…” Tongues Magazine
4: (2).
Macías, Stacy (April 2004) Plenary Speaker: “Safe Spaces for Chicanas:
Survival and Resistance in Everyday Life.” National Association of Chicano
and Chicana Studies, Chicana Plenary. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Macías, Stacy (Spring 2004) Publication “Conference Report: The Maquiladora
Murders, Or Who Is Killing the Women of Juarez?” UCLA Center for the Study
of Women Newsletter http//:www.women.ucla.edu/newsletter/newsletterS04.htm
Macías, Stacy (November 2003) Community Activist Panel Member: “New
Strategies for a New World Order: Women In Political Action Conference.”
California State University, Long Beach.
Macías, Stacy, Cerda, A., Mendoza, D., and Retter, Y. (August 2003).
Presentation: “Documenting our Herstorias,” Memoria, Voz y Patrimonio
Conference, University of California at Los Angeles.