EDUCATION

• University of California, Los Angeles, PhD Candidate in Women’s Studies Completion Expected Spring 2010
• Visiting PhD Student/Researcher, Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht University, 2008
• University of California Los Angeles , M.A. in Women’s Studies, 2007
• Fulbright Scholar, Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, 2002-03
• DePaul University, B.A. in Women’s Studies, 2002

Teaching/Research Interests: human trafficking, sex worker, and immigrant rights; structural violence; social movements; trauma studies; transnational feminism(s); European feminism(s); carceral feminism(s); human rights

Dissertation Title: Improvising Protection: Explorations of Trafficking Victim Protection Efforts in the Netherlands

Dissertation Committee:

• Professor Gail Kligman, Chair (UCLA, Sociology)
• Professor Christine Littleton (UCLA, Law School and Women’s Studies)
• Professor Ellen Dubois (UCLA, History and Women’s Studies)
• Professor Grace Chang, external committee member (UC Santa Barbara, Feminist Studies)
• Professor Elizabeth Bernstein, external committee member (Columbia University, Women’s Studies and Sociology)

HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA Dutch Studies Program, 2008
• Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, 2008
• Alumni Fellowship, UCLA Alumni Association, 2007-08
• Collaborative Action Research Grant, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), 2007-08
• Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program, UCLA Graduate Division, 2007
• Dutch Book Prize, UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, 2006
• FLAS Fellowship, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, 2005-06
• Predissertation Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies, 2005-06
• Alice Belkin Memorial Scholarship, UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, 2004-05
• Travel Grant, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 2004-05
• University of California Regents Award, 2004-08
• QGE Research Grant, UCLA Women’s Studies Department. 2004-08
• Fulbright Scholarship, Netherlands America Commission for Cultural Exchange (NACEE), 2002-03

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Co-Instructor with Prof. Gloria Wekker, Feminist Toolbox: Feminist Theories & Methodologies, Fall 2008 (Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht University)
• Instructor, Gender, Violence and Social Suffering, Summer 2008 (Women’s Studies Department, UCLA)
• Instructor, Women in Global Perspective, Spring 2008 (Women’s Studies Department, California State University, Long Beach)
• Instructor, Women in Contemporary Society, Spring 2008 (Women’s Studies Department, California State University, Long Beach)
• Instructor, Women in Contemporary Society, Fall 2007 (Women’s Studies Department, California State University, Long Beach)
• Teaching Associate, Introduction to Women’s Studies, Fall 2007 (Women’s Studies Department, UCLA)
• Teaching Associate, Sociology of Gender, Spring 2006 (Sociology Department, UCLA)
• Teaching Associate, Introduction to Women’s Studies, Winter 2006 (Women’s Studies Department, UCLA)
• Teaching Associate, Introduction to Women’s Studies, Spring 2005 (Women’s Studies Department, UCLA)
• Teaching Associate, Introduction to Women’s Studies, Spring 2004 (Women’s Studies Department, UCLA)
• Teaching Associate, Introduction to Women’s Studies, Winter 2004 (Women’s Studies Department, UCLA)

OTHER RELEVANT ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Research Associate, UCLA Center for Culture and Health, 2006-07
  Program: Use of Genetics in Neurologists’ Clinical Practices

• Research Associate, Caltech Precollege Science Initiative (CAPSI), 2004-05
  Program: Is Science Me?

• Coordinator, UCLA’s Annual Graduate Student Research Conference “Thinking Gender,” 2005

• Graduate Research Assistant, UCLA Department of Women’s Studies, 2003-04

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