The ‘Access Mazer’ Project: Organizing and Digitizing the Lesbian-Feminist Archive in Los Angeles

CSW is the recipient of a Competitive Support for Campus Partners grant from the UCLA Center for Community Partnerships. As part of CSW’s large-scale research project on “Women and Gender in Los Angeles,” CSW will partner with the West Hollywood-based June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives—the sole archival repository on the west coast dedicated to preserving lesbian and feminist history—to inventory, organize, preserve, and digitize several key Los Angeles-themed collections.

Intersectionalities: Transnational Feminisms and Comparative Racial Formations

This year-long workshop will address the epistemological and conceptual issues emerging from the intersectionality of transnational feminist theories and theories of comparative racial formations.  The working group will host a series of public lectures, read and discuss relevant published works by scholars from and outside of UCLA, and workshop the group members' works-in-progress.

Global South Research Initiative (GSRI)

GSRI fosters international exchanges between UCLA Women's Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Women, and women's/gender studies institutions in Middle East/North Africa and Muslim South Asia. Our primary objective is to facilitate dialogue on emerging theories, concepts, pedagogies, and curricula as related to contemporary social and political issues within the field of women's/gender Studies.

An interdisciplinary research group of UC faculty and graduate students from Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Ethnic studies, Film Studies, French, and Women’s Studies working on questions of women, difference, and knowledge formations in an era of globalization.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender and the Environment

This fellowship was created by the Institute of the Environment and in collaboration with the Women’s Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Women to support a two-year postdoctoral stay at UCLA. The scholar selected for 2006-2008 is Dr. Michael Silverman, who will be giving a course, "Gender and Sustainability" through Women's Studies and a public lecture, "Gender Matters: An Analysis of Disaster Relief and Re-development in Tsunami Affected Communities, Thailand," under the auspices of CSW.

Women of Color Feminism

A research group of primarily junior UCLA faculty in African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, English, History, and Dance whose research interests converge around questions of the erasure of women of color feminism in current academic concerns with the transnational.

Embodiment Workshop

An interdisciplinary group of UCLA faculty and graduate students working on problems and questions of the body in the disciplines of English, film, performance, dance, and women’s studies.

Women
in Media Industries

A group of FTV critical studies faculty and graduate students are working with the UCLA MIAS program and the Oral History project on recording and preserving the experience of women in the film and television industries in Los Angeles.