Rachel Carson College Faculty Fellows
Sikina Jinnah is Rachel Carson College's new faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
Dr. Jinnah is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department, an affiliated faculty member in the Environmental Studies Department, and a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research focuses on the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, and in particular the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making. Her most recent projects examine how key norms in global climate politics shape power relations, the role of U.S. preferential trade agreements in shaping environmental policy in trading partner nations, and the politics of climate engineering governance.
- Pronouns she, her, ella
- Title
- Professor Emerita
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Latin American & Latino Studies
- Affiliations Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Feminist Studies Department, Anthropology Department, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Community Studies Program
- Website
- Office Location
- Remote work location, contact by email
- Office Hours N/A
- Mail Stop Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Chicana/o Studies, American Studies, Latino/a Studies, Sexuality, Poverty
Research Interests
The movement for reproductive justice, family, poverty, sexuality, transnational migration by Mexicans, Chicanx-Latinx studies, feminism, ethnographic research methods
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
Honors, Awards and Grants
American Anthropological Association's Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology Award, 2016
Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists 2016 ALLA Distinguished Career Award
The Society for the Anthropology of North America Distinguished Career Achievement in the Critical Study of North America Award, 2010
“Honorable Mention” for the 2009-10 Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010
“Faculty Research Lecture” by the Academic Senate, University of California Santa Cruz, 2009
“Scholar of the Year” by the Chicano/Latino Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2006.
“NACCS Scholar of the Year” by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2003.
The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award of 2002 for Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, co-authored with The Latina Feminist Group.
Named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics, Hispanic Business Magazine, October 2002.
Selected Publications
- “Reproductive Justice Activism in the Post-Dobbs Era,” Feminist Anthropology, 2023:1-13 doi: 10.1002/fea2.12134
- “Women of Color,” in special issue on “Keywords” in feminist anthropology, 3 2022: 404-11.
- “Intersectional Praxis in the Movement for Reproductive Justice: The Respect ABQ Women Campaign,” Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14, no. 2 (2016): 509-533.
- "Contesting Structural Vulnerability through Reproductive Justice Activism with Latina Immigrants in California." North American Dialogue 19, no. 1 (2016): 36-45.
- The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism. New York: New York University Press, 2020 (https://nyupress.org/9781479812707/the-movement-for-reproductive-justice/)
- I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty
- Why Are Immigrant Families Different Now?
- Mexicans in California: Transformation and Challenges (co-edited with Ramón Gutiérrez). Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
- Special issue on "Gendered Borderlands" (co-edited with Denise A. Segura) Gender and Society 22, no. 5 (2008).
- Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader (co-edited with Denise A. Segura). Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
- Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (co-edited with Gabriela Arredondo, Aída Hurtado, Norma Klahn, and Olga Nájera Ramírez). Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
- Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (co-authored with The Latina Feminist Group). Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
Teaching Interests
Migration, Gender and Health in Latina/o Communities
Latino Families in Transition
Latina/o Ethnographic Practice
Criminalizing the Poor
Migration, Borders, Borderlands
