Since 2009, Anna Carastathis (Ph.D., McGill University) is Assistant Professor of feminist philosophy in the Department of Philosophy. Anna's research and teaching interests are in critical race feminisms, postcolonial and anti-colonial theory, and Marx. Her current research critically examines the concept of intersectionality. In 2010-2011, Anna was awarded a CSGS Faculty Research Fellowship to conduct research at San Francisco's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Historical Archive. Anna has held two Postdoctoral Fellowships, at the Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal (2008-2009), and at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia (2011-2012). Anna regularly teaches cross-listed courses in Philosophy and Women's, Gender and Sexuality studies and has twice offered the integrated graduate seminar in WGSS. She has been a CSGS Board Member since 2010, and served as Acting Chair in 2012-2013. Together with the amazing people in her courses on feminist philosophy, Anna organized two conferences in collaboration with CSGS: 'Breaking the Chain of Gendered Violence Through Education and Empowerment' (2010) and 'What is Done in the Dark Must Come to Light: Imagine an End to Gendered Violence' (2013). Among her most treasured experiences at CSULA are serving as faculty advisor to the Queer Connection, and mentoring students working on M.A. theses or independent studies in the areas of gender, sexuality, 'race' and ethnicity, and social justice.
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