She joined the department in 2010. Her research and teaching interests are in transnational feminism, human rights, racism/antiracism, Latin America, and globalization in the Américas. She is the co-editor of New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights (Routledge, 2011), serves on the editorial collective of Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences, and is on the editorial board of Contexts, a public sociology magazine. She is a former United Nations (UN) co-consultant to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. She is also a former UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow and Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for junior faculty.