Rana Jaleel

Rana M. Jaleel is an Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.  She holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University, a JD from the Yale Law School, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2013 –2015, Dr. Jaleel was the Center for Reproductive Rights Fellow at Columbia Law School.  At UC Davis, Dr. Jaleel is a 2022-2025 Chancellor’s Fellow and a 2021-2024 College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Faculty Fellow. Her first book, The Work of Rape received a 2021 Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award and was co-winner of the 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize from the National Women's Studies Association. A longtime member of the American Association of University Professors, she presently chairs the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.