I grew up hearing that rape was the worst thing that could happen to a “woman.” By the time I was a teenager in the 1990s, mainstream media reported nightly on the rape of Muslim women in the disintegrating Yugoslavia. I had a very crude question at that time—h..
Rana M. Jaleel
Rana M. Jaleel is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. There, she chairs the Graduate Group in Cultural Studies and is a Dean's Faculty Fellow as well as a Chancellor's Fellow. Her book, The Work of Rape (2021), 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. Other academic work has been published in Amerasia, Critical Ethnic Studies, Social Text: Periscope, Cultural Studies, and The Brooklyn Law Review. Dr Jaleel is part of the Critical Ethnic Studies journal’s Editorial Collective. A long-time member of the American Association of University Professors, she presently serves on the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.