CGS Lecturers

Amanda Martin Sandino

Lecturer

Email: amartins@ucsd.edu
Office Location: HSS 2041

Leila Whitley

Continuing Lecturer

Email: lwhitley@ucsd.edu
Office Location: HSS 2041

Fall Quarter 2025 & Winter Quarter 2026
On leave of absence
Spring Quarter 2026
CGS 100B: Conceptualizing Gender: Methods
CGS 105: Queer Theory
CGS 106: Gender & the Law

Research Interests and Education
Leila Whitley’s research interests include feminist and queer theory, critical race feminisms, and the relationships between borders and bodies. She completed her PhD in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, her MA in Cultural Studies also at Goldsmiths, and her BA at McGill University. From 2016-18 she was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz, Germany, and before this was based in the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

Marisol Cuong

Lecturer

Email: mcuong@ucsd.edu
Office Location: HSS 2041 

(Errol) Tsekani Browne

Lecturer

Email: etbrowne@ucsd.edu
Office Location: SSB 242

Research Interests and Education 
Raised in San Diego, (Errol) Tsekani Browne has taught Ethnic/Gender Studies and history courses for nearly two decades at schools in California, Pennsylvania and Maryland. He earned his BA and MA in African-American Studies from UCLA, along with a PhD in History (African-American, United States, Gender fields) from UCLA as well. His research focuses on social constructions of race/gender, the intersections of feminism/nationalism, and racial/gender violence. Tsekani began teaching in UCSD’s Ethnic Studies Department in 2021. His current book manuscript--an intellectual history of Anna Julia Cooper—reads Cooper’s life and work, paying particular attention to the ways Black women intellectuals deployed constructions of race, gender and nation, and constructed intellectual community in relation to feminism, progressivism, pan Africanism, civil rights and Black nationalism. He is also interested in further researching shifting notions of Black masculinity. Tsekani has presented dozens of papers in the United States and Europe, including at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association (AHA), Organization of American Historians (OAH), Southern Historical Association, Association for the Study of the Worldwide Diaspora (ASWAD) and the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH), among others. Besides teaching, Tsekani hopes to become more involved in the institutionalization of ethnic studies, bridging gaps between “campus” and “community,” and social justice efforts locally.