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CGS Lecturers

  • Amanda Martin Sandino

    Amanda Martin Sandino

    Lecturer

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

    Fall Session 2026
    CGS-2A: Introduction to Critical Gender Studies: Key Terms and Concepts
    CGS-113: Gender & Sexuality in the Arts
    CGS-190: CGS 190 Honors Seminar

    Winter Session 2027
    CGS-116: Feminist Social Movements
    CGS-124: Girls and Sexuality
    CGS-127: Feminist Border Studies

    Spring Session 2027
    CGS-121: Selected Topics in CGS: Disability and Sex
    CGS-122: Advanced Topics in Comparative Perspective: Queer Protest and Aesthetics
    CGS-130: Queer Performativity 

    Research Interests and Education
    A second-generation Chilenx American, Amanda Martin Sandino is a scholar of disability, gender, race, and futurity. She received her Ph.D. in Literature and MFA in Writing from UC San Diego, her MA in Cultural Studies from UW Bothell, and her BA in Asian Studies from Seattle University. Her first book, Looking Beyond the Curtain: Disability Futurity and the Literary Wonderland, is scheduled for publication by McFarland Press in 2021.
  • Leila Whitley

    Leila Whitley

    Continuing Lecturer

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

    Winter Session 2027
    CGS-2B: Introduction to Critical Gender Studies: Social Formations
    CGS-106: Gender & the Law

    Spring Session 2027
    CGS-100B: Conceptualizing Gender: Methods
    CGS-105: Queer Theory

    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

    Marisol Cuong

    Lecturer

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

    Fall Session 2026
    CGS-101: Gender & Globalization
    CGS-111: Gender and the Body

    Winter Session 2027
    CGS-110: Intersectional Struggles for Environmental Justice
    CGS-123: Gender and Reproductive Politics

    Spring Session 2027
    CGS-109: Sexual Violence
    CGS-122: Advanced Topics in Comparative Perspectives: Gender and the Military
    CGS-128: Transnational Feminisms 

    Research Interests and Education
    Chicana/o Latine gender and migration, displacement, and militarization. Marisol received her Ph.D. in Literature (Spanish Section) with Critical Gender Studies Specialization, as well as M.A. in Literature, from UC San Diego.
  • (Errol) Tsekani Browne

    (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.