Karina Eileraas Karakus
Karina Eileraas Karakus is a Continuing Lecturer in Sociology & Gender Studies at UCLA, a Global Gender Equity & DEIA Consultant, and a published author and professor with over a decade of teaching experience at UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley, and Pomona College. She received a BA in International Relations, Women’s Studies, & French from Wesleyan University; a MA in French, Francophone, & Gender Studies from Northwestern University; and a Ph.D. in Women’s and Gender Studies from UCLA and pursued a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton College. Her teaching, research, and writing address gender and sexuality, nationalism, revolution, diaspora, film, fashion, visual culture, social media, digital citizenship, bodily protest, sexual violence, transnational trauma, and global reproductive health and politics, centering especially on the Middle East & North Africa. Eileraas Karakus is the author of Between Image and identity: Transnational Fantasy, Symbolic Violence, and Feminist Misrecognition. She has also published and presented research on Algerian colonial photography, nude protest and digital citizenship in the Arab revolutions, and 1990s grrrl bands. Her latest research addresses hijabi social media influencers in Turkiye. Beyond academia, Karina consults on global gender equity and DEIA strategy, sexual and gender-based violence, mental health, cultural inclusivity, free speech and inclusive content curation on digital media platforms.