Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Institution
University of California, Berkeley
Ianna Hawkins Owen, he/none, is an advanced assistant professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. Owen’s first monograph, Ordinary Failure: Diaspora’s Limits & Longings, is under contract with Duke University Press. Owen has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, & he recently received a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award to support his second book project, This Time Without Feeling: Reading Black Asexual Affects. Prior to joining the faculty of GWS in 2024, Owen held a UC President's Postdoc in English & faculty appointments at Williams College & Boston University.