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Alexandra Stern (she/her/hers)

Dean, Division of Humanities
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States

Alex Minna Stern is the Humanities Dean and Professor of English and History, and at the Institute for Society and Genetics, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dean Stern was previously the Associate Dean for Humanities at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Prior to that role, Dean Stern held a series of other leadership positions at the Ann Arbor campus: Chair of the Department of American culture (2017–2019), Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center/Brazil Initiative (2014–2017) and Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine (2002–12).

She founded and co-directs the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab, an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research team that is reconstructing and analyzing the history of eugenics and sterilization in five U.S. states (Michigan, North Carolina, Iowa, Utah, and California). Her research has focused on the history of eugenics, genetics, society, and justice in the United States and Latin America. Through these topics, she has explored the dynamics of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, social difference, and reproductive politics.

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