Neda Atanasoski

Neda Atanasoski is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at The University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Atanasoski has also published articles on gender and religion, nationalism and war, human rights, and race and technology, which have appeared in journals such as Catalyst, European Journal of Cultural Studies, the Journal of American Culture and Feminist Theory, as well as in anthologies. Currently she is co-authoring a book with Kalindi Vora (UCSD), which is titled “Surrogate Humanity: Race, Technology, Revolution.” Atanasoski received her PhD in Cultural Studies from the Literature Department at UC San Diego, and her bachelor’s degree in Political Science and French from the University of Minnesota. She has received numerous fellowships, including the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, and grants from the Center for New Racial Studies and the Hellman Program. In 2012, she was awarded a UC Humanities Research Institute fellowship to convene a 12-week Residential Research Group, “Imperial Legacies, Postsocialist Contexts,” with Kalindi Vora. Most recently, she was the recipient of a grant from the Luce Foundation and the UC Humanities initiative for Religion in Diaspora and Global Affairs to initiate a humanities studio with Mariam Lam (UC Riverside), titled “Humanitarian Ethics, Religious Affinities.”