Zakiya T. Luna

   I am a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. I am hosted by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law. I am also affiliated with the Departments of Gender and Women's Studies and Sociology and the Center for the Study of Law and Society.

My research is in the areas of social movements, law and society, reproduction and identity. In 2011, I completed a joint PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies at University of Michigan, where I also earned my Master's of Social Work in 2009. My dissertation examined the mechanisms and consequences of the reproductive justice movement’s integration of international human rights into US reproductive rights advocacy. This project was funded in part by a National Science Foundation Law and Social Science Dissertation Grant.

 I am currently preparing a book manuscript and several articles. You may find my publications  in Sociological Inquiry, Feminist Studies, Societies without Borders, and Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change.  In 2011-12, I was a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

I have taught a range of courses in multiple departments. I received UM Sociology’s 2011 Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award.