Rana M. Jaleel is an Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at University of California, Davis. She holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University, a JD from the Yale Law School, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2013-2015, Dr. Jaleel was the Center for Reproductive Rights Fellow at Columbia Law School. 

Dr. Jaleel’s work examines the politics of evidence: how concepts like reproductive labor, sex/gender, race, property, and sexuality are sustained or transformed through the recognition, narration, and redress of harm. Her first book, The Work of Rape, received the Author of Color First Book Award from Duke University Press.

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