Dr. Nancy Jabbra, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Women's Studies
After completing high school in southern California, she received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, her M.A. in Anthropology from Indiana University, and her Ph.D. in Anthropology with a minor in Sociology from the Catholic University of America.
Before coming to Loyola Marymount, she was Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, member of the Women's Studies Executive Board, Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Centre, and Director of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of numerous articles, books, book chapters, and conference presentations on women and gender roles, politics, and the environment in the Middle East, and on gender, the family, and politics among Lebanese immigrants in North America.
She teaches Introduction to Women's Studies, Women in Global Communities, Women in the Middle East, Gender in Comparative Perspective, and Senior Seminar in Women's Studies.
Dr. Stella Oh
Assistant Professor, Women's Studies
Dr. Stella Oh completed her Ph.D. in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine with an emphasis in Women's Studies and Critical Theory. She has presented her work on race, ethnicity, and gender at several conferences. Dr. Oh is the author of several articles on representations of race, gender, and war. In addition to her scholarship, Dr. Oh actively works with the Korean American community on issues of sex trafficking and war crimes against women.
Dr. Oh's current research project focuses on how race is gendered during times of war. She teaches Women of Color in the U.S., Feminist Theories, Feminist Research Methods, Asian Pacific American Women's Experience, and Literature by Women of Color.