Julie Shayne

Julie Shayne is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington (Bothell campus), with affiliations to the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies programs. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of California Santa Barbara (2000) and holds a BA and MA in Women’s Studies from San Francisco State University.

Her research focuses on feminist activism, resistance in the Global South, and the intersection of gender, politics, and social justice. She has authored several influential books, including Persistence is Resistance (2020) and Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas (2014), which examine feminist scholarship, activism, and transnational resistance movements.

Awarded the University of Washington Bothell Distinguished Teaching Award (2019), Dr. Shayne emphasizes student-led learning and feminist knowledge production. She co-created the Feminist Digital Center, which hosts student-generated open-access work, and her teaching philosophy prioritizes centering marginalized voices, particularly BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ communities.

• 2022: Archiving Feminist Truth in Trump’s Wake of Lies
• 2020: Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
• 2019: Reflections on Activist Scholarship in the Trump-Bolsonaro Era
• 2018: Creating Counter Archives
• 2016: On Activist Scholarship

Scientific Awards:

• University of Washington Bothell Distinguished Teaching Award (2019)
• Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarship Award (2011)

Her current research explores Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign through a social movement theory lens, analyzing misogynistic barriers and the role of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies in countering authoritarianism. She collaborates with interdisciplinary scholars and students to advance open-access feminist scholarship and community engagement.