Research Interest

Disability Studies; Inclusive Education Pedagogies; Decolonial Feminisms; Native Pacific Studies; Indigeneity and Ableism; Interdisciplinarity

Biography

Juliann Anesi is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of California – Los Angeles. Her research interests include disability and indigeneity, educational policies, and decolonial feminisms. As a community educator and activist, she has also worked with non-profit organizations and schools in American Sāmoa, California, Hawai ́i, New York and Sāmoa. Juliann’s work has appeared in venues including Disability and the Global South, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000; and Disability & Society. She is currently at work on a book manuscript, Tautua: Women’s Disability Activism in Sāmoa

Publications

• Enduring the Storm, DSQ
• Laughing matters, Disability & Society
• Special Olympics, Oxford Research Encyclopedias