Danielle Egan
Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Chair of the Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies Department
Affect • Sexuality studies • Gender and feminist theory • Queer theory • History of ideas • Childhood and youth • Psychoanalysis
Andrea N. Baldwin
Visiting Assistant Professor in Gender and Women's Studies, Assistant Director of Africana Studies
Transnational feminist epistemology • Intersectionality and reflexivity in qualitative research • Gender representations in popular culture; use of popular culture for feminist activism (specific focus on digital technologies) • Fat feminist activism • Theorizing pedagogy as a form of feminist activism • Caribbean cultural studies
Binalakshmi "Bina" Nepram
Visiting Scholar-in-Residence, Spring and Fall 2018
Women's empowerment • Civil rights • Peace-building movements
Ariella R. Rotramel
Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
Social movements • Gender and women's history • Women and work • Ethnic studies • Queer and sexuality studies • Feminist praxis • Community-based learning • Digital Humanities
Joyce Bennett
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Language revitalization • Ethnicity and identity performance • Migration • Gender and sexuality • Social movements
Sunil Bhatia
Professor of Human Development
Racial, ethnic and migrant identity in global and transnational cultures • Cultural psychology and narrative theory • Ethnography and qualitative methods
MaryAnne Borrelli
Professor of Government
United States politics and government • Gender and United States politics • The Presidency • Congress
Blanche Boyd
Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence
Feminist fiction • Creative writing
Joan C. Chrisler
Class of '43 Professor of Psychology
Health psychology and psychology of women • Women's health • Menstruation and menopause • Weight and eating disorders • Coping with chronic illness
Amy Dooling
Associate Dean of Global Initiatives, Director of The Walter Commons for Global Study and Engagement
Modern and Contemporary Chinese fiction and drama • Chinese women's writing • History of the women's movement and feminism in China • Translation
James T. Downs
Associate Professor of History, Interim Director of the American Studies Program
U.S. History • African-American Studies • History of medicine and public health
Michelle R. Dunlap
Professor of Human Development, Chair of the Human Development Department
Improving college student coping and skills in community service learning settings • Social and personality development • Contemporary family issues (e.g. single parent families, kinship care families) • Multicultural issues and methods for increasing service provider cultural competency
Nathalie Etoke
Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies, Chair of the French Department
Africana studies (film, literature, philosophy) • LGBT in the Afro-diasporic context • Melancholia Africana (loss, mourning and survival in Africa, America and the Caribbean) • Cultural studies (immigration, post-Colonial French identities, French Hip Hop, urban films)
Simon D. Feldman
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Philosophy Department
Ethics • Moral psychology • Feminist philosophy • Philosophy of law
Denis Ferhatovic
Assistant Professor of English
Medieval literature, esp. Old and Middle English poetry • Word and image • Postcolonial theory • Translation
Leo J. Garofalo
Associate Professor of History, Social Justice and Sustainability Pathway Coordinator
Latin American and Caribbean history • The history of race and ethnicity • African diaspora and Afro-Latin America • Peru and the Andes
Karen Gonzalez Rice
Sue and Eugene Mercy Jr. Associate Professor of Art History
(On sabbatical AY 2017-2018)
Contemporary art (1945-present) • Experimental art • Performance studies • Contemporary art and the body • American studies; contemporary art in America • Religion in contemporary art • Trauma studies • Art and ethics
Cherise A. Harris
Associate Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Sociology Department
Race, class and gender • Marriage and the family • Social psychology
Heidi Henderson
Associate Professor of Dance
Modern technique • Choreography • Improvisation • Anatomy • Dance writing
Afshan Jafar
Associate Professor of Sociology, Bodies/Embodiment Pathway Coordinator
Gender • The body and embodiment • Media • Globalization • Nationalist and fundamentalist movements • Muslim immigrants in the U.S. • Transnational women's movements
Michael E. James
Professor of Education, Director of SATA Cuba/Mexico, Fall 2016
History of schooling and civil rights
Suzuko Knott
Assistant Professor of German
Contemporary German language and literature • Film and media studies • Gender and women's studies
Julia A. Kushigian
Hanna Hafkesbrink Professor of Hispanic Studies
Gender, culture and race studies in Spanish America • Orientalism in the Hispanic tradition
Andrea D. Lanoux
Professor of Slavic Studies, Chair of the Slavic Studies Department
Russian and Polish languages and literatures • Gender studies in Slavic cultures • Nationhood and nationalism studies • Literary canon formation • Post-Soviet children's literature
Manuel Lizarralde
Associate Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Acting Director of Environmental Studies Program
Ethnobotany • Environmental anthropology
Nina K. Martin
Associate Professor of Film Studies
(On sabbatical AY 2017-2018)
Feminist film and cultural studies • The impact of film and TV on feminist discourses
Kenneth Prestininzi
Associate Professor of Theater
(On sabbatical AY 2017-2018)
Playwriting • Creative ensemble • Performance studies • Theater history and literature
Elizabeth Reich
Assistant Professor of Film Studies
Film and new media studies • Black cinema • Race and cinema • Afrofuturism • African American studies • Psychoanalysis • Cultural studies
Paola Sica
Professor of Italian
(On sabbatical AY 2017-2018)
Italian culture in comparative context (especially literary and visual representations from late 19th century through the contemporary era, with emphasis on modernism and avant garde) • Gender studies • Critical theory • Translation and transculturation • Language pedagogy
Jeff Strabone
Associate Professor of English
(On sabbatical 2017-2018)
Eighteenth-century British literature • Romantic literature and culture • Literary relations among England, Scotland and Wales • African novels • Race, nation and empire
Lina Perkins Wilder
Associate Professor of English
Shakespeare • Renaissance literature • Performance studies
Lisa H. Wilson
Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American History, Chair of the History Department
(On sabbatical Spring 2018)
Colonial North America • Women and gender • Family history
Dana Wright
Associate Professor of Education
Curriculum theory and pedagogy • Collaborative, inquiry-based learning projects • Literacy and academic identity development • Relational and situated learning • Participatory action research (PAR) • Youth development and youth studies • Urban education and the contexts of teaching • Qualitative research methodologies
Terrylyn L. Curry Avery
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Human Development/Children's Program
D. K. Foren
Adjunct Instructor, Human Development/Children's Program
Claudia Highbaugh
Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life
claudia.highbaugh@conncoll.edu
Abbey Willis
Adjunct Instructor, Sociology
Mab Segrest
Fuller-Maathai Professor Emeritus of Gender and Women's Studies
Women's studies • Social movements • Sexuality studies • Critical race theory/"Whiteness" • Creative non-fiction
Jane W. Torrey
Professor Emeritus of Psychology