Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies Faculty & Staff

Rebecca Levy

Academic Assistant

rlevy1@conncoll.edu

Joyce Bennett

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Language revitalization • Ethnicity and identity performance • Migration • Gender and sexuality • Social movements

Joyce.Bennett@conncoll.edu

Sunil Bhatia

Professor of Human Development, Chair of the Human Development Department

Racial, ethnic and migrant identity in global and transnational cultures • Cultural psychology and narrative theory • Ethnography and qualitative methods

ssbha@conncoll.edu

MaryAnne Borrelli

Susan Eckert Lynch '62 Professor of Government

United States politics and government • Gender and United States politics • The Presidency • Congress

mabor@conncoll.edu

Blanche Boyd

Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence

Fiction writing • Narrative nonfiction

bboyd@conncoll.edu

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

addoo@conncoll.edu

James T. Downs

Professor of History, Director of the American Studies Program

U.S. History • African-American Studies • History of medicine and public health

jdowns@conncoll.edu

Michelle R. Dunlap

Professor of Human Development

IMPROVING COLLEGE STUDENT COPING AND SKILLS IN COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING SETTINGS • SHOPPING WHILE BLACK, MINORITY EXPERIENCES IN CONSUMER MARKETPLACES, BLACK BODIES IN PUBLIC SPACES • CONTEMPORARY FAMILY ISSUES (E.G. SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES, KINSHIP CARE FAMILIES), SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT • MULTICULTURAL ISSUES, RACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT, AND METHODS FOR INCREASING SERVICE PROVIDER CULTURAL COMPETENCY

MICHELLE.DUNLAP@CONNCOLL.EDU

Simon D. Feldman

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Philosophy Department

Ethics • Moral psychology • Feminist philosophy • Philosophy of law

sfeld@conncoll.edu

Denis Ferhatović

Associate Professor of English

Medieval literature, esp. Old and Middle English poetry • Word and image • Postcolonial theory • Translation

dferhato@conncoll.edu

Leo J. Garofalo

Associate Professor of History, Chair of the History Department

Latin American and Caribbean history • The history of race and ethnicity • African diaspora and Afro-Latin America • Peru and the Andes

lgar@conncoll.edu

Karen Gonzalez Rice

Associate Professor of Art History , Chair of Art History

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

kgonzal1@conncoll.edu

Cherise A. Harris

Associate Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Sociology Department

(On sabbatical, Spring 2019)

Race, class and gender • Marriage and the family • Social psychology

charris4@conncoll.edu

Heidi Henderson

Professor of Dance, Chair of the Dance Department

Modern technique • Choreography • Improvisation • Anatomy • Dance writing

hhend@conncoll.edu

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

ajafar@conncoll.edu

Suzuko Knott

Associate Professor of German

Contemporary German language and literature • Film and media studies • Gender and women's studies

sknott@conncoll.edu

Julia A. Kushigian

Hanna Hafkesbrink Professor of Hispanic Studies, Social Justice and Sustainability Pathway Coordinator

(On sabbatical, Academic Year 2018-2019)

Gender, culture and race studies in Spanish America • Orientalism in the Hispanic tradition

jakus@conncoll.edu

Andrea D. Lanoux

Professor of Slavic Studies, Director of the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies & the Liberal Arts (CISLA)

Russian and Polish languages and literatures • Gender studies in Slavic cultures • Nationhood and nationalism studies • Literary canon formation • Post-Soviet children's literature

alano@conncoll.edu

Manuel Lizarralde

Associate Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Acting Director of Environmental Studies Program

Ethnobotany • Environmental anthropology

mliz@conncoll.edu

Nina K. Martin

Associate Professor of Film Studies

Feminist film and cultural studies • The impact of film and TV on feminist discourses

nmartin1@conncoll.edu

Kenneth Prestininzi

Chair of the Theater Department, Associate Professor of Theater

Playwriting • Creative ensemble • Performance studies • Theater history and literature

kprestin@conncoll.edu

Paola Sica

Professor of Italian

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

psica@conncoll.edu

Jeff Strabone

Associate Professor of English;, Media, Rhetoric, and Communication Pathway Coordinator

Eighteenth-century British literature • Romantic literature and culture • Literary relations among England, Scotland and Wales • African novels • Race, nation and empire

jstrabon@conncoll.edu

Ayako  Takamori

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Japan • Asian America • Anthropology • Transnational Migration • Comparative Race and Ethnicity • Gender and Sexuality • Media and Visual Cultures

Lina Perkins Wilder

Professor of English

Shakespeare • Renaissance literature • Performance studies

lwilder@conncoll.edu