Danielle Egan
Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality 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
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, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies
(On sabbatical, Spring 2019)
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, 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
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
(On sabbatical, Spring 2019)
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
Professor of History, 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
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, Acting Director of the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity
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 Ferhatović
Associate Professor of English
(On sabbatical, Academic Year 2018-2019)
Medieval literature, esp. Old and Middle English poetry • Word and image • Postcolonial theory • Translation
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
Karen Gonzalez Rice
Associate Professor 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
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
Heidi Henderson
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
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
(On sabbatical, Academic Year 2018-2019)
Gender, culture and race studies in Spanish America • Orientalism in the Hispanic tradition
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
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
Feminist film and cultural studies • The impact of film and TV on feminist discourses
Kenneth Prestininzi
Chair of the Theater Department, Associate Professor of Theater
Playwriting • Creative ensemble • Performance studies • Theater history and literature
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
Jeff Strabone
Associate Professor of English
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
(On sabbatical, Spring 2019)
Shakespeare • Renaissance literature • Performance studies
Lisa H. Wilson
Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American History
(On sabbatical Fall 2018)
Colonial North America • Women and gender • Family history
Dana Wright
Associate Professor of Education, Chair of the Education Department
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
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