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
Karen Buenavista Hanna
Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies
Social Movements • Filipinx Studies • Women of Color and Transnational Feminism • Diaspora Studies • Disability Justice • Queer of Color Critique • Radical Pedagogy • Decolonial Praxis
Julie Rivkin
Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American Studies , Professor of English
American literature • Gender studies and contemporary literature • Literary theory • Henry James
Ariella R. Rotramel
Interim Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion, Vandana Shiva Associate Professor of Gender Sexuality and Intersectionality 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
Ethnicity and identity performance • Language revitalization • Migration • Gender and sexuality • Social movements
Sunil Bhatia
Professor of Human Development, Chair of the Human Development Department Acting Chair of the Education Department
Racial, ethnic and migrant identity in global and transnational cultures • Cultural psychology and narrative theory • Ethnography and qualitative methods
MaryAnne Borrelli
Susan Eckert Lynch '62 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
Fiction writing • Narrative nonfiction
Amy Dooling
Dean of Strategic and 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
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
Simon D. Feldman
Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ethics • Moral psychology • Feminist philosophy • Philosophy of law
Denis Ferhatović
Associate Professor of English
(Pronouns: he/his/him)
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, 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
Cherise A. Harris
Associate Professor of Sociology
Race, class and gender • Marriage and the family • Social psychology
Heidi Henderson
Professor of Dance, Chair of the Department of Dance
Modern technique • Choreography • Improvisation • Anatomy • Dance writing
Afshan Jafar
Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Sociology Department
Gender • The body and embodiment • Media • Globalization • Nationalist and fundamentalist movements • Muslim immigrants in the U.S. • Transnational women's movements
Suzuko Knott
Associate 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, Social Justice and Sustainability Pathway Coordinator
Gender, culture and race studies in Spanish America • Orientalism in the Hispanic tradition
Andrea D. Lanoux
Elizabeth S. Kruidenier ’48 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;, 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
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, Chair of the English Department
Shakespeare • Renaissance literature • Performance studies
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