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Women's Studies Program Faculty Listing
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Professor Elizabeth Cole, Chair
Academics and Requirements
Professors
Elizabeth Anderson (Philosophy) (John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies), Ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of the social sciences, feminist theory, epistemology
Ruth Behar (Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology) (Anthropology), Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Criticism, Ethnographic Writing, Life Stories, Feminist Ethnography, Visual Anthropology, Religion; Spain, Mexico, Cuba, U.S. Latinos; Cuban Jews, Sephardic Jews
Carol Boyd (Nursing) (Deborah J. Oakley Collegiate Professor of Nursing and Women's Studies), Women and substance abuse
Celeste Brusati (History of Art), Visual art and culture of the Netherlands from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries
Kathleen M. Canning (History) (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Sonya Rose Collegiate Professor of History), Modern Germany, modern European women and gender, labor and social movements, welfare state, history of the body
David Caron (Romance Languages and Literatures), Queer Studies, AIDS, 20th- and 21st-century French literature and culture, Holocaust, and Jewish Studies
Elizabeth Cole (Psychology), Intersectionality; class, race and gender as social identities; qualitative methods; relationship between political attitudes and behaviors, particularly among African Americans and all women
Mary Corcoran (Political Science. Public Policy, Social Work), American Government and Politics, Public Policy and Administration, Research Methods, Poverty and Inequality
Lisa Disch (Political Science), Contemporary continental political theory, Anglo-American and French feminist theory, political ecology, and theories of democracy
Jacqueline Eccles (Psychology) (Willbert McKeachie Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Education, and Women's Studies), Family, schools and high-risk settings' effects on development; identity formation; gender role development
Sarah Fenstermaker, women and work, domestic labor, family violence, and the workings of gender, race, and class
Leela Fernandes, labor, gender, cultural politics, nationalism, human rights and globalization
Fatma Müge Göçek (Sociology), comparative analysis of gender issues in first and third worlds; impact on women of processes such as economic development, nationalism and religious movements
Dena Goodman (History) (Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women's Studies), Cultural and intellectual history of France: old regime, enlightenment, and French revolution (1600-1800)
Sandra Graham-Bermann (Psychology), Family resilience; dysfunctional sibling relationships; adaptation of children exposed to violence
Linda Groat (Urban Planning), environmental meaning and the experience of place; and gender issues in architectural education
Sandra Gunning (English), American Studies; 19th and 20th C. American Literature; African-American Literature; African diaspora studies; interdisciplinary approaches to literature; feminism and gender studies; travel writing
David Halperin (English) (W.H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality), Ancient Greece and Rome; history of sexuality, lesbian/gay/queer studies
Anne Herrmann (English), Feminist and queer theory; 20th-century comparative literature and cultural studies; autobiographical writings and creative non-fiction
June Howard (English) (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English, American Culture, and Women's Studies), late 19th-century early 20th-century American Literature and Culture
Holly Hughes (Art & Design / Theatre & Drama), Performance Art
Carol Jacobsen (Art and Design), Women's criminalization and censorship
Timothy R.B. Johnson (Obstetrics and Gynecology) (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Bates Professor of Diseases of Women and Children), Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Women's Health
Deborah Keller-Cohen (Linguistics), Narrative, Discourse analysis, Language and Aging, Literacy in modern and colonial America
Mary Kelley (History and American Culture) (Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture and Women's Studies), issues of women and gender in 19th-century America
Petra Kuppers (English/Theatre & Drama/Art & Design), disability studies, performance studies, critical theory and poetics, medical humanities, and the general fields of arts and expression, arts and health, and arts and community building
Karin Martin (Sociology), Gender, feminist theory, family, childhood and adolescence, social psychology, psychoanalytic sociology
Peggy McCracken (Romance Languages and Literatures), Medieval French literature and culture; gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages
Tiya Miles (Afroamerican and African Studies, History, Women's Studies) (Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor of African American Women's History), African-American and Native-American interrelated and comparative histories, especially 19th-century African-American women's history and literature, Native American women's history and literature, U.S. women's history
Christina Moreiras-Menor (Romance Languages and Literatures), Modern and contemporary Spain (including peripheral national communities such as Galicia, Catalonia and the Basque Country)
Adela Pinch (English), English literature, 1700-1900; feminist studies
Helmut Puff (Richard Hudson Research Professor of History), Early Modern German Literature and History, Gender Studies; history of sexuality
Jennifer Robertson (Anthropology), Sociocultural and historical anthropology: art, artificial life museums, and visual culture, biotechnology and bioethics, colonialism and imperialism, cultural history, ethnography, feminist theory, history of eugenics and bioethics, human-robot interface, mass/popular culture, race and ethnicity, sex/gender systems, sexual cultures, symbolic anthropology, urban Anthropology, women's studies
Carolyn Sampselle (Nursing) (Carolyne K. Davis Collegiate Professor of Nursing), Women's Health
Arlene W. Saxonhouse (Political Science) (Caroline Robbins Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies), Ancient and early modern political thought; women in the history of political thought; democratic theory
Susan Siegfried (History of Art) (Denise Riley Collegiate Professor of the History of Art and Women's Studies), Thematisation of gender, social spaces for viewing art, and theoretical models of interpretation
Patricia Simons (History of Art), portraiture of women, the representations of the body, the construction of masculinity, the possibility of homoerotics in portraits of men, lesbian visibility in the Renaissance, bibliographic resources on gender and sexuality in the Italian Renaissance/Baroque period
Sidonie Smith (English) (Mary Fair Croushore Professor; Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies), Autobiography studies, feminist theories, women's literature; Travel narratives, literature and memory, postcolonial literatures and theory
Pamela Smock (Sociology), Families, the causes and consequences of changes in families, social inequality, gender, single parent-families, marriage, divorce, cohabitation, quantitative and qualitative methods
Abigail Stewart (Psychology) (Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies), Psychology of women; Personality development; Gender, race and generation
Hitomi Tonomura (History) (Richard Hudson Research Professor of History), Premodern Japanese history, East Asian history
Valerie Traub (English) (Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor), Early modern literary and cultural studies, history of sexuality, gender and sexuality studies, gay / lesbian / queer studies, Shakespeare, early modern drama
Christina Whitman (Law) (Francis A. Allen Collegiate Professor of Law and Professor of Women's Studies), civil rights litigation, constitutional law, and feminist jurisprudence
Patricia Yaeger (English) (Henry Simmons Frieze Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies), 20th-century American literature and visual arts, southern fiction, feminist theory, literary theory, social geography, trash in modern/postmodern ethnic American literature, and queering John Wayne
Associate Professors
Naomi André (Residential College), Music, especially 19th-century Italian opera. Gender and cultural studies, particularly surrounding the areas of voice, race/ethnicity, representation and identity
Renee Anspach (Sociology), Medical Sociology, Social Psychology, Sociology of Deviance, Sociology of Gender, Applied Sociology
Rosario Ceballo (Psychology), Poverty; community violence; parenting; academic achievement; infertility and reproductive health problems with a special focus on African American and Latino women and children
Lilia Cortina (Psychology), Sexual harassment and assault; workplace incivility; gender in organizations; violence against women
Maria Cotera (American Culture), U.S. third World Feminist Theory; Latina/o Studies; 20th-century literature by women of color; history of anthropology; and folklore ethnic modernisms (U.S.)
Amal Hassan Fadlalla (CAAS), Fertility, sexuality, health, identity, poverty, and population and development, and the situation of such analyses in gender dynamics, social inequalities, cultural worldviews, and local and global political economies (Africa, the Middle East, and the Diaspora)
Edward B. Goldman (Obstetrics and Gynecology), the intersection of law and medicine, reproductive justice, research with human subjects, embryonic stem cell research, newborn screening
Nadine Hubbs (Music), Gender and sexuality in music, LGBTQ history, American music, modernism, class in the U.S.
Anna Kirkland (Political Science), Law and society, anti-discrimination law; gender and sexuality in contemporary U.S. law; politics of rights claiming; law and identity
Edith Lewis (Social Work), Women of color, families of color, ethnoconscious interventions
Nadine Naber (American Culture), Arab American Studies; gender and sexuality; post-colonial theory; transnational feminism; women of color feminism
Beth Reed (Social Work), Alcohol/other drugs and women, innovation and change in organizations and other social systems, forces that recreate injustice and ways to challenge these
Gayle Rubin (Anthropology), Sexual populations and geographies, sexological theory, durable inequalities, gay/lesbian ethnography, racial taxonomies, deindustrialization and urban reconstruction
Catherine Sanok (English), Medieval English literature and culture
Ruby Tapia, Late 19th- and 20th-Century U.S. ethnic literatures; photography; race and visual culture; death and spectacle, feminist theory, Border Studies, theories of the body
Ruth Tsoffar (Comparative Literature), Feminism, sexuality and gender in multicultural society; Colonialism, ethnicity, and nationalism, poetry and poetics, Hebrew culture and literature, the politics of writing, reading, and culture in Israel and the Middle East, Biblical narrative, ethnography and folklore
Elizabeth Wingrove (Political Science), Feminist theory, political theory, social theory, historical sociology, early modern and modern intellectual history
Andrea Zemgulys (English), Modernist Literature
Wang Zheng (IRWG), feminism in China, both in terms of its historical development and its contemporary activism, and changing gender discourses in China's socioeconomic, political and cultural transformations of the past century
Assistant Professors
Terri Conley (Psychology), Gender differences in sexuality, close relationships, LGBQ issues, sexual risk
Lisa Harris (Obstetrics and Gynecology), History of Reproduction/Reproductive medicine (especially contraception, abortion, miscarriage, assisted reproductive technologies); contemporary politics of abortion and contraception; ethics in obstetrics and gynecology; feminist analysis of issues in women's reproductive health; Clinical: Obstetrics and Gynecology, with focus on family planning, and miscarriage management
Lisa Kane Low (Nursing), Care practices during pregnancy and childbirth; social cultural influences on choices related to childbirth such as the use of Doulas, Midwives, and birth sites; influences of social, life stressors on pregnancy outcomes; application of Global Safemotherhood Health Policy in local low-resource communities, particularly Latin America
Victor Román Mendoza, (English), queer of color critique, queer studies, critical race theory, transnational feminist and gender studies, postcolonial studies, cultures of U.S. imperialism, Asian American literature and culture, ethnic American literature and culture, visual cultures, modernisms
Anjel Vahratian (Obstetrics and Gynecology), Influence of maternal preconceptional health, with a focus on maternal adiposity, on pregnancy complications and postpartum physical and emotional health status; Role of infertility treatment on maternal mental health; women's health from a life course perspective; and conducting longitudinal studies during the perinatal period
Sari van Anders (Psychology), Social neuroendocrinology, gender/sex, sexuality, evolution, feminist science practice
Robert Wyrod, gender, sexuality, and development; masculinity; social aspects of HIV/AIDS; global health; ethnographic methods; African studies; culture and globalization; documentary film
Lecturers
Nesha Haniff (CAAS), empowerment pedagogies and marginalized populations (centered on HIV, gender and gay identities)
Jane Hassinger, gender and violence, trauma, mental health, and the gendering of organizational life and professional practice
Emily Lawsin (American Culture), Filipina/o American history, literature, and communities; oral history, public history, creative writing, spoken word performance poetry, Asian American Studies, community service-learning, pinay power pedagogy, ethnic studies online composition
Professors Emeritae
Patricia Gurin (Psychology) (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Nancy Cantor Distinguished Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women's Studies), Value of diversity, Intergroup relations; social identity; political psychology
Carol Karlsen (History), Representation of witches in the United States after the Salem-Witchcraft trials of 1692
Joanne Leonard (Art & Design) (Diane M. Kirkpatrick and Griselda Pollack Distinguished University Professor of Women's Studies and Art), photography, feminist criticism, and visual culture
Sonya Rose (History), Gender, 19th- and 20th-century British History
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg (History) (Mary Frances Berry Professor of History and Women's Studies), Women's history, history of sexuality, early America
Rosemary Sarri (Social Work), Youth in the juvenile and adult justice system, adolescent girls and the child welfare system and human rights issues affecting children and youth in the U.S.
Martha Vicinus (English) (Eliza M. Mosher Distinguished University Professor of English, History and Women's Studies), Victorian women, Victorian studies, sexuality and British imperialism