2026-2027 Academic Year
IGSR Scholars-in-Residence
Tala Khanmalek
Associate Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, CSU Fullerton
"After Butterfly" - the second play in a trilogy
Appointment dates: September 2026 to August 2027
Faculty sponsor: Paola Bacchetta
Sunhye Kim
Associate Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Freezing Eggs, Freezing Time? Demographic Governance and Reimagining Reproductive Temporality in South Korea
Appointment dates: August 2026 to January 2027
Faculty sponsor: Laura Nelson
Sandra Pacheco
IGSR Visiting Scholar Volunteer Coordinator
Mesoamerican Indiginous Women Healers: Practices, politics,
and the call for respect, responsibility,
and reciprocity of next generation healers
Appointment dates: August 2026 to May 2027
Kamala Visweswaran
Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
Postcoloniality and the Gendering of Women’s Rights in India
Appointment dates: Fall 2026 semester
Faculty sponsor: Paola Bacchetta
Patricia White
Centennial Chair and Professor of Film and Media Studies, Coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Swarthmore College
Horizons of Women's Cinema: US Independent Filmmaking in the World
Appointment dates: September 2026 to January 2027
Alexander Wulf
Professor of Law and Economics, SRH University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg, Campus Berlin
Building LGBTQ+ Faculty Visibility in U.S. Higher Education: Mechanisms, Resistance, and Lessons for Continental Europe
Appointment dates: March to July 2027
GWS Postdoctoral Scholars
Chris Vargas
President’s Postdoctoral Fellow and Lionel Cantú
Fellow
Trans Futures in 101 Object: Exploring Past and
Present Speculative Futures
Faculty sponsor: Eric Stanley