Department Faculty

Faculty in the department collaborate with an extensive group of faculty across campus. Gender and Women’s Studies students get significant personalized attention from our faculty. Our department is known for its investment in the well-being of our students, and its smaller size means that it is somewhat easier to cultivate a community among undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff.

Spring 2023 Office Hours

Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
Office: 626 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
 

Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
Office: 624 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
  • Queer and feminist theory
  • Disability theory
  • Critical animal studies
  • Materiality studies
  • Cultural politics of race, sexuality, ability, and immigration
  • Critical linguistics
  • Paradigms of inter- and transdisciplinarity

Assistant Professor in Gender and Women's Studies
Office: 632 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
  • Black Feminist Theory
  • Afro-pessimism
  • Gender and Sexual Violence
  • Political Philosophy

Professor, and Director of Media Studies
Office: 628 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
  • Postcolonial and Transnational Feminist Theories
  • Immigration and Diaspora Studies
  • Feminist Cultural Studies
  • Middle Eastern Studies
  • Iranian Cultural Politics and Diasporas

Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research in Gender and Women's Studies
Office: 622 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
  • Black women’s social movements
  • State violence and authoritarianism
  • Racial formations in Latin America, the Caribbean and the US
  • Critical race theory
  • Feminist and queer theory
  • Environmental ethics
  • Black visual culture and aesthetics

Associate Professor
Office: 618 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
  • Gender, medicine, and politics: Cultural, political, and experiential aspects of breast cancer in South Korea
  • How, why, and to what effect constructions of gender, class, and race are mobilized and manipulated in South Korea
  • Structures of cultural temporality (future, present, or past orientation) and anti-poverty policies (U.S. and South Korea)

Associate Professor and Chair in Gender and Women's Studies
Office: 616 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
  • Gender and capitalism
  • Feminist theory
  • Political economy and transnational processes
  • Ethnography

Professor
Office: 612 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
  • transnational feminism
  • history and politics of feminist movements
  • activisms
  • critical approaches to development
  • political economy
  • South Asia, Middle East, Global South, US
  • Islam

Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Pedagogy, Gender & Women's Studies
Office: 620 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
  • Prison abolition
  • Radical queer/trans movements
  • Anarcha-feminism
  • Architectures of attack, gentrification, displacement

Emerita Professors

Professor of the Graduate School, Gender & Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies
Office:
Research Areas:
  • Comparative race and gender studies focusing especially on political economy, immigration, labor and citizenship
  • Critical race and feminist theory and transdisciplinary methods

Emerita Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Sociology
Office: 612 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
  • Feminist theory
  • Sociology of gender, families and childhood

Emerita Professor
Office:
Research Areas:
  • International development and women
  • Electoral quotas in legislatures for women

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in the departments of Gender & Women's Studies and of Rhetoric
Office: 630 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
  • Feminist theory
  • Film theory and production
  • Comparative literary and art theory
  • Cultural politics
  • Third world arts and politics
  • Postcolonial theory and transnational studies

Lecturers

Continuing Lecturer
Office: 614 Social Sciences Building
Research Areas:
  • Cultural Studies
  • Affect and Landscape
  • Settler Colonial Studies
  • New Materialisms
  • Bodies and the Nation
  • Feminist Theory

Anna Eng
Lecturer
Office: 648 Social Sciences Building
Brooke Lober
Lecturer
Office: 648 Social Sciences Building
Sandra M. Pacheco
Lecturer
Office: 648 Social Sciences Building
Arunima Paul
Lecturer
Office: 648 Social Sciences Building