WGSS Faculty

Research Interests

• U.S. women’s labor history with a focus on the effects of public policies and laws on women’s status.

Teaching Interests

• A Legal History of Sexuality in the United States
• Women and the Law
• Introduction to Women’s Studies
• Feminism and Activism

Research Interests

• Sexuality and Gender
• Anti-Homosexual Prejudice
• Racial Bias in Education and Law Enforcement Contexts
• Relationship Between Social Science and Social Change

Research Interests

• Cultural Imaginaries and Representation
• Trans-Genre Writing
• Feminist and Lesbian Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Diasporic Literatures
• Water and Environmental Studies
• Transdisciplinary Studies
• Multi-Platform Works
• 20th and 21st Century European Philosophy

Research Interests

• Vulnerable populations
• Opioid use and misuse
• Medicaid
• Affordable Care Act
• Health applications of system dynamics modeling

Teaching Interests

• Health policy
• Global health
• Research methods
• Applied statistics

Research Interests

• Arabic Culture and Language
• North African Studies
• Popular Culture
• Islamic Studies
• Medieval Western Mediterranean Studies

Teaching Interests

• Arabic Culture and Language
• Islam in Africa and the Mediterranean
• North African Youth Culture
• M. Eastern and North African Literature
• Orientalism

Research Interests

• Health promotion and disease prevention behaviors of underrepresented populations
• Intimate partner violence among college students

Teaching Interests

• Health disparities and vulnerable populations

Research Interests

• Modern France
• Immigration
• Gender History
• Sexual Labor

Research Interests

• Criminal Justice/Penal Institutions
• Gender/Sexuality
• Latinas and Other People of Color in the U.S.
• Latin American and Caribbean History

Research Interests

• Feminist Anthropology
• Sexuality Studies
• Queer Theory
• Postcolonial Theory
• Nationalism
• Modernity
• Oceania/Pacific

Research Interests

• Anthropology and Development
• Political Ecology
• Consumption
• Urban Anthropology
• Borders
• Globalization
• Latin America

Research Interests

• Creative Writing
• Fiction
• Caribbean and African American Literature
• Queer/ LGBT Literature

Research Interests

• Masculinity and Gender Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Twentieth Century British Literature
• South Asia Studies
• Cultural Studies

Research Interests

• Gender
• Child welfare
• Parenting
• Kinship
• Ethnography
• Epistemology
• Emotional/affective labor

Research Interests

• U.S. Women’s History
• Latinas/os in the U.S.
• Puerto Rican Women’s History
• Feminist Theories
• Cultural Studies
• Critique of Coloniality

Research Interests

• Changes in marriages and family functioning
• Intimate partner violence
• Psychological science impacting public policy

Teaching Interests

• Intimate relationships
• Research methods in psychology
• Statistics and research design

Clinical Interests

• Private practice
• Clinical supervisor

Research Interests

• Korea and Comparative East Asia
• Medicine
• Health
• Gender
• Race and Class
• Education and Welfare

Teaching Interests

• Korean and East Asian History
• Gender; Migration; Race; Nation and Empire
• History of Medicine; Science and Technology

Research Interests

• Contemporary India
• Colonial South Asia
• Semiotic Processes of Social Life (Language and Media Practice)
• Free Speech in Cultural and Historical Perspective
• The Global Circulation of Asian Religions
• Gender
• Sexuality
• Kinship

Research Interests

• American Politics
• Judicial Politics
• State Politics
• Public Policy

Research Interests

• Globalization
• Diaspora and Cultural Production
• Postcolonial Literature
• New Media & Film Studies
• Theories of Nation-State
• Contemporary Critical Theory
• Feminist and Sexuality Studies

Research Interests

• Sexual Socialization
• Reproductive Health Attitudes
• Body Image Development
• Healthy Sexual Behaviors and Decision Making

Research Interests

• Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
• Postcolonial Studies
• Critical Theory
• Feminist Theory

Teaching Interests

• Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture

Research Interests

• Feminist philosophy
• African philosophy
• African women studies
• African and African Diaspora art and aesthetics

Teaching Interests

• Artificial Intelligence and Racism
• Race, Philosophy & the Law
• African Intellectual Traditions
• African Art and Aesthetics
• African Women and Feminism

Research Interests

• Native American literatures, media, genres, and literacies
• Race, Writing, Coloniality
• Early American Studies
• Comparative Ethnic Studies
• Indigenous Feminisms
• Decolonization
• Archival Research

Teaching Interests

• Native American Literature and Media
• Early American Literature
• Multiethnic American Literatures
• Comparative Ethnic Studies: Race, Gender, Indigeneity, Migration
• Colonialism, Imperialism, Decolonization
• Latinx Literature
• American Captivity Narratives

Research Interests

• The Passions 一 Especially Desire and Envy 一 in the Ancient Mediterranean World
• The Social Psychology of Greek Rhetoric
• Intersections of Ancient Greek & Roman Sexuality, Ideology, Politics and Literature
• Literary Theory

Research Interests

• Anthropology of Artworlds
• Museums
• Critical Aesthetics
• Affective Modalities of Experience

Teaching Interests

• Museum Studies
• Aesthetic Theory
• Artworlds
• Materials and Materiality

Research Interests

• 19th-century U.S.
• The American South
• U.S. Women's History
• Civil War & Reconstruction
• History of Sexuality
• African-American History

Research Interests

• Lithic Analysis
• Feminism and Gender
• Communities of Practice
• Sociopolitics of Archaeology
• Ethics of Archaeology
• Prehistoric Europe

Research Interests

• Dante
• Early Italian Lyric Poetry
• Medieval French Love Literature
• History of Science

Teaching Interests

• Italian Literature of the Middle Ages
• Renaissance, Including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Humanism and Medieval Science and Magic

Research Interests

• American Literature
• Women Writers
• Contemporary Fiction American and Global
• Nation in Literature
• Diaspora Citizenship and Belonging
• Postcolonial Theory and Literature
• Feminism

Research Interests

• Normative ethics
• Metaethics
• Moral psychology
• Feminist ethics

Teaching Interests

• Ethical theory
• Moral value pluralism
• Moral responsibility
• Moral psychology
• Feminist ethics

Research Interests

• Queer+trans medieval literature and material culture
• Medieval manuscripts, digital humanities, media history, and digitization
• 14th- and 15th-century English literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate
• Information literacy and Special Collections pedagogy

Teaching Interests

• Medieval literature and culture
• Manuscript studies and the history of the book
• LGBTQ+ literature

Research Interests

• Modern U.S. women
• Sexuality
• Social movements
• Civil liberties
• Civil rights
• Life Stories

Teaching Interests

• Modern U.S.

Research Interests

• Health disparities and inequities (HIV and AIDS prevention)
• Black psychological development and mental health
• Critical community-based participatory research
• Mixed- and multi-methods research

Research Interests

• LGBTQ youth and safe schools policy
• LGBTQ families and family acceptance
• HIV/AIDS policy and service delivery

Research Interests

• The Contemporary Egyptian Novel
• Modern Arabic Literature
• Arab Diasporic Literature
• African Literature
• Postcolonial Studies
• Migration Studies
• Race Studies
• Gender Studies

Teaching Interests

• Modern Arabic Literature
• Arab American and Diasporic Literature
• Postcolonial Theory
• Translation Theory
• The Arabic Language

Research Interests

• Immigration and Migration
• Humanities for Justice
• Digital Storytelling
• Digital Pathways to Community
• Community Engagement
• Afro Asian Connections
• Asian American Literature and Culture
• Asians of the Americas

Research Interests

• Kant
  
• Philosophy of art
• Social and political philosophy

Teaching Interests

• Kant
• Philosophy of the Enlightenment
• Philosophy of art
• Feminist philosophy
• Markets, ethics and the law