WGSS Faculty

Research Interests

• Feminist Intersectional Studies
• Social Protest in the Postwar United States
• The Politics of Health 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

• 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

• Drama and Theatre in Asia
• Theatre Studies in Sri Lanka
• South Asian Culture and Society
• Women, Gender, and, Sexuality in South Asia

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

• Early Modern Italy
• Borderlands and Mediterranean Studies
• History of Cartography
• Art Collecting and Sales

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

• Rural Development, Agro-Industry, and New Ruralities
• Women and Work
• Anthropology of Europe
• Precarity
• Feminist Theory

Teaching Interests

• Sociocultural Anthropology
• Feminist Theory
• Media Studies
• Political Anthropology
• Labor and Class
• Global Studies
• Southern Europe

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

• 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

• Medieval Narrative
• The Fairy Tale
• Second Language Acquisition and Literacy

Research Interests

• Feminist Film Theory
• Contemporary German Film
• Representations of the Holocaust in World Cinema
• Film in the “Third Reich”
• Weimar Cinema
• Turkish-German Cinema

Research Interests

• 18th Century Enlightenment
• Critical Race and Gender Studies
• Black Cultural Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Feminist Theory

Research Interests

• French Renaissance Literature

Research Interests

• Carceral Studies
• Racial and Gender Violence
• Colonialism and Language

Research Interests

• German History
• Women's and Gender History
• Comparative and Global History
• Human Rights History

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

• Accounting Theory
• Applied Ethics
• Sociology of Science

Research Interests

• Historical Sociology
• Global Labor History/Labor Studies
• Contemporary Transnational Migration/Guest-Work
• Politics of Methods/Qualitative Research

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

• Virtue Ethics and Feminist Ethics
• Feminist Philosophy
• Critical Race Theory
• Social and Political Philosophy

Teaching Interests

• Moral Failure
• Critical Race Theory
• Feminist Theory

Research Interests

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

Teaching Interests

• Modern U.S.

Research Interests

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

Research Interests

• Freedom; Slavery; Human Rights
• Testimony and Testimonial
• Cross-racial Liberatory Movements
• Immigrant Narratives

Teaching Interests

• Afro Asian Connections
• Asians of the Americas
• Race and Nation
• Immigrant Lives
• Community Engagement

Research Interests

• History of Philosophy
• Kant
• Aesthetics