Benita Roth
Director, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS); Professor; Vice President for Academics, Binghamton Chapter, United University Professions (UUP)
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Sociology; United University Professions (UUP)
Research Interests
- Feminist Intersectional Studies
- Social Protest in the Postwar United States
- The Politics of Health Activism
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Sean G. Massey
Associate Professor
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Research Interests
- Sexuality and Gender
- Anti-Homosexual Prejudice
- Racial Bias in Education and Law Enforcement Contexts
- Relationship Between Social Science and Social Change
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Dara J. Silberstein
Associate Research Professor of WGSS
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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
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Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Theatre
Research Interests
- Drama and Theatre in Asia
- Theatre Studies in Sri Lanka
- South Asian Culture and Society
- Women, Gender, and, Sexuality in South Asia
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Affiliated Faculty
Jeffner M. Allen
Professor of Philosophy/Africana Studies; Professor of Philosophy/Africana Studies
Africana Studies; Philosophy
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
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A. Serdar Atav, PhD
Professor
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
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
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Karen edis Barzman
Professor
Art History
Research Interests
- Early Modern Italy
- Borderlands and
Mediterranean Studies
- History of Cartography
- Art Collecting and Sales
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Moulay Ali Bouanani
Lecturer
Africana Studies
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
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Victoria L Brown
Lecturer
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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
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Sharon A. Bryant, PhD
Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Decker College/Co-Director, STEP and UBMS/Associate Professor, MPH and Nursing; Co-Director; Co-Principal Investigator; Associate Professor, Master of Public Health (MPH) Program
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences; Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP); Upward Bound Math and Science (UBMS); Master of Public Health (MPH) Program
Research Interests
- Health promotion and disease prevention behaviors of underrepresented populations
- Intimate partner violence among college students
Teaching Interests
- Health disparities and vulnerable populations
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Elisa Camiscioli
Associate Professor
History
Research Interests
- Modern France
- Immigration
- Gender History
- Sexual Labor
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Deborah A. Elliston
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Feminist Anthropology
- Sexuality Studies
- Queer Theory
- Postcolonial Theory
- Nationalism
- Modernity
- Oceania/Pacific
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Carmen A. Ferradás
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Anthropology and Development
- Political Ecology
- Consumption
- Urban Anthropology
- Borders
- Globalization
- Latin America
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Thomas Glave
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative Writing
- Fiction
- Caribbean and African American Literature
- Queer/ LGBT Literature
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Praseeda Gopinath
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Masculinity and Gender Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Twentieth Century British Literature
- South Asia Studies
- Cultural Studies
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Melissa Hardesty
Assistant Professor
CCPA Social Work
Research Interests
- Gender
- Child welfare
- Parenting
- Kinship
- Ethnography
- Epistemology
- Emotional/affective labor
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Lisa L. Hrehor, PhD
Director of Health and Wellness Studies/Clinical Instructor
Health and Wellness Studies
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Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director
Sociology
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
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Matthew D. Johnson
Professor
Psychology
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
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Sonja M. Kim
Associate Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
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
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Katherine Martineau
Assistant Professor
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
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
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Wendy Martinek
Professor
Political Science
Research Interests
- American Politics
- Judicial Politics
- State Politics
- Public Policy
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Monika Mehta
Associate Professor; Undergraduate Director
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Globalization
- Diaspora and Cultural Production
- Postcolonial Literature
- New Media & Film Studies
- Theories of Nation-State
- Contemporary Critical Theory
- Feminist and Sexuality Studies
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Ann M. Merriwether
Instructor
Psychology
Research Interests
- Sexual Socialization
- Reproductive Health Attitudes
- Body Image Development
- Healthy Sexual Behaviors and Decision Making
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Alexandra Moore
Professor; Director
English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Human Rights Institute
Research Interests
- Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- Feminist Theory
Teaching Interests
- Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
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Rosmarie T. Morewedge
Associate Professor
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Medieval Narrative
- The Fairy Tale
- Second Language Acquisition and Literacy
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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
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Surya Parekh
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 18th Century Enlightenment
- Critical Race and Gender Studies
- Black Cultural Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Feminist Theory
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Dora E. Polachek
Visiting Associate Professor
Romance Languages and Literatures
Research Interests
- French Renaissance Literature
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Joshua M. Price
Professor; Professor and Chair
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Sociology
Research Interests
- Carceral Studies
- Racial and Gender Violence
- Colonialism and Language
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Jean H. Quataert
Bartle Professor, Distinguished Professor
History
Research Interests
- German History
- Women's and Gender History
- Comparative and Global History
- Human Rights History
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Birgit Brander Rasmussen
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
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
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Sara A. Reiter
Professor
School of Management
Research Interests
- Accounting Theory
- Applied Ethics
- Sociology of Science
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Mahua Sarkar
Professor
Sociology; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Research Interests
- Historical Sociology
- Global Labor History/Labor Studies
- Contemporary Transnational Migration/Guest-Work
- Politics of Methods/Qualitative Research
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Andrew Scholtz
Associate Professor/Chair
Classical and Near Eastern Studies
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
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Pamela G. Smart
Associate Professor, Chair
Art History
Research Interests
- Anthropology of Artworlds
- Museums
- Critical Aesthetics
- Affective Modalities of Experience
Teaching Interests
- Museum Studies
- Aesthetic Theory
- Artworlds
- Materials and Materiality
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Diane Miller Sommerville
Professor
History
Research Interests
- 19th-century U.S.
- The American South
- U.S. Women's History
- Civil War & Reconstruction
- History of Sexuality
- African-American History
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Kathleen A. Sterling
Associate Professor, DGS
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Lithic Analysis
- Feminism and Gender
- Communities of Practice
- Sociopolitics of Archaeology
- Ethics of Archaeology
- Prehistoric Europe
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Dana E. Stewart
Associate Professor; Collegiate Professor of Hinman College; Collegiate Professor of Mountainview
Romance Languages and Literatures; Residential Life
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
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Susan Strehle
Distinguished Service Professor; Interim Director
English, General Literature and Rhetoric; CCPA PhD Program
Research Interests
- American Literature
- Women Writers
- Contemporary Fiction American and Global
- Nation in Literature
- Diaspora Citizenship and Belonging
- Postcolonial Theory and Literature
- Feminism
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Lisa C. Tessman
Professor
Philosophy
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
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Leigh Ann Wheeler
Professor
History
Research Interests
- Modern U.S. women
- Sexuality
- Social movements
- Civil liberties
- Civil rights
- Life Stories
Teaching Interests
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Sarah Young
Assistant Professor/BSW Program Director
CCPA Social Work
Research Interests
- LGBTQ youth and safe schools policy
- LGBTQ families and family acceptance
- HIV/AIDS policy and service delivery
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Lisa T. Yun
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
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
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Melissa R. Zinkin
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Research Interests
- History of Philosophy
- Kant
- Aesthetics
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