Faculty
African feminism, Women, Gender, Performance aesthetics, Literary studies, Culture, Migration, African literary criticism, Theatre history, Choreographer, Poet and storyteller
History of sexuality, U.S. Social movements and activism, Health and medicine, Oral history, Policy and Citizenship
Congrats to Dr. Batza! Katie Batza is the winner of an ACLS fellowship for Fall 2018 & Spring 2019.
Gender and politics, African politics, Gender-based violence, Human trafficking, and Qualitative methods
Spring 2019: Dr. Britton is teaching WGSS 662 "Gender and Politics in Africa" and WGSS 802 "Feminist Methodologies."
Spring 2019 Office Hours: Tues., 11:15-2:15 & by appt.
Sarah Deer (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) has worked to end violence against women for over 25 years and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2014. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of federal Indian law and victims' rights. Prof. Deer is a co-author of four textbooks on tribal law. Her latest book is The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America, which has received several awards. Her work on violence against Native women has received national recognition from the American Bar Association and the Department of Justice. Professor Deer is also the Chief Justice for the Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals.
Spring 2019: Dr. Deer is teaching WGSS 101 "Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies."
Spring 2019 Office Hours: Wed., 9:00-12:00 & by appt.
Public policy, Reproductive policy, Feminist methods, Research design, Reproductive justice, Diversity and equity in public organizations.
WGSS Graduate Director, Fall 2018 & Spring 2019.
Spring 2019: Dr. Doan is teaching WGSS 701 "Seminar in: Policing the Womb."
Spring 2019 Office Hours: Thursdays 1:00-3:00 & by appointment.
Twentieth-century and twenty-first-century African American literature, Gender and sexuality studies, Cultural history and theory, and Twentieth-century and contemporary visual media.
WGSS Dept. Office: Room 324 Blake
Spring 2019: Dr. Hardison is teaching WGSS 396 "Studies in: Black Feminist Theory."
Spring 2019 Office Hours: Tuesdays & by email appointment.
Women and violence, Psychology of women, Conceptual issues in human sexuality and Clinical psychology
Spring 2019: Dr. Muehlenhard is teaching WGSS 111 "Introduction to Human Sexuality Studies" and WGSS 521/821 "Women & Violence."
U.S. Social and cultural history, U.S. women, Biography and History of death
Spring 2019: Dr. Schofield is teaching Online WGSS 511 "U.S. Women, 1870-Present."
History of women, gender, and sexuality in the 19th- and 20th-century United States; histories of childhood; sex and gender in the law; marriage
Spring 2019: Dr. Syrett is teaching WGSS 701 "Seminar in: History of American Sexuality."
Spring 2019 Office hours: Tuesdays 9:00-12:00.
The intersection of gender, sexuality, and class. The body, affect, and subjectivity. Human trafficking in Japan. Critical theory. Affective ethnography, and Feminist epistemology.
Faculty Office: Room 614 Fraser
Spring 2019: Dr. Takeyama is teaching WGSS 583 "Love, Sex, and Globalization."
Spring 2019 Office hours: Tuesdays 11:30-1:00 & by appointment.
Global feminism, International migration and human trafficking, Gender and sexuality in Africa, and Ethnographic research methods
WGSS Undergraduate Director, Fall 2018 & Spring 2019.
History of sexuality, Women's history in 18th-century Spain, European women's history 1600's to present, Feminist theory, Gender and sexuality.
Spring 2019: Dr. Vicente is teaching WGSS 321 "From Mystics to Feminists."
Spring 2019 Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:30-5:30 & by appt.
Women's history, Citizenship, U.S., Race, Gender, Masculinity and Feminism
Spring 2019: Dr. Warren is teaching WGSS 319 "Women and Diversity in the U.S."
Spring 2019 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12;30-2:00.
