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
Fall 2017: Dr. Batza is teaching WGSS 101 "Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction" & WGSS 803 "Topics in Feminist Pedagogy."
Winter Session Online Instruction (Dec. 18th-Jan. 12th) WGSS 327 "Perspectives in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies"
Gender and politics, African politics, Gender-based violence, Human trafficking, and Qualitative methods
Fall 2017: Dr. Britton is teaching WGSS 600 "Contemporary Feminist Theory" and WGSS 801 "Feminist Theory"
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.
Public policy, Reproductive policy, Feminist methods, Research design, Reproductive justice, Diversity and equity in public organizations
Professor of Classics
Interim Chair for WGSS Department Fall 2016 and Spring 2017.
WGSS Dept Office: Room 320 Blake. Please contact for an appt. at pgordon@ku.edu.
Twentieth-century and twenty-first-century African American literature, Gender and sexuality studies, Cultural history and theory, and Twentieth-century and contemporary visual media.
Fall 2017: Dr. Hardison is teaching WGSS 701 "Seminar in: Black Feminist Theory"
WGSS Dept. Office: Room 324 Blake
Women and violence, Psychology of women, Conceptual issues in human sexuality and Clinical psychology
Fall 2017: Dr. Muehlenhard is teaching WGSS 468 "Psychology of Women"
U.S. Social and cultural history, U.S. women, Biography and History of death
Fall 2017: Dr. Schofield is teaching WGSS 800 "History of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies" & WGSS 804 "Professional Development"
Faculty Office: Room 325 Blake
History of women, gender, and sexuality in the 19th- and 20th-century United States; histories of childhood; sex and gender in the law; marriage
Faculty Office: Room 320 Blake
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
Global feminism, International migration and human trafficking, Gender and sexuality in Africa, and Ethnographic research methods
Fall 2017: Dr. Vanderhurst is teaching WGSS 301 "Research Methods"
Winter Session Online Instruction (Dec. 18th-Jan. 12th) WGSS 101 "Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction"
History of sexuality, Women's history in 18th-century Spain, European women's history 1600's to present, Feminist theory, Gender and sexuality.
Fall 2017: Dr. Vicente is teaching WGSS 321 "From Mystics to Feminists"
Faculty Office: Room 318B Blake
Women's history, Citizenship, U.S., Race, Gender, Masculinity and Feminism
Fulbright awarded for Fall 2017 & Spring 2018. Dr. Warren is teaching at the University of Southern Denmark
