Core Faculty

  • Leah M Adams

    Leah M Adams

    Associate Professor

    Psychosocial aspects of adapting to chronic disease and/or traumatic injury; HIV risk & prevention among high-risk groups; Health equity & reducing health disparities

  • Anu Aneja

    Anu Aneja

    Director

    Professor

    transnational feminist theory and aesthetics; contemporary French, francophone and Indian literatures; feminist perspectives on mothering; and feminist pedagogy

  • Claudia Cabello Hutt

    Claudia Cabello Hutt

    Associate Professor

    Latin American and Latinx feminist and queer thought and history, decolonial theory.

  • Yevette Richards Jordan

    Yevette Richards Jordan

    Associate Professor

    African American history, women's history, history of lynching, labor history, Pan-Africanism

  • Rachel A. Lewis

    Rachel A. Lewis

    Director of Undergraduate Programs

    Director of Graduate Programs

    Professor

    feminist and queer theory; ecofeminism and animal rights; human rights; race and immigration; transnational sexualities; media and cultural studies; disability studies

  • Akila-Ka Ma'at (Jennifer R. Warren)

    Akila-Ka Ma'at (Jennifer R. Warren)

    Assistant Professor

    Black Women's Health: Maternal Mental and Perinatal Health, Tobacco/Nicotine Product Use, Infectious Disease, Health Seeking Behavior, Identity Negotiation in Health Contexts, Agency & Self-Determination, Community-Based Participatory Research