Affiliate faculty
Affiliate faculty may be tenured, tenure-track, term, adjunct, administrative faculty, or classified staff in another department or program with a specialization relevant to Women and Gender Studies and/or gender scholarship.
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Samirah Alkassim
Assistant Professor
global cinema, genre studies, cinema and media of the Middle East, film and politics
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Amy L Best
Professor
Education, social inequalities, youth, identity and intersectionality, children's health, community sociology, micro sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of everyday life, consumer markets and commercial life, sociology of food, farm to school, food access and food insecurity, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, ethnography, program evaluation
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Meagan Call-Cummings
Associate Professor
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Cher Weixia Chen
Associate Professor
International Studies, Legal Studies, and Social Justice and Human Rights
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Rose M Cherubin
Associate Professor
Ancient philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, African American philosophy
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G. Chesler
Professor
documentary film, fiction film directing, transmedia, social issue media production
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Maria M Dakake
Associate Professor
Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender
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Shannon N Davis
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, George Mason University, Korea
Sociology of families and intimate relationships, gender ideologies, gender inequality, research methods
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Sharon Doetsch-Kidder
Associate Professor
Social movements, race and ethnic studies in the U.S., theories of genders and sexualities, oral history, feminist pedagogy, mindfulness education, and the globalization of liberal arts education
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Kim Eby
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Development.
Community Psychology, Leadership, Faculty Development
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Rachael Goodman
Associate Professor
Trauma counseling, intergenerational trauma, and resilience Immigrant and refugee women and families Counselor training and development Mindfulness practices in counseling and counselor training Community-based participatory research (CBPR) practices and social action
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Karen Trister Grace
Assistant Professor
Reproductive coercion, Intimate partner violence, Pregnancy intention, Midwifery, Nursing, Health disparities, Health equity, Reproductive justice
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Cortney Hughes Rinker
Associate Professor
Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States
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Jessica Hurley
Assistant Professor
Speculative fiction and sci-fi; environmental humanities; C20/21 multi-ethnic American literatures; Indigenous and postcolonial literatures; science and technology studies.
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Maria Karametou
Associate Professor
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Vicki Kirsch
Associate Professor
Feminist psychology and psychotherapy, women’s sexualities and spiritualities, trauma and recovery
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Lisa Koch
Professor
Teen/Young Adult Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Multi-Ethnic American Literature; African American Literature; Women Writers; Harry Potter
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Michelle LaFrance
Associate Professor
Feminist research/feminist rhetoric, creative nonfiction, community writing, writing across the curriculum/in the disciplines, ethnography, writing program administration and pedagogy
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Heidi Y. Lawrence
Associate Professor
Medical rhetoric and medical humanities, vaccine controversy, professional and technical communication, public rhetoric, rhetoric of science and technology
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Michael G Malouf
Professor
Modernism; Postcolonialism; Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, cultural studies, petroculture & theories of energy transition; History of English, Global English literary criticism
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Shayna Maskell
Associate Professor
Popular and youth culture, music, social movements, and subcultures.
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Julie E. Owen
Associate Professor
the intersections of leadership identity and women’s adult development, critical and emancipatory research methods, the scholarship of liberatory leadership teaching and learning.
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Christy L Pichichero
Associate Professor
Early Modern, Enlightenment, Revolutionary History, Literature, Art, & Music of the French Empire; Theories, Histories, and Practices of African Diaspora; Slavery & its Afterlives; War & Culture; Critical Race & Mixed-Race Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Human Rights & Social Justice; Theater; Film; Digital Humanities; Medical History; History of Emotion; Women’s Writing & History; History of News & Information Networks; Critical Pedagogy; Inclusive Pedagogy & Curricular Design; Student/Faculty Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Wellbeing; Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment, Retention, & Mentoring; Academic and Community Activism, Academe & Politics.
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Rashmi Sadana
Associate Professor
Urban space, gender, and social mobility; infrastructure, design, and the built environment; language politics and ideologies; cultural identity formation; ethnography of literature; postcolonial theory, globalization, India
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Kristin Samuelian
Professor
British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, nineteenth-century British novel, materialist approaches to literature.
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Rick W. A. Smith
Assistant Professor
Genomics; Ancient DNA; Colonialism; Imperialism; Urbanism; Plantation Studies; Queer, Feminist, and Indigenous Science Studies. My work centers on the fringes of the Spanish/Mexican colonial worlds. I primarily work in Belize, New Mexico, and Texas.
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Janani Umamaheswar
Assistant Professor
Social inequality, punishment and incarceration, the life course, qualitative research methods
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Bethany M. Usher
Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
Bioarchaeology, Evolution of Health and Disease, Growth and Development, Osteology, Diet
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Alexandria Zylstra
Professor