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  • Sophia E Abbot

    Sophia E Abbot

    Graduate Professional Assistant

    Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; student-faculty partnership; co-creation; high impact practices; critical pedagogy; educational development

  • 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

  • Samirah Alkassim

    Samirah Alkassim

    Assistant Professor

    global cinema, genre studies, cinema and media of the Middle East, film and politics

  • Anu Aneja

    Anu Aneja

    Director

    Professor

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

  • LaShonda Anthony

    LaShonda Anthony

    Director for Academic Integrity and Initiatives in University Life

    intersection of spirituality and higher education environments; diversity in higher education

  • Vanessa A Arias

    Vanessa A Arias

    Graduate Professional Assistant

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  • Holly Mason Badra

    Holly Mason Badra

    Associate Director

    Instructor

  • Supriya Baily

    Supriya Baily

    Professor

    Dr. Bailys research has focused primarily on the effects nonformal education has had on women and the communities in which they live.

  • Ann C Baker

    Ann C Baker

    Professor

    Organizational change, cross cultural communication, conflict and change, group dynamics, knowledge creation, and virtual conversations

  • Jen Barnard
  • Frederic Bemak

    Frederic Bemak

    Professor

  • Debra B Bergoffen

    Debra B Bergoffen

    Emeritus Faculty

    Continental philosophical and multi-disciplinary feminist traditions, epistemology, ethics, politics

  • Amy L Best

    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

  • Jo-Marie Burt

    Jo-Marie Burt

    Associate Professor

    Comparative politics, Latin America, political violence, human rights, transitional justice

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  • Claudia Cabello Hutt

    Claudia Cabello Hutt

    Associate Professor

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

  • Meagan Call-Cummings

    Meagan Call-Cummings

    Associate Professor

  • Cher Weixia Chen

    Cher Weixia Chen

    Associate Professor

    International Studies, Legal Studies, and Social Justice and Human Rights

  • Rose M Cherubin

    Rose M Cherubin

    Associate Professor

    Ancient philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, African American philosophy

  • G. Chesler

    G. Chesler

    Professor

    documentary film, fiction film directing, transmedia, social issue media production

  • Lynne Constantine

    Lynne Constantine

    Associate Professor

    Gender, culture and the arts; art as social action; creativity; educating for social justice; self-study of professional practices in teaching.

  • Dina M. Copelman

    Dina M. Copelman

    Emeritus Faculty

    Modern British, European women, European social

  • David Powers Corwin

    David Powers Corwin

    Assistant Professor

    LGBTQ+ Studies; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; Appalachian Studies; gender and sexuality in higher education

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  • Maria M Dakake

    Maria M Dakake

    Associate Professor

    Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender

  • Shannon N Davis

    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

  • Sharon Doetsch-Kidder

    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

  • Kelly Dunne

    Kelly Dunne

    Instructor

    History, Childhood Studies, and Education

  • Basak Durgun

    Basak Durgun

    Adjunct Faculty

    Urban spaces, gentrification, governmentality, globalization and transnational sexualities

  • Leslie Dwyer

    Leslie Dwyer

    Associate Professor

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  • Kim Eby

    Kim Eby

    Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Development.

    Community Psychology, Leadership, Faculty Development

  • Lisa Eckenwiler

    Lisa Eckenwiler

    Professor

    Bioethics, health care ethics, public health ethics, feminist ethical and political theory

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  • Sheila ffolliott

    Sheila ffolliott

    Emeritus Faculty

  • Sheryl A Friedley

    Sheryl A Friedley

    Emeritus Faculty

    Interpersonal communication, communication and gender

  • Cynthia Fuchs

    Cynthia Fuchs

    Associate Professor

    Antiracist everything, documentary and fiction film, television, social media, war media, sports media, Black media, LGBTQ+ media, horror, action, and science fiction movies and TV, gender and sexuality.

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  • Pamela Watkins Garner

    Pamela Watkins Garner

    Professor

    Social and emotional development of young children

  • Elizabeth Anne Gibson

    Elizabeth Anne Gibson

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Non-normative genders, the construction of gender, TV/film/media, the U.S. security state and queer bodies. Porn work in the gig economy.

  • Paula Ruth Gilbert

    Paula Ruth Gilbert

    Emeritus Faculty

    Nineteenth-Century French studies, Quebec studies, women writers, Literature, Society, and the Arts; Women and Gender Studies (joint appointment): Violence and Gender; Violent Women; Narrative, Gender, and Human Rights; Cultural Studies; New Century College

  • Rachael Goodman

    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

  • Karen Trister Grace

    Karen Trister Grace

    Assistant Professor

    Reproductive coercion, Intimate partner violence, Pregnancy intention, Midwifery, Nursing, Health disparities, Health equity, Reproductive justice

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  • Sumaiya A. Hamdani

    Sumaiya A. Hamdani

    Associate Professor

    Islamic history, Middle East, Women's Studies, Global history

  • Nancy W Hanrahan

    Nancy W Hanrahan

    Associate Professor

    critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts

  • Tamara Harvey

    Tamara Harvey

    Associate Professor

    early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory

  • Cortney Hughes Rinker

    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

  • Samuel Clowes Huneke

    Samuel Clowes Huneke

    Assistant Professor

    Modern Europe, Modern Germany, History of Sexuality, Legal History, History of Democracy

  • Jessica Hurley

    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; gender and sexuality studies.

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  • Amena Johnson

    Amena Johnson

    Instructor

  • Rachel Jones

    Rachel Jones

    Associate Professor

    19th & 20th century continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, aesthetics

  • Yevette Richards Jordan

    Yevette Richards Jordan

    Associate Professor

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

  • Linn Jorgenson

    Linn Jorgenson

    Assistant Dean of Students

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  • Christina R Kappel

    Christina R Kappel

    Gender and sexuality, mass and popular culture, postfeminism

  • Maria Karametou

    Maria Karametou

    Associate Professor

  • LuLu Geza Kelemen

    LuLu Geza Kelemen

    Instructor

  • Julie Kim

    Julie Kim

    Instructor

    Asian American students, student development, multiple identities, intersectionality, and graduate student success

  • Katrina Kinsolving

    Katrina Kinsolving

    Adjunct Faculty

  • Vicki Kirsch

    Vicki Kirsch

    Clinical Associate Professor

    Feminist psychology and psychotherapy, women’s sexualities and spiritualities, trauma and recovery

  • Lisa Koch

    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

    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

  • Heidi Y. Lawrence

    Heidi Y. Lawrence

    Associate Professor

    Medical rhetoric and medical humanities, vaccine controversy, professional and technical communication, public rhetoric, rhetoric of science and technology

  • Ray Ashton LeBlanc

    Ray Ashton LeBlanc

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Feminist and queer anthropology, ethnography, bodies and embodiment, gender and sexuality, drag performance

  • 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

  • Lindsay N Lowry

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  • 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

  • Michael G Malouf

    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

  • Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

    Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

    Professor

    Race, gender, the African American experience, and the history of black women in the Atlantic World

  • Shayna Maskell

    Shayna Maskell

    Associate Professor

    Popular and youth culture, music, social movements, and subcultures.

  • Ayondela McDole

    Ayondela McDole

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Black feminism, Black Marxism, Media Studies, Black identity, Black Literature, popular culture, oral histories, critical ethnography.

  • Alexandra Minieri

    Alexandra Minieri

    Instructor

  • Krystalyn J Morton
  • Janette Muir

    Janette Muir

    Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education / Associate Professor

    Political communication

  • Kylie Musolf

    Kylie Musolf

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Juton Myers

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  • Julie E. Owen

    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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  • Fariba Parsa

    Fariba Parsa

    Assistant Professor

  • Christy L Pichichero

    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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  • Priscilla M Regan

    Priscilla M Regan

    Professor

    Information and communication privacy policy, digital government, public policy process.

  • Jennifer Ritterhouse

    Jennifer Ritterhouse

    Professor

    20th century U.S.; U.S. South; African American history; women and gender; children and childhood

  • Joey J Robbins

    Joey J Robbins

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Karen E Rosenblum

    Karen E Rosenblum

    Emeritus Faculty

    Global and American social problems from an economic perspective; comparative stigma

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  • Rashmi Sadana

    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

  • Kristin Samuelian

    Kristin Samuelian

    Professor

    British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, nineteenth-century British novel, materialist approaches to literature.

  • Kelly Schrum

    Kelly Schrum

    Professor

    scholarship of teaching and learning, history of higher education, online learning, scholarly digital storytelling, digital humanities

  • Sierra Scott

    Sierra Scott

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Psychoanalysis, literature on traumatic memory, unconscious memory, feminist theory, trauma theory, healing narrative

  • Suzanne Scott Constantine

    Suzanne Scott Constantine

    Professor

    Art and social action

  • Cameron C. Shaw

    Cameron C. Shaw

    Instructor

    Interpersonal Violence Awareness and Prevention; Student Activism and Agency; Institutional Culture, Power, and Decision-Making; Intersectional Feminism

  • Nichole Michelle Smith

    Nichole Michelle Smith

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Reproductive and Productive Labor, Marxist Feminism, Online Culture and Social Media, Social Movements and Social Change, Labor Movements, Anti-Rape Activism

  • Rick W. A. Smith

    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.

  • Peter N. Stearns

    Peter N. Stearns

    Distinguished University Professor

    Modern European and American and comparative social history, history of emotions, world history

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  • Anita Taylor

    Anita Taylor

    Emeritus Faculty

    Communication and gender, public communication

  • Susan Tichy

    Susan Tichy

    Emerita Faculty

    poetry; war poetry; visual poetry; mixed form (prose & poetry); poetry's intersections with walking art and land art;

  • Ellen Wiley Todd

    Ellen Wiley Todd

    Emeritus Faculty

    American art history

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  • Janani Umamaheswar

    Janani Umamaheswar

    Assistant Professor

    Social inequality, punishment and incarceration, the life course, qualitative research methods

  • Bethany M. Usher

    Bethany M. Usher

    Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education

    Bioarchaeology, Evolution of Health and Disease, Growth and Development, Osteology, Diet

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  • Ricardo F Vivancos-Pérez

    Ricardo F Vivancos-Pérez

    Associate Professor

    Latina/o/x Studies, Chicana/o/x Studies, Latin American Studies, Iberian Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Migration Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, LGTBQIA+ Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, Panhispanic Cultural Studies, Translation Studies, Editing & Publishing

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  • Margaret Yocom

    Margaret Yocom

    Emeritus Faculty

    traditional narrative; material culture; family folklore; gender studies

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  • Andrea K Zach

    Andrea K Zach

    Assistant Professor

    Political economy, German contemporary films, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.

  • Alexandria Zylstra

    Alexandria Zylstra

    Professor