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Sophia E Abbot
Graduate Professional Assistant
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; student-faculty partnership; co-creation; high impact practices; critical pedagogy; educational development
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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
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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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Anu Aneja
Director
Professor
transnational feminist theory and aesthetics; contemporary French, francophone and Indian literatures; feminist perspectives on mothering; and feminist pedagogy
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LaShonda Anthony
Director for Academic Integrity and Initiatives in University Life
intersection of spirituality and higher education environments; diversity in higher education
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Vanessa A Arias
Graduate Professional Assistant
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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.
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Ann C Baker
Professor
Organizational change, cross cultural communication, conflict and change, group dynamics, knowledge creation, and virtual conversations
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Frederic Bemak
Professor
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Debra B Bergoffen
Emeritus Faculty
Continental philosophical and multi-disciplinary feminist traditions, epistemology, ethics, 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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Jo-Marie Burt
Associate Professor
Comparative politics, Latin America, political violence, human rights, transitional justice
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Claudia Cabello Hutt
Associate Professor
Latin American and Latinx feminist and queer thought and history, decolonial theory.
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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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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.
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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
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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Basak Durgun
Adjunct Faculty
Urban spaces, gentrification, governmentality, globalization and transnational sexualities
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Leslie Dwyer
Associate Professor
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Kim Eby
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Development.
Community Psychology, Leadership, Faculty Development
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Lisa Eckenwiler
Professor
Bioethics, health care ethics, public health ethics, feminist ethical and political theory
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Sheila ffolliott
Emeritus Faculty
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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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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.
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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
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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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Sumaiya A. Hamdani
Associate Professor
Islamic history, Middle East, Women's Studies, Global history
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Nancy W Hanrahan
Associate Professor
critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts
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Tamara Harvey
Associate Professor
early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory
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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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Samuel Clowes Huneke
Assistant Professor
Modern Europe, Modern Germany, History of Sexuality, Legal History, History of Democracy
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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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Amena Johnson
Instructor
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Rachel Jones
Associate Professor
19th & 20th century continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, aesthetics
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Yevette Richards Jordan
Associate Professor
African American history, women's history, history of lynching, labor history, Pan-Africanism
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Linn Jorgenson
Assistant Dean of Students
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Christina R Kappel
Gender and sexuality, mass and popular culture, postfeminism
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Maria Karametou
Associate Professor
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LuLu Geza Kelemen
Instructor
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Julie Kim
Instructor
Asian American students, student development, multiple identities, intersectionality, and graduate student success
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Katrina Kinsolving
Adjunct Faculty
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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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Ray Ashton LeBlanc
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Feminist and queer anthropology, ethnography, bodies and embodiment, gender and sexuality, drag performance
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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
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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
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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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Wendi N. Manuel-Scott
Professor
Race, gender, the African American experience, and the history of black women in the Atlantic World
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Shayna Maskell
Associate Professor
Popular and youth culture, music, social movements, and subcultures.
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Ayondela McDole
Graduate Research Assistant
Black feminism, Black Marxism, Media Studies, Black identity, Black Literature, popular culture, oral histories, critical ethnography.
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Alexandra Minieri
Instructor
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Janette Muir
Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education / Associate Professor
Political communication
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Kylie Musolf
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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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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Fariba Parsa
Assistant Professor
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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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Priscilla M Regan
Professor
Information and communication privacy policy, digital government, public policy process.
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Jennifer Ritterhouse
Professor
20th century U.S.; U.S. South; African American history; women and gender; children and childhood
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Joey J Robbins
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Karen E Rosenblum
Emeritus Faculty
Global and American social problems from an economic perspective; comparative stigma
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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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Kelly Schrum
Professor
scholarship of teaching and learning, history of higher education, online learning, scholarly digital storytelling, digital humanities
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Sierra Scott
Graduate Research Assistant
Psychoanalysis, literature on traumatic memory, unconscious memory, feminist theory, trauma theory, healing narrative
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Cameron C. Shaw
Instructor
Interpersonal Violence Awareness and Prevention; Student Activism and Agency; Institutional Culture, Power, and Decision-Making; Intersectional Feminism
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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
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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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Peter N. Stearns
Distinguished University Professor
Modern European and American and comparative social history, history of emotions, world history
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Susan Tichy
Emerita Faculty
poetry; war poetry; visual poetry; mixed form (prose & poetry); poetry's intersections with walking art and land art;
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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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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
Emeritus Faculty
traditional narrative; material culture; family folklore; gender studies
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Andrea K Zach
Assistant Professor
Political economy, German contemporary films, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.
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Alexandria Zylstra
Professor