Tenure-line Faculty

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

Director

Professor

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

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

Professor

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

Frederic Bemak

Professor

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

Associate Professor

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

Claudia Cabello Hutt

Associate Professor

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

Meagan Call-Cummings

Associate Professor

Cher Weixia Chen

Associate Professor

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

Rose M Cherubin

Associate Professor

Ancient philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, African American philosophy

G. Chesler

Professor

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

Maria M Dakake

Associate Professor

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

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

Leslie Dwyer

Associate Professor

Kim Eby

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Development.

Community Psychology, Leadership, Faculty Development

Lisa Eckenwiler

Professor

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

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.

Pamela Watkins Garner

Professor

Social and emotional development of young children

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

Assistant Professor

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

Sumaiya A. Hamdani

Associate Professor

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

Nancy W Hanrahan

Associate Professor

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

Tamara Harvey

Associate Professor

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

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

Assistant Professor

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

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.

Rachel Jones

Associate Professor

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

Yevette Richards Jordan

Associate Professor

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

Maria Karametou

Associate Professor

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

Associate Professor

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

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

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

Janette Muir

Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education / Associate Professor

Political communication

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.

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.

Priscilla M Regan

Professor

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

Jennifer Ritterhouse

Professor

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

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

Professor

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

Kelly Schrum

Professor

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

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

Distinguished University Professor

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

Janani Umamaheswar

Assistant Professor

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

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