Affiliate Faculty

Iccha Basnyat

Professor

Culture, gender and health; global health communication; South and South East Asia

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

Cher Weixia Chen

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

Shannon N Davis

Professor

Sociology of families and intimate relationships, gender ideologies, gender inequality, research methods

Sharon Doetsch-Kidder

Associate Professor

Social movements, oral history, intersectionality, feminist pedagogy, and contemplative education

Kim Eby

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Development.

Community Psychology, Leadership, Faculty Development

Hatim El-Hibri

Associate Professor

Global media and television studies, Middle East and Arab media studies, visual culture studies, urban studies, infrastructure studies, critical theory, platform studies, media theory and history, cultural studies

Lisa Gilman

Professor

Folklore, music, dance, public humanities, performance studies, African Studies, women's and gender studies, migration, war, politics and culture, ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, digital storytelling.

McKinley Green

Assistant Professor

Professional and Technical Writing, Queer Rhetorics, HIV/AIDS, Health Communication, Risk Communication

Cortney L. Hughes Rinker

Professor

Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States

Jessica Hurley

Associate 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.

Maria Karametou

Associate Professor

Shea Holman Kilian

Assistant Professor

Vicki Kirsch

Associate Professor

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

Lisa Koch

Professor

Teen/Young Adult Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Multi-Ethnic American Literature; African American Literature; Women Writers; Harry Potter

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

Samaine Lockwood

Associate Professor

nineteenth-century American literature; gender and sexuality studies; research methods; queer theory

Michael G Malouf

Professor

Modernism (Joyce and Woolf); Postcolonialism (spec. Ireland and Caribbean); Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, cultural studies, petroculture & energy transition; theories of World Literature and Global English; Energy Law and Literature

Shayna Maskell

Associate Professor

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

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, Staff Wellbeing; Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment, Retention, & Mentoring; Academic and Community Activism, Academe & Politics.

Rashmi Sadana

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.

Rick W. A. Smith

Associate Professor

Genomics; Ancient DNA; Colonialism; Science and Technology Studies.

Shannyn Snyder

Adjunct Faculty

Janani Umamaheswar

Associate Professor

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

Bethany M. Usher

Affiliate Faculty

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

Alexandria Zylstra

Professor