Full-time Faculty
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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 of Undergraduate Programs
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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Supriya Baily
Instructor
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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Iccha Basnyat
Associate Professor
Culture, gender and health; global health communication; South and South East Asia
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Frederic Bemak
Professor
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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
Director of Graduate Programs
Associate Professor
Latin American and Latine 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
Associate Professor
LGBTQ+ Studies; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; Appalachian Studies; gender and sexuality in higher education; qualitative research methods
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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
Professor
Sociology of families and intimate relationships, gender ideologies, gender inequality, research methods
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Sharon Doetsch-Kidder
Associate Professor
Social movements, oral history, intersectionality, feminist pedagogy, and contemplative education
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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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Cynthia Fuchs
Professor
Documentary and fiction film, television, social media, war media, sports media, horror, action, and science fiction movies and TV.
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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.
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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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Tamara Harvey
Associate Professor
early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory
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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
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Samuel Clowes Huneke
Associate Professor
Modern Europe, Modern Germany, History of Sexuality, Legal History, History of Democracy
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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.
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Amena Johnson
Instructor
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Rachel Jones
Associate Professor
19th & 20th century continental philosophy, social and political philosophy including feminist philosophy, philosophy and literature, philosophy of art and 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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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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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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Rachel A. Lewis
Director
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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Samaine Lockwood
Associate Professor
nineteenth-century American literature; gender and sexuality studies; research methods; queer theory
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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
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Wendi N. Manuel-Scott
Professor
Critical Race Pedagogy, African American History, Black Feminist Theory, Critical University Studies, Black Queer History, Student Protest Movements, Critical Black Geographies, and Black Childhood History
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Shayna Maskell
Associate Professor
Popular and youth culture, music, social movements, and subcultures.
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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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Manjusha Nair
Associate Professor
Globalization, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Development, Decolonizing Methods, Postcolonialism, Labor Movements, India, China, Ethiopia, South Africa
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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, Staff 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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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
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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
graduate education, scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), history of higher education, digital pedagogy, digital humanities
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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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Rick W. A. Smith
Assistant Professor
Genomics; Ancient DNA; Colonialism; Science and Technology Studies.
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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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Janani Umamaheswar
Associate Professor
Social inequality, punishment and incarceration, the life course, qualitative research methods
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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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Andrea K. K Zach
Associate Professor
Political economy, German contemporary films, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.
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Alexandria Zylstra
Professor
