FACULTY, STAFF, AND AFFILIATES
Core Faculty
MARY ANN DZUBACK
Director: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Associate Professor of Education and History
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Columbia University
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Research Interests: Social and intellectual history of higher education; history of women in education; history of gender in the US
BARBARA BAUMGARTNER
Associate Director and Senior Lecturer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Northwestern University
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Teaching Interests: American Women's literature; medical history; health care
ANDREA FRIEDMAN
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
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Research Interests: History of gender and sexuality in structuring American politics and culture in the 20th century; postwar 'crisis in masculinity'; the transformation of lesbian identity in mid-twentieth-century America
KRISTEN KLING
Associate Professor of Psychology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (July 1, 2009-)
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Research Interests: The relationship between personality and changes in depressive symptoms in a sample of aging twins; influence of gender and social role on the interpretation of facial expressions; women, motivation and achievement
MONA LENA KROOK
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Ph.D. Columbia University
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Research Interests: Women and electoral politics; european politics; comparative politics; women's studies; qualitative research methods; social movements; political parties; and comparative welfare states
ALEXIS MATZA
Post Doctoral Fellow in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Iowa
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Research Interests: Feminist Anthropology, Medical anthropology, embodiment, critical masculinities studies, science and technology studies, queer theory
LINDA NICHOLSON
Susan E. and William P. Stiritz Distinguished Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Professor of
History
Ph.D. Brandeis University
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Research Interests: History of social theory and social movements; European and American ideas about identity; gender
CAROLYN SARGENT
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. Michigan State University
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Teaching Interests: Medical anthropology, reproductive health, gender, ritual and religion, transnational migration, ethics, Africa, Europe
SUSAN STIRITZ
Lecturer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Washington University
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Teaching Interests: Sexuality studies; qualitative research, 19th century and contemporary women's literature; and psychoanalytic methods of inquiry
Staff
DONNA KEPLEY
Administrative Assistant
Additional Program Faculty
JAMI AKE
Assistant Dean and Academic Coordinator, College of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Indiana University
Research Interests: Women and Renaissance drama; history of sexuality; gender studies
JOAN BROCKMAN
Senior Lecturer in English; Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. St. Louis University
Teaching Interests: 20th Century Third World literature; non-fiction writing; gender studies
LYNNEA BRUMBAUGH
Lecturer, School of Business
Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Washington University
Teaching Interests: English literature; women's studies; children's literature; business communications; cross-cultural communications
AMY CISLO
Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Washington University
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Research Interests: Perceptions of the body in sixteenth-century German medical writing; works of Paracelsus (1493-1541); knowledge about the body in German print during the sixteenth century
BETH FISHER
Assistant Director, Teaching Center in the College of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Research Interests: Nineteenth- and early-twentieth century American literature and culture; gender and consumer culture; gender and class; and gender and American fiction
WINIFRED POSTER
Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Stanford
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Research Interests: Inequalities of gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, and class; global transformations and activism; work and labor in information and communication technology industries
KIM SCHRECK
Lecturer in History
Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Missouri
Research Interests: U.S. women's history; southern history; African-American studies; comparative women's issues
Affiliate Faculty & Faculty Who Teach in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
African & African-American Studies
SHANTI PARIKH
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African & African American Studies
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Yale University
Research Interests: The intersection of local transformations; global processes; structures of inequalities surrounding issues of sexuality, particularly gender; sexual and reproductive health regulation; courtship and romance; and marriage
RAFIA ZAFAR
Professor of English and African & African American Studies
Ph.D. Harvard University
Research Interests: American literature and African-American literature; food and culture
Anthropology
LOIS BECK
Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Research Interests: Qashqa'i nomadic pastoralists in Iran and the historical study of the Qashqa'i tribal confederacy
REBECCA LESTER
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Medical anthropology; gender; embodiment; religion and ritual; psychological anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry
SHANTI PARIKH
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, African & African American Studies
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Yale University
Research Interests: The intersection of local transformations; global processes; structures of inequalities surrounding issues of sexuality, particularly gender, sexual and reproductive health, regulation, courtship and romance, and marriage
Art History
ELIZABETH CHILDS
Associate Professor of Art History
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Columbia University
Research Interests: French 19th-century visual culture, art, and politics; exoticism (particularly the work of Paul Gauguin); history of photography; caricature; gender and art
REBECCA DeROO
Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Research Interests: Contemporary European and American art and theory; the gendering of artistic language and how gender impacts the trajectory of artistic careers
ANGELA MILLER
Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Yale University
Research Interests: Nineteenth and twentieth-century American art; American cultural history; landscape painting; American modernism
Asian & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures
NANCY BERG
Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Language and Literature in Asian & Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Research Interests: Modern Hebrew language and literature; Israeli culture; Israeli immigrant writers; women's writing
REBECCA COPELAND
Professor of Japanese in Asian & Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Prof. of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (courtesy)
Ph.D. Columbia University
Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature; women writers and gender issues; translation theory and practice
FATEMEH KESHAVARZ
Professor of Persian Language and Literature in Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of London
Research Interests: Persian poetry; Islamic mysticism; and women's studies
BEATA GRANT
Professor of Chinese in Asian & Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Stanford University
Research Interests: Chinese religion and literature; pre-modern Chinese women's literature and culture; Buddhism
Education
MARY ANN DZUBACK
Director, Women & Gender Studies
Associate Professor of Education and History
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Columbia University
Research Interests: Social and intellectual history of higher education; history of women in education; history of gender in the US
English
MIRIAM BAILIN
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Victorian and modern British literature; the English novel; women's studies
ANCA PARVULESCU
Assistant Professor of English
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Twentieth-century American literature; literary and cultural theory; feminist theory and women's literature
VIVIAN POLLAK
Professor of English
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Brandeis University
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century American literature and culture; American poetry; women's writing; theories of gender and sexuality
JESSICA ROSENFELD
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Courtly poetry; medieval moral philosophy; ethics of literature; gender studies
RAFIA ZAFAR
Professor of English and African & African American Studies
Ph.D. Harvard University
Research Interests: American literature and African-American literature; food and culture
German
ERIN McGLOTHLIN
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Research Interests: German-Jewish literature and the literature of the Holocaust; women and gender studies
LYNNE TATLOCK
Hortense & Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Germanic Languages & Literatures
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Indiana University
Research Interests: German literature and culture from 1650 to the 1990s; the novel and its origins; the construction and representation of gender; reading communities and reading habits; nineteenth-century regionalism and nationalism; the intersection between fiction and other social and cultural discourses
GERHILD SCHOLZ WILLIAMS
Barbara Schaps Thomas and David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Washington
Research Interests: Literature of early modern witchcraft and magic; the radical reforming movements; the 17th-century polyhistor Johannes Praetorius; early modern science and print media; women and gender studies
History
JEAN ALLMAN
J. H. Hexter Professorship in the Humanities in Arts & Science
Professor of History
Ph.D. Northwester University
Research Interests: Work focuses on African history through a range of thematically diverse, yet overlapping topics -- nation and national identity, gender and colonialism, fashion and the politics of clothing, and the modernity of indigenous belief systems.
ANDREA FRIEDMAN
Associate Professor of History
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Research Interests: Ways that gender and sexuality structured American politics and culture in the 20th century; postwar 'crisis in masculinity,' and the transformation of lesbian identity in mid-twentieth-century America
GERALD IZENBERG
Professor of History
Ph.D. Harvard University
Research Interests: Modern European history; intellectual history; history of psychoanalysis
CHRISTINE JOHNSON
Associate Professor of History
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Christians and Muslims in the Mediterranean world; women in early modern Europe; renaissance Europe; Europe in the Reformation
STEVEN B. MILES
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. University of Washington
Research Interests: Social and cultural history of late Imperial China
NANCY REYNOLDS
Assistant Professor of History
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Stanford University
Research Interests: Social, cultural, and economic history of the modern Middle East and in gender history; the history of consumption; urban history; history of commerce, commodities and cosmopolitanism in Egypt in the first half of the twentieth century
CORINNA TREITEL
Assistant Professor of History
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Harvard University
Research Interests: Intersections of science, culture, and politics since the late eighteenth century; history of food in Central Europe; history of the body and sexuality
Music
CRAIG MONSON
Professor of Music
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Dufay; William Byrd; Elizabethan and Jacobean music; Baroque keyboard music; music in Italian nunneries and Native American music
Political Science
MONA LENA KROOK
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Columbia University
Research Interests: Women and electoral politics; european politics; comparative politics; women's studies; qualitative research methods; social movements; political parties; and comparative welfare states
Psychology
JIM REID
Lecturer
Ph.D. Fordham University
Teaching Interests: Sexuality and minority status discrimination; forensic psychology
Romance Languages and Literatures
STEPHANIE KIRK
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Romance Languages and Literatures
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. New York University
Research Interests: Colonial Latin American literature; culture and gender studies
REBECCA MESSBARGER
Associate Professor of Italian
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Research Interests: Italian Enlightenment literature and culture
AKIKO TSUCHIYA
Associate Professor of Spanish
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Cornell University
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture; women’s fiction of contemporary Spain; gender studies; literary and cultural theory
COLLETTE WINN
Professor of French
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Missouri
Research Interests: 16th-century poetry and narrative; women writers; Marguerite de Navarre; and history of medicine
School of Law
SUSAN FRELICH APPLETON
Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
J.D University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Family law; law and sexuality
ADRIENNE DAVIS
William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
J.D. Yale University
Research Interests: Slavery, feminist jurisprudence, sexuality and the law, and trusts and estates.
LAURA ROSENBURY
Associate Professor of Law
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
J.D. Harvard University
Research Interests: Law of everyday life dealing with work, family, sex and death
KAREN TOKARZ
Professor of Law
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
J.D. St. Louis University; LL.M. University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Civil rights mediation; law and employment discrimination
School of Medicine
GILAD GROSS
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
M.D. St. Louis University
Research Interests: Maternal/fetal medicine; obstetrics and gynecology; high-risk obstetrics
School of Social Work
TONYA EDMOND
Associate Professor of Social Work
Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin
Research Interests: Violence against women; practice effectiveness; trauma; women's studies
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