Affiliated Faculty
| Name | Department | Interests |
| Shabnam Ahktari | Math | Promoting equal opportunity and equal treatment of women in the mathematical sciences and highlighting the research and visibility of female mathematicians. |
| Yvette Alex-Assensoh | Political Science | Selected publications: – “40 Years of Title IX: Leadership Matters for Women in Academe”, Chronicle of Higher Education, Commentary, June 18, 2012. – Morality Issues and City Politics (by Elaine Sharp, with Yvette Alex-Assensoh, et. al) University of Kansas Press, 2005. – Newcomers, Insiders and Outsiders: Immigration and Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-First Century, by Ronald Schmidt, Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Andy Aoki and Rodney Hero, University of Michigan Press, 2009 |
| Susan C. Anderson | German & Scandinavian | Gender and diversity in contemporary German literature and culture; representations of women revolutionaries in German literature, film, and art; the “New Woman” around 1900 in German and Austrian literature. |
| Erin Beck | Political Science | |
| Yvonne Braun | International Studies | Research focuses on intersection of gender, development, environment, and globalization, with a specific focus on the social and socio-environmental consequences of a large-scale World Bank funded dam development project in Lesotho, Southern Africa. |
| Charise Cheney | Ethnic Studies | |
| Krista Chronister | Counseling Psychology | |
| Lynn Fujiwara | Ethnic Studies | |
| Alison Gash | Political Science | |
| Amalia Gladhart | Romance Languages | Representations of gender in contemporary Latin American theater, and questions of gender in translation. Published translations of fiction by Gilda Holst, Alicia Yánez Cossío, and Angélica Gorodischer. |
| Bryna Goodman | History | Teaching HIST 497/597 Modernity and Gender in China; research interests encompass gender and suicide, history of emotion, gender and law, gender and colonialism in China; modern afterlife of concubinage in China. |
| Michael Hames-Garcia | Ethnic Studies | |
| Julie Heffernan | Education | |
| Ellen Herman | History | Sex, gender, and science; women and politics; history of sexuality |
| Sara Hodges | Psychology | Gender differences in interpersonal perceptions, especially in empathic accuracy (the ability to accurately infer other people’s thoughts) and how motivation and gender roles may drive these differences; women’s under-representation science and engineering and what affects women’s decisions not to pursue or persist in these fields, and the social comparisons women make about their abilities in these fields and how women perceive the feedback they receive. |
| Jocelyn Hollander | Sociology | |
| Lamia Karim | Anthropology | |
| Sharon Luk | English | Racial-sexual violence, women of color feminisms, and theories of social reproduction |
| Kathryn Lynch | Environmental Studies | Gender in natural resource management |
| Bonnie Mann | Philosophy | |
| Kate Mondloch | Art History | |
| Dorothee Ostmeier | German & Scandinavian | |
| Eileen Otis | Sociology | Gender and work; Globalization and China; Ethnography |
| C.J. Pascoe | Sociology | |
| Scott L. Pratt | Philosophy | American feminist philosophy (including the work of Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Elsie Clews Parsons) and recent feminist new materialist philosophy (including Karen Barad, Susan Hekman, and Stacey Alaimo). Dr. Pratt also teaches a graduate level seminar, Pragmatism and Feminism. |
| Alai Reyes-Santos | Ethnic Studies | |
| Ellen Scott | Sociology | |
| Carol T. Silverman | Anthropology | |
| Beata Stawarska | German & Scandinavian | French feminism (Kristeva, Irigaray); feminist philosophy of language. |
| Leslie Steeves | SOJC | |
| Lynn Stephen | Anthropology | |
| Analisa Taylor | Romance Languages | |
| Courtney Thorsson | English | |
| Jessica Vasquez-Tokos | Sociology | Family Life Course and Society, Race and Ethnicity, Qualitative Approaches |
| Elizabeth A. Wheeler | English | Intersections of disability and gender identity; Gender representations in comics, children’s and young adult literature, popular culture, and literature; Community-based education |
| Frances J. White | Anthropology | Teaching Anth 173 The Evolution of Human Sexuality; in research, looking at questions on sex, gender and power from an evolutionary perspective. |
| Mary E. Wood | English | Literature and culture (especially autobiography and the novel), medical humanities, queer studies, disability studies |
| Priscilla Yamin | Political Science and Former Department-Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Selected Publications • “The Racialization of Privacy: Racial Formation is a Family Affair” (with Jessica Vasquez-Tokos) Theory & Society, January, 2021 • “Deportability and (Dis)unification: Family Status and U.S. Immigration Policy (with Allison Gash), book chapter in The Family, The Amercian State and Poitical Development, 2019 • “Illegalizing” Families: State, Status and Deportability,” (with Allison Gash), New Political Science, 2019, (Recieved Christan Bay Award Best Conference Paper Award, New Political Science, APSA, 2017) • “Constructing the Sex Trafficker: Spectral Figures and Sexual Violence in Calfornia’s Propostion 35,” (with Daniel HoSang), New Political Science, 2016 • “State, Status and the American Family,” (with Alison Gash), Polity, April 2016 • “The Importance of Political Identity in Studying Instituitons,” Politics, Groups, Identities, June 2013 • Book: American Marriage: A Political Institution, University of Pennsylvania Press, Fall 2012, https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15020.html • “The Search for Marital Order: Civic Membership and the Politics of Marriage in the Progressive Era,” Vol 41, No 1, January 2009, Polity |