Full-time Faculty
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Chris Bobel Social constructions of the body, motherhood and social change, feminist theories, and contemporary feminist health activism and menstruation |
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Assistant Professor Postcolonial and transnational feminisms; Development studies, globalization, human rights, Gender and violence; Women's social movements in South Asia |
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Associate Professor Women's legal history; family law; adolescent reproductive rights |
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Assistant Professor |
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Associate Professor W-6; 617-287-5721 Feminist theology and spirituality; sexuality and public discourse |
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Associate Professor History and representations of women in modern China; East Asian history; history of the Chinese Revolution |
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Jean Humez (Retired) Professor American women’s cultural history; gender and sexuality history; African-American women’s autobiographical writings; gender, race, and class in media |
Lecturers
| Carol Cohn Gender and security studies, weapons of mass destruction; gendered dimensions of armed conflicts and peacemaking W-6-064 |
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Mary Kay Cordill, WoSt, W-5-108; 617-287-6780 |
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Senior Lecturer U.S. women’s history, with an emphasis on women of color; gender and sexuality history; feminist cultural theory |
Sonia Jorge, WoSt, W-5-108; 617-287-6780
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Karen Lindsey, WoSt, W-5-108; 617-287-6780 |
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Carney Maley, WoSt, W-5-108; 617-287-6780 |
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Kristen Abatis McHenry, WoSt, W-5-108; 617-287-6780 |
Elaine Morse (Retired), WoSt, W-5-108; 617-287-6780
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Pat Reeve, WoSt, W-5-108; 617-287-6780 Patricia Stuelke, WoSt: W-5-108; 617-287-6780 |
Affiliated Faculty
Randy Albelda
Economics Department
W-5; 617-287-6963
Women’s economic roles; women and poverty issues
Pamela Annas
English Department
W-2; 617-287-6529
Contemporary poets; feminist literary criticism; composition; working class writers
Elsa Auerbach
English Department
W-6; 617-287-5763
Literacy, Adult ESL, Bilingual/ESL Reading, Tutoring Composition, Applied Linguistics
David Areford
Art Department
M-4-453; 617-287-5707
The study of visual culture in terms of the body, gender and sexuality
Fiora Bassanese
Modern Languages Department
M-4; 617-287-7591
Images of women in Italian culture and literature
Milton Butts, Sociology Department
The intersection of the plight of children and families with social concerns such as poverty, education, employment, crime and delinquency, violence and interracial/interethnic group relations.
Estelle Disch
Sociology Department
W-4; 617-287-6256
Sociology of gender; inclusive teaching and curriculum change; urban social services
Amy Den Ouden
Anthropology Department
M-4; 617-287-6852
Native American Studies; gender and culture
Roma Farion
Philosophy Department
W-5; 617-287-6545
Feminism and philosophy
Marlene Kim
Economics Department
W-5; 617-287-6954
Women in the labor force; women’s economic roles
Betsy Klimasmith
English Department
W-6; 617-287-6761
American women writers
Lynne Leblanc
Classics Department
M-4; 617-287-6122
Women in Classical antiquity
Ruth Miller
History Department
M-4; 617-287-6869
Islamic & Comparative Law, Ottoman & Middle Eastern History, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Political Theory
Marisol Negron
American Studies and Latino Studies Department
Latino literary and cultural studies; 19th and 20th-century Hispanophone Caribbean cultural expression; Language and Linguistics; popular culture and commodification; intersections of race and ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in the formation and articulation of national, diasporic, and transnational identities.
Julie Nelson
Economics Department
W-5-26; 617-287-6925
Feminist economics; feminist social theory; economics of care
Erin O'Brien
Political Science Department
The politics of mass opinion and behavior & the politics of poverty and social welfare policy. Within these fields, and at both the individual and collective level, she examines how gender, race and ethnicity, social class, and other group cleavages affect political processes and outcomes.
Louise Penner
English Department
W-6; 617-287-6700
Women’s literature; women’s contributions to literary, scientific and medical discourse in nineteenth-century Britain
Aminah Pilgrim
Africana Studies Department
W-4 African-American women’s history
Cape Verdean immigration history
Jean Rhodes
Psychology Department
M-4; 617.287.6368
Adolescent girls and psychology
Lisa Rivera
Philosophy Department
W-5; 617-287-6528
Feminist ethics; Latina identity and politics
Lorna Rivera
Latino Studies, CPCS Career Center
W-4; 617-287-7388
Latina women in the U.S.
Lois Rudnick
American Studies Department
W-5; 617-287-6775
American modernism; women writers and thinkers of nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Heike Schotten
Political Science Department
W-5-062; 617-287-6927
History of Western political thought, Nietzsche, feminist political theory, queer theory and politics
Judith Smith
American Studies Department
W-5; 617-287-6774
Social and cultural history of U.S. women; American cultural and social history
Eve Sorum
English Department
W-6-02; 617-287-6753
Modernism, 20th Century British fiction & poetry, Viginia Woolf, cultural geography & the literature of modern war
Emmett Schaefer
Sociology Department
Race and Ethnic Relations, Gender Studies
Mary Stevenson
Economics Department
W-5; 617-287-6958
Labor economics; women and the labor force; economics of discrimination
Karen Suyemoto
Psychology Department
M-4; 617-287-6339
Women of color; community psychology
Shirley Tang
American Studies Department and Asian American Studies Program
W-5; 617-287-6777
Asian American experience and social issues; women of color
Susan Tomlinson
English Department
W-6; 617-287-6706
African American literary history, especially women writers and the Harlem Renaissance; gender and modernism
Lynne Tirrell
Philosophy Department
W-5; 617-287-6530
Philosophy and feminism; feminist legal theory
Staff
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Shauna Manning
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