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Full-time Faculty

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Chris Bobel
Associate Professor and Chair
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Social constructions of the body, motherhood and social change, feminist theories, and contemporary feminist health activism and menstruation

 

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Elora Halim Chowdhury

Assistant Professor
PhD, Clark University

Postcolonial and transnational feminisms; Development studies, globalization, human rights, Gender and violence; Women's social movements in South Asia

 

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J. Shoshanna Ehrlich

Associate Professor
J.D., Northeastern University School of Law

Women's legal history; family law; adolescent reproductive rights

 

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Amani El Jack

Assistant Professor
PhD, York University
Feminist notions of development; forced migration; militarization/war; post-conflict reconstruction processes; globalization/global south with specific emphasis on Africa.

 

   

Kathleen Sands

Associate Professor

W-6; 617-287-5721

Feminist theology and spirituality; sexuality and public discourse

 

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Weili Ye

Associate Professor
PhD, Yale University

History and representations of women in modern China; East Asian history; history of the Chinese Revolution

 

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Jean Humez (Retired)

Professor
PhD, Boston College

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
     
MaryKayCordill  

Mary Kay Cordill, WoSt, W-5-108; 617-287-6780

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Doreen Drury

Senior Lecturer
PhD, Boston College

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
M.A. Goddard College, Norwich University
Representations of women in various forms of media

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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

 

   

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
Wheatley, 5th Floor, 617-287-6776