Members of the Graduate Faculty

Laura Ahearn, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan
Linguistic anthropology, gender, social change, kinship; Nepal, South Asia

Eileen Appelbaum, Professor of Labor Studies, SMLR; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Economics

Emily Bartels, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Renaissance dramatic literature; colonialist discourse

Frances Bartkowski, Associate Professor of English, FAS-N; Ph.D., Iowa
Comparative literature

Vilna Bashi, Assistant Professor of Sociology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Race, immigration, labor markets

Mia Elisabeth Bay, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
African-American history; American intellectual and cultural history

Eleanor Brilliant, Professor of Social Work, SSW; D.S.W., Columbia
Community planning, organizational behavior, and social policy; women's leadership

Ethel Brooks, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., New York
Gender and labor; critical political economy; globalization

Charlotte Bunch, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB, and Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership; B.A., Duke
Gender and development; women's human rights; violence against women; women's global leadership

Abena Busia, Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; D.Phil., Oxford
Black African women in British and American fiction

Susan Carroll, Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB/EIP; Ph.D., Indiana
Women and politics; mass politics

Indrani Chatterjee, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D. London
Slavery, history of women and sexuality, law, and the cultural and intellectual histories of family

Christine Chism, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Duke
Medieval literature, drama, women`s and gender studies, cultural studies, historiography

Susan Cobble, Professor of Labor Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, SMLR; Ph.D., Stanford
Women and work; labor history; union leadership

Ed Cohen, Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Literary and social theory; gay and gender studies; late Victorian culture

Ann Baynes Coiro, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Maryland
Renaissance and 17th-century literature

Barbara Cooper, Associate Professor of African Studies, History, and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Boston
African history; Muslim women

Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, SL-N; J.D., California (Los Angeles)
Feminist jurisprudence; critical theory

Sheila Cosminsky, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, FAS-C; Ph.D., Brandeis
Cultural and medical anthropology; ethnic relations; Mesoamerica; Africa

Jeanette Covington, Associate Professor of Sociology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Chicago
Deviance/criminology

Cynthia Daniels, Associate Professor of Political Science, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Women and public policy; reproductive politics; political economy of gender

Harriet A. Davidson, Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Modern and contemporary poetry; critical theory

Belinda Davis, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Modern European history; Germany; women's history

Marianne DeKoven, Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Modernism; women's and gender studies

Elin Diamond, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Davis)
Drama and dramatic theory; feminist and literary theory

M. Josephine Diamond, Professor of French and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature; critical theory

William C. Donahue, Associate Professor of German, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature; German-Jewish studies

Kate Ellis, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Women's and gender studies; 18th-century fiction

David Eng, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Asian American literature, queer theory, sexualities

Leela Fernandes, Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB Ph.D., Chicago
Women's and gender studies; comparative politics; political economy and cultural studies; South Asia

Leslie Fishbein, Associate Professor of American Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
American studies

Jerry Flieger, Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Twentieth-century literature; critical theory; women's and gender studies and feminist theory

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Feminist cultural analysis with an emphasis on film and literature

Lora D. Garrison, Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Irvine)
Women and reform movements; recent U.S. history

Judith Gerson, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Gender; work; social theory

Sherry Gorelick, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Education; ethnicity

Mary Gossy, Associate Professor of Spanish and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Golden-age prose, narrative, feminist theory, reader-response, psychoanalysis

Elizabeth Grosz, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Sydney
French philosophy, theories of space and time

Sandra Harris, Professor of Psychology, FAS-NB/GSAPP; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Autism

Mary S. Hartman, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia Nineteenth-century France; women's history

Angelique Haugerud, Associate Professor of Anthropology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Northwestern
Economic and political anthropology, Agrean ecology, social change and development; Africa

Mary E. Hawkesworth, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Georgetown
Political philosophy, feminist theory, women and politics

Nancy Hewitt, Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
American women; 19th-century U.S. history

Dorothy Hodgson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan
Cultural anthropology; politics of development; culture and power; gender

Briavel Holcomb, Professor of Urban Studies, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Colorado
Urban revitalization; environment and behavior; women

Beth Hutchison, Associate Director, Institute for Research on Women, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Washington
Contemporary feminist theory; narrative film theory and practice; lesbian/ gay studies

Jennifer Jones, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Medieval and early modern European; France, old regime and revolution; European women`s history

Jane Junn, Associate Professor of Political Science, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Chicago
Methodology, American politics

Samira Kawash, Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Duke
Nineteenth- and 20th-century minority and African-American literature; cultural theory; race and ethnicity

Daphne Lamothe, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
African-American fiction, black Atlantic culture and theories of migration, ethnography, folk culture

Renée Larrier, Associate Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia African and Caribbean literature in French

Suzanne Lebsock, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Virginia
History of women, U.S. social history, history of the south

Barbara Lee, Professor of Human Resource Management and Dean, SMLR; Ph.D., Ohio; J.D., Georgetown
Employment discrimination; disability and work

Barbara Lewis, Associate Professor of Political Science, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Northwestern
Comparative politics (Africa); women and politics

Phyllis Mack, Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Early modern French and English history; women's history

Ruth Mandel, Board of Governors Professor of Politics and Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics; Ph.D., Connecticut
Women's participation in American politics

Joan Marter, Professor of Art History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Delaware
Modern art; 20th-century art; gender studies; museum studies

Leslie McCall, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Gender; work and labor markets; theory

Paula McDowell, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Eighteenth-century British literature

Meredith McGill, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Nineteenth-century women's poetry; women and the literary marketplace

Jennifer Morgan, Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Duke
Early American history; African-American women's history

Alicia Ostriker, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
American and modern literature; criticism

Ann Parelius, Associate Professor of Sociology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Chicago
Education

Gerald Pirog, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
Slavic languages and literatures

Jasbir Puar, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Geography, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Gender and globalization, diaspora, tourism, queer theory, transnational sexuality

Nancy Rao, Assistant Professor of Music, MGSA; Ph.D., Michigan
Music theory, 20th-century American music, women composers 1900-1950, and contemporary Chinese composers

Joanna Regulska, Professor of Geography and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Colorado
Urban policy; planned-market economy; geography of women

Donald T. Roden, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Modern Japanese social and intellectual history

Patricia Roos, Professor of Sociology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Stratification; work; gender

Sarah Rosenfield, Associate Professor of Sociology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Texas
Medical sociology; mental illness

Phillip Rothwell, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cambridge
Women in African literature

Paul Schalow, Associate Professor of Japanese, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Japanese literature (Edo period); gender and sexuality in Japanese literature; Japanese women's writing

Louisa Schein, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Cultural politics, ethnicity, gender, transnational issues, China

Joan Scott, Professor of Social Science; Institute for Advanced Study; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Feminist history and theory

Richard Serrano, Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
French literature, comparative literatures

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Assistant Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
Twentieth-century Spanish-American literature and cultural studies, gender theory and psychoanalysis; U.S. Latino literature

Bonnie G. Smith, Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Rochester
Modern European history; women's history

Carol Smith, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
The novel; critical theory

Arlene Stein, Associate Professor of Sociology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Sociology of gender and sexuality

Linda Steiner, Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Media, SCILS; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana)
Feminist theorizing, communication ethics; feminist and alternative media

Judith Stern, Professor of Psychology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Rutgers
Sexual and maternal behaviors in animals and women

Sarolta Takács, Associate Professor of Classics; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Roman and Byzantine history, women and religion

Gayle Tate, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., CUNY
African-American women and politics

Meredeth Turshen, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Sussex
Political economy of health; third world social policy

Cheryl Wall, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
American and African-American literature

Michael D. Warner, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Colonial and 19th-century American literature; queer theory; social theory

Deborah White, Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Illinois
African-American history, women`s history

Carolyn S. Williams, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Virginia
Victorian literature; women's studies, cultural studies

Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
U.S. cultural history; women's history; history of immigration

Chün-Fang Yü, Professor of Religion, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Buddhism, Chinese religions; religion and gender

Yael Zerubavel, Professor of Jewish Studies and History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Cheryl Clarke, Director of Diverse Community Affairs and Lesbian/Gay Concerns; Ph.D., Rutgers
English; feminist poetry, African American women's literature, lesbian studies

Mary Trigg, Program Director, Institute for Women's Leadership and Associate Director, Center for Women and Work

Adjunct Member of the Graduate Faculty

Barbara Balliet, Associate Director of Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., New York
U.S. social history; women's history