Programs Offered: Master of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies; Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies; Doctor of Philosophy

Directors of the Graduate Program in Women's and Gender Studies: Professor Ed Cohen, Graduate Director; Professor Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, M.A. Program Director, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, Douglass Campus (732-932-9331)

Website: http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Laura Ahearn, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Linguistic anthropology; gender; social change; kinship; Nepal; South Asia

Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D. Rutgers
Social inequality; public policy; social movements

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

Louise Barnett, Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Nineteenth-century American literature and culture

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

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

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

Ethel Brooks, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Gender and labor; critical political economy; globalization

Charlotte Bunch, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; 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, SAS; D.Phil., Oxford (UK)
Black African women in British and American fiction

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

Indrani Chatterjee, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., London (UK)
Slavery; history of women and sexuality; law; the cultural and intellectual histories of family

Christine Chism, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Duke
Medieval literature and drama; women's and gender studies; cultural studies; historiography

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

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

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

Barbara Cooper, Professor of  History, SAS; Ph.D., Boston
African history; Muslim women

Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; 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, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Deviance/criminology

Jocelyn Crowley, Associate Professor of Public Policy, EJBSPPP; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Social policy; American politics; women and politics

Cynthia Daniels, Professor of Political Science, SAS; 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, SAS; Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Modern and contemporary poetry; critical theory

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

Carlos Ulises Decena, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Immigration; gender and sexuality; politics of public health 

Marianne DeKoven, Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Modernism; women's and gender studies

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

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

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

Melissa Feinberg, Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender's Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Central and Eastern Europe; gender history; human rights and citizenship

Leela Fernandes, Professor of Political Science, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Women's and gender studies; comparative politics; political economy and cultural studies; South Asia

Leslie Fishbein, Associate Professor of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
American studies

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

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

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

Daniel M. Goldstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Arizona
Urban anthropology, political and legal anthropology, violence, democracy; Latin America, the Andes

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

Elizabeth Grosz, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Sydney (Australia)
French philosophy; theories of space and time

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

Mary S. Hartman, Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Nineteenth-century France; women's history

Angelique Haugerud, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Economic and political anthropology; agrean ecology; social change and development; Africa

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

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

Dorothy Hodgson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SAS; 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

Allan Punzalan Isaac, Associate Professor of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Twentieth-century American literature; ethnic literature; critical race studies; gender and sexuality

Jennifer Jones, Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Medieval and early modern European; France, old regime and revolution; European women's history

Jyl Josephson, Associate Professor of Political Science, FAS-N; Ph.D., Maryland (College Park)
Politics of families and children; privacy rights

Temma Kaplan, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Comparative history of gender, sexuality, and social movements

Samira Kawash, Associate Professor Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Duke
Women, health, and medicine; motherhood; cultural and literary theory

Joanna Kempner, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Science; medical sociology; gender

Stacy Klein, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Ohio
Medieval literature and culture; gender

Renée Larrier, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
African and Caribbean literature in French

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

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

Catherine Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SAS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Race and ethnicity; gender; political sociology; immigration; medical sociology

Ardele Lister, Associate Professor of Art, MGSA; M.A., British Columbia (Canada)
Feminist art; multimedia; film

Julie Livingston, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Emory
African medicine and health; the body, health, and healing

Phyllis Mack, Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; 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

Yolanda Martínez San Miguel, Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Colonial, Hispanic Caribbean, and Latino literature; literary theory; colonial and postcolonial theory; migration studies

Frances Mascia-Lees, Professor of Anthropology, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Globalization; transnationalism; consumer culture; tourism

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

Sonali Perera, Assistant Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Postcolonial studies; South Asian literature; feminist theory

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

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

Ana Ramos-Zayas, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Cultural/social anthropology; nationalism; Latinos in the United States

Nancy Rao, Associate 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, SAS; Ph.D., Colorado
Urban policy; planned-market economy; geography of women

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

Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Economics of gender, children, and family; development economics

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

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

Phillip Rothwell, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; SAS; Ph.D., Cambridge
Women in African literature

Paul Schalow, Professor of Japanese, SAS; 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, SAS; 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, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
French literature; comparative literatures

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature, SAS; 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, SAS; Ph.D., Rochester
Modern European history; women's history

Carol Smith, Professor Emerita of English, SAS; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
The novel; critical theory

Evan Stark, Associate Professor of Public Administration, FAS-N; Ph.D., SUNY (Binghamton)
Health; medical care; family; community violence

Arlene Stein, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; 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, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Sexual and maternal behaviors in animals and women

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

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

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

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

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

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

Edlie Wong, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Nineteenth-century African-American and transatlantic literature; women's studies

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

Yael Zerubavel, Professor of Jewish Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Assistant Professor of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration; GSE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Immigration; citizenship education; educational equity; race and gender studies

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

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

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

Joanna Kempner, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Science; medical sociology; gender

Karen Gainer Sirota, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Cross-cultural aspects of health and mental health; development disabilities; life course

Mary Trigg, Program Director, Institute for Women's Leadership and Associate Director, Center for Women and Work; Ph.D., Brown
History of American feminism; women's education and leadership development; women and work; young women and activism

Adjunct Members of the Graduate Faculty

Jane Sloan, Media Librarian and Head, Multimedia Services, Rutgers University Libraries; M.A., Wisconsin (Madison), M.A., San Francisco State
Film authorship; reception theory