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

Director of the Graduate Program in Women's and Gender Studies: Professor Jasbir Puar, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, Douglass Campus (848-932-8402)

Website: http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate-program

Members of the Graduate Faculty

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

Ousseina D. Alidou, Professor of Africana Studies and Comparative Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Indiana
African languages and literatures; African linguistics and literature; women writers

Radkhika Balakrishnan, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Human rights and macroeconomic policy; gender and development; poverty inequality

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

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

Mia Elisabeth Bay, 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; 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
Black feminist criticism and theory; colonialist discourse; Africanist pedagogy 

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

Sylvia Chan-Malik, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Critical and comparative ethnic studies; Islam and gender; black-Asian intersections

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

Ed Cohen, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Modern thought; social and critical philosophy; genealogies of personhood and embodiment; healing

Ann Baynes Coiro, 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

Brittney Cooper, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Emory
Black feminism; African-American intellectual history; hip hop studies

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

Jeanette Covington, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Deviance/criminology

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

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

Leah DeVun, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Medieval and Renaissance; science, gender, and sexuality

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

Zaire Z. Dinzey, Associate Professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Urban communities, race, and ethnicity; Caribbean; methods; policy; crime

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

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

Leslie Fishbein, Associate Professor of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
American studies; documentary film; history of social deviance; film and history; women's studies

Nicole Fleetwood, Associate Professor of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Media theory; African-American film, race, and representation; performance studies

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

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

Jeff Friedman, Associate Professor of Dance, MGSA; Ph.D., California (Riverside)
Dance studies; oral history; phenomenology; site-specific performance

Marisa Fuentes, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Postcolonial theory and analyses of sexuality and gender in the early Black Atlantic world

Judith Gerson, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Gender; collective memory; trauma studies

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

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

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

Martha Helfer, Associate Professor of German, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Eighteenth- and 19th-century German literature and aesthetic theory

Dorothy Hodgson, 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, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Medieval and early modern European history; 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

Joanna Kempner, Associate 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

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

Catherine Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; 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

Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Professor of Latin and Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Critical and decolonial theory; literature and political theory; ethnic studies

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 Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Colonial, Hispanic Caribbean, and Latino literature; literary theory; colonial and postcolonial theory; migration studies

Pamela McElwee, Associate Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., Yale
Biodiversity; conservation; climate change; environmental change; political ecology

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

Sarah McMahon-Cannizzo, Assistant Professor of Social Work, SSW; Ph.D., Rutgers
Violence against women and children

Maya Mikdaski, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Law; archives; secularity; religious conversion; sexual difference; war on terror in Lebanon

Jasbir K. Puar, Professor of Women's Studies, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Transnational feminist and queer theory; disability studies; biopolitics; affect and assemblage theory; Palestine

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

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

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

Zakia Salime, Associate Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois
Social movements; sex and gender; globalization

Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Identity; stereotyping; close relationships; self-determination

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

Kyla Schuller, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., California (San Diego)
Feminist science studies; U.S. literature and culture; critical race theory

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

Susan Sidlauskas, Professor of Art History, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Nineteenth- and early-20th-century art and visual culture; gender studies

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

Arlene Stein, Professor of Sociology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Sociology of gender and sexuality

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

Shatema Threadcraft, Assistant Professor of Political Science, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Political theory; women and politics; African-American political thought

Mary Trigg, Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies; Program Director, Institute for Women's Leadership; Ph.D., Brown
History of American feminism; women's history; feminist leadership; motherhood studies and women, work, and family

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

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

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

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Alison Howell, Assistant Professor of Political Science, FAS-N; Ph.D., York (Toronto)
International relations; poststructuralist, feminist, and critical race theory

Pamela McElwee, Associate Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., Yale
Biodiversity; conservation and climate change; environmental change

Adjunct Member of the Graduate Faculty

Julie Rajan, Assistant Teaching Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
South Asian women writers; feminist theory; women's human rights