Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, School of Arts and Sciences
Website:
https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu
Chair: Mary Trigg
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Kyla Schuller
Faculty:
Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd, Political Science; Ph.D.,
Rutgers
Radhika Balakrishnan, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ph.D.,
RutgersEthel Brooks, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/Sociology; B.A., Williams College; Ph.D.,
New York
Charlotte Bunch, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; B.A.,
Duke
Abena Busia, English/Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ph.D., St.
Anthony's College (Oxford)
Susan J. Carroll, Political Science; B.A., Miami (Ohio); M.A., Ph.D., Indiana
Sylvia Chan-Malik, American Studies; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., California
(Berkeley)
Ed Cohen, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ph.D., Stanford
Brittney Cooper, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; B.A., Howard;
Ph.D. Emory
Harriet Davidson, English/Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ph.D.,
Vanderbilt
Carlos Ulises Decena, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/Latino and Caribbean Studies; B.A., Pennsylvania; Ph.D., New York
Marisa Fuentes, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/History; B.A., California (Santa Cruz); Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley)
Judith Gerson, Sociology/Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies B.A., Syracuse; Ph.D.,
Cornell
Mary Gossy, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ph.D., Harvard
Nancy Hewitt, History/Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Jacquelyn Litt, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; B.A., William
Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., PennsylvaniaPhyllis Mack, History/Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; B.A., Barnard; M.A., San Francisco State; Ph.D.,
Cornell
Maya Mikdashi, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/Middle Eastern Studies; Ph.D., Columbia
Jasbir Puar, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ph.D., California
(Berkeley)
Yana Rodgers, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; B.A., Cornell; Ph.D., Harvard
Zakia Salime, Sociology/Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; B.A., Mohamed Ben Abdullah (Morocco); M.A., Ph.D., Illinois
(Urbana-Champaign)
Louisa Schein, Anthropology/Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies;
B.A., Brown; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Kyla Schuller, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ph.D. California
(San Diego)
Bonnie Smith, History/Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ph.D.,
Rochester
Mary Trigg, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/Institute for
Women's Leadership; B.S., Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Brown
Deborah Vargas, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ph.D., California (Santa Cruz)
Deborah Gray White, History/Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies;
B.A., New York (Binghamton); M.A., Columbia; Ph.D., Illinois (Chicago)
Affiliate Faculty:
Laura Ahearn, Anthropology; Ph.D., Michigan
Oussenia D. Alidou, African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures; Ph.D.,
Indiana
Louise Barnett, English; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Emily Bartels, English; Ph.D., Harvard
Frances Bartkowski, English, Rutgers University-Newark; Ph.D., Iowa
Mia E. Bay, History; Ph.D., Yale
Christine Chism, English; Ph.D., Duke
Ann Baynes Coiro, English; Ph.D., Maryland
Sheila Cosminsky, Anthropology-Rutgers University-Camden; Ph.D., Brandeis
Jeanette Covington, Sociology; Ph.D., Chicago
Jocelyn Crowley, Public Policy; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Cynthia Daniels, Political Science; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Belinda Davis, History; Ph.D., Michigan
Marianne DeKoven, English; Ph.D., Stanford
Kayo Denda, Douglass Library; M.A., Rutgers
Elin Diamond, English; Ph.D., California (Davis)
Christina Dunbar-Hester, Journalism and Media Studies; Ph.D., Cornell
Katherine Ellis, English; Ph.D., Columbia
Leslie E. Fishbein, American Studies; Ph.D., Harvard
Nicole Fleetwood, American Studies; Ph.D., Stanford
Jerry Flieger, French; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Sandra Flitterman-Lewis, English; Ph.D., California
(Berkeley)
Jeff Friedman, Dance; Ph.D., California (Riverside)
Ziva Galili, History; Ph.D., Columbia
Fakhrolmolouk
Haghani, Middle Eastern Studies; Ph.D., Georgia State
Sandra Harris, Psychology; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Angelique Haugerud, Anthropology; Ph.D., Northwestern
Martha Helfer, Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages
and Literatures; Ph.D., Stanford
Dorothy L. Hodgson, Anthropology; Ph.D., Michigan
Allan P. Isaac, American Studies/English; Ph.D., New York
Karla Jackson-Brewer, Africana Studies; M.S., Bank Street
College of Education
Temma Kaplan, History; Ph.D., Harvard
Renée B. Larrier, French; Ph.D., Columbia
Barbara A. Lee, Industrial Relations and Human Resources;
Ph.D., Ohio
Joan M. Marter, Art History; Ph.D., Delaware
Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Latino and Caribbean
Studies; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Meredith L. McGill, English; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Ferris Olin, Institute for Women and Art; Ph.D., Rutgers
Francoise S. Puniello, Rutgers University Libraries; M.A.,
M.L.S., Rutgers
Nancy Rao, Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts; Ph.D.,
Michigan
Patricia A. Roos,
Sociology; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Sarah Rosenfield, Sociology; Ph.D., Texas
Dianne F. Sadoff, English; Ph.D., Rochester
Diana Sanchez,
Psychology; Ph.D., Michigan
Paul Schalow, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., Harvard
Mark Schuster, Student Affairs; M.A., Iowa
Richard Serrano, French; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Susan Sidlauskas, Art History; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Jane E. Sloan, Rutgers University Libraries; M.A.,
California State (San Francisco)
Kristen W. Springer, Sociology; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Arlene Stein, Sociology; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Gayle T. Tate, Africana Studies; Ph.D., CUNY
Sarah Tobias, Institute for Research on Women; Ph.D., Columbia
Camilla Townsend, History; Ph.D., Rutgers
Meredeth Turshen, Urban Studies; Ph.D., Sussex (UK)
Carolyn Williams, English; Ph.D., Virginia
Virginia Yans, History; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Yael Zerubavel, Jewish Studies; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has a rich history at Rutgers University. Inaugurated as a department in 2001, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has grown from offering a few courses at the university in 1973 to becoming one of the strongest interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate programs in the United States.
At the undergraduate level, we offer a major (women's, gender, and sexuality studies) and four minors (women's, gender, and sexuality studies; critical sexualities; social justice; and gender and media). We have developed each of these minors to introduce pathbreaking research that addresses concerns of particular interdisciplinary constituencies. Reflecting the fundamental commitments of feminist pedagogy, our major and minors provide students with critical tools to engage the challenges of contemporary life and to work toward social transformation and social justice. Annually we teach approximately 4,000 undergraduate students and over 200 graduate students enrolled in courses offered by the department.